When AIs do science, it will be strange and incomprehensible
The science of our age is computational. Without models, simulations, statistical analysis, data storage and so on, our knowledge of the world would grow far more slowly. For decades, our…
Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time | Artificial intelligence (AI)
AI tools will soon be in use in classrooms across England, but the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has one big question she wants answered: will they save time? Attending a…
Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’ | Artificial intelligence (AI)
In 2021, linguist Emily Bender and computer scientist Timnit Gebru published a paper that described the then-nascent field of language models as one of “stochastic parrots”. A language model, they…
AI’s Rise Helps Fuel Uptick in Tech Layoffs
Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a role in recent tech sector job cuts. Layoffs in the tech industry for the year exceeded 100,000 as of July 12, Seeking Alpha (SA)…
AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield | Artificial intelligence (AI)
A squad of soldiers is under attack and pinned down by rockets in the close quarters of urban combat. One of them makes a call over his radio, and within…