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Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a Navy admiral?
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (616+ words) The solutions to today's puzzles Earlier today I asked you these three puzzles. Here they are again with solutions. You are an admiral in the Navy, in charge of an important mission. You have two choices. a) To send a single…...
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak " and think | Bruce Schneier
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (1167+ words) Large language models aren't trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They're trained on the written…...
Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a Navy admiral?
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (385+ words) A trio of tricky teasers Tanya Khovanova is a luminary of the recreational mathematics scene. She is one of its foremost bloggers and also runs Number Gossip, a site where you can sumbit a number and she "will tell you…...
Brian Cox: "We don't know how powerful AI is going to become " it's both exciting and potentially a problem'
6+ day, 9+ min ago (610+ words) The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul Mc Cartney quizzed him about one of Saturn's moons What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence? This is a really modern question....
Anthropic's new AI tool has implications for us all " whether we want it or not | Shakeel Hashim
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (236+ words) Claude Mythos's apparent superhuman hacking abilities are alarming experts as the Trump administration remains blinded by hostility In June 2024, a cyber-attack on a pathology services company caused chaos across London's hospitals. More than 10, 000 appointments were cancelled. Blood shortages followed and…...
Anthropic says its latest AI model can expose weaknesses in software security
1+ week, 2+ day ago (538+ words) AI company says purpose of its Claude Mythos model is to bolster defenses against hacking in common applications Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses. Mythos has…...
UK's leading AI research institute told to make "significant' changes
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (404+ words) Body that funds Alan Turing Institute says it should offer better strategy and more value for money The UK's leading AI research institute has been told to make "significant" changes by its main source of taxpayer funding. The warning comes…...
Did you solve it? R y clvr ngh t rd ths sntnc?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (254+ words) Th nswrs t tdys pzzls Earlier today I set you the following puzzles. Listed below are ten common phrases or sayings in the English language, five of which are found in Shakespeare. Each letter is replaced by a box the…...
Can you solve it? R y clvr ngh t rd ths sntnc?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (184+ words) To see or not to see, that is the question How much information does a sentence need to contain in order to be readable? That's the idea behind today's puzzles. Listed below are ten common phrases or sayings in the…...
Did you solve it? Are you a match for the dinkiest mag in maths?
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (482+ words) The answers to today's problems Earlier today I posed four puzzles from the Hyde Park Math Zine, a maths fanzine from Austin, Texas. Here they are again with solutions. Each region has a perimeter given by its enclosed number. What…...