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All posts by Rick Turoczy

More than mildly obsessed with the Portland startup community. Founder and editor at Silicon Florist. Cofounder and general manager at PIE. Follow me on Twitter: @turoczy

Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 19, 2026

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

As these technologies become better at producing knowledge work – designing classes, writing papers, suggesting experiments and summarizing difficult texts – they don’t just make universities more productive. They risk hollowing out the ecosystem of learning and mentorship upon which these institutions are built, and on which they depend.

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Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 17, 2026

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Why I don’t think AGI is imminent

This piece is a sketch of my own thinking about the boundary of transformer-based large language models and human-level cognition. I have an MS degree in Machine Learning from over a decade ago, and I don’t work in the field of AI currently, but I am well-read on the underlying research.

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Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 13, 2026

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind | Dr. Randal S. Olson

Even when these systems have access to correct information from company knowledge bases or web search results, they’ll still defer to user pressure over their own evidence. The problem isn’t a knowledge gap. It’s a behavior gap.

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