Scientists have implanted human brain organoids into a mouse brain, and it grafted. They say it will "useful for obtaining circuit- and behaviour-level readouts using human neurons to study neurodevelopment, model disease and develop therapeutics". Just don't let it escape the lab.
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AI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls, OpenAI reveals. Time to change that system prompt, Sam. That's on you. Don't go scaring people. 🙄
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Nate Silver says: "A supermajority wants to slow AI down". Yeah, but the public, as a whole, is pretty uninformed, and isn't in a position to determine policy. Remember, a majority of the public thought COVID vax shots should be mandatory, and that the unvaccinated should be sent to concentration camps and denied medical care. So what, Nate?
This is telling. Look at how much money was given to whom, to influence regulation of AI? It's nearly all Democrats! Why is this?
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Terence Tao has yet another post about AI and math. Among his points are these:
Do not judge mathematicians for their LLM use. The standards of our community are still in flux. We can fight over what those standards should be, but individuals have to act in the meantime and we should not litigate their behavior.Which is calling on good behavior by people who may or may not choose to listen to Terry.
LLMs should not be used to compete with other mathematicians, to scoop them or otherwise embarrass them. It goes without saying that we are somewhat competitive, but there is nothing to be gained from this behavior and a lot to lose in terms of collegiality. We are extremely lucky to be in a field where we talk openly at conferences not only about what we’ve done but what we are working on, sometimes years before those results see the light of day.
Focus, if you choose to use LLMs, on developing your own research, intuition, and results. No one owns an area of mathematics or a certain problem. But it is not acceptable for me to wake up one day and say, you know I know famous mathematician — is working on problem — and I’m just going to solve it. They will be impressed with me, or I will get that next job I need. The easiest way to guard against this behavior in the long run is to just not reward it.
In fact, one mathematician has chosen not to follow Terry's path. He makes valid points. AI should not be slowed down. And sometimes, an AI result is OK, even if humans don't get any insight from it. If the Riemann Hypothesis were proved, or if a model found a counter-example, that would be fine by me. But mathematicians should start learning how to use LEAN and how to design prompts, and make it a priority. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, instead of trying to change the rules of the game.
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Who’s buying your personal data? It's sickening about how much companies can know about you. It's still worth try to limit what they can collect.
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Running a personal website is not fun anymore. So far, this blog hasn't been hacked. And I don't think it's been besieged by bots. I write for myself, mainly, to journal what I come across. And it allows me to search for topics that I have posted for future reference. It helps to put things down.
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Is macOS27 and iOS 27 just AI and Siri? Seems that way. I don't see much else that is truly new. Mission Control breaks every time my Mac goes to sleep, and I have to killall Dock to get it back. Apple still hasn't offered a way to make apps always float on top. Maps is sharper in the major cities, but elsewhere, like around my home, the trees still look like broccoli.
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Irresponsible. AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so. Agents seemed like a good idea, until everyone figured out how to use them. Now they are the source of all kinds of bot traffic and just get in the way. No one asked for this. 🤨
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