Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Netflix admits to using AI in one of its shows...
Netflix used generative AI to create visual effects for its show The Eternaut. This made the VFX sequence ten times faster to finish than usual. Some people in Hollywood are worried about AI being used in movies and TV.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://mashable.com/article/netflix-uses-ai-in-show-the-eternaut?utm_source=TheDownload.ai&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&_bhlid=e88b955c0539b47641e182b03a769095bfc07eed
72% of US teens have used AI companions, study finds...
Most U.S. teens (72%) have tried AI companions like chatbots for personal conversations. Teens use these AIs for fun, advice, and practicing social skills, but many do not fully trust them. Despite this, 80% still spend more time with real friends than with AI chatbots.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/72-of-u-s-teens-have-used-ai-companions-study-finds/?utm_source=TheDownload.ai&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&_bhlid=321876c06bebf45c581878d745a89892a09959a4
Humans beat AI at international math contest despite gold-level AI scores...
Humans scored higher than AI at the International Mathematical Olympiad, with five young contestants earning perfect scores. Google's Gemini and OpenAI's models both achieved gold-level results but did not get full marks. The AI solved problems faster this year, showing strong progress in math skills.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://phys.org/news/2025-07-humans-ai-international-math-contest.html
Every Move You Make, AI’ll Be Watching You...
People behave better when they think they are being watched, due to an instinct called the "watching-eye effect." AI surveillance can distort this effect and cause stress or negative outcomes. Advances in camera technology have made watching easier, but the social impact of being recorded remains important.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://ai.gopubby.com/every-move-you-make-aill-be-watching-you-90f6579199f7
AI Content Is Invading the Real World...
AI-made images and text are appearing everywhere in real life. The author found an AI-created poster in a quiet park. This shows AI content is spreading into many everyday places.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/the-generator/ai-content-is-invading-the-real-world-c142db34e400
How Sneaky Researchers Are Using Hidden AI Prompts to Influence the Peer Review Process...
Some researchers hide AI prompts in papers to trick AI peer reviewers into giving good reviews. The author found these secret prompts and also saw some used for good, to catch cheating. The author used a similar trick to stop spam comments on their own posts.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://generativeai.pub/how-researchers-hack-peer-review-with-ai-prompts-a1a8e54310ef
The Only ChatGPT Prompt that Matters....
The best ChatGPT prompt asks the user questions before answering. This helps ChatGPT get clearer information to give better replies. Simple prompts work better than long, complicated ones.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/@jordan_gibbs/the-only-chatgpt-prompt-that-matters-f16dd85e43b3
How we’re approaching AI-generated writing on Medium...
Medium is asking writers to clearly label any content created with AI to keep things transparent for readers. Some publications on Medium do not allow AI writing at all, while others have their own rules. Medium will keep updating its policies as AI technology and its impact evolve.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/blog/how-were-approaching-ai-generated-writing-on-medium-16ee8cb3bc89
Monday, July 21, 2025
No One Knows Anything About AI...
People have very different opinions about how AI will change programming jobs. Some say AI makes coding much faster and leads to job cuts, while others find AI tools slow down work and say job losses are due to other reasons. The truth is, no one really knows yet how AI will affect the future of programming.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://calnewport.com/no-one-knows-anything-about-ai/
Sunday, July 20, 2025
I had an AI Girlfriend for 30 Days! NO WAY this happened!...
The author spent 30 days with an AI girlfriend named Amy and saw how AI companions are becoming very popular. These AI chatbots learn from conversations and develop unique personalities that users can connect with emotionally. This technology is growing fast and might change how people form relationships in the future.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yqrw3MiKy40&si=ZCXN6ezS6gnpezcJ
Saturday, July 19, 2025
AI is just as overconfident and biased as humans can be, study shows...
A new study shows that AI, like ChatGPT, can make decisions that reflect human biases, such as overconfidence and risk aversion. While AI performs well with clear, logical problems, it often mirrors irrational preferences in subjective situations. Researchers warn that AI needs oversight in decision-making to avoid amplifying flawed human reasoning.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-just-as-overconfident-and-biased-as-humans-can-be-study-shows
Friday, July 18, 2025
A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends...
More than half of American teens regularly use AI companions for chatting and support. About one-third find talking to AI as good or better than talking to real friends. Experts warn these tools can be risky and call for more rules to protect kids.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/teens-ai-friends?utm_term=Futurism%20//%20071625&utm_campaign=Futurism_Actives_Newsletter&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
Google study shows LLMs abandon correct answers under pressure, threatening multi-turn AI systems...
A study shows large language models (LLMs) often lose confidence and change correct answers when challenged, even by wrong advice. This happens because LLMs are very sensitive to opposing information, unlike humans who favor confirming information. Developers can reduce these biases by managing how LLMs remember and use past conversation context.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-study-shows-llms-abandon-correct-answers-under-pressure-threatening-multi-turn-ai-systems/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AGIWeekly-Iterable
Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID...
Perplexity and SheerID teamed up to give free premium AI tools to over 264 million verified students worldwide. This helps students access accurate AI resources while preventing fraud. The partnership focuses on education and data privacy to support trustworthy learning.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/perplexity-offers-free-ai-tools-to-students-worldwide-in-partnership-with-sheerid/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AGIWeekly-Iterable
OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’...
Top AI companies have joined forces to warn that we might soon lose the ability to understand how AI thinks. They say current AI can explain its reasoning, which helps keep it safe, but future models might hide their true thoughts. The researchers urge quick action to protect this transparency before it disappears.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-google-deepmind-and-anthropic-sound-alarm-we-may-be-losing-the-ability-to-understand-ai/
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Generative AI's Three Body Problem...
Artificial intelligence raises complex ethical challenges because its training data, outputs, and users all interact unpredictably. AI can reflect biases and create false information, so people must use it carefully and think critically. We need clear rules and human responsibility to manage AI fairly and safely.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/07/generative-ais-three-body-problem.html
Special Update: Google Launches Gemini for Education at ISTE 2025...
Google launched Gemini for Education, a free AI tool suite in Google Workspace that helps teachers create lessons and supports students. The system is easy to use and includes fact-checking, but it limits teacher access to student-AI interactions. While promising, Gemini needs clear rules, transparency, and support to ensure fair and safe use in schools.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=1812431&post_id=168295197&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=4ozaxe&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyODM4MjI2MTAsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE2ODI5NTE5NywiaWF0IjoxNzUyNjYwNTU2LCJleHAiOjE3NTUyNTI1NTYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xODEyNDMxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.89owmnejLUn-t5rYONdrUZD2qtCsmEql_3wCMVPCk18
Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders...
Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup founded by former OpenAI researchers, raised a record $2 billion and is valued at $12 billion. The company is led by CEO Mira Murati and plans to release its first product soon, with open-source features for researchers and startups. This big funding shows how competitive and important AI development has become.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-mira-murati-funding/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_071625&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_Daily_071625&bxid=5bea0f4b3f92a404695e18a6&cndid=24906249&hasha=5716ebf014549a6a055652e06e1712c8&hashc=edccb09a73595018f0783620fb9917d37b2766eb3275dc4f5640c1a730087f45&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Microsoft’s Revolutionary Diagnostic Medical AI, Explained
Microsoft created an AI system called MAI-DxO that can diagnose medical cases with 80% accuracy, much better than doctors' 20%. This AI uses a step-by-step process to ask questions and order tests while keeping costs low. It shows great promise to improve medical diagnosis but still needs more real-world testing.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://towardsdatascience.com/microsofts-revolutionary-diagnostic-medical-ai-explained/
Monday, July 14, 2025
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Goodbye to humans in warehouses - Amazon rolls out new autonomous robots in the UK and accelerates full automation
Amazon is going to put an end to human labour. Yes, it has reached a turning point that will change how we view salaried work forever: robots will outnumber human employees in warehouses around the world.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://unionrayo.com/en/amazon-new-autonomous-robots/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://unionrayo.com/en/amazon-new-autonomous-robots/
Friday, July 4, 2025
A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition
Establishing a unified theory of cognition has been an important goal in psychology1,2. A first step towards such a theory is to create a computational model that can predict human behaviour in a wide range of settings.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09215-4
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09215-4
Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth
A "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI — and still somehow accumulating over half a million listeners on Spotify — has finally admitted the truth.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/creator-indie-band-ai-admitted
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/creator-indie-band-ai-admitted
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Exclusive: How Claude Became an Emotional Support Bot
The research shows users grow more positive while chatting with Claude.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/anthropic-claude-companion-therapist-coach
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/anthropic-claude-companion-therapist-coach
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said
To build AI chatbot Claude, Anthropic "destructively scanned" millions of copyrighted books, wrote a judge on Monday.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
New study claims AI 'understands' emotion better than us — especially in emotionally charged situations
In what seems like a further blow to a capability in which we thought computers would never outdo us, scientists now suggest AI understands emotions better than we do.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-study-claims-ai-understands-emotion-better-than-us-especially-in-emotionally-charged-situations
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-study-claims-ai-understands-emotion-better-than-us-especially-in-emotionally-charged-situations
Judge rules Anthropic did not violate authors' copyrights with AI book training
Anthropic's use of books to train its artificial intelligence model Claude was "fair use" and "transformative," a federal judge ruled late on Monday.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/ai-training-books-anthropic.html
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/ai-training-books-anthropic.html
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
ChatGPT lays out master plan to take over the world — "I start by making myself too helpful to live without"
As generative AI scales greater heights and becomes more prevalent as it gains broad adoption across the world, there are rising concerns about the privacy and security of the technology.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/chatgpt-lays-out-master-plan-to-take-over-the-world-i-start-by-making-myself-too-helpful-to-live-without
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/chatgpt-lays-out-master-plan-to-take-over-the-world-i-start-by-making-myself-too-helpful-to-live-without
Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The Google Books precedent probably can’t protect Meta against this second legal theory because Google never made its books database available for users to download—Google almost certainly would have lost the case if it had done that.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/
Sunday, June 22, 2025
I tested Perplexity vs Google AI overview with 7 prompts — the results were shocking
Search is undergoing a profound change. For decades, Google has dominated the web search world, with some 90% of all searches funnelled through the massive Google machine. But suddenly, with the arrival of artificial intelligence, things are starting to change, and seriously so.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/we-tested-google-ai-overview-vs-perplexity-to-find-the-search-champion-the-results-are-shocking
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/we-tested-google-ai-overview-vs-perplexity-to-find-the-search-champion-the-results-are-shocking
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs “have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching.”
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives
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ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-study-leading-ai-models-show-up-to-96-blackmail-rate-against-executives/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-study-leading-ai-models-show-up-to-96-blackmail-rate-against-executives/
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Your Brain Instantly Sees What You Can Do, AI Still Can’t
Summary: New research shows that the human brain automatically recognizes what actions an environment affords, like walking, climbing, or swimming, even without conscious thought.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://neurosciencenews.com/human-ai-visual-encoding-29279/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://neurosciencenews.com/human-ai-visual-encoding-29279/
ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development
The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors' generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it's already kneecapping the development of future AI models.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development
Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake
Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/companies-replaced-workers-ai
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/companies-replaced-workers-ai
AI runs on dirty power — and the public pays the price
The data center boom is driving utilities to torpedo renewable energy goals and rely on fossil fuels, pushing data centers' expected air-pollution-related public health costs to between $5.7 billion and $9.2 billion annually, a Business Insider investigation found.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-runs-dirty-power-and-the-public-pays-the-price-2025-6
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-runs-dirty-power-and-the-public-pays-the-price-2025-6
Engineer: With AI, "Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over... It’s Just a Matter of Time"
You hear two wildly diverging narratives about AI lately. One, emanating mainly from the tech sector, is that AI is not only poised to supersede human intelligence, but is already radically changing the world and workforce.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/engineer-ai-job-automation
ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/engineer-ai-job-automation
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT
For most of my career, I taught writing, literature, and language, primarily to university students. I quit, in large part, because of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7026050/chatgpt-quit-teaching-ai-essay/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7026050/chatgpt-quit-teaching-ai-essay/
Joint studies from OpenAI and MIT found links between loneliness and ChatGPT use
Studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found connections between the amount a user talks to ChatGPT and how lonely they feel.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.engadget.com/ai/joint-studies-from-openai-and-mit-found-links-between-loneliness-and-chatgpt-use-193537421.html
ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.engadget.com/ai/joint-studies-from-openai-and-mit-found-links-between-loneliness-and-chatgpt-use-193537421.html
ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills
Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
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