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Plants feel pain and might even see […] Like animals, plants produce substances that suppress pain. He doesn’t see why that would be necessary if there was no pain. […] The vine imitated the artificial leaves, just as it had imitated the leaves in nature. For Baluška this is clear proof that the vine can see.
Scientists claim to have found color no one has seen before, contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells
Musician’s brain matter makies music three years after his death — In collaboration with American experimental composer Alvin Lucier, who passed away in 2021, scientists and artists created an art installation using cerebral organoids developed from the composer’s white blood cells.
OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI’s older models […] more concerning, the ChatGPT maker doesn’t really know why it’s happening. […] “Our hypothesis is that the kind of reinforcement learning used for o-series models may amplify issues that are usually mitigated (but not fully erased) by standard post-training pipelines” […] Hallucinations may help models arrive at interesting ideas and be creative in their “thinking,” but they also make some models a tough sell for businesses in markets where accuracy is paramount.
Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics […] Russia and, to a lesser extent, China have been exploiting that advantage by flooding the zone with fables. But anyone could do the same, burning up far fewer resources than previous troll farm operations.
Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program — Ramp sells corporate credit cards and artificial intelligence software for businesses to analyze spending. […] Ramp is backed by some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley. One is Peter Thiel […] Ramp’s other major financial backers include Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures; Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner; and 8VC, a firm run by Musk allies.
