2024 Solar Eclipse
The word “eclipse” actually comes from the Greek word meaning “abandonment”. A once-in-a-lifetime event, the total solar eclipse happens when the moon’s shadow illuminates a narrow stretch of land during
AI and the Future of Work
The new Claude that was just released defines itself as self-aware. Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: Of course, Claude and similar LLMs are just next-word predictors. They are not self-aware.
The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Daniel Boguslaw at The Intercept: Anat Schwartz had a problem. The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New
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The Voynich Manuscript (Video)
This manuscript from Middle Ages has not been decyphered since 400 years, and modern AI models can not understand it as well. It is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an
AI Is Everywhere—Including Countless Applications You’ve Likely Never Heard Of
By Niusha Shafiabady at Singularity Hub: Artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere. Right now, generative AI in particular—tools like Midjourney, ChatGPT, Gemini (previously Bard), and others—is at the peak of hype.
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How Much Life Has Ever Existed on Earth, and How Much Ever Will?
Peter Crockford in Singularity Hub: All organisms are made of living cells. While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the first cells came to exist, geologists’ best estimates suggest at
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UFO Belief
Even when it’s not explicitly religious, belief in alien visitors resembles our oldest ways of making sense of the world Francesco Dimitri at Psyche: The Raëlians are not the only
Lessons From the Past on How to Beat Disinformation
The story of the British man who tricked Nazi Germany: Sefton Delmer took on Hitler’s information machine -his story offers valuable insights into the fight against the rise of authoritarianism.
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‘Artificial Intelligence’ is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
by Joseph Shieber: Discussions of artificial intelligence are hard to avoid. A recent Pew study, for example, found that 90% of Americans have heard at least something about artificial intelligence
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Scientists Will Never Find a Copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the Brain
Because your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer. Robert Epstein’s essay in Aeon: No matter how hard they
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The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
There’s this group of nerds called ICANN—the Internet. Its a non-profit Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and they have handed out seven keys to seven individuals spread across the
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Inside the Crisis at Google
Culture war narratives give Google’s organizational coherence a bit too much credit. There’s more to the story. by Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology: It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar