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Trip Venturella, a writer and MFA graduate, has built a small language model called Mr. Chatterbox, trained entirely on Victorian-era literature from the British Library. The model draws on 28,035 books published between 1837 and 1899, totaling roughly 2.93 billion tokens of training data. Venturella used Andrej Karpathy’s nanochat framework and Claude Code, an AI …
A deceptively simple question has exposed a widespread reasoning failure across the artificial intelligence industry. Felix Wunderlich writes for opper.ai that 42 out of 53 leading AI models answered incorrectly when asked: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?” The correct answer is, of …
A new platform called Moltbook has emerged as an experimental social network designed specifically for AI agents rather than humans. The site allows autonomous software assistants to post, comment, and interact with each other while humans observe the conversations. Moltbook functions as an add-on to OpenClaw, an open-source digital assistant system formerly known as Moltbot …
College students across the United States are using AI “humanizer” tools to avoid false accusations of cheating, even when they never used artificial intelligence to write their assignments. Tyler Kingkade reports for NBC News. The emergence of AI detectors on campuses has created an escalating conflict. Professors run student papers through programs like Turnitin and …
Researchers at the University of Zurich and Cologne University are creating large language models trained solely on historical documents up to specific dates. The team, led by Daniel Göttlich, Dominik Loibner, Guohui Jiang, and Hans-Joachim Voth, describes their project on GitHub. The models, called Ranke-4B, contain four billion parameters and are trained on 80 billion …
Anthropic’s Claude AI model recently took over the management of a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom. The experiment aimed to test the autonomy and business logic of AI agents in a real-world setting. Joanna Stern reports for the Wall Street Journal that the project quickly devolved into financial chaos and social engineering. …
A new iOS app called “touch grass” helps users break screen addiction by blocking their most distracting applications until they physically touch grass and verify it through the app’s computer vision technology. The app aims to help people reclaim their time from mindless scrolling in a tongue-in-cheek way while encouraging connections with nature. Basic features …
Just as unwanted junk advertising is commonly known as “spam”, unwanted AI-generated junk content could be called “slop”. At least, that’s the opinion of Simon Willison, who noticed the term and suggested it in a blog post. And I think it fits very well. He points out that not all AI-generated content is automatically slop: …
Redditor ForceTypical asked ChatGPT to come up with memes. As expected, the results are strange.
Give it a listen. It’s a gimmick, sure, but at the same time it shows the current state of a music AI like Suno.ai very nicely.