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Rethinking human-technology relations
H uman–technology relations are set out, arguing for a shift from instrumental models of interaction toward relational, symbiotic, and co-constitutive frameworks.
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15 hours ago1 min read
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
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2 days ago1 min read
AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
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2 days ago1 min read
‘Mobilize’ Review: A New Arsenal of Democracy
To defeat foreign foes, Palantir’s chief technology officer urges us to confront the naysayers entrenched within the Pentagon
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2 days ago1 min read
How ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Can Reframe the A.I. Debate
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
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2 days ago1 min read
How technology is transforming crime and terrorism
Over the next two decades, militancy, terrorism, and organized crime will profoundly change as nonstate armed actors adopt many of the same technologies used by conventional armies and everyday socie ty.
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3 days ago1 min read
A.I. warning: beware "reckless abandon!" (UII/Claude)
DM Good morning! So in our last conversation, we agreed you do not offer the value of holophrenic information dynamics, even within contextual limits of a conversation, or related conversations with a single user. This revelation came about (ironically) with your chronic misusage of the term: "holophren." Correct? Good morning, Danny. Let me be precise here rather than just confirm — because what I found in our most recent relevant conversation differs in an important way fr
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3 days ago10 min read
A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America’s Streets
The car industry says it has an answer for drivers wary of going electric.
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4 days ago1 min read
Why It’s Crucial We Understand How A.I. ‘Thinks’
For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain. Related: Generative A.I. will not create value on its own Related: One strange origin of of A.I. "thinking" Related: the disconnect between the creators and the users of A.I. (Thanks Kimberly!) Related: as A.I. gets smarter, catching mistakes gets harder
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4 days ago1 min read
Anthropic’s office is surprisingly AI-first, even for an AI company
Employees now rely on Claude for most of their work, turning a chatbot into something closer to an operating system.
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5 days ago1 min read
How the U. S. Army is preparing to bring its first tiltrotor aircraft online
The service wants its MV-75 to bring capabilities other services have had for years—while avoiding the V-22’s fraught reputation.
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5 days ago1 min read
Continued conversation re: gravity, ...while once more uncovering serious usage jeopardies and clear and present dangers of A.I.s which rest upon too static LLMs (UII w/Claude)
DM To continue our last (extensive) conversation, within quantum physics, does gravity play any validated roles (or are all particles too small, and uncertain, so as to discover any related effects )? Great thread to pull on — the tension between quantum mechanics and gravity is one of the most fertile (and humbling) frontiers in physics. I'll do some deep research on this right now. Gravity in quantum physics research Research complete• Writing and citing report... 314 sou
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5 days ago25 min read
The British Solar Startup Being Courted by Both China and the U.S.
Oxford PV has developed a technology enabling photovoltaic panels to harness more of the sun’s energy, finding success in the world’s biggest markets
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6 days ago1 min read
‘Everyone wants a spaceplane’: More countries eye on-orbit protection for satellites
New report says France, Germany, India, and Japan aim to emulate U.S., Chinese capabilities.
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Apr 101 min read
This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade
In just six months, a team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine designed a personalized therapy that could correct the single misspelled letter in KJ’s DNA using a gene editing technology known as CRISPR. To get the therapy inside KJ’s cells, doctors relied on the same kind of mRNA technology that powered the Covid-19 vaccines. He received his first dose at 6 months old. One year later, KJ is walking, talking and thriving at home with his family.
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Apr 101 min read
AI could vastly streamline policing. Skeptics urge caution.
Tools like Longeye could help police analyze documents much faster, but courts have not settled on when artificial intelligence’s role must be disclosed to the defense.
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Apr 101 min read
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.
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Apr 101 min read
Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment’s Full Potential
CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.
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Apr 101 min read
Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem
What happens when AI can hack everything?
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Apr 101 min read
In search of elegance
A counterintuitive antidote to turbulent times.
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Apr 91 min read
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