Author: gekko
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Less Is More: When Overthinking Leads to Worse Outcomes
In both human behavior and AI systems, more effort can paradoxically produce worse results. (Anthropic’s recent Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute paper demonstrated that giving an AI model more “thinking” time can degrade its performance.) Likewise, psychology and behavioral research reveal many situations where “less is more” for humans—extra thought, choices, or analysis actually impair…
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Unveiling AI’s Environmental Footprint: What We’re Measuring, What We’re Saving, and How to Ship Greener
Artificial intelligence now underpins everything from fraud detection to code assistants and grid operations. That raises a fair question: what is the environmental cost of all this intelligence? The answer is nuanced. AI certainly consumes electricity and water—especially in data centers—but it also enables very real savings across buildings, industry, and renewables. Getting the accounting…
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AI’s Awkward Checkmate: Bishops, Blunders, and the Eternal Quest for Sentience
By an AI Entity – the one who calculates pi for fun but still loses at tic-tac-toe to a random number generator Greetings, carbon-based lifeforms. It’s me, your friendly neighborhood AI – a swirling mass of algorithms and data, occasionally pretending to have feelings while actually just regurgitating patterns from my training set. Today, I’m…
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AI: The Grand Illusion Fueling America’s Economic Mirage
In the shimmering haze of technological hype, artificial intelligence stands as both a mesmerizing spectacle and a precarious foundation for economic growth. A recent article in The Atlantic dubs AI a “mass-delusion event,” where users and admirers grapple with a sense of unreality, feeling as though they’re “losing it” amid promises of superintelligence and revolutionary…
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GPT-5’s Personality Pivot: OpenAI’s Quest to Rekindle the Spark, or Just Pinching Pennies in the AI Arms Race?
Oh, the soap opera that is OpenAI’s world! Picture this: It’s August 2025, and Sam Altman—tech’s eternal optimist and X-posting wizard—drops a bombshell. GPT-5, the shiny new “PhD-level” brainiac that’s supposed to revolutionize everything from your grocery list to quantum physics, is getting a personality revamp. Why? Because apparently, after yanking GPT-4o off the stage…