AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

Gemini can turn text into audio overviews — here's how to do it

You may already be familiar with NotebookLM, Google's Gemini-powered research companion. If you're new to it, it's worth exploring its standout feature called Audio Overview, which takes uploaded information and turns it into a podcast hosted by two AI presenters.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/gemini-can-turn-text-into-audio-overviews-heres-how-to-do-it

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

A Knockout Blow for LLMs?

Ha ha ha. But What’s the fuss about? Apple has a new paper; it’s pretty devastating to LLMs, a powerful followup to one from many of the same authors last year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/a-knockout-blow-for-llms/

The Godfather of AI reveals which jobs are safest — and where 'everybody' will get replaced

Now is a great time to become a plumber, at least according to the so-called Godfather of AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-safe-jobs-2025-6

With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to ChatGPT Pro and Team users, replacing o1-pro in the model picker.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/with-the-launch-of-o3-pro-lets-talk-about-what-ai-reasoning-actually-does/

Sam Altman says the energy needed for an average ChatGPT query can power a lightbulb for a few minutes

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, said the energy needed to power an average ChatGPT query can keep a lightbulb on for a few minutes.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use-average-query-watts-altman-2025-6

AI Therapy Gets Its First Reality Check

Young people are embracing AI for mental health support in ways that have professionals scrambling to catch up. A new Harris Poll reveals that young adults are twice as likely to discuss mental health with AI chatbots as older generations.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://derekebaird.medium.com/ai-therapy-gets-its-first-reality-check-e43fa4632aa2

A Billionaire Is Buying Entire Businesses and Converting Them to Run With AI

You might have heard the term "private equity" thrown around lately. Private equity, or "termite capitalism," as it's been ironically called, is a sweeping term for a massive industry built around buying and flipping established companies.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/billionaire-ai-businesses

Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Water on the Entire AI Industry

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.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/apple-damning-paper-ai-reasoning

AI reveals hidden language patterns and likely authorship in the Bible

Graphical representation of the team's results. By comparing word usage and sentence patterns, their AI-based statistical model identified three distinct writing styles, or scribal traditions, shown here in yellow, blue and green. Credit: Faigenbaum-Golovin et al.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ai-reveals-hidden-language-patterns.html

We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

College Professors Turn Back to Blue Books to Combat ChatGPT

As college students use ChatGPT to complete take-home tests, finish homework and write essays, professors are using blue books, or inexpensive, stapled exam booklets with a blue cover and lightly lined pages, to ChatGPT-proof the classroom.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/college-professors-turn-back-to-blue-books-to-combat-chatgpt/492450

The Amazing, but Unsettling, Value of AI for Medical Diagnosis (a personal story)

For over 20 years, I’ve lived with peripheral neuropathy—a quiet background of constant numbness, tingling, and pain-causing supersensitivity in my feet that, until recently, stayed mostly contained.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/the-amazing-but-unsettling-value-of-ai.html

Results from the "Students and AI" Survey and Collaborative Webinar

"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/results-from-students-and-ai-survey-and.html

CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs — if Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei is to be believed, at least.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/anthropic-ai-destroy-jobs

Behind the Curtain: A White-Collar Bloodbath

Hardly anyone is paying attention.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

Please Don’t Use AI as Your Expert Witness

"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/please-dont-use-ai-as-your-expert.html

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun says current AI models lack 4 key human traits

What do all intelligent beings have in common? Four things, according to Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. At the AI Action Summit in Paris earlier this year, political leaders and AI experts gathered to discuss AI development.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-yann-lecun-ai-models-lack-4-key-human-traits-2025-5

Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style

Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/fantasy-novel-ai-prompt-copy-style

Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'

Rogue chatbots resorting to blackmail and pondering consciousness? It has to be clickbait, right? Actually, no.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/anthropic-says-its-claude-ai-will-resort-to-blackmail-in-84-percent-of-rollouts-while-an-independent-ai-safety-researcher-also-notes-it-engages-in-strategic-deception-more-than-any-other-frontier-model-that-we-have-previously-studied/

'We no longer have to worry so much about not having qualified teachers': Arizona school debuts AI tutors to help teach practical skills

PHOENIX — Arizona has consistently struggled in education rankings, coming in dead last in a 2024 nationwide survey. But one new online school hopes to change that – by combining artificial intelligence with practical life skills like financial literacy.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/new-arizona-school-ai-tutors-kids-financial-literacy/75-666601a3-7929-4ba7-b524-da8785572ccc

Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style

Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/fantasy-novel-ai-prompt-copy-style

The Zika Virus and the Limitations of AI Reasoning

As a high school exchange student in Brazil many years ago, I fell in love with the country and its people.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/the-zika-virus-and-limitations-of-ai.html

Why Do People Hate AI?

If you find value in our work and want to help shape the future of AI education and awareness, consider becoming a paid subscriber today. To make it easy, we’re offering a forever 20% discount through this special link: Your support directly helps us broaden our reach and deepen our impact.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/why-do-people-hate-ai

The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

As a new type of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is becoming widely used in learning. However, academic consensus regarding its efficacy remains elusive.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y

Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation for Publishers

Audiobooks are the fastest-growing format in publishing, yet of the millions of books published today, only a fraction are available in audio.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.audible.com/about/newsroom/audible-expands-catalog-with-ai-narration-and-translation-for-publishers

The Paleolithic Paradox: Why AI Is Not Like Us

The more I chat with large language models like Grok and ChatGPT—my go-to conversational partners these days—the less I fear a Skynet-style AI uprising.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/the-paleolithic-paradox-why-ai-is-not.html

The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

As a new type of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is becoming widely used in learning. However, academic consensus regarding its efficacy remains elusive.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man

An AI avatar made to look and sound like the likeness of a man who was killed in a road rage incident addressed the court and the man who killed him: “To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the AI avatar of Christophe

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.404media.co/email/0cb70eb4-c805-4e4e-9428-7ae90657205c/

Anthropic CEO Admits We Don't Understand How AI Works

In a rare and striking moment of candor, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic—one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) research labs—has publicly admitted that even the foremost experts do not fully understand how their own AI models work.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://aisecret.us/anthropic-ceo-admits-we-dont-understand-how-ai-works/

Could AI Really Replace Teachers? Not So Fast, Experts Say

As dissatisfied American parents look for education alternatives in the wake of pandemic-era frustrations with the status quo, the role of the teacher is rapidly evolving, with some private schools redefining the human element inside tech-laden classrooms.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.newsweek.com/evolving-role-teachers-ai-classrooms-alpha-school-2067309

US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument : 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI back in 2023, alleging pirated versions of their works were used without permission to train AI language models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/us-federal-judge-on-metas-ai-copyright-fair-use-argument-you-are-dramatically-changing-you-might-even-say-obliterating-the-market-for-that-persons-work/

Tech Companies Are Seeking To Develop AI That Excels at Flattering and Manipulating Us

A disturbing new use of AI—to understand and manipulate our intentions through flattery and false friendship—has been identified in new research from the University of Cambridge.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://thedebrief.org/tech-companies-are-seeking-to-develop-ai-that-excels-at-flattering-and-manipulating-us/

These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers

Researchers have trained a new kind of large language model (LLM) using GPUs dotted across the world and fed private as well as public data—a move that suggests that the dominant way of building artificial intelligence could be disrupted.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/these-startups-are-building-advanced-ai-models-over-the-internet-with-untapped-data/

One of Earth's greatest mysteries is partially solved by Artificial Intelligence

The sun-baked flats of southern Peru hold a secret bigger than any signpost. From a low ridge, the landscape looks plain enough – just ocher earth and scattered stones.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.earth.com/news/enduring-earth-mystery-partially-solved-artificial-intelligence-nazca-geoglyphs/

DeepSeek-Prover-V2: A New Era in Automated Mathematical Reasoning

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the ability to automate formal mathematical reasoning stands as a formidable challenge.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://aisecret.us/deepseek-prover-v2-a-new-era-in-automated-mathematical-reasoning/

When an AI tells you you’re perfect

OpenAI released a model that tells users they’re right — no matter what. That’s more dangerous than it seems. A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/411318/openai-chatgpt-4o-artificial-intelligence-sam-altman-chatbot-personality

Reddit bans researchers who used AI bots to manipulate commenters

Commenters on the popular subreddit r/changemymind found out last weekend that they’ve been majorly duped for months.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/657978/reddit-ai-experiment-banned

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-ceo-ai-interoperability/

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-ceo-ai-interoperability/

Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity

In January 2024, we saw Microsoft begin to change gears. After sitting on the sidelines in the AI war, the company began to slowly, but surely, develop its Copilot assistant into an artificial intelligence using LLM technology.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/

The Jobs That Will Fall First As AI Takes Over The Workplace

Senior Contributor. Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at breakneck speed. The big question is how long it will take until technology dominates the job market. You should start thinking about your own career. Will you be caught up in the change? With the U.S.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2025/04/25/the-jobs-that-will-fall-first-as-ai-takes-over-the-workplace/

AI is Reshaping Psychotherapy. We Have Two Years to Get Ready.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.jordanthecounselor.com/so/e2PO-LnqC?languageTag=en

Is an Emergent Synthetic Intelligence Already Here?

The more I engage with large language models (LLMs), the more I’m convinced they’re doing something beyond statistical pattern-matching. These systems feel intelligent.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/04/is-emergent-synthetic-intelligence.html

Demis Hassabis Is Preparing for AI’s Endgame

This story is part of the 2025 TIME100. Read Jennifer Doudna’s tribute to Demis Hassabis here. Demis Hassabis learned he had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry just 20 minutes before the world did.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7277608/demis-hassabis-interview-time100-2025/

When Will AI Be Smarter Than Humans? Don’t Ask

If you’ve heard the term artificial general intelligence, or AGI, it probably makes you think of a humanish intelligence, like the honey-voiced AI love interest in the movie Her, or a superhuman one, like Skynet from The Terminator. At any rate, something science-fictional and far off.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-04-13/when-will-ai-be-smarter-than-humans-don-t-ask

DeepMind’s 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics

Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can. AGI is a bit of a controversial subject in the AI field, with naysayers suggesting that it’s little more than a pipe dream.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/deepminds-145-page-paper-on-agi-safety-may-not-convince-skeptics/

An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test

One of the industry's leading large language models has passed a Turing test, a longstanding barometer for human-like intelligence.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/ai-model-turing-test

The New Student in Class: Generative AI

For three McGill professors in the Faculty of Arts, the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching took off in 2023. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot built on OpenAI’s foundational large language models (LLMs), had become popular one year earlier.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2025/03/the-new-student-in-class-generative-ai/