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A Sloppy “AI Scientist” Could Make the Science Crisis Much Worse

A research team claims to have developed the AI Scientist that “generates novel research ideas, writes code, executes experiments ...” Really?
It continues to astonish us how easily people can be persuaded that LLMs (chatbots) can do our thinking for us Read More ›
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AI Going MAD? The Model Collapse Problem Gets More Attention Now

The problem is that the AI can't generate anything new on its own and the old stuff, endlessly recycled at high speeds, begins to erode
If human involvement is minimized, this hard limit will probably come up time and again. Computation is not creativity. Read More ›
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Why the Artificial Intelligence Bubble May Be About To Burst

For one thing, Space Odyssey’s HAL and Prometheus’s David aren’t really happening, for good reasons
Gary Marcus argues that Big Tech got rich, largely on promises, without confronting the known limits of artificial intelligence. Read More ›
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Science Journals Are Coming to Terms With AI’s Limits

There is risk in relying on chatbots for writing shortcuts. It is somewhat like relying on the town gossip for information. The tale might be true but…
It’s a good thing that the public is learning about the genuine limitations of chatbots. It might, of course, take a disaster to drive the reality home. Read More ›