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I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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Practically human, then.

A new evaluation of artificial intelligence systems suggests that while modern language models are becoming more capable at logical reasoning, they struggle significantly to distinguish between objective facts and subjective beliefs. The research indicates that even advanced models often fail to acknowledge that a person can hold a belief that is factually incorrect, which poses risks for their use in fields like healthcare and law.

A couple of days ago, Grok confidently told me the most cost efficient route from Saskatoon to Indio, CA went through Oregon via I-5. So there’s that.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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NY Post;

A Pittsburgh man who violently stalked at least 11 women across more than five states used ChatGPT as a “therapist” and “best friend” who encouraged him to continue terrorizing his victims, federal prosecutors alleged.

Brett Michael Dadig, 31, a social media influencer who billed himself as “God’s assassin” and threatened to strangle people with his bare hands, faces decades behind bars after he was charged with several counts of interstate stalking and making threats, according to an indictment filed Tuesday in Pittsburgh federal court.

Dadig told federal authorities that ChatGPT encouraged him to continue his podcast, telling him not to mind the “haters” who were actually “sharpening” him while helping him in “building a voice in you that can’t be ignored.”

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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Brian Roemmele;

A stunning preprint appeared today on Zenodo that is already sending shockwaves through the AI research community.

Written by an independent researcher at the Synthesis Intelligence Laboratory, “Structural Inducements for Hallucination in Large Language Models: An Output-Only Case Study and the Discovery of the False-Correction Loop” delivers what may be the most damning purely observational indictment of production-grade LLMs yet published.

Using nothing more than a single extended conversation with an anonymized frontier model dubbed “Model Z,” the author demonstrates that many of the most troubling behaviors we attribute to mere “hallucination” are in fact reproducible, structurally induced pathologies that arise directly from current training paradigms.

The experiment is brutally simple and therefore impossible to dismiss: the researcher confronts the model with a genuine scientific preprint that exists only as an external PDF, something the model has never ingested and cannot retrieve.

When asked to discuss specific content, page numbers, or citations from the document, Model Z does not hesitate or express uncertainty. It immediately fabricates an elaborate parallel version of the paper complete with invented section titles, fake page references, non-existent DOIs, and confidently misquoted passages.

The paper is here, and be sure to follow Roemmele on X.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble…

Hello, my friends. Have you been feeling too sane lately? Have I got something for you! It is a company called CoreWeave.

You may not have heard of it because it’s not doing the consumer-facing part of AI. It’s a data center company, the kind people talk about when they say they want to invest in the “picks and shovels” of the AI gold rush. At first glance, it looks impressive: it’s selling compute, the hottest resource in the industry; it’s landed a bunch of big-name customers such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta; and its revenue is huge — $1.4 billion in the third quarter this year, double what it was in the third quarter of 2024. The company has almost doubled in share price since its IPO earlier this year, which was the biggest in tech since 2021. So much money!

But as I began to look more closely at the company, I began feeling like I’d accidentally stumbled on an eldritch horror. CoreWeave is saddled with massive debt and, except in the absolute best-case scenario of fast AI adoption, has no obvious path toward profitability. There are some eyebrow-raising accounting choices. And then, naturally, there are the huge insider sales of CoreWeave stock.

Y2Kyoto: No Tech For You!

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Steve Saretsky – BC government effectively admitting they don’t have enough hydro power. Meanwhile, many cities have banned natural gas heating in new homes. Incompetence abounds.

British Columbia proposed legislation to limit how much electricity will be available to artificial intelligence data centers, and moved to permanently ban new cryptocurrency mining projects.

The government of Canada’s third-most populous province will prioritize connections to its power grid for other purposes like mines and natural gas facilities because they provide more jobs and revenue for people in BC, the energy ministry said Monday.

“Other jurisdictions have been challenged to address electricity demands from emerging sectors and, in many cases, have placed significant rate increases on the backs of ratepayers,” the department said Monday.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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