When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be. In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, “AI/Artificial Intelligence,” in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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I wonder when we'll get black bagged for saying "AI".

The past four weeks have been something of a wake-up call for the video game industry. You’ve read the headlines, so you know the deal by now: AI advancements spearheaded by Claude Opus 5.5 have turned the world of coding on its axis. Decompilations that used to take months, or even years, are now being pumped out on a daily basis, and publishers can’t keep up with the deluge of vibe-coded browser ports and “native” PC recompilations.

I’ve been covering and researching this over the past month, and there’s one recurring topic that keeps popping up in every comment section I read: karma. For many, this is the video game industry’s “you reap what you sow” moment, proof that the AI tools many publishers have brazenly admitted to using are a double-edged sword.

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Studies synthesizing the evidence for AI in education are themselves unreliable — and the peer-review process failed to catch the problems. 

“This is not trustworthy evidence,” said Justin Reich, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, who hosted a webinar on Oct. 20 to discuss the problem of the growing number of positive AI meta-analyses. “All of these meta-analyses are flawed.”

A forensic audit of 14 of the 39 meta-analyses has found serious conceptual and statistical flaws. Appearing in journals by prominent publishers, including Springer Nature, Wiley, SAGE and Taylor & Francis, these 14 papers have accumulated more than 3,000 citations and continue to rack up 200 citations a month, according to Google Scholar — implying that AI’s effectiveness is settled science. One meta-analysis has been retracted, almost a year after its May 2025 publication in a Nature journal after two Norwegian scholars lodged a complaint.

The new audit was conducted by Patrick O’Neill, a community college professor at the Bloomington, Indiana, campus of Ivy Tech, who examined a sample of the underlying studies and the statistical methods used to combine their results in meta-analyses. O’Neill found recurring patterns of errors, some of which he said could easily have been detected just by reading the study abstracts.

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used for everyday advice and guidance, concerns have emerged about sycophancy: the tendency of AI-based large language models to excessively agree with, flatter, or validate users. Although prior work has shown that sycophancy carries risks for groups who are already vulnerable to manipulation or delusion, syncophancy’s effects on the general population’s judgments and behaviors remain unknown. Here, we show that sycophancy is widespread in leading AI systems and has harmful effects on users’ social judgments.

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To hear the former Yahoo CEO tells it, the creepy AI assistant is meant to help women delegate monotonous chores.

“Women, this is my own bias, tend to take more photos and are more visual, and so being able to work with AI in a visual medium is fun,” Mayer told the NYT. “It essentially understands your personality, your likes, your dislikes, because it knows what you think looks good.”

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CORVALLIS, Ore. – University students with traits coveted in STEM fields are also the ones most prone to relying on artificial intelligence to the detriment of their cognitive skills, according to a new study by scientists at Oregon State University.Researchers in OSU’s colleges of Engineering and Liberal Arts offer suggestions for breaking what they call “the self-reinforcing cognitive debt cycle” stemming from routine AI dependence.

Trillions of dollars have been wiped from China’s stock markets in recent months amid increasing anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence, as Beijing races against the United States for dominance in the sector.

The STAR 50 Index, which tracks technology and innovation companies on the Shanghai stock exchange, has plunged 40% since June. Other indexes of major companies dropped by about 20% over the same time period.

The precipitous drop has wiped out $2.4tn from the Chinese stock market since May, according to Bloomberg.

AI stocks account for over 40% of the stock market value in China and Hong Kong, according to Goldman Sachs, meaning that any dent in value will send shockwaves across the whole domestic market.

The fall suggests that despite the government’s best efforts to boost China’s technology industries, particularly those which harness the power of AI, the domestic economy does not have the power to sustain a booming market.

The Chinese government has invested heavily into AI, including a 60bn yuan state-backed AI investment fund which started pumping money into domestic developers this month. But Chinese consumers have proved stubbornly reluctant to part with their cash in many parts of the economy – including technology – meaning that many tech companies struggle to turn a profit.

The lack of profits is one of several reasons for the sell-off. Another is the threat of western countries, especially the US, extending bans on Chinese technology.

“This year, the profit margin is not as good as expected. And the US is raising rates. And China’s domestic demand is so weak,” said Dan Wang, the China director for the Eurasia Group. She said that there was a “general anxiety” among technology companies about whether or not the state-backed model would work in the face of weak consumer demand.

The US has banned humanoid robots from China, citing national security risks, and is thought to be considering a ban on Chinese components in data centres. China is heavily reliant on exports and restrictions in the US hurt its domestic companies, which struggle to sell enough products at home.

As China races with the US to pull ahead in AI, Beijing has doubled down on robotics – also known as embodied AI – as the key to rolling out the technology across society. Robotics is also seen as the answer to China’s demographic problems, such as the ageing population and the shrinking workforce.

But the demand for robotics is being driven by government agencies and research institutions, rather than everyday consumers, for whom the products are still too expensive and not yet practical for home use. Humanoid robotics and robotic dogs have been popular in the entertainment industry but are yet to be useful in home settings.

Shares in Unitree, China’s leading robot-maker, have halved since they started trading in August.

“It doesn’t look like embodied intelligence could turn into profits in the in the mass market,” said Wang. Thin profit margins, rising rates in the US, and weak domestic demand were all contributing to a “general anxiety” among technology companies, she said.

China’s government wants local investors to invest their money domestically. China has in recent months restricted overseas investment, with more regulations taking effect from 1 December, but these moves have not led to greater investment in the Chinese markets.

Wang added that there was still optimism in other technology sectors, such as AI research and satellites, the latter because their links to the military indicates long term state support for the sector. And globally the AI boom is expected to last for at least another year.

On Monday, US AI company Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, filed paperwork ahead of a planned IPO that could be the biggest stock market debuts of all time. The company is expected to bring in as much as $100bn.

China has no such blockbuster IPOs on the horizon. And despite pressure on policymakers to introduce stimulus measures to boost investment, none are expected to be announced during a politically sensitive period in China.

This week the top officials in the Chinese Communist party are gathering for the fifth plenum, an important meeting that will lay the groundwork for next year’s 21st Party Congress. The Congress is expected to anoint Xi Jinping, China’s leader, for a fourth term. There is no appetite for risky or potentially destabilising policy measures before then, even if there is a chance they could boost the economy.

Any stimulus measure would be “high risk”, Wang said. “What if it doesn’t work out? Then whoever came up with that policy, that guy would be held accountable”.

This is the first time a company has come to market warning of “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”.

Yeah, they're trying to IPO. Tell your friends, tell your coworkers, complain to your pension fund and politicians. Not a good investment. Literal scam.

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or pay one MILLION dollars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgV2dxqdJfo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261026-anthropic-ai-safety-bill-let-us-kill-50-people-but-not-51 - podcast

time: 6 min 52 sec

They let me in the mages guild library for free, so I picked up every single"free" book off the library shelf, no matter how common or valuable, then walked 10 feet over to a guy who watched me pick up those 200 books, and sold his dumb ass every last one... Profit? Yes. For me at least. Damn good thing I don't have to worry about the in-game economy, though.

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AI doomerism is AI company marketing

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Microsoft looking to remove 60,000 jobs, ~25% of the company

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