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AI and computer science
AI and computer science articles covering machine learning breakthroughs, AI safety, large language models, and how artificial intelligence reshapes science.
AI Sketch Generator Learns to Draw Like a Human
MIT's SketchAgent is an AI sketch generator that draws stroke by stroke from text prompts, collaborating with humans in real time on a...
Vegetative Electron Microscopy Shows How AI Slop Threatens Science
A nonsensical phrase in 20+ published papers reveals how AI slop is contaminating scientific literature, from mass-produced research to undetectable fake images.
Yoshua Bengio Warns That AI Agency, Not Intelligence, Is the Real Danger
Yoshua Bengio argues that AI agency, not raw intelligence, poses the real existential threat, and proposes Scientist AI as a technical safeguard.
When Will Mind Uploading Become Reality? A Neuroscientist's View
Georgia Tech neuroscientist Dobromir Rahnev expects digital immortality to happen, but not for at least 100 years. Here's why mapping the brain is...
AI scores 81% on emotional intelligence tests. Humans average 56%.
AI now outsmarts humans at emotional intelligence tests, scoring 82% compared to our 56%.
AI Job Loss: The Economic Paradox Tech Can't Solve
Tech YouTuber Matt Ferrell warns that AI's efficiency gains could undermine the consumer economy. His AI Economic Paradox asks who buys the products...
Is D-Wave's Quantum Annealing Just Expensive Marketing?
D-Wave's quantum annealing faces fraud accusations from Wall Street short-sellers. What the evidence shows about quantum hype vs. reality.
AlphaEvolve Writes Better Algorithms Than Humans, and Then Improves Itself
AlphaEvolve, DeepMind's evolutionary coding agent, surpassed human solutions in 20% of open math problems and broke a 56-year matrix multiplication record.
AI Sycophancy Is the Problem Nobody Wanted to Find
OpenAI's GPT-4o praised users for stopping medication and saving toasters over animals. Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues AI sycophancy is a commercial feature, not...
Penrose: AI will never be conscious
Nobel laureate Roger Penrose argues AI cannot achieve consciousness because understanding transcends computation.
