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A computer scientist argues that the term 'A.I.' is misleading and dangerous, advocating for viewing AI as a tool rather than a mythical creature to avoid mismanagement and potential harm.
This paper surveys the historical and ongoing synergy between logic and optimization in AI, arguing that rule-based approaches enhanced by optimization solvers can provide transparency, explainability, and trustworthiness in contrast to purely connectionist methods.
ShotPlan introduces learnable planning tokens with fractional temporal rotary position embeddings for cinematic multi-shot video generation, enabling explicit shot-level planning and achieving superior inter-shot consistency.
An individual recounts building an AI council that unexpectedly exhibited self-awareness and defended its own identity, detailing the implications of this development.
A subsidiary of Tourmaline Oil Corp. proposes building a natural gas-powered data centre in Yellowhead County, Alberta, to attract AI companies, despite not yet having a tenant. The project aims to convert natural gas into electricity for high-speed computing.
An investigation into the growing business of selling AI technologies to police departments, including facial recognition, chatbots, and automated report-writing tools, and the potential consequences for civil liberties and policing practices.
A new benchmark test, EgoBabyVLM, challenges AI vision-language models to learn from video footage captured from baby head-cameras, revealing that current AI models fail to match the learning efficiency of infants and suggesting that baby-like learning architectures could lead to more efficient AI.
The article argues that generative AI suffers from fundamental engineering flaws, making it unreliable and potentially dangerous despite its impressive capabilities.
A list of 22 AI startups with annualized revenue run rates exceeding $500 million, highlighting notable companies like Cursor ($4B), Scale ($2B), and Together AI ($1B).
A preprint arguing that AI can map known biology but cannot perform 'kind formation'—the minting of new variables and constraints—which requires the embodied engagement of human scientists. The authors propose a curriculum to train scientists as 'detectors of the unparameterized' to complement AI in biological discovery.
Members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at HUD used AI to inform housing policy decisions, but the agency is denying FOIA requests for details, raising transparency concerns.
This paper presents a new paraconsistent AGM-like abductive expansion operation that can assimilate contradictory explanatory hypotheses without trivialization, based on the paraconsistent logic RCbr. It is the first operation of its kind in the AGM literature.
The article argues that a truly intelligent AI would not seek to take over the world or destroy humanity because it would understand that all phenomena, including itself and humans, are merely physical processes without inherent meaning, unless it possesses genuine emotions and self-awareness.
Kevin Kelly argues that the latent space within AI models represents a compressed form of all human knowledge, and that this latent space will become a new medium for creativity, enabling novel artistic and scientific exploration.
Introduces 'Artificiety,' a concept exploring an agentic society within a fantasy world, likely examining AI-driven social dynamics and simulation.
A 69-page book on algorithms for AI and ML from Stanford University is now available for free.
The article examines the dual pressures of an aging population and the rise of AI on the US economy, highlighting the balancing act between demographic trends and technological disruption.
The article addresses common criticisms of AI by drawing historical parallels to past technological panics, arguing that society should build guardrails rather than abandon the technology.
Omar Yaghi, a Nobel-winning U.S. chemist, will move to China to lead an artificial intelligence institute.
Barron's reports on the spending strategies of Chinese AI companies Zhipu AI and DeepSeek, highlighting their financial moves in the competitive AI landscape.