On this week’s Intelligent Machines, we cohosts had a spirited disagreement about Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation. The company just released more detail about how it will work, and now I’m upset for a different reason than I fir…
1. Speculative Chinese claims about Alzheimer’s. 2. Very interesting Anthropic piece on why multi-agentic systems seem to show more herd behavior and collusion than human systems. And a comment from Rune Kvist. 3. Cross-cultural data on masculinity. 4. The Gr…
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AI can imitate far more of your photography than you probably expect. The part it can't reproduce turns out to be the fastest way to discover what actually makes your work your own. Photographers usually choose one of two reactions to AI. They either ignore i…
The $1.50 price of a Costco hot dog—a quarter-pound all-beef dog, bun, and drink—is sacred. But a recent analysis finds that its effective price increased by 77 cents between 2023 and 2026.
