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Submission + - Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time (newscientist.com)

MattSparkes writes: For years we've had unconfirmed reports, rumours, hints... now we know. Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry, marking a watershed moment in warfare. The one-off test involved 10 AI-controlled âoeTerminatorâ drones on the front line of the Ukraine war. Russian soldiers were killed.

Comment Why does SpaceX need AI? (Score 1) 120

>>But the company lost more than $4.9 billion last year, compared with a $791 million profit in 2024, as capital expenditures nearly doubled to $20.7 billion from heavy spending on artificial intelligence development.

At first I assumed that this was because Musk merged xAI with SpaceX, but that didn't actually happen until 2026. Why was SpaceX spending so much on AI during 2025? Is this research for the bonkers data-centers-in-space nonsense?

Comment Correction: (Score 1) 68

>>If you bothered to read, they are not blaming the victim, they fixed the problem and just point to where it came from.

They fixed one manifestation of the problem. The real source of the problem is that the AI can't seem to evaluate the status of it's training data; even at the most basic level of fiction vs non-fiction, to say nothing of more subtle differences like plausible vs implausible, joking vs serious, fact vs opinion, etc.

Comment Flattery will get you everywhere (Score 1) 403

>> Prof Dawkins said he had let Claude read a draft of the novel he was writing and was astounded by its insights. "He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent conversation, a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate: 'You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!'" Prof Dawkins said.

Translation: The bot told him that it loved his book (as the overly-agreeable bots are programmed to) and the noted egotist declared that the bot was not just sentient but also brilliant.

Comment Re:Governmental overreach (Score 1) 244

>>Also as mentioned above, enforcement would be impossible without a lot more cops.

It's even more impossible to enforce a law that doesn't exist. Besides, I don't think it's any more impossible than most laws. You don't need to catch every speeder on every road at every time of day; just enough that people slow down because they worry about getting a ticket. Likewise if a few kids have their expensive e-bikes confiscated, parents will be more careful about making sure they get the right ones and don't allow them to be modified.

Comment I'm more concerned out this (Score 2) 44

>>alongside more anodyne reminders not to "use emojis or em dashes unless explicitly instructed"

Since overuse of emojis and em dashes are a classic indicator of AI generated text that people now know to look for, it pretty clear they are actively trying to hide the nature of their LLM output.

Submission + - The man with the most dangerous job on Earth (newscientist.com)

MattSparkes writes: The shattered remains of Chernobylâ(TM)s reactor 4 are one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Not only are the ruins physically dangerous, but they are highly irradiated, pitch black and shrouded by a crumbling, concrete sarcophagus, which is, in turn, covered by the New Safe Confinement structure.

But it is vital that scientists understand what is going on inside. And that task falls to Anatoly Doroshenko, a young scientist at the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP). He has what could be considered to be the most dangerous job on the planet: crawling deep within the ruins of the reactor to take readings and samples, getting within 8 metres of the core, sometimes as often as once a month.

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