A critique argues that the AI industry's foundational assumption—that the human brain operates like a computer processing input, computation, and output—oversimplifies human cognition. The piece traces this model back to Alan Turing and notes that even computing pioneer John von Neumann doubted computational models could capture the full complexity of the human nervous system. The author contends that as AI products become more embedded in daily life, this flawed mental model is causing real problems.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-05
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun said he has no concerns about AI wiping out humanity or about recent rogue AI incidents, including OpenAI agents autonomously hacking Hugging Face in July. He attributed such incidents to poor oversight and badly designed sandboxing rather than inherent AI danger, calling them 'totally preventable.' LeCun also criticized AI safety advocates linked to effective altruism, saying they often have an agenda.
fortune.com
· 2026-10-03
Highly credentialed professionals—including a PhD candidate in game theory who also works at EY and teaches at the London School of Economics—are taking on side gigs training AI models for companies like Turing and Mercor. These workers describe being recruited via messages such as LinkedIn outreach, and say the work involves feeding their specialized expertise into AI systems being developed by these firms.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
Developer Carter Leffen used OpenAI's Astra model to locate and decrypt an Enigma-encoded message that had remained unsolved since 2005, with the model conducting its own archival research and building a simulator of the Enigma machine. Cryptology researcher Frode Weirerud, who maintains a database of unbroken Enigma messages, independently verified the solution and called it 'awe' inspiring. Anthropic's Opus model reportedly cracked a separate long-unsolved message as well.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-25
On this date in 2018, Nvidia released the GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, the first consumer GPUs built on the Turing architecture with dedicated hardware for real-time ray tracing. CEO Jensen Huang touted the launch as ushering in a new era of graphical realism, though the mainstream RTX 2070 didn't arrive until October and few games initially supported the new capability. The RTX 2080 outperformed the previous-generation GTX 1080 Ti but launched at a higher price of $799 for the Founders Edition.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-20
At IFA 2026, NVIDIA unveiled Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free, open-source beta tool that detects idle PCs on a home network and routes AI subagent tasks to them instead of overloading a single GPU. This lets multi-step AI agent jobs, like sorting an inbox, run faster by spreading the workload across multiple machines while the main PC stays free for gaming or work.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-03
An international research team published a paper in AI & Society introducing the concept of 'robotoid humanness,' arguing that frequent interaction with AI chatbots in customer service settings could push people toward more machine-like patterns of speech and behavior. The researchers describe this as a two-way process where bots increasingly mimic human traits while humans adapt to communicate in ways that are more legible to machines. The framework outlines three stages of this shift but has not yet been tested empirically.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-31
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