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'AI Is Not Intelligent': The Atlantic Criticizes 'Scam' Underlying the AI Industry
The Atlantic makes that case that "the foundation of the AI industry is a scam" and that AI "is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking — and, soon, feeling — machines."
[OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which...
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Caffeine Has a Weird Effect On Your Brain While You're Asleep
A new study "adds a whole extra level of detail to our understanding of caffeine's impact on the brain during sleep," reports ScienceAlert:
Caffeine was shown to increase brain signal complexity, and shift the brain closer to a state of 'criticality', in tests run by researchers from the University...
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Microsoft Announces Upcoming Windows-Powered Handheld Xbox Device: the 'ROG Xbox Ally'
Nintendo's new Switch 2 console sold a record 3 million units after its launch Thursday. But then today Microsoft announced their own upcoming handheld gaming device that's Xbox-branded (and Windows-powered).
Working with ASUS' ROG division, they build a device that weighs more than the Nintendo S...
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After 'AI-First' Promise, Duolingo CEO Admits 'I Did Not Expect the Blowback'
Last month, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn "shared on LinkedIn an email he had sent to all staff announcing Duolingo was going 'AI-first'," remembers the Financial Times.
"I did not expect the amount of blowback," he admits....
He attributes this anger to a general "anxiety" about technology replacing...
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How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal.
"The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...
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