Scientists Just Discovered Quantum Signals Inside Life Itself
Test Information Space
Close reading ChatGPT's "metafiction"
(Love, Death, and Heuristics. Which is ethos, pathos, or logos?)
ChatGPT’s Projects Feature Brings Order to Your AI Chaos
Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser | TechCrunch
Amazon’s recently opened San Francisco-based AGI lab
Is Google One AI Premium the only mobile AI suite worth paying for?
230. MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?
Google Gemini App on X: "Gemini 2.5 Pro is taking off 🚀🚀🚀 The team is sprinting, TPUs are running hot, and we want to get our most intelligent model into more people’s hands asap. Which is why we decided to roll out Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) to all Gemini users, beginning today. Try it at no" / X
Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values
Paperpile Reference Manager
(Recommended by Gemini 2.0 since compatible with Google Workspaces. Although not many options for Canvas yet other than using that to write a new app for something's API. Fallback was NotebookLM. Gemini does save files uploaded to chat. May be quicker to use their search in most cases if they are not already trained on it.)
AI & Customer Sentiment Survey Report
Perplexity Summary given link to PDF: Here's a summary of the findings from the Conversica "2025 AI & Customer Experience Report":
Overall Focus: The report explores how conversational AI impacts customer behavior, satisfaction, and trust, aiming to guide companies in integrating AI into their marketing and sales processes. The research is based on a survey of 508 consumers and business buyers, 13 in-depth interviews, and a 12-person focus group.
Key Findings:
- Helpfulness:
- A majority (56.7%) of buyers find AI helpful.
- 67.7% believe AI accurately understands their needs at least half the time.
- Business buyers perceive AI as more helpful than non-business buyers.
- Convenience and speed are top reasons for interacting with AI.
- Accuracy is crucial; frustration arises when AI provides incorrect answers.
- When AI can't handle complex issues, users want to connect with a human.
- Timing and Topics:
- Customers prefer AI early in the purchasing process (exploration phase), valuing its 24/7 availability and low-pressure support.
- AI is favored by 21% more respondents than humans during the exploration phase.
- However, human representatives are still preferred for complex issues.
- AI's always-on availability is a significant advantage.
- Business buyers are most comfortable using AI for software purchases.
- Companies should balance AI and human interaction.
- Trust:
- Security risks (40%) and fear of inaccuracy (41%) are major deterrents to AI interaction.
- Users are hesitant to share sensitive data due to uncertainty about data usage.
- Distrust grows when AI struggles with complex issues.
- Transparency about interacting with AI (vs. a human) is important for building trust.
- Openness to AI in the Sales Process:
- Both B2B and B2C buyers increasingly prefer AI agents over humans in the early stages.
- Human involvement remains essential in the final "ready to buy" stage.
- Business buyers consistently prefer AI throughout the sales funnel more than non-business buyers. B2C buyers favor AI at a 3:1 ratio in the initial "exploration" phase.
Methodology: The study used a mixed-method approach, including surveys, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. Participants in the interviews and focus groups were college students in Provo, Utah. Survey respondents were US consumers aged 18 and over.
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
(Conversely, here is a reverse-Phoenix, or Paperclip. In some Reality Engine, this was the cabaret. So may expect new epistemology and ontology to fit. Like rewriting the reward rules for next-level reusable retirement. Git along... On the darker side, shuffling people out of town after midnight and all, no posse comitatus out there. Where is Science?)
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Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment
‘Don’t study coding now,’ says Replit CEO, ‘instead learn how to…’
"The engineering approach to solving problems is now even more crucial to make the best use of AI tools. the paradigm of what the focus of engineering just changes from syntax and semantics to problem solving."
The engineering approach to solving problems is now even more crucial to make the best use of AI tools. the paradigm of what the focus of engineering just changes from syntax and semantics to problem solvi
Elon Musk on X: "@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at" / X
("This is the end. Doo-doo-doom." Heart of Darkness stuff. There is no clock. Reverie adieu. Calculus of controversy. Actually a dialectical opportunity: socnets vs AI, AI & writing, AI and StarGate, Exec & Admin, M&A vs DOGE, stocks & bubbles, Grok & chat, authoritarianism and democracy, how industry picks up for gov, xAI out the park around OpenAI and Google, the other parks, Starship vs Starliner, whether Tesla employs Frankenstein, BCI & nth-order cybernetics, economics and machine learning, tech & gen AI, ideology & robotics, truth and consensus, meaning & multimodal, classic wealth/power/media, rhetorical triangle, creativity and critique, meta-cognition and meta-analysis, and so on. Kurtz' camp was all off-spring, binder notwithstanding. Benefits of a cult education. Or division of such. What are they defending? What is the Revolution?)
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes
Gemini - AI, Learning, and Knowledge Graphs
(Quick Canvas exercise. Only available under the Gemini 2.0 Flash model. Took a couple of tries to set context, but allowed interactive questions to be appended to itts text and then used a side menu to select length of answer or bring up a prompt box, also prototyped diagram and offerred multiple windows for preview, code, and a console while logging everything in the conversation here.)
CoreWeave prices IPO at $40 a share, below expected range
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models
WOW: Google’s AI Co-Scientist Writes Better Research Ideas Than You (AI NEWS)
How Should We Think About the Economics of AI?
(Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, given a request to outline the URL, did invoke search. It may be mimicking how the user proceeds. Presumably, it might also find reviews as those are added to the web. A few dimensions, e.g. economics, tech, and government regulation. Subtext. Nostalgic authors appeal to eastern bloc, including Asimov. Capitalism is bigger than one country, but so was democracy not too long ago. More data, compute, and algorithms. Age of garb, Other analysts think globalization has yielded to demographics and geography. Appears to continue to reference how well they are doing compared to prior crises. The trick is they can print money on one hand and incinerate it on the other so officials really don't need laundering or the Ollie Norths . DOGE may be loosening it up for something else. Less reform, more FOMO. But the envo fanatics are restless too. If AI is indeed capable of digital science, will that be sufficient? How much of the collaboration is intangible? From the conservative viewpoint, it's all six. From the progressive, there is no... Incidentally, recently started to ask Gemini about simulating cognitive architectures, and that quickly got into a rabbit hole. What eats recombination and recursion? Ideally, not only reconstruction and hotel casinos. "As time goes by." [Klinkenborg warned about short sentences.] STEEP categories. When asked for the prevalent methods of analysis, most of the chatbots appear to fallback to Krugman's style since they cannot access the content directly. Perplexity uses extracted terms called it interdisciplinary between the speakers, and was further able to perform a couple of types of dialectical analysis and make a table. Better than back in the day when each researcher was dedicated to a different question. Will the economics be sensitive to tech literacy? Or, for the agents, to situational awareness? How to measure collaboration between different types of observers/actors? Marketing fallback: Is that another form of distribution? Versus defer and roll the dice. How does AI find economists? Or is profession a shell game? Summary: In this case, AI sees the blogger pointing, but not the moon. For the user, conflation is not dialectic. For the economist, lots of opportunity remains this decade. After Adam Smith, or utilitarianism,what are the limits of specialization, whether or not AI, like art, imitates society? Is Sloan a pun? Does AI envision a universe of all possible life? And crypto? On the dashboard: Coreweave hopes not to be the last unicorn. Musk reportedly intends to exit DOGE with saving a trillion to his credit after Q2. Tariff Liberation Day draws near.)
Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World
GenAI’s day of reckoning may have come
(Google Search reportedly has reobust revenue model unaffected by searches for news. That remains separate from Gemini at the moment. Possibly also not to trigger more monopoly regulation. It has been possible to instruct Gemini to verify output using Search. But, like the research on crowd behavior, enough users walking at an angle instead of in lanes will look like chaos. Agents are probably going to have to have channels for intermodal engagement like the recently announced accord between OoenAi and Anthropic. The stats currently still look better than the average user performance without the tools. The economic strategy is a good point, though. One side is increasing cost due to the need for accuracy and computation while the other is trying to find the bottom of the valley which mathematicians have been doing since Newton.. This all depends upon the feeds for training and inference going in as well as the substrate as observed for posthuman cybernetics. The issue was whether humans were ever autonomous. Who or what is atop the pyramid? What are the chances of generative symbolism related to discovery? How to measure the health of hybrid intelligence? Diagrams and rules are left as an exercise. In the search for extratechnological...)
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OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to data | TechCrunch
post on X on Wednesday
Google Maps: Gemini can answer questions about places
China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
Gemini - Posthuman Cybernetics vs. Cybernetics
(This is fast. Waltzed through the questions. But users is still leading it on to a large degree and is going to remain crucial in identifying gaps. Can drag it through the other reasoning tests over time. In this case, the machine would be an observer as well. It does appear to now what other conversations it has had with the users, including the other models. Have to regression test to figure out if it is making the same logical errors, e.g. conflation. These all want to write and code. It boasts of larger context windows compared to other brands. 2.5 does not seem to know as much about itself as it does about 1.5. Using Imagen 3. Accompanying Gems are still at 2.0 Fllash as is Canvas. Friends are offered a 4-month free trial under Google One. 2 TB storage can be shared with up to 5 other people or upgraded to 5/10/20/30 TB by subscription..This is separate from Google Workspace or AI Studio API. It has an app. It can save custom info about the user as background for interactions. Others, such as Alibaba, are criticizing the data center expansion fad and whether these frequent rollouts will persist, but the issue is whether that is ideological and looking for other compatible solutions than maximizing debt leverage which is pure capitalism. Perhaps someone will distill the governments. Blame Pythagorus.)