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Cossed Wires: There is a nobler side to the AI hype (opens the original)
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While AIâs risks dominate headlines, its quieter revolution in drug discovery is producing new treatments faster, including a promising therapy for fatal pulmonary fibrosis. The drumbeat of bad-news AI stories over the past few weeks (a few of them by this writer) has been draining â a cacophony of scare stories has sucked all the oxygen out of the room. It has left many hyperventilating so miserably over hypothetical dystopian futures that there is a danger of missing the other side of the
Crossed Wires: Farewell Nobel â how AI Is disrupting scientific discovery and ownership (opens the original)
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Beyond the drama surrounding OpenAIâs claim to the NavierâStokes solution and a whistleblowerâs subsequent dispute over data use is the question of what AIâdriven breakthroughs mean for scientific prizes and academic credit. At the beginning of last week I wrote a story about the diminishing value of a university degree as artificial intelligence seeps into education, leaving institutions unsure about the soundness of their pedagogical promise. Then it got worse. The new story has many t
Crossed Wires: The shrinking value of the university degree (opens the original)
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Generative AI is shattering university testing standards, leaving institutions struggling to assess learning, and threatening to reduce formal degrees to simple certificates of attendance. I have a couple of university degrees. They have been a signal from my alma maters to the outer world. A signal that says: we, the universities that awarded these certificates, put our reputation on the line and guarantee that this fellow learnt something. We know, because we checked. He may not have been the
Crossed Wires: A novel way to legalise insider trading (opens the original)
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There is a tantalising possible answer to the insider trading conundrum which may not completely eliminate unfairness, but is less damaging to the integrity, spirit and economic foundations of public stock market trading. I used to sit on the board of a public company. I was scrupulously compliant with insider trading guidelines and laws and I assumed everyone else was. But I later became reasonably confident that one of my colleagues, honest in all other matters, had sold a few shares that he s
Crossed Wires: The unbearable weirdness of humanoid robots (opens the original)
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Now that robots are escaping the pages of novels and entering warehouses, hospitals and factories, one cannot help wondering whether the energy going into making them resemble people is just silly. On 21 August a robot called Lightning broke Usain Boltâs 100m record. You may have seen it on the news, it is everywhere. Me, I just got grumpy. Why? Stay with me. Over the past year or so there has been an uptick in videos showing humanoid robots doing all sorts of dazzling things. Running fast, ju
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