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"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
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We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com
A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher nysfocus.com
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Revenge of The Business Idiot wheresyoured.at
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What AI Experts Say About When Not to Use AI - WSJ wsj.com
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Inventing Eliza: The First Chatbot’s Hidden Code - IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster theatlantic.com
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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the anthropic dweebs have "discovered" that claude* uses a sort of swap file/memory. and that if you tell it "white elephant" this swap "space" includes the tokens "white elephant." & that means it's basically conscious *the entire pkg, bc without the harness, the llm is useless
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- Anthropic says Claude has a 'J-space' of dozens of concepts, under a tenth of neural activity, that mediates multi-step reasoning.
- Swapping 'spider' for 'ant' inside the J-space changed Claude's leg-count answer from 8 to 6, demonstrating a causal role.
- A 'J-lens' tool surfaced silent words like 'fake', 'fictional' and 'manipulation' during deception tests, pointing at safety uses.
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- Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
- Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
- Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/…
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No industry of value needs to mislead you or make you feel bad for not adopting their tech. Nobody trustworthy will ever see the need to humiliate or attack somebody for not being excited about a product. These are the actions of a loser. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the…
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I'm starting to see a pretty coherent body of research pointing to this answer. For example, this paper "Social Dynamics of AI Adoption" is about *parents*: "Anxiety about falling behind can drive people to embrace emerging technologies with uncertain consequences." www.nber.o…
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this article is ostensibly about AI investment driving a merger boom but the author doesn't think it's relevant to mention historic corruption has hollowed out our antitrust regulators (despite Republicans campaigning on being big fans of antitrust) or that AI doesn't make any…
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here's a counter-narrative I hope reaches enough people before it's too late: Companies that lean too hard into AI right now are going to go out of business. Some firms "behind" in AI adoption now will weather the coming storm precisely because they are. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/wh…
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“What makes ELIZA particularly fascinating is not only its historical significance but also what it reveals about Weizenbaum’s views on both computing and human interaction.”
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- The original ELIZA source code was unearthed from MIT's archives, showing Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 write-up omitted key technical details.
- Rather than a simple pattern-matcher, ELIZA was a scripting platform with contextual memory and personas for math, poetry, and relativity.
- Edwin F. Taylor at MIT's Education Research Center built teaching scripts using conditional keyword matching that branched on prior turns.
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This has been the stupidest technology cycle in my adult life. Somehow stupider than NFTs because so many people I thought were smart got roped into the hype. www.wsj.com/business/chi...
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"AI...making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models...are so resource-hungry that tech companies...purchasing 70% of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage." The opposite of what we expect from new technologies. www.theatlantic.c…
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People liked it, but that Ted Chiang essay on AI published earlier last month is actually not very good on the technical merits. Critics of AI companies need to be much more conversant in how LLMs work in order in order to propose meaningful regulations and responses to them. …
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