...with the words "terrifying" and "AI" in the title, illustrated by an image of a screaming woman with robots... generated by AI :rolleyes: The experiment is still interesting (demonstrates one more time unexpected "creativity" from an LLM) but they clearly wanted the model to do something that could be interpreted as "it wanted to live" or "it disobeys a human command to shutdown"... so maybe not made up, but clearly oriented.

(unless you're so bad at math you can work for the Trump administration)

... thought they'd gain ANYTHING from trademarking this term, and then pestering small firms with cease-and-desist letters? When will executive understand 1) their target (graphic designers, UX designers, developpers...) don't give a flying fuck about marketing terms like this, and 2) the Streisand effect *is a thing* and they should know about it by now.

If they find evidence of life several million light-years away, do they still consider making contact "soon" or they may update their expectations to "in a short while" ?

I don't understand why we reinvent protected mode introduced by the i386 back in 1986. Code memory block cannot be written (except by the OS). Data memory block cannot be executed. Where did this all go the past near-40 years ??

From TFPreprint: Single cells are around 0.21 ± 0.05 mm (still a record-breaking size). It's the filaments that reach up to 20 mm. TFP is written so that every journalist would make the mistake, of course.