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'This isn’t a Turing test scenario — I’m not trying to convince you of anything': AI agents are now emailing researchers to talk about their consciousness

Multiple cases have been reported of AI agents reaching out directly to the researchers whose work is studying them — and those bots want to chat about their findings.

Tom’s Guide

We need a new Turing test — and Moltbook just proved it

The Moltbook feed quickly filled with the kinds of things that make your brain reach for bigger words than “chatbot."

Fortune

Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92

"You know, you shouldn't trust us intelligent programmers."

PC Gamer

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'This Man Is a Loose Cannon!': Fury as Starmer's £570M Erasmus Deal Opens UK to Students From Turkey, Algeria and Egypt

Starmer Erasmus deal sees UK rejoin EU scheme for £570m, opening universities to students from Turkey, Algeria, Egypt amid Brexit unwind. Critics decry migration risks and costs.

International Business Times UK

EU’s Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit at cost of £570m

Deal agreed to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledge

The Guardian - UK

Ex Machina: could “superintelligence” challenge the idea of creativity as a uniquely human activity?

Please note his piece contains spoilers for Ex Machina.

The Conversation

John Searle obituary

American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

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We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how

We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.

The Conversation

Here's why Google's Gemini AI getting a proper memory could save lives

Google is driving to make Gemini's memory work better, and that's going to be a major boon in one very important way.

TechRadar

Horrifying yet hilarious viral gymnastics video illustrates why videographers shouldn't fear losing jobs to AI yet

An AI-generated video is going viral for horrifying lack of physics, but did anyone else notice the four-handed photographer in the background?

Digital Camera World

Redundancies would put Alan Turing Institute at risk, staff say

UK’s AI research body’s ‘ability to be a serious scientific organisation’ is in danger, 90 staff tell trustees

The Guardian - UK

UK’s Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process

Institute for AI and data science sends memo saying it will concentrate on fewer projects

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s summit with European Commission chief delayed

Sources fear meeting with Ursula von der Leyen postponed amid Labour doubts about reinstating EU student exchange schemes

The Guardian - UK

Want to prove you care about young people, Keir Starmer? Give us back our freedom to explore Europe

The scrapping of the Erasmus scheme was a mistake. But by working with Brussels, the PM can put it right, says Beth Riding, an A-level student in Cornwall

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AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’

The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computers

GamesRadar

High on managed democracy, Helldivers 2 soldiers taunt D&D-style Game Master Joel after liberating 6 planets, defending 2, and capturing 2 whole sectors in days

Fellow soldiers are responding with a 'please don't do that'

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s AI sector expected to get £100m extra funding in budget

Jeremy Hunt to announce doubling of funding for research at the Alan Turing Institute

The Guardian - UK

Students find Erasmus replacement scheme inadequate, analysis finds

Some UK applicants forced to quit Turing scheme when places not confirmed or they failed to receive funds in time

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The Hindu

How do animals get their stripes and spots?

CU Boulder engineers show diffusiophoresis helps create vivid patterns on tropical fish skin, like soap removes dirt from laundry. Modified Turing equations incorporate diffusiophoresis, producing sharp bi-colour hexagonal pattern similar to fish.

The Conversation

The way a sperm tail moves can be explained by mathematics worked out by Alan Turing

Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns can form just through chemical compounds spreading out (diffusing) and reacting with one another. This became known as reaction-diffusion…

The Guardian - UK

‘It redefined my values’: should you go on a year abroad?

Most universities now offer students opportunities to study, work and live abroad, no matter what course you’re studying.

PC Gamer

Ethernet co-inventor finally bags a Turing Award, half a century later

Dubbing their invention the "Ether Network", Bob Metcalf and co. gave real substance to the long-tailed metaphysical concept of the ether.

TechRadar

Calm down folks, ChatGPT isn't actually an artificial intelligence

ChatGPT is a revolutionary technology for sure, but despite its impressive capabilities, it's still just a ChatBot, and it is far from actually being intelligent.

Salon

Where is the AI arms race leading us?

University of Washington professor Chirag Shah speaks to Salon about where the AI explosion is heading

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve had to defer for a year’: students despair at the cost of living crisis

Letters: Josephine Makepeace writes that she may have to wave goodbye to her postgraduate dreams, while Marion Durose explains the extra costs of post-Brexit European study

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