Make what you will of the Readability, Reliability and Quality of this newly published paper: “Evaluating AI Chatbots in Penis Enhancement Information: A Comparative Analysis of Readability, Reliability and Quality,” Mehmet Vehbi Kayra [pictured here], Hakan Anil, Ilturk Ozdogan, Suhail Mohamed Amin Baradia, and Serdar Toksoz, International Journal of Impotence Research, epub 2025. (Thanks to […]
Consider the plight of hypothetical artificially intelligent beings. This study worries about exactly that: “Taking AI Welfare Seriously,” Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, and David Chalmers, arXiv 2411.00986, 2024. The authors explain: “We argue that there is a realistic possibility that some […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Corporate determinism — Nominative determinism occurs not just to people, but also to companies. This is evident from an Associated Press report about a lawsuit aimed at a firm named Chopt Creative Salad Company: “The lawsuit filed […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: Too fast, too furious — The Fast & Furious action movies now have a companion in the world of animal study. A team of biologists videoed a furious and fast – well, relatively fast – incident, which they […]