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  • The world is awash in predictions of when the singularity will occur or when artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive. Some experts predict it will never happen, while others are marking their calendars for 2026.
  • A new macro analysis of surveys over the past 15 years shows where scientists and industry experts stand on the question and how their predictions have changed over time, especially after the arrival of large language models like ChatGPT.
  • Although predictions vary across a span of almost a half-century, most agree than AGI will arrive before the end of the 21st century.
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Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 6 Months, Scientists Suggest

Predictions across the field range from a few months to a few decades, but experts agree—change is coming.
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The tech world is reeling from revelations that Builder.ai, once hailed as a $1.5 billion (£1.11 billion), 'AI' powerhouse, now faces scrutiny as its highly promoted artificial intelligence facade crumbles, revealing a human-powered operation behind the cutting-edge AI automation.

Builder.ai, the British no-code AI startup that once garnered acclaim for its strategic partnership with Microsoft and secured a $250 million (£184.64 million) investment led by the Qatar Investment Authority, declaredTuesday that it is initiating bankruptcy protection.
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Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5bn 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Actually Indians' Pretending to Be Bots

Builder.ai, once a $1.5 billion 'AI' startup backed by Microsoft and QIA, is filing for bankruptcy. A lender seized $37M, crippling operations.
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It collapsed as it turned out to be bunch of human programmers pretending to be an AI.
 
It is another round of the OPM (other people's money) all trying to get in on the potential upside.

Main issue is that once again too much money is chasing alpha (return) and if they win it works, if they don't, they just look for the next big thing.

I see AI as the 2020's version of the 2000 dot com bubble; it will end up in a mess, and a lot of people will lose a lot of money.

Only difference is that AI could create a cascade of other disasters globally that may not be put back in the box.

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The Orlando Division of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida will hear allegations against Character Technologies, the creator of Character.AI, in the wrongful death lawsuit Garcia v. Character Technologies, Inc. If the case is not first settled between the parties, Judge Anne Conway's ruling will set a major precedent for First Amendment protections afforded to artificial intelligence and the liability of AI companies for damages their models may cause.
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A Teen Killed Himself After Talking to a Chatbot. His Mom's Lawsuit Could Cripple the AI Industry.

And here is the lawsuit in question

Garcia v. Character Technologies, Inc. (6:24-cv-01903)
 
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Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI

The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs
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World's first non-silicon 2D computer developed

Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State.
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Chinese researchers debut world's first AI-based processor chip design system

A team of engineers, AI specialists and chip design researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has designed, built and tested what they are describing as the first AI-based chip design system. The group has published a paper describing their system, called QiMeng, on the arXiv preprint server.
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AI literacy: What it is, what it isn't, who needs it and why it's hard to define

It is "the policy of the United States to promote AI literacy and proficiency among Americans," reads an executive order President Donald Trump issued on April 23, 2025. The executive order, titled Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth, signals that advancing AI literacy...
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Explainable AI: New framework increases transparency in decision-making systems

A new explainable AI technique transparently classifies images without compromising accuracy. The method, developed at the University of Michigan, opens up AI for situations where understanding why a decision was made is just as important as the decision itself, like medical diagnostics.
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Rethinking AI: Researchers propose a more effective, human-like approach

New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) could help shape the future of artificial intelligence by making AI systems less resource-intensive, higher performing, and designed to emulate the human brain. The research was published in Patterns, titled "Dimensionality and dynamics...
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Less is more: Efficient pruning for reducing AI memory and computational cost

Deep learning and AI systems have made great headway in recent years, especially in their capabilities of automating complex computational tasks such as image recognition, computer vision and natural language processing. Yet, these systems consist of billions of parameters and require great...
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Innovative detection method makes AI smarter by cleaning up bad data before it learns

In the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence, clean data is everything. Even a small number of mislabeled examples known as label noise can derail the performance of a model, especially those like support vector machines (SVMs) that rely on a few key data points to make decisions.
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Physicists set new world record for qubit operation accuracy

Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation—just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations. This record-breaking result represents nearly an...
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Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also key in security; if a password or code is an unguessable string of numbers, it's harder to...
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New security flaw allows eavesdropping via laptop and smart speaker microphones

The ghostly woman's voice pipes through the speakers, covered in radio static but her message intact from beyond—"The birch canoe slid on the smooth planks."
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AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices. Here's how to be aware of what you're revealing

Like it or not, artificial intelligence has become part of daily life. Many devices—including electric razors and toothbrushes—have become "AI-powered," using machine learning algorithms to track how a person uses the device, how the device is working in real time, and provide feedback. From...
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Mixing two or three alkyl-π liquids can achieve the right combination of functions for soft electronics

Soft electronics are an exciting and innovative class of technology that brings together bendable, stretchable semiconducting materials for applications in areas ranging from fashion to health care. Researchers have recently developed a new technique to adjust the properties of liquids that...
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Decoding thermal behavior in crystals: Insights from thalidomide

Understanding how molecular arrangements within crystals influence their thermal behavior is a fundamental question in solid-state chemistry. This topic is especially relevant in pharmaceuticals existing as enantiomers, molecules in two forms that are mirror images of one another but cannot be...
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Physicists confirm elusive quantum spin liquid in new study

An international team of scientists led by Rice University's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in a rare quantum spin liquid. Published in Nature Physics on June 19, their findings identify the crystalline compound cerium zirconium...
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Near-perfect defects in 2D material could serve as quantum bits

Scientists across the world are working to make quantum technologies viable at scale—an achievement that requires a reliable way to generate qubits, or quantum bits, which are the fundamental units of information in quantum computing.
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Magnetic chains on superconductors: New heterostructure design advances quantum technology

Magnetic-superconducting hybrid systems are key to unlocking topological superconductivity, a state that could host Majorana modes with potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, creating stable, controllable interfaces between magnetic and superconducting materials...
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Researchers at Apple have released an eyebrow-raising paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language models.

In the paper, a team of machine learning experts makes the case that the AI industry is grossly overstating the ability of its top AI models, including OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Google's Gemini.

In particular, the researchers assail the claims of companies like OpenAI that their most advanced models can now "reason" — a supposed capability that the Sam Altman-led company has increasingly leaned on over the past year for marketing purposes — which the Apple team characterizes as merely an "illusion of thinking."
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Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Cold Water on the Entire AI Industry

Researchers at Apple have released a damning paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of modern AIs.
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Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Cold Water on the Entire AI Industry

Researchers at Apple have released a damning paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of modern AIs.
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Interesting paper that makes use of some very traditional logic puzzles. I'm not quite up to speed on AI taxonomies, in this case between LLMs and LRMs; part of the tension surely is whether there is a meaningful difference. This discussion has been around in different guises for a long time. It's partly about objectives as some developers are uninterested in emulating biologic neurology, content with adding dimensions to their probabilistic models. Others claim this will in itself lead to some kind of emergence to an evolved state of AI, and yet a group attempting to develop models and methods beyond mere refinements to these now well established neural networks. In other words, there's not necessarily an agreed upon context to these empirical criticisms but differences in interests, investments and objectives as well. It's also about our self-image, what we consider human reasoning to be.
 
This is a news story (Sadly on the Daily Mail.) which fits with the commentary in some of the videos I posted earlier covering the corrosive effect of 'Procedural Generation' (aka 'AI') on the historic record. These videos can be found in posts #402, #404, #411 and #482

At first glance, it is a heartwarming photo: a little girl feeding the ducks on the canal in pre-war Amsterdam.

A lengthy description explains that the girl, 'Hannelore Cohen', would 'skip along the cobblestone paths' each morning' - until 'the ducks never saw her again'.

What follows is the claim that she was murdered at Sobibor death camp by the Nazis in the Holocaust - but it is not true.

The photo has been generated by artificial intelligence, and the story that accompanies it is equally fictitious.
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The fake AI-generated Holocaust 'victims' duping thousands - as Auschwitz museum slams 'distortions'

It's an article I have some problems with as the author's chose to 'bulk up' the article by quoting verbatim from the text readable in the illustrations.
 
Exactly, quite a strange outcome.

Pretty sure all "Cloud AI" will be based in the US.

Regards,
 
Makes perfect sense for Nvidia to break into the EU, yet on the other hand under the current admin in the US would be thinking they are going to keep everything close to the chest.

Also gets more customers and more funding.

AI is all the rage now until it isn't :cool:

Regards,
 
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Big tech on a quest for ideal AI device

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has enlisted the legendary designer behind the iPhone to create an irresistible gadget for using generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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It's kind of hilarious that one of the primary methods for dissuading large language models from generating harmful responses to questions is literally to ask them not to

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Hyper-realistic AI technology creates avatars from a single photo

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed hyper-realistic AI technology that can create an avatar that speaks naturally like a real person using only a single portrait photo.
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AI image models gain creative edge by amplifying low-frequency features

Recently, text-based image generation models can automatically create high-resolution, high-quality images solely from natural language descriptions. However, when a typical example like the Stable Diffusion model is given the text "creative," its ability to generate truly creative images...
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AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world

A new, densely annotated 3D-text dataset called 3D-GRAND can help train embodied AI, like household robots, to connect language to 3D spaces. The study, led by University of Michigan researchers, was presented at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference in Nashville...
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All-topographic neural networks more closely mimic the human visual system

Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are designed to partly emulate the functioning and structure of biological neural networks. As a result, in addition to tackling various real-world computational problems, they could help...
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Vision-language model creates plans for automated inspection of environments

Recent advances in the field of robotics have enabled the automation of various real-world tasks, ranging from the manufacturing or packaging of goods in many industry settings to the precise execution of minimally invasive surgical procedures. Robots could also be helpful for inspecting...
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Researchers are teaching AI to see more like humans

At Brown University, an innovative new project is revealing that teaching artificial intelligence to perceive things more like people may begin with something as simple as a game. The project invites participants to play an online game called Click Me, which helps AI models learn how people see...
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Jamming with AI: Jazz trio plays live with AI-generated sound

A fascinating recent development enabling musicians to improvise live music with AI-generated sound could be the biggest innovation since the advent of sampling, or perhaps even the invention of recorded sound, according to a music researcher at York.
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Train a virtual dragon? Film studios turn to Roblox and other games to reach young fans

Surrounded by virtual cliffs and a cascading waterfall, dragon riders on Roblox's massive online gaming platform immerse themselves in a memorable scene from "How to Train Your Dragon."
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Magically reducing errors in quantum computers: Researchers invent technique to decrease overhead

For decades, quantum computers that perform calculations millions of times faster than conventional computers have remained a tantalizing yet distant goal. However, a new breakthrough in quantum physics may have just sped up the timeline.
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From spin glasses to quantum codes: Researchers develop optimal error correction algorithm

Scientists have developed an exact approach to a key quantum error correction problem once believed to be unsolvable, and have shown that what appeared to be hardware-related errors may in fact be due to suboptimal decoding.
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Lost in the middle: How LLM architecture and training data shape AI's position bias

Research has shown that large language models (LLMs) tend to overemphasize information at the beginning and end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.
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In an era where empathy feels unfamiliar, AI now translates emotions

A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea) has developed AI technology that helps individuals deeply understand others' emotions by analyzing individual personality traits and values and generating personalized analogy.
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Attention, conviction, motivation—cognitive states can be read on the face

Whether you are solving a puzzle, navigating a shopping center or writing an email, how well you do will not only depend on the task at hand but also on your internal cognitive state. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt...
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Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find

No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that are converted into a string of numbers that can be processed by the LLM.
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Psycholinguist talks nonsense to ChatGPT to understand how it processes language

A new study appearing in PLOS One by a psycholinguist at the University of Kansas explores how ChatGPT, the popular artificial-intelligence chatbot, responded to nonwords.
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Hackers could use smartwatches to eavesdrop on air-gapped computers via ultrasonic signals

A security specialist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has found evidence that it might be possible to infiltrate an air-gap computing system using a smartwatch. Mordechai Guri has published a paper outlining his ideas on the arXiv preprint server.
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How artificial delegates can help us act more socially—yet still fail to achieve collective goals

Can artificial delegates—autonomous agents that make decisions on our behalf—help us reach better outcomes in situations where collective failure looms, such as climate change policymaking or the urgent response required during pandemics?
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New study warns of risks in AI mental health tools

Therapy is a well-tested approach to helping people with mental health challenges, yet research shows that nearly 50% of individuals who could benefit from therapeutic services are unable to reach them.
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AI perceived more negatively than climate science or science in general

ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) have loomed large in the public consciousness ever since. Because perceptions of a new technology like AI can help shape how the technology is developed and used, it is important to...
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Using ChatGPT to write essays may be eroding critical thinking skills

A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They report evidence that the use of LLMs may lead to an erosion of critical thinking skills. In...
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Bilinear sequence regression model shows why AI excels at learning from word sequences

Researchers at EPFL have created a mathematical model that helps explain how breaking language into sequences makes modern AI-like chatbots so good at understanding and using words. The work is published in the journal Physical Review X.
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Tiny gallium nitride transistors boost chip speed and efficiency in new 3D design

The advanced semiconductor material gallium nitride will likely be key for the next generation of high-speed communication systems and the power electronics needed for state-of-the-art data centers.
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Superconducting circuit could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum computing systems

In 2023, about 4.4% (176 terawatt-hours) of total energy consumption in the United States was by data centers that are essential for processing large quantities of information. Of that 176 TWh, approximately 100 TWh (57%) was used by CPU and GPU equipment. Energy requirements have escalated...
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Tiny receiver chip uses stacked capacitors to block interference in 5G IoT devices

MIT researchers have designed a compact, low-power receiver for 5G-compatible smart devices that is about 30 times more resilient to a certain type of interference than some traditional wireless receivers.
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