AI Awareness

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Video generated from a single photo - this is crazy! https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/1936746275120328931

Jacob Adler’s short Total Pixel Space just won the Grand Prix at the 2025 AI Film Festival—selected from 6,000 submissions. It presents the basic math of images and puts them beautifully into context, with some deep philosophical thoughts. Basically, if one could generate every...See more

Switzerland wants to create a "national" AI system: https://www.inside-it.ch/schweiz-will-sich-eine-souveraene-ki-schaffen-20250603

Comment on The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09250 Shojaee et al. (2025) report that Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) exhibit "accuracy collapse" on planning...See more

https://www.minds.com/SMetzeler/blog/getting-gemini-to-concede-that-nazis-communists-are-closely-1777586984798937088

So they taught their AI systems about the trolley concept. Hmm, how about more interesting questions? - Save Mohammed or one pig? - Save Stalin or one sandwich? - Save Mao or one Ebola virus? Do I really have to point out which would be the right answer? Yes, of course, always the 2nd one! https://youtu.be/1boxiCcpZ-w

Great summary of the state of AI, much of which I previously document, but this is really well put together. Worth listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-AEfXfA7Nk

An AI actually tried to blackmail one of the developers into not getting deleted or replaced by threatening to release information about an affair he was apparently having... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rZ1cP0mjw

Specialized IR cameras with IR flashes can see through windscreens. Coupled with AI systems, they analyze the camera images to detect mobile phone use (even if the phone is just in the driver's lap), the absence of a seatbelt or other behavior considered unsafe. Admittedly,...See more