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If you're good enough at it, I suppose someone would. (There are television critics after all.) But I'm just curious: if someone were to give you a living wage to do nothing but wa…

In this recent paper from UC Berkeley [1], researchers document "emergent misaligned behaviors in multi-agent systems." "We tested seven frontier models (GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 Flash & …

I'm glad you didn't. Your reasoning was perfectly sound. The fact that your answer got downvoted is simply further evidence that there are those who want to hold a position without…

Ditto. And then celebrate them like crazy for every win and give them all the credit, even if you helped. Who wouldn't want to do their absolute best work in an environment like th…

> come up with a lot of true facts in different fields, all of which we can try writing down in this language. Reminds me of Cyc.[1][2] [1] www.cyc.com [2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cy…

I feel honored to be one of the 10,000 people who just learned of this particular xkcd reference today!

That's funny that I just had that idea around the same time that you must have been typing your answer. (See my adjacent answer). Actually thought it was probably a crazy idea and …

What about this idea: flip the script. Students must learn the subject OUTside of class: teacher provides video lectures for those that want to use them, but any source is open gam…

Guessing number one was easy. Number four was no surprise. But I'm still working on some of the others in the top 5. (NOTE: The ranking system differs fairly significantly from Wik…

I agree that the article's suggestions are inadequate, but I think the concern that was raised is significant and real. One of the reasons I posted it here is because I'd love to g…

What happens when we outsource boring but important work to AI? Research shows we forget how to do it ourselves

Original paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.07924v3.pdf

Summary: Researchers in a new study tasked an AI-powered tech company (nicknamed "ChatDev") with developing 70 different programs. They found AI could develop software in under sev…

According to the article, the "colors ... are, importantly, not added for dramatic effect — these photos and all aspects of them, are real." What processing are you referring to?

"Joshua Avatar 2.0. Both of these video clips were 100% AI-generated, featuring my own avatar and voice clone. We've made massive enhancements to our life-style avatar's video qual…

This is a 20 year old study based on 30-70 year old data. Has a Hanford employee myself, I can certify that safety standards at the Hanford site are orders of magnitude higher now …

As mentioned in the article, single-atom imaging has actually been routine for years. What's new here is the ability to take an X-ray of an atom, which enables scientists to identi…

"I had written C++ code to emulate the machine described in Turing’s 1936 paper, and could use it to decide, say, if a word was a palindrome. But.... I decided I would build a phys…

This is the same CEO who apparently started his company a few years ago based on a comment in Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28336815