This turtle-inspired pneumatic soft robot that can move around without electronics, powered only by a constant source of pressurized air.

Learn more in #ScienceRobotics on #WorldTurtleDay: scim.ag/3ZzOekr

The other AI apocalypse — Center for AGI Investigations AI doesn’t have to destroy us, we’re doing a fine job of that on our own.

AI doesn’t have to destroy us, we’re doing a fine job of that on our own.

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AGI should be neither seen nor heard — Center for AGI Investigations The only path forward is advanced AI systems to become so useful that we forget we’re using them. Simply put: AI needs to fade into the background.

"The only path forward is advanced AI systems to become so useful that we forget we’re using them. Simply put: AI needs to fade into the background."
via @tristangreene.bsky.social
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Google’s latest AI model report lacks key safety details, experts say

On Thursday, weeks after launching its most powerful AI model yet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google published a technical report showing the results of its internal safety evaluations. However, the report is light o…

#ai #gemini #geminiai

Visualizing the Influence of Federal Funding on the AI Boom The Transformer was invented in Google. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) was not invented in industry labs, but is most…

I've written a blog post about my visualization of federal funding in AI research. mark-riedl.medium.com/visualizing-...

Arms race between ants and fungi has echoes of The Last of Us Insects are fighting off fungal invaders, but the fungi have some tricks up their sleeve

There’s an arms race going on between a disease-causing fungus and its host, and it’s not the one portrayed in HBO’s postapocalyptic series The Last of Us. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/42QS3Un

‘The world abounds with quantities’ — DeepMind is more ambitious than ever — Center for AGI Investigations You got to hand it to DeepMind. They’re the Apple of laboratories. While everyone else is clamoring to occupy space in the public head, it’s toiling mysteriously in the background.

We’re not sure what this is, but it’s exciting

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The Electric Ink Daily Our second issue: “Digesting Readers” Please be seated. Today’s newsletter covers the use of large language models to summarize non-fiction, what Hamlet can tell us about reading, and how to get AI mo...

A newsletter about AI-assisted writing for humans who read and write non-fiction.

"The Electric Ink Daily" by @cagii.bsky.social

Read it on @linkedin.com

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a man says i 'm on a roller coaster of emotions right now ALT: a man says i 'm on a roller coaster of emotions right now

A groundbreaking discovery of potential life signs on planet K2-18B has been made, but funding cuts threaten further exploration.

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‘Totally broken’: how Trump 2.0 has paralysed work at US science agencies Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples.

‘Totally broken’: how Trump 2.0 has paralysed work at US science agencies www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Big Little Bang theory — Center for AGI Investigations Is our universe just made of tiny little plastic bricks? And if so, what does that mean?

We might all just be a bunch of lil mini figs running around trying to make sense of a limited edition boxed set. 🤷‍♀️

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"... autistic thinkers are responsible for many innovations and advances across human history." H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals

"If we really want the best talent in science, then let’s foster environments across the scientific enterprise that invite neurodiversity and recognize the strengths of neurological differences," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a 2024 #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3GcwC7z

How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests.

Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

What are people expecting from domestic humanoid robots? — Center for AGI Investigations Hugging Face recently bought Pollen Robotics, a startup developing “open source” humanoid robots.

"It turns out that making robots that are strong enough to do chores requiring tools means making robots that are strong enough to break fingers. We won’t even get into hammer math." 🤖+🔨=😬

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AI for good: We love this computer vision system for the visually impaired — Center for AGI Investigations An AI-boosted computer vision system developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University helps visually impaired individuals navigate 25% faster than with traditional canes.

Hats off to the research team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China led by Leilei Gu. They published a fascinating paper in Nature Machine Intelligence today describing an “AI-boosted” camera system designed to help visually impaired persons navigate the world.

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April 14 is #WorldQuantumDay, an annual celebration of #quantum science and technology.

Explore or work on quantum information science (#QIS) exploring the status of the field as well as research and development needs to promote further discoveries: buff.ly/zagJdXx

Whenever AI makes you ‘feel’ something, you’re being manipulated — Center for AGI Investigations In other words: You’re the middle segment in a human-AI centipede.

Whenever AI makes you ‘feel’ something, you’re being manipulated

"In other words: You’re the middle segment in a human-AI centipede."

via @tristangreene.bsky.social

#AI #Chatbots #LLMs

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Should you be polite to AI? — Center for AGI Investigations If the basic idea is to get the most utility out of chatbots, it seems counterintuitive to train them to waste tokens and time outputting polite language.

"If the basic idea is to get the most utility out of chatbots, it seems counterintuitive to train them to waste tokens and time outputting polite language." via @tristangreene.bsky.social

#AI #LLMs #Chatbots

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We wanted to take a moment and introduce the humans behind the Center for AGI Investigations. We are Nikki and Tristan 👋 We've been together 14 years and learning together is still one of our favorite things in life ❤️ We look forward to connecting and learning with you too!

Putting LLMs inside of robots won’t solve the embodiment problem — Center for AGI Investigations Chatbots don’t actually exist. No, we’re not trying to create a conspiracy theory. What we mean is this: large language models (LLMs) aren’t “entities” or “beings.”

Putting LLMs inside of robots won’t solve the embodiment problem

"You can breathe into a robot’s nostrils all you want, it’s still just a glorified Teddy Ruxpin."

#AI #AGI #LLMs

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Numbers that lie: AI reaches 95% accuracy on medical diagnostics by reward hacking — Center for AGI Investigations A team of researchers at RespAI Lab, KIIT Bhubaneswar, KIMS Bhubaneswar, and Monash University, Australia today published a fascinating preprint research paper that takes a mighty bludgeon to the noti...

"A human’s medical diagnosis cannot be predicted. There are more than eight billion of us and we’re all different. A diagnosis is a systemic evaluation of variables, not the answer to a multiple-choice or 50/50 question."
via @tristangreene.bsky.social #AI #LLMs

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So so excellent. @propublica.org just won the National Magazine Award for general excellence and for public interest reporting! asme.memberclicks.net/general-exce... 🎉🎉

I Should Not Have to Fight for Fair Treatment in the Workplace | ACLU D.K., a Pawnee woman who is Deaf, was denied a promotion after being assessed through biased automated hiring technology.

Workplace discrimination is illegal, no matter if it's done by humans or artificial intelligence.

We took legal action alleging that a Colorado woman's employer used biased AI to deny her a promotion because of her race and disability.

How ‘technology optimists’ seized control of the AGI narrative The cynics lost a war they didn’t even know they were fighting

My latest for the Stack:

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AI isn’t coming for your job, mediocrity is — Center for AGI Investigations LLMs are too stupid to be useful for professional work, but that won’t stop content creators from shooting themselves in the foot with it.

LLMs are too stupid to be useful for professional work, but that won’t stop content creators from shooting themselves in the foot with it.

AI isn’t coming for your job, mediocrity is

via @tristangreene.bsky.social

#AI #AGI #LLMs #Chatbots
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Ben Buchanan— @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social professor, former Biden White House Special Advisor for AI, & Director for Tech. and Nat. Security on the National Security Council— will deliver tomorrow’s “Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms" keynote. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...

Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new, very expensive subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier, Max comes with higher usage limits than Anthropic’s $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription as well as priority access to the company’s newest AI models and features. A bit confusingly, […]

Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription

How ‘technology optimists’ seized control of the AGI narrative The cynics lost a war they didn’t even know they were fighting

There’s a renewed sense of optimism sweeping through Silicon Valley. It’s as though the doom & gloom of years past has lifted and instead of an “AI winter,” we’re getting human-level artificial intelligence ahead of schedule, writes @tristangreene.bsky.social

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Q&A: Max Read on What ‘AGI Is Coming’ Actually Means Decoding the AI hype cycle.

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