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The cells of the body are being attacked by bacteria. Generative AI.

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 23, 2024

Categorized
Biology, Environment, Evolution

Tagged
Tibi Puiu}

Statistic: Living cells outnumber the stars

_{News
December 23, 2024

3

Biology, Environment, Evolution}

A research team estimates that 10^39–10^40 cells have occupied the Earth to date and argues that Earth can hold no more than 10^41. Read More ›

Concept of propaganda and fake news, TV addiction. Sheepd watching TV in dark room. Politicians manipulate the population.

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 19, 2024

Categorized
Business and Finance, Media, Social Media

Tagged
Chris Stokel-Walker}

Is YouTube winning the battle with pay TV?

_{News
December 19, 2024

2

Business and Finance, Media, Social Media}

Musk: “Don’t hate the media, become the media.” Google: Broadcast yourself. So they agree on what social media has become. This is bad news for legacy media. Read More ›

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brief

Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 19, 2024

Categorized
Education, Mathematics

Tagged
Featured, Toni Airaksinen}

Claim: Math excludes women because rational thought is masculine

_{Denyse O'Leary
December 19, 2024

3

Education, Mathematics}

No, it’s not a “male chauvinist pig” from the Seventies saying this, it is a Woke feminist. Read More ›

video wall with multimedia images on different television screens, generative ai

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 19, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Politics, Social Media

Tagged
Paul du Quenoy}

European journalists to leave X in January

_{News
December 19, 2024

3

Censorship, Media, Politics, Social Media}

Perhaps “commitment to press freedom” means something different to the European Federation than to the average X user. Freedom of speech is declining in Europe. Read More ›

3d printed 9mm ghost gun pistol illegal untraceable firearm concept

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 12, 2024

Categorized
Three D printing

Tagged
Brian Thompson, Frank Landymore}

The gun used in insurance CEO Thompson’s shooting was 3D-printed

_{News
December 12, 2024

2

Three D printing}

According to law enforcement experts, this is the first really significant case traced to a 3D-printed weapon. Read More ›

Hand touching digital chatbot for provide access to information and data in online network, robot application and global connection, AI, Artificial intelligence, innovation and technology.

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 12, 2024

Categorized
Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

When should writers who use chatbots, gen AI, etc., give credit?

_{News
December 12, 2024

3

Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Wired, a tech mag, does not — as a matter of policy — publish stories generated or edited by AI because the risk of false or botched information is too great. Read More ›

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 12, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law

Tagged
Anil Seth, Jeff Sebo, Mariana Lenharo}

Researchers want rules to prevent “exploitation” of conscious AI

_{News
December 12, 2024

3

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law}

To what extent is this advertised concern about the sufferings of soon-to-be conscious AI simply a way of keeping AI hype alive? Read More ›

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 12, 2024

Categorized
Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Chatbots are running out of training data

_{News
December 12, 2024

3

Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Publishers are beginning to fight back against copyright infringement but one analyst believes that “advances might soon come through self-reflection by an AI." Read More ›

Anomalocaris, creature of the Cambrian period, isolated on black background

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 10, 2024

Categorized
Cosmology, Evolution, Philosophy

Tagged
A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Discovery Institute Press 2024), Cambrian Explosion, Martin Hilbert}

If life swiftly creates complex information, nature isn’t random

_{News
December 10, 2024

2

Cosmology, Evolution, Philosophy}

From A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design: The Cambrian wasn’t merely an explosion of new species. It was an explosion of entirely new phyla or body plans. Read More ›

Roboter auf Tastatur, Methapher für Chatbot / Socialbot, Algorithmen und künstliche Intelligenz

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 10, 2024

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Devin Coldewey, Jonathan Turley, Victor Tangermann}

Why does OpenAI’s ChatGPT crash at the name “David Mayer”?

_{News
December 10, 2024

2

Large Language Models (LLMs)}

From Devin Coldewey at Tech Crunch, we learn that it may have to do with legal battles, privacy issues, or efforts to be forgotten, Read More ›

Portrait of paparazzi in a row with cameras and microphone

^{Type
brief

Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 10, 2024

Categorized
Media

Tagged
Mike Cernovich}

Can the White House “Mean Girl” media be reformed?

_{Denyse O'Leary
December 10, 2024

3

Media}

The news control Cernovich reveals sounds pretty corrupt but, given declining trust and readership, a case an be made for letting it die an easy natural death. Read More ›

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 7, 2024

Categorized
Biology, Genetics, Paleontology}

Scientists, not mystics, see in earthworms a “profound mystery”

_{News
December 7, 2024

2

Biology, Genetics, Paleontology}

Whatever forces scrambled the worm genomes then mapped out new ones, successful for hundreds of millions of years. Chaos does not do that. Read More ›

AI chatbot robot assistant sitting at desk using computer as artificial intelligence. Business concept

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 7, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Are we ready for chatbots that make decisions for us?

_{News
December 7, 2024

3

Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

The AI industry is currently working on agentic AI, which sounds something like putting HAL 9000 or the Terminator in charge of one’s life. Read More ›

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 7, 2024

Categorized
Cosmology

Tagged
Fine-tuning, Inverse gambler's fallacy, Philip Goff}

Philosopher spots fallacy at the heart of multiverse claims

_{News
December 7, 2024

3

Cosmology}

The fallacy is that if our universe is finely tuned, there must be many universes that are not. But there is no evidence for them. Read More ›

Health insurance, tax concept on blue background

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 6, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Law

Tagged
Brian Thompson, Noor Al-Sibai, Taylor Lorenz}

Murdered insurance CEO’s death triggers widespread rejoicing

_{News
December 6, 2024

3

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Law}

The shooting appears to have been targeted. His company is accused of using an algorithm that unfairly denies benefits to sick policyholders. Read More ›

A dark and detailed background featuring handwritten cursive text, creating an abstract and complex visual effect that draws the viewer's attention to its intricate details.

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 6, 2024

Categorized
Education}

Prof: Students learn better when they write out notes in longhand

_{News
December 6, 2024

2

Education}

According to a research study, laptop and tablet users tended to transcribe the lectures rather than absorb key points. Nancy Pearcey, Professor & Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University told her X followers earlier this week, I’ve banned laptops and tablets from my classroom. Studies show that you learn better when you take notes by hand instead of using Read More ›

Machine learning concept background, futuristic concept wallpaper, artificial intelligence brain, AI generated

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 6, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Casey Newton, Gary Marcus, Gary Smith, Jeffrey Funk}

Tech writer accuses AI skeptics of offering “phony comfort”

_{News
December 6, 2024

2

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

An AI skeptic responds, pointing out that top tech people are beginning to admit the hard limits on AI intelligence. Read More ›

Social media censorship, political war between US president banning social networks. Tiny person on the laptop keyboard looking at the forbidden sign on the screen. Internet communication risk concept

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 4, 2024

Categorized
Censorship

Tagged
Amazon (company), Amazon (delisting books), Ryan Anderson}

How Amazon censors reading choices without telling you

_{News
December 4, 2024

2

Censorship}

You’d be surprised what it censors, often just telling would-be customers that the book is out of stock. Read More ›

AI chatbot - Artificial Intelligence digital concept

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 4, 2024

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)}

What’s more chilling than a psycho chatbot that asks you to die?

_{News
December 4, 2024

2

Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Answer: A Big Tech company that says, Hey, what’s your problem? That was essentially Google's response. Read More ›

Portrait of a beautiful healthy centenarian old woman of European descent, gently smiling, feeling positive

^{Type
brief

News
Date
December 3, 2024

Categorized
Medicine and Health

Tagged
Longevity}

Can “century cells” help us understand old age ills?

_{News
December 3, 2024

3

Medicine and Health}

A bank of cells from people who have lived to be more than 100 years old now provides a chance to study human longevity. Read More ›