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Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-11 23:36:03

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis' 27 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save Getty Images There are increasing reports of people suffering "AI psychosis", Microsoft's head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned. In a series of posts on X, he wrote that "seemingly conscious AI" – AI tools which give the appearance of being sentient – are keeping him "awake at night" and said they have societal impact even though

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Seven years later, people still haven’t changed how they use Siri

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-13 04:54:43

It’s proving a very long wait for the new Siri, but perhaps it doesn’t matter so much after all. A new survey shows that most people are using Siri and other voice assistants in exactly the same way they did way back in 2018. While some new capabilities have been added, and there are some generational differences in usage, the vast majority of it falls into five rather basic categories … The new Siri is a long time coming After many years of Siri being accused of being the dumbest intelligent

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What Worries Americans About AI? Politics, Jobs and Friends

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 04:45:14

Americans have a lot of worries about artificial intelligence. Like job losses and energy use. Even more so: political chaos. All of that is a lot to blame on one new technology that was an afterthought to most people just a few years ago. Generative AI, in the few years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, has become so ubiquitous in our lives that people have strong opinions about what it means and what it can do. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Aug. 13-18 and released Tuesday dug into some of

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Giving people money helped less than I thought it would

news.ycombinator.com Kelsey Piper 2025-11-14 05:13:15

U.S. singer Eartha Kitt is seen at the end of the Poor People March, on June 19, 1968, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by ARNOLD SACHS/AFP via Getty Images) Just give people money. It's the simple, brute-force solution to so many problems. In low-income countries, charities are sometimes measured against whether their interventions are better than simply giving people cash. Even in high-income countries like the U.S., when disaster strikes, often the best thing you can do is get money into the hands

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Best Outdoor Games to Play in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 18:10:00

Pickleball started to gain attention during the COVID-19 pandemic when people discovered it was a sport that could be played outdoors. Pickleball is a mix of tennis, ping-pong and badminton and is played using a tennis net, wooden paddles and a small ball. It can be played with two people (similar to tennis) or four people with two players making up one team. It's the ideal game to play if you have enough people at your get-together and the best part is it often comes in portable kits. The Fran

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GPT-5 is friendlier now - but not everyone likes it. Here's why

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-14 14:41:00

OpenAI / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI has made GPT-5 warmer and friendlier. Many users say they don't want a friendlier ChatGPT. Challenge lies in finding a balance between simplicity and choice. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Looking for a kinder, gentler AI model? Then you might like the latest flavor of GPT-5. Other people, though, not so much. On Friday, OpenAI announced an update

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Should AI flatter us, fix us, or just inform us?

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-11-15 22:00:00

He faces a trilemma. Should ChatGPT flatter us, at the risk of fueling delusions that can spiral out of hand? Or fix us, which requires us to believe AI can be a therapist despite the evidence to the contrary? Or should it inform us with cold, to-the-point responses that may leave users bored and less likely to stay engaged? It’s safe to say the company has failed to pick a lane. Back in April, it reversed a design update after people complained ChatGPT had turned into a suck-up, showering the

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What could have been

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 03:29:44

No matter what your opinion on AI is, you probably have one already. Positive or negative, AI discourse is hard to avoid. The most dedicated AI evangelists will tell you that: “AGI is around the corner. Your job? obsolete. You don’t think so? Well, see how much things improved from last year? imagine how it will be like in 5 years!” You’ve read everything that could be said about it already at least 10 times. I’ve seen people trying to debunk all those claims but there’s something that I rarely

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Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Nadia Asparouhova 2025-11-16 09:27:01

Shamelessness as a strategy I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins. One of the characters you can play is Merlin. Merlin knows who the evil players are, but can’t reveal what he knows, because the evil team can kill Merlin and win the game. So Merlin relies on another character, Perc

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All-In Podcast Boys Poke Fun at Uber Founder’s ‘AI Psychosis’ (Which They Encouraged)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-16 14:15:36

Remember when the guys over at the All-In podcast talked with Uber founder Travis Kalanick about “vibe physics“? Kalanick told viewers that he was on the verge of discovering new kinds of science by pushing his AI chatbots into previously undiscovered territory. It was ridiculous, of course, since that’s not how an AI chatbot or science works. And Kalanick’s ideas got ridiculed to no end by folks on social media. But the gentlemen of All-In now seem to be distancing themselves from Kalanick’s i

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WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-17 04:01:24

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I mean it really, really impacted people. I think on the most extreme ends, you see people who have what looks like perhaps like a mental health crisis, they're so attached to the model, but then you just have complete power users who are like, “This is part of my minute by minute life. What have you done? You didn't warn me.” Jake Lahut: And this is where the introspective aspect of these tools, the kind of desire for self-understanding, the people who are not advisably fro

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Meta Wants to Make Its First AR Glasses With a Display as Cheap as a Flagship Phone

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-17 14:10:35

If there’s one thing that we’ve learned in the world of mixed reality over the past year, it’s that price is pretty much everything. Just ask Apple, which is still struggling to find an audience for its $3,500 Vision Pro headset. I mean, it’s not that there’s not a lot to love about the Vision Pro (the best UI in mixed reality and a premium display are particular highlights), but I bought my first used car for a price that wasn’t too far off, and that at least got me to work semi-on time. It’s

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Valiant’s Bloodshot Relaunch Mired by Transphobic Dogwhistles

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-15 10:25:26

Update, 8/17/2025 @ 10:57 AM: After his old Twitter posts were discovered, Bloodshot writer Mauro Mantella has since deleted the account and posted an apology on Instagram. “I want to offer my most sincere apologies. I know I made a mistake, but at no point did I intend to spread a message of hate,” it begins. In his apology, he revealed he first wrote the issue’s script in Spanish, then “changed it a bit” when converting it to English. This conversion led to him “borrowing a common phrase used

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How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO

theverge.com Casey Newton 2025-11-17 18:40:21

Welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ve had a lot of fun guest-hosting a few episodes of Decoder while Nilay is out on parental leave this summer. If you listened to the last couple of Monday shows, you know I’ve been doing a series with founders who are focused on productivity. This is my third and, sadly, last time joining the show during the break, but I’m very excited about this episode. Today I’m talking with Step

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The Tweens Down Under: Life Without Social Media in Australia

wired.com Charley Locke 2025-11-18 18:00:00

Starting on December 10, many Australian teenagers will no longer be as online as their peers in other countries. The Social Media Minimum Age Bill, passed in 2024, stipulates that a person must be at least 16 years old to have an account on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. Across the world, people young and old are increasingly recognizing the negative impacts that social media has on adolescents. Nearly half of teenagers in the US claim these platforms harm people thei

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The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

news.ycombinator.com Louis Menand 2025-11-18 10:53:21

An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.” This is true. People write because they have something to say. Baldwin had something to say, and he spent his life saying it. But many who thought they got his message didn’t get it at all. Baldwin was high-strung and emotionally labile. He wasn’t exactly charismatic—there was a strangeness about him which he did nothing

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The Enterprise Experience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 09:53:03

The Enterprise Experience It's the 18th of August. Today is a special day for me, as it marks my one-year anniversary of working at $ENTERPRISE. Before this I had been a professional software developer for the best part of a decade, but entirely in startups and SMEs. This time last year I made the decision to sell out and hit the big leagues for fun and financial profit. After my interview the only feedback I received was that I didn't have much exposure to enterprise software development, whi

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Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale

news.ycombinator.com Adam Derewecki 2025-11-17 23:33:08

Do things that don’t scale, and then don’t scale Adam Derewecki 3 min read · 5 hours ago 5 hours ago -- 2 Listen Share A little over a decade ago, Paul Graham popularized “Do things that don’t scale.” The idea was: at first, you do the scrappy, personal, labor-intensive stuff just to get traction… and then you figure out how to make it huge. But with GPT-assisted coding, I think we’re in an era where you can just stop after the first part. You can do something that doesn’t scale — and leave it

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Why GPT-4o’s sudden shutdown left people grieving

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2025-11-18 22:34:23

OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked psychosis in users have been everywhere for the past few months, and in a blog post last week, OpenAI acknowledged 4o’s failure to recognize when users were experiencing delusions. The company’s internal evaluations indicate that GPT-5 blindly affirms users much less than 4o did. (OpenAI

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-19 22:35:30

Good news, everyone! Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have coined a new term to describe our brains being dumb. In a recent study, they provide evidence for a distinct but common kind of cognitive bias—one that makes us reluctant to take the easier path in life if it means retracing our steps. The researchers have named the bias the “doubling-back aversion.” In several experiments, they found that people often refuse to choose a more efficient solution or route if it requir

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I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-11-20 12:35:49

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Thursday, I had dinner with Sam Altman, a few other OpenAI executives, and a small group of reporters in San Francisco. Altman answered our questions for hours. No topic was off limits, and everything, with the exception of what was said over dessert, was on the record. It’s uncommon to have such an extended, wide-ranging interview with a major tech CEO over a meal. But there’s nothing common about the s

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Why and how to write things on the Internet (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:14:14

December 2022 Recently I noticed that most existing “why you should write a blog” articles (e.g.) have at least one of two shortcomings, according to me: They mostly focus on counterarguments to not starting a blog, rather than positive arguments in favor of starting one—as if people’s natural state is to produce amazing blogs and the only thing holding them back is silly misconceptions. This might be true for extreme outliers like Scott Alexander, but personally, my natural state is to play l

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Sam Altman and the whale

technologyreview.com Mat Honan 2025-11-18 18:55:59

But where is the transition from the BlackBerry keyboard to the touch-screen iPhone? Where is the assisted GPS and the API for location services that enables real-time directions and gives rise to companies like Uber and Grindr and lets me order a taxi for my burrito? Where are the real breakthroughs? In fact, following the release of GPT-5, OpenAI found itself with something of a user revolt on its hands. Customers who missed GPT-4o's personality successfully lobbied the company to bring it ba

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New Brain Interface Interprets Inner Monologues With Startling Accuracy

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-22 17:00:43

Scientists can now decipher brain activity related to the silent inner monologue in people’s heads with up to 74% accuracy, according to a new study. In new research published today in Cell, scientists from Stanford University decoded imagined words from four participants with severe paralysis due to ALS or brainstem stroke. Aside from being absolutely wild, the findings could help people who are unable to speak communicate more easily using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), the researchers say

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Google Wants You to Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 16:12:50

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have been degraded or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post this week that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days, along with a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit o

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ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a Developer Experience PM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 03:00:37

Be part of building something people love. You want to do work that matters. On a product people care about. Preferably with friends. At ReadMe, you’ll have the autonomy to own your work, the flexibility to be your most effective, and the freedom to learn from mistakes. We’re a startup. There's a lot to be done. But if you want to work with meaning and balance, you’ll love it here. Kirby Carpenito Codenames fiend Ladies of ReadMe Circa Feb. 2020 (There are more of us now!) Gregory Koberger K

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The Pandemic Didn’t Actually Spike America’s Anxiety, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-25 03:40:17

The covid-19 pandemic was a horrific and earth-shattering world event. But it may not have scarred our collective psyche as profoundly as you would think. New research indicates that the pandemic didn’t spike Americans’ overall anxiety. Scientists at the University of Virginia led the study, which examined a decade’s worth of survey data. They found evidence that our anxiety levels didn’t significantly shift in the first years of the pandemic. People’s mental fortitude during the pandemic was p

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Bat colony checks in to hotel; 200 guests check out, unaware of rabies scare

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-25 02:35:15

Health officials in Wyoming are sinking their teeth into a meaty task. Over 200 people who stayed in a hotel in Grand Teton National Park between May and July may have unknowingly been exposed to rabies, according to Wyoming Public Radio. In an announcement on Friday, the National Park Service reported finding evidence of a bat colony in the attic. The discovery was made after there had been at least eight incidents in which guests encountered winged mammals inside the hotel. Now, the Wyoming

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This website is for humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2025-11-25 06:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

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Website Is for Humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2025-11-25 12:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

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