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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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What the fuck are you talking about lol
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change
"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."
"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."
"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."
"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."
"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."
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Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…
Bongo Man retweeted
They've hit a wall, and they're trying to get ahead of the narrative.
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“Tell that dude we hired 6 weeks ago to post that thread about how AI is going to kill everyone. Great. Have the alignment team repost it. Wow, didn’t think it’d go that viral. Feed the NYT a story about us stopping bioweapons. Perfect. Finalize the S1 IPO docs for next week.”
Breaking News: Anthropic said it halted potential plots by scientists who used its A.I. models to do research that could have helped develop biological weapons. nyti.ms/3V3epAE
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Many of you will ask, "if it saturates ARC 3, is it AGI?"
We're not making this claim. All we know about the system so far are its benchmark scores.
When we launched ARC 3, and in every presentation we made about it, we were very insistent on one thing: solving it is not proof of AGI. It's not intended as a finish line.
ARC 3 is testing the right qualitative properties you'd expect of an AGI system -- exploration under uncertainty, adaptation without instructions, causal world modeling from limited data, etc. -- but in small quantities. ARC 3 games are orders of magnitude shorter timescales than real world tasks, and represent orders of magnitude less data, less modeling complexity, less on-the-fly learning.
(Slide below is from a March 2026 presentation)
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Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.
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Doctors in 2026.
BREAKING: An experimental gene therapy ear injection has cured deafness for 10 out of 10 patients in clinical trial.
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The trial only treated patients with a rare genetic form of deafness caused by OTOF gene mutations (DFNB9), not all types of deafness, and improved hearing from profound (106 dB average) to moderate loss (52 dB average), not full restoration for all. nature.com/articles/s4159… sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…