@jjaron

News editor for New Scientist

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Joined January 2009
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My latest AI Explained column looks at the idea that self-replicating AIs are going to take over your smart oven. They aren't! newscientist.com/article/259…

Self-replicating AIs are a great digital horror story – here’s the reality | New Scientist

Anthropic announced that an AI could self-replicate inside smart devices within months, stoking fear around the internet. Columnist Jacob Aron explains the technical limitations that make this spook...

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Pleased to announce that I am launching AI Explained, a weekly column on how to understand AI. The first edition today is all about OpenAI's maths dump newscientist.com/article/259…

OpenAI has dumped 722 maths papers – now it must clean up the mess | New Scientist

OpenAI is using mathematics as a test site for its most capable AI models, and that means it has a responsibility to deal with the fallout, rather than just leaving it to mathematicians, says Jacob...

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Replying to @ContactHaringey
@ContactHaringey your waste collection website is not working because of a secure connection error wastecollections.haringey.go…
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Replying to @Coneee
Thanks!
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@DJSnM4 Mar 2025
We've never seen anything like this recording of a landing on another world. @fireflyspace
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In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided linking recent record temperatures with climate change newscientist.com/article/246…

NOAA scientists refuse to link warming weather to climate change | New Scientist

In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided mentioning rising levels of greenhouse gases

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Image by Michael Carroll in 2013. We did NOT see the little one coming; it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one & perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.
Image by Michael Carroll illustrating the sizes of some asteroids in 2013. The asteroids are shown in comparison to a US football field. We had seen the big one "2012 DA14" coming, and it just buzzed Earth. But the littler one we did NOT see coming, and it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk, creating a shockwave the blew out windows and injuring more than 1400 people. The asteroid we are monitoring now - 2024 YR4 - is bigger than the little guy, but maybe as large as the whole football field! Our JWST measurements next month will help pin down the size of 2024 YR4. Source: https://carrollspaceart.com/gallery/comparisons/

ALT Image by Michael Carroll illustrating the sizes of some asteroids in 2013. The asteroids are shown in comparison to a US football field. We had seen the big one "2012 DA14" coming, and it just buzzed Earth. But the littler one we did NOT see coming, and it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk, creating a shockwave the blew out windows and injuring more than 1400 people. The asteroid we are monitoring now - 2024 YR4 - is bigger than the little guy, but maybe as large as the whole football field! Our JWST measurements next month will help pin down the size of 2024 YR4. Source: https://carrollspaceart.com/gallery/comparisons/

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The making shit up machine will make up as much shit as you want, and it only costs $200 a month!
Daniel Litt
@littmath18 Feb 2025
Had a sort of a funny experience with OpenAI’s Deep Research tool, which I wanted to share since I think it reveals some of the tool’s strengths and weaknesses.
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And this is why I am yet to find a use for LLMs
Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net@colin_fraser5 Feb 2025
Replying to @colin_fraser
anyway I guess as long as whatever thing you're doing has the property that it can withstand a factual error rate of ≥85%, this thing is safe to use
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This ain't gonna happen
Marcia Smith@SpcPlcyOnline20 Jan 2025
"We will pursue our manifest detinty into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." President Trump in his inaugural address just now.
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Do people not discuss this all the time? It's the origin of the singularity, p(doom), etc. Or am I misunderstanding?
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Hahaha what?!
The Verge
@verge19 Jan 2025
Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347…

Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok

Dusted.

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"plan" is doing a lot of work here
George Mann@sgfmann18 Jan 2025
The Guardian: Tory plan to build 40 new NHS hospitals in tatters #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Replying to @ShakeelHashim
Fair enough! Seems great that AI can get rid of those 900 hours of work then
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Replying to @ShakeelHashim
How long did it take you? Did you get, say, 9 hours of value?
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Great piece, thank you
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I wrote about how strange and wonderful it was that the incredible Twin Peaks briefly dragged David Lynch into the mainstream, and how hard he fought — especially with Twin Peaks: The Return — to do what interested him, and not a potential mass audience: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…

‘Twin Peaks’ Was the Most Bizarre Show on TV — and David Lynch’s Biggest Success

David Lynch's show Twin Peaks was a surprise cultural and ratings phenomenon when it aired in 1990. It changed television forever

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It seems insane that this form exists? 972 hours! Is anyone reading it?
Bearly AI
@bearlyai16 Jan 2025
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says that AI can draft 95% of an S1 IPO prospectus “in minutes” (a job that used to require a 6-person team multiple weeks). “The last 5% now matters because the rest is now a commodity,” per Solomon.
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Replying to @Darren_Mooney
I think we've seen 2, 3 and 5 on screen. Not sure how many years canonically have passed since the Netflix show (and really it would be silly to try and fully unify these timelines) but it's not impossible the others are from his off screen years I suppose
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Replying to @AScribbledEagle
Yes, that's my point
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