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NMaude said:
Maybe the Encyclopaedia Brittanica will start publishing new editions in hardcopy format again.
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As one of the things you can get when you age is a feeling that everything is worse when you were young. I certainly don’t think everything is worse but there seems to be certain key things that have got worse to everyone’s disadvantage be they old or young.

I think it’s rather telling that even some charity shops now won’t take books as they cannot shift them same with DVDs etc. My nearby library has also had to greatly reduce its stock of books and increase its areas for people using laptops because of the way things are going.

I do think there is starting to be a reaction amongst some against this. But it’s hard going when companies like Sony seem so set against physical media. As yet again they try enforce this change top down.
 
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Halcyon66 said:
OpenAI says it cracked 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7zygy3rl2o



https://www.claymath.org/millennium/navier-stokes-equation/

Regards,
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Another mathematician suspects that unpublished research content from his ChatGPT conversations may have been incorporated into the training of OpenAI models.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Disput...er-mathematician-accuses-OpenAI-11449463.html
As Thom writes on Mastodon, he had previously spent months actively discussing ongoing research questions with a colleague in Dresden using ChatGPT.
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I must admit, I'm a little bit torn. I cannot imagine the frustration of watching someone (-thing) else reap the rewards for a life's work like that. But on the same time... who in his right mind thinks, that this kind of research/conversations will stay private property.

An article I read, made a connection between China's decline in science collaboration and AI training methods.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...borations-are-declining-slowing-key-research/

Not really convinced that this was China's main goal but I can definitely see this becoming an unwanted outcome, globally.
 
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children.
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"Inside the US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School" Bloomberg.
Now blame it on AI so nobody is held accountable. And if anyone is held accountable they will be of the lowest rank possible.
 
Justo Miranda said:
It will not be necessary to burn or ban paper books; it will be enough to offer shorter and shorter summaries between shocking videos and spectacular photos.

That makes attempts to read large texts more painful, almost no one does it anymore.

Young people are losing the ability to process a text to generate their own images in their minds using their own imagination.

Educate a generation to eat only canned food and forget about harvesting, fishing, hunting, and cooking. Only those who live under a tree that produces bananas will survive.
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If young people around the globe choose to be uneducated slobbering idiots, Democracy is doomed indeed. Get ready for a New Dark Age of mindless overinformation...
 
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Another mathematician suspects that unpublished research content from his ChatGPT conversations may have been incorporated into the training of OpenAI models.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Disput...er-mathematician-accuses-OpenAI-11449463.html


I must admit, I'm a little bit torn. I cannot imagine the frustration of watching someone (-thing) else reap the rewards for a life's work like that. But on the same time... who in his right mind thinks, that this kind of research/conversations will stay private property.

An article I read, made a connection between China's decline in science collaboration and AI training methods.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...borations-are-declining-slowing-key-research/

Not really convinced that this was China's main goal but I can definitely see this becoming an unwanted outcome, globally.
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Good Old Fashioned Email can be your BFF in sensitive collaboration communications - what is wrong with the current generation???
 
Politico: The company Trump can’t ignore. The president wanted to unleash AI. Then came Anthropic

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/20/anthropic-white-house-ai-01085212

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Bessent had learned that the artificial intelligence company Anthropic had developed a new model, called Mythos, which would be released the next day to approved users in the public and private sector, a limited rollout that Anthropic said was the safest way to release its most capable model yet. Treasury secretaries do not typically occupy themselves with Silicon Valley product releases, but the growing capabilities of AI presented a unique threat to the American economy.

Anthropic had briefed the government on the advanced model, which was capable of finding holes in digital infrastructure at lightning speed — a skill that could be used for defense in the right hands, or to wreak havoc in the wrong ones. In late March, Microsoft had privately warned administration officials after receiving early access to Mythos that it represented a significant leap and could automate sophisticated cyberattacks against financial institutions, the energy grid and other critical infrastructure, allowing less skilled actors to carry out operations once limited to elite hackers.

The White House spun into crisis mode. In the Situation Room, Cabinet secretaries met with the administration’s top science adviser to understand Mythos’ capabilities and brainstorm how their agencies could respond. Afterwards Vice President JD Vance convened a phone call with some of the country’s most influential technology executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his leading competitors. Vance conveyed that the administration wanted a partnership in addressing frontier AI that supported innovation while balancing security concerns.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6rerlq99w30o

The UK will set up a new centre to "stem the poisonous tide" of disinformation, including from Russia, and lead efforts to establish global safety standards for artificial intelligence, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said.
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To counter this, Burnham announced a new National Centre for Information Defence to detect and disrupt AI-enabled disinformation campaigns by hostile states.

The centre will work alongside intelligence agencies, government departments, law enforcement and social media to bring together expertise to combat "information warfare".
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I doubt that this will just be dealing with one country, but I suspect it wouldn’t be diplomatic to mention the others.
 
I don't know if AI will end up killing me, no one knows and we all know that. I am blind in a world of the blind and I must use any means of guidance to know a little more than everyone else. But if the United Nations is against the new technology, it must be something extraordinarily valuable and positive for the Western world.
 

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I got stuck with an AI-generated music video* running on the screen opposite where I was sitting today. It appeared to be intended to be some sort of idealised 50s small-town America.

During the roughly one minute loop:
Kids repeatedly rode their bikes through each other.
A guy repairing a bike wheel reached through the spokes to pick up a tool.
Another guy morphed into a woman, apparently because the AI lost track of who he/she was.
A waitress in a diner for some reason had paired her uniform with black opera gloves. Over about 10 seconds she reached into a booth with a cup of coffee which clearly separated from her hand just before disappearing out of sight; she then instantly withdrew her hand carrying a fully loaded tray, and her left arm then passed through her body and became her right arm as her whole body switched left for right.

If that's the state of the art then we may not have too much to fear.

* Not song specific, it just ran in a loop over whatever song was running.
 

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