Today’s news briefs are as spicy as gasoline spaghetti…
- Apocalypse now, and always: On UFOs, AI and encounters with non-human intelligence.
- Lost photos suggest Mars’ mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguise.
- 7,000-year-old evidence of a mysterious cosmic event is helping reveal the secrets of an ancient European settlement.
- US officials: a Russian rocket launch last week likely deployed a space weapon.
- Crows can actually count out loud, amazing new study shows.
- Mushroom hunters stumble upon mysterious sculpture in Thai forest.
- Hundreds of stars have vanished without a trace. A new study could explain why.
- AI and the great data robbery.
- Timor cave discredits once-favoured explanation for how people reached Australia.
- Cosmic glitch: scientists discover an anomaly in the Universe’s gravity.
- Whale songs have features of language, but whales may not actually be speaking.
Quote of the Day:
An (A.I.) language model is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning:
A stochastic parrot.
“On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots“
