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The article argues that AlphaGo’s famous Move 37 against Lee Sedol was not an act of unexplained machine intuition, but the result of genuine reasoning. AlphaGo defeated Lee 4–1 in 2016, and Move 37 a
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
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The piece argues that recent AI headlines have been driven more by corporate marketing than by verified technological breakthroughs. It cites Anthropic and OpenAI claims about models discovering softw
A new study suggests that AI systems are not yet ready to fully automate AI research, despite industry claims that models will soon improve themselves with little human oversight. Researchers led by P
China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
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Over the weekend, several Trump administration AI advisers publicly attacked leading US AI companies while debating how to respond to Kimi, a free open-source model released by Chinese firm Moonshot.
NASA has been leading the exploration of Mars, particularly in the search for signs of past microbial life, through its Perseverance rover. In July 2024, the rover discovered a unique rocky outcrop wi
Retrieval-augmented generation - Wikipedia
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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique that enhances large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to retrieve and integrate information from external sources, thus supplementing their ex
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
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Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o, which contain billions of parameters, are so complex that their workings remain largely mysterious, even to their creators. For instance, a 200-billion-parame
How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism
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Dec 25, 2025
The recent interaction on social media between AI researchers highlights the pitfalls of AI hype and miscommunication. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, publicly criticized Sébastien Bubeck from
Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
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Dec 17, 2025
The article discusses how the hype surrounding generative AI, exemplified by Paul McCartney's performance with a lifelike depiction of John Lennon, distracts from more impactful advancements in predic