Archive: May 2018

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s sloppy science, and there’s AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written with large language models, making it harder than ever for high quality work to be discovered and stand out. Part of the problem is that AI research has surged in popularity. The more people who

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Anthropic’s chief scientist Jared Kaplan is making some grave predictions about humanity’s future with AI. The choice is ours, in his framing. For now, our fates are mostly in our hands, according to Kaplan — unless we decide to pass the proverbial baton to the machines, that is. Such a point is fast approaching, he says in a new interview with The Guardian. By 2030, Kaplan predicts, or a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Recipe writers may be cooked. As The Guardian reports, AI chatbots are constantly stealing bits and pieces of their culinary insights and mashing them together into a statistical stew. Even setting aside the question of whether the resulting recipes actually produce tasty food, the bots are biting the hand that feeds by destroying the business model behind the content they’re stealing: cl

Getty / Futurism The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts and human rights groups have decried the use of killer robots, particularly when you consider the possibilities of technological flaws resulting in the deaths of innocent people — not to mention using the tech to commit atrocities with no direct human involvement. But what would happen if such a technology were to land in the

Getty / Futurism During the COVID-19 pandemic, stationary bike company Peloton was the talk of the town, allowing its customers to stay fit from the comfort of their own homes. But once people started reemerging into the world to once again hit the gym and ride their bikes outdoors, the company began to struggle, a tailspin that has been ongoing ever since. The company’s stock dropped by almost 30 percent in 2025 alone, while over 100,000 subscribers decid

Sidhaant Vasudeva, a PhD student in materials engineering, places a semiconductor chip for imaging on an X-ray microscope at Purdue University’s Flex Lab. Nikhilesh Chawla, Purdue’s Ransburg Professor in Materials Engineering and an expert in four-dimensional materials science, is working with Argonne National Laboratory to better detect defects in semiconductor chips. Credit: Purdue University photo/Kelsey Lefever A defect in a semiconductor chip may be s

Getty / Futurism The AI jobs apocalypse, long predicted by tech leaders and AI critics alike, has never felt closer. A major job market disruption has been rumored for years now, but given the latest swings on Wall Street and major layoffs roiling the tech industry, the alarm bells are starting to go off. It’s looking likely that not every profession will be hit in the same way, nor to the same extent — a topic that frontier AI companies have been studying

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty Images for The New York Times The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws happen to be protecting its own interests. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Anthropic is scrambling to contain a leak of its Claude Code AI model’s source code by issuing a copyright takedown request for more than 8,000 copies of it — a gallingly

@soliperseMoving a 10-year-old PHP EC core system to Java in 4 weeks — a migration process that bound AI with "865 rule lines" and "difference comparison commands"AIlegacyJavaPHPmodernization0Posted at 2026-11-12Upon hearing "AI migrated 540,000 lines in two weeks," the engineers on site were first skeptical. This case, which became popular in China, is disclosed in a follow-up article about what happened during the "two weeks" and the specific rules that

Figure outlining the team's evaluation methodology aimed at catching the convergence of simulated personalities toward human personalities. Credit: Bai et al. After the advent of ChatGPT, the use of large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly widespread worldwide. LLMs are artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained on large sets of written texts, which can rapidly process queries in various languages and generate responses that sometimes appear

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Don Arnold / Getty Images Whatever you may think of the man, Richard Dawkins is clearly suffering a tragic case of having your mind melted in real time by a bewitching AI model. Over the weekend, the famed evolutionary biologist drew a deluge of mockery after admitting he found a genuine “friend” in “Claudia,” a female persona he invented for Anthropic’s Claude AI. He was so moved by his conversations

Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images / Futurism It’s hard to even imagine now, but immediately after it launched in 2004, there was nothing on the internet cooler than Facebook. It was initially available only to Harvard students, then gradually expanded to students at other elite colleges, giving it an aura of exclusivity that founder Mark Zuckerberg clearly coveted. By the time it opened up to public accounts in 2006, the hype was palpable,

Napster has gone from letting people copy music files from each other in 1999 to creating digital copies of teachers in 2026. The company announced this week a new partnership with GEMS Education, a large private K-12 education provider based in Dubai, to develop and test AI agents in schools. The first phase of the partnership will take place at the GEMS School of Research & Innovation, where teachers and students will help test the technology. “Working i

Published on May 25, 2026 at 08:00 Commenter 3 𝕏 Print © Vitaly Gariev (Unsplash) Australian researchers fed an AI with Facebook ads from 891 users. Result: it guessed their gender, occupation, and political opinions without ever accessing their browsing history. We thought the problem of online privacy was cookies, trackers, and browsing history. A team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) has just shown that the danger lies elsewhere. In

Proteins are synthesized through two processes involving DNA: transcription, which converts DNA into mRNA; and translation, where ribosomes read the mRNA and sequentially link amino acids to form proteins. This image illustrates the translation process accelerated to produce proteins more efficiently. Credit: Teruyo Ojima-Kato Proteins sourced from microorganisms are attracting attention for their potential in biomanufacturing a variety of products, includ

Analysis of AdeSR positional entropy and morbidostat variant distributions. Credit: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2025). DOI: 10.1128/aac.00809-25 The bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a haunting presence in many hospitals in the United States, where more than one in 100 patients are treated for A. baumannii infections. This species of bacteria is known for its dynamic genome and ability to gain antibiotic resistance. "This is a d

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Throw caution to the wind and forget your retirement plans. The future is now, baby, and we’re letting AI agents go ham with our credit cards. On Wednesday, the payment titan Visa announced that it’s integrating its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the AI chatbot to buy stuff on your behalf, The Associated Press reports. We don’t just mean putting stuff in the cart for you: with thi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI-generated sexual content is rapidly remaking young people’s lives as they confront sex and dating — and the effects are as sweeping as they are poorly understood. That’s according to a new survey from the nonprofit Common Sense Media, in which researchers dug into how youth are interacting with these new technologies. What they found suggests that the proliferation of this kind of cont

Kitty is trying to set up QwenIn the previous article, we ran a local Qwen 3.8 on a machine with a single RTX 5080 with 16 GB. On the lab-notebook questions, it even outperformed Claude Opus 5.5. But the joy was premature, because searching the database is the easiest part of a physicist’s work. When we tested the model on two more setups—an inverse X-ray optics (XRR) problem and at the controls of a vacuum system (ADS)—performance dropped sharply. We had