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Scores of new witnesses have emerged with more footage of the eerie'drone' UFO swarms buzzing key US military sites, including'a big fireball in a cube' over Area 51. The Las Vegas-area witness who reported this bizarre cube-shaped object claims to have observed similar strange aerial lights in the area'over 100 times' since June 2020, adding that these craft'always seem to head towards Nellis Air Force base.' Nevada's Nellis base and its sprawling complex about 40 miles northwest of Vegas -- including top secret Area 51, now legendary within UFO lore -- appear to have faced incursions by craft similar to those that plagued the Air Force in Virginia. For at least 17 nights last December, swarms of noisy small UFOs were seen'moving at rapid speeds' and displaying'flashing red, green, and white lights' within the highly restricted airspace over Virginia's Joint Base Langley–Eustis. Vegas natives have posted videos confirming they too have seen more than one red, green or white UFO that'wasn't flashing like a regular aircraft [or] like a satellite.' Another witness, who documented one September 4, 2024 case from their own 60-night experience with the odd lights, hoped coming forward might help get answers.

One of the new developments in chit-chat bots is a long-term memory mechanism that remembers information from past conversations for increasing engagement and consistency of responses. The bot is designed to extract knowledge of personal nature from their conversation partner, e.g., stating preference for a particular color. In this paper, we show that this memory mechanism can result in unintended behavior. In particular, we found that one can combine a personal statement with an informative statement that would lead the bot to remember the informative statement alongside personal knowledge in its long term memory. This means that the bot can be tricked into remembering misinformation which it would regurgitate as statements of fact when recalling information relevant to the topic of conversation. We demonstrate this vulnerability on the BlenderBot 2 framework implemented on the ParlAI platform and provide examples on the more recent and significantly larger BlenderBot 3 model. We generate 150 examples of misinformation, of which 114 (76%) were remembered by BlenderBot 2 when combined with a personal statement. We further assessed the risk of this misinformation being recalled after intervening innocuous conversation and in response to multiple questions relevant to the injected memory. Our evaluation was performed on both the memory-only and the combination of memory and internet search modes of BlenderBot 2. From the combinations of these variables, we generated 12,890 conversations and analyzed recalled misinformation in the responses. We found that when the chat bot is questioned on the misinformation topic, it was 328% more likely to respond with the misinformation as fact when the misinformation was in the long-term memory.

In Max Barry's new novel Providence, a four-person crew sets out into deep space to battle aliens. It's a scenario that recalls many classic science fiction novels such as Starship Troopers and Ender's Game. "It was a chance to revisit some of the exciting sci-fi I'd enjoyed as a kid, but do it with a bit more of a modern take on it," Barry says in Episode 414 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. The crew soon discovers that their real purpose is to maintain public support for the mission back home while the ship's AI does the actual fighting. It's Barry's response to movies like those in the Star Wars franchise, which emphasize the skill of human pilots.

Jack Ma and Elon Musk hold debate in Shanghai. Alibaba co-founder and executive chairman #JackMa and Tesla CEO #ElonMusk hold a debate in Shanghai over artificial intelligence.#AI. In the debate over artificial intelligence, whose side is Elon Musk on? Musk, who's in charge of SpaceX, Tesla and the Neuralink brain interface venture, sized up the odds with Alibaba founder Jack Ma today during a widely watched one-on-one session at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. The way Musk sees it, the prospects aren't great for humans if future AI agents decide to go rogue.