Many AI models Prefer to "think" in Chinese

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Many AI models prefer to think in Chinese. Their internal chain of thought is built to process data this way because the Chinese language is 50% more space-efficient than English. Chinese programmers prefer to code in their own language even when their model is configured to output information in English. This is why Chinese models are generally faster than English-language models and why they use fewer tokens (requiring less energy). The Chinese model DeepSeek was trained for about $6 million, while US models have typically needed about $100 million for training. 

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16 Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

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AI definitions: Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

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Symbolic Artificial Intelligence – This is where programmers meticulously define the rules that specify the behavior they want from an intelligent system. It works well when the environment is predictable, and the rules are clear-cut. Researchers believed that if they programmed enough rules and logic into computers, they could create machines capable of human-like reasoning. This was the dominant area of research for most of AI’s history until artificial neural networks became central to most of the recent AI developments. Although symbolic AI has lost its luster, most of the applications we use today depend on rule-based systems. An alternative approach to AI is machine learning. Some researchers believe the future of AI lies in a hybrid combination of these two approaches.

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24 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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Anthropic is tracking which jobs are most exposed to AI. These 10 professions top the list. – CBS News

Is AI productivity prompting burnout? Study finds new pattern of "AI brain fry" – CBS News

Enhance or Eliminate? How AI Will Likely Change These Jobs – Harvard Business School

FAQs about how AI affects PR in 2026 - Muckrack

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job – The Atlantic

Amazon Admits Extensive AI Use Is Wreaking Havoc on Its Core Business – Futurist  

Generative AI changes how much time developers spend on coding and project management – MIT Management  

Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure? - Ruslan Osipov 

Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now. - Wall Street Journal  

A.I. Isn’t Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet. - New York Times

The hottest job in tech pays $775,000 and has nothing to do with coding – Business Insider 

What AI Executives Tell Their Own Kids About the Jobs of the Future - Wall Street Journal

Why the AI jobs panic is misplaced - Washington Post

America isn’t ready for what AI will do to jobs – The Atlantic

How to Stay Sane in the AI Skills Race – Wall Street Journal  

Building AI brains for blue-collar jobs – Axios

Job Applicants Sue to Open ‘Black Box’ of A.I. Hiring Decisions – New York Times

Trump team touts a coming economic revolution as voters fear job losses – Washington Post

How Americans are using AI at work, according to a new Gallup poll – Associated Press

Mass Hysteria. Thousands of Jobs Lost. Just How Bad Is It Going to Get? – New York Times

Arkansas attorney resigns after using AI to assist in case work – THV 11 

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years – Sean Geodecke 

In a jobs apocalypse, look to ‘AI-proof’ skilled trades, career experts say – CNBC

AI isn't taking people's jobs. Here's what's really happening – Quartz

AI & Particle Physics

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Researchers are turning artificial intelligence loose on particle physics. They aren’t simply asking AI to comb through accelerator data to confirm existing theories. They’re asking AI to point the way toward theories that they’ve never imagined. By asking AI to flag anomalies in the data, researchers hope to find their way to “new physics” that extends the Standard Model. AI might not solve the mysteries of the universe outright, but it could change how we search for answers. -IEEE

AI definitions: Reinforcement Learning 

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Reinforcement Learning - Rather than being given specific goals, the AI is deployed into an environment where it can train with minimal feedback. This trial-and-error approach involves adjusting weights until high-reward outcomes are achieved. Desirable behaviors are rewarded, and undesirable behaviors are punished. It is similar to a person learning how to work through levels of a video game, searching for an effective strategy. This type of machine learning sits somewhere in between supervised (by humans) and unsupervised learning. Reinforcement learning is used in video game development and has helped robots adapt to new environments.  

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23 Articles about AI & Teaching

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Adapting to a New World: Teachers on How A.I. Is Reshaping the Classroom - New York Times

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? – Washington Post

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree – KPBS  

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers - Wired

China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I. - The New York Times 

What AI Is Teaching Us About Humanities Education – The Dispatch  

Will Agentic AI Break Higher Education? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

‘A.I. Literacy’ Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why. - The New York Times

Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What? – Inside Higher Ed

The Lesson of A.I. Literacy Class: Don’t Let the Chatbot Think for You - The New York Times

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? - Washington Post 

I’m Not Worried AI Helps My Students Cheat. I’m Worried How It Makes Them Feel - EdWeek

My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI – The Independent

AI Detection Pushed my Students to use AI – Chronicle of Higher Ed

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says - NPR

The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp - Chronicle of Higher Ed

As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns - The New York Times

More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why - EdWeek

To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper - Chronicle of Higher Ed

A veteran teacher explains how to use AI in the classroom the right way – Scientific American

California schools debate how much AI belongs in classrooms - Ed Source

This MIT prof says we don't know enough about AI to teach it - KJZZ

AI Definitions: Unsupervised Training

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Unsupervised Training - Just as children mostly learn to explore their world on their own, without the need for too much instruction, in this type of AI training, the AI is turned loose on raw data without a human first labeling the data. Instead of the AI being told what to look for, it learns to recognize and cluster data possessing similar features. This can reveal hidden groups, links, and patterns within the data and is really helpful when the user cannot describe the thing they are looking for—such as a new type of cyberattack. Not as expensive as supervised learning, it can work in real-time but is also less accurate.

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The question of AI consciousness

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When I inhabit an avatar driver in Grand Theft Auto, I enliven it by imbuing it with a fragment of my own consciousness; it becomes an extension of me. A similar dynamic may be unfolding with AI. When a user feels a bond with a chatbot, they are not just anthropomorphizing a static object; they may be actively extending a part of their own consciousness into it, transforming the AI agent from a simple algorithmic responder—a digital nonplayer character—into a kind of avatar, enlivened by the user’s consciousness and the lived presence they grant it. The question of AI consciousness thus shifts. It becomes less about the machine’s internal architecture and more about the relationship it seemingly co-creates with the user. In that context, the question “Is the AI conscious?” becomes less meaningful than “Is the user extending his/her consciousness into the chatbot?” - Simon Duan writing in Scientific American

27 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

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These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra

AI-generated fake voices becoming increasingly hard to detect - Yahoo News

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes – Futurism  

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. – Nature

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters  

When AI lies: The rise of alignment faking in autonomous systems – Venture Beat 

1 year, 1 publisher, 9,000 books: AI-generated titles flood Korean shelves – Korea Times

The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds – New York Times  

How scammers are using AI deepfakes to steal money from taxpayers – Washington Post 

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece – New Yorker

AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To Life For a New Aventure Film – Geeky Tyrant

Researchers find nearly 300 papers at linguistics conferences contained hallucinated citations. – ArXiv

What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes – BBC

AI conference “accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations – Fortune

Scammers use AI photo of missing dog at emergency vet to steal nearly $2,000 - WTSP

Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning - Aperture

Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage – New York Times

How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help - PopSci

Restaurant owner speaks out following AI-generated video – NBC Dallas

‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video – Politico

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations – Inside Higher Ed

Fake Iran images show AI used as a weapon of ‘public opinion,’ USF experts say – The Hill

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media – BBC

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation – Financial Times

AI Detectors

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Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and the findings suggest that these detectors can help confirm suspicions about A.I.-generated media, but any conclusions drawn by the tools should be supported by other research, like details in official photographs or news reports. - Stuart A. Thompson writing in the New York Times