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Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder Fighter pilots in training are having their brainwaves read by AI as they fly in virtual reality to measure how difficult they find tasks and ramp up the complexity if needed. Experiments show that trainee fighter pilots prefer this adaptive system to a rigid, pre-programmed alternative, but that it doesn't necessarily improve their skills. Training pilots in simulators and virtual reality is cheaper and safer than real flights, but these teaching scenarios need to be adjusted in real time so tasks sit in the sweet spot between comfort and overload. How the US military wants to use the world's largest aircraft Evy van Weelden at the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre, Amsterdam, and her colleagues used a brain-computer interface to read student pilots' brainwaves via electrodes attached to the scalp. An AI model analysed that data to determine how difficult the pilots were finding the task.
Barrister found to have used AI to prepare for hearing after citing 'fictitious' cases
The judge said: 'I am bound to observe that one of the cases cited has recently been wrongly deployed by ChatGPT in support of similar arguments.' The judge said: 'I am bound to observe that one of the cases cited has recently been wrongly deployed by ChatGPT in support of similar arguments.' Barrister found to have used AI to prepare for hearing after citing'fictitious' cases Judge rules Chowdhury Rahman used ChatGPT-like software and then tried to hide it, wasting immigration tribunal's time Thu 16 Oct 2025 09.47 EDTFirst published on Thu 16 Oct 2025 09.33 EDT An immigration barrister was found by a judge to be using AI to do his work for a tribunal hearing after citing cases that were "entirely fictitious" or "wholly irrelevant". Chowdhury Rahman was discovered using ChatGPT-like software to prepare his legal research, a tribunal heard. Rahman was found not only to have used AI to prepare his work, but "failed thereafter to undertake any proper checks on the accuracy".
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Review for NeurIPS paper: DVERGE: Diversifying Vulnerabilities for Enhanced Robust Generation of Ensembles
I congratulate the authors for taking simple ideas (namely, adversarially-motivated improvements to ensembles) and showing they work well. Ensembles are a strong baseline for uncertainty and natural out-of-distribution shift, and this work takes an important step further in highlighting the benefits of averaging multiple predictions for adversarial robustness. All reviewers found the paper well-written and convincing against baselines. As 3/4 reviewers stated, I recommend adding discussion making compute complexity more explicit. Finally, as R3 states and as promised in the revision, the paper is significantly lacking in discussion and citations of related work.
Asynchronous Algorithmic Alignment with Cocycles
Dudzik, Andrew, von Glehn, Tamara, Pascanu, Razvan, Veličković, Petar
State-of-the-art neural algorithmic reasoners make use of message passing in graph neural networks (GNNs). But typical GNNs blur the distinction between the definition and invocation of the message function, forcing a node to send messages to its neighbours at every layer, synchronously. When applying GNNs to learn to execute dynamic programming algorithms, however, on most steps only a handful of the nodes would have meaningful updates to send. One, hence, runs the risk of inefficiencies by sending too much irrelevant data across the graph -- with many intermediate GNN steps having to learn identity functions. In this work, we explicitly separate the concepts of node state update and message function invocation. With this separation, we obtain a mathematical formulation that allows us to reason about asynchronous computation in both algorithms and neural networks.
Playtime's over: how 2023 could reshape video games
There are, littered throughout the history of video games, certain years of radical, fundamental change. We can look at the major crashes in the US games industry in 1977 and 1983, where bloated software libraries and hardware gluts destroyed confidence in the medium and cleared out dozens of companies. We can also look at the arrival of the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1994, which made 32-bit processors and rendered 3D visuals the entire focus of the industry, expunging a generation of competing products, from the Philips CD-i to the Atari Jaguar. I think 2023 could be one of those years of radical change, not because of some major new technical landmark, but because the structure of the games industry is now dissolving and remaking itself. First, we're going to see a lot more consolidation this year, as major corporations bet on continued growth in the gaming sector.
Religions want moral-ethical guardrails as Artificial Intelligence heads towards sentience - YesPunjab.com
Senior Episcopal priest in Connecticut Father Thomas W. Blake, Greek-Orthodox Christian clergyman in Nevada Father Stephen R. Karcher, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, renowned Buddhist minister Reverend Matthew T. Fisher, esteemed Jewish rabbi in California-Nevada ElizaBeth Webb Beyer, well-respected Senior United Methodist Pastor Dawn M. Blundell; in a joint statement, said that AI should be used responsibly and religions should be involved and given active role in developing appropriate and adequate moral-ethical guardrails around it, before it changes our way of life. Blake, Karcher, Zed, Fisher, Beyer, Blundell emphasize that since sentient machines are no longer unthinkable and there are claims of the possibility of developing sentient AI systems in the future; technologies seem to be venturing into God's arena which can create serious spiritual implications. Tech should not be in the business of simply discarding overnight the thousands of years of wisdom of the texts. Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, points out that if machines become completely sentient having consciousness, it is a serious theological issue. An urgent and honest global conversation is needed (with religions as the major partner) before the self-aware machines become game changers and reshape humanity.
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DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. DeepMind wants to enable neural networks to emulate algorithms to get the best of both worlds, and it's using Google Maps as a testbed. Classical algorithms are what have enabled software to eat the world, but the data they work with does not always reflect the real world. Deep learning is what powers some of the most iconic AI applications today, but deep learning models need retraining to be applied in domains they were not originally designed for. DeepMind is trying to combine deep learning and algorithms, creating the one algorithm to rule them all: a deep learning model that can learn how to emulate any algorithm, generating an algorithm-equivalent model that can work with real-world data.
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DeepMind aims to marry deep learning and classic algorithms
Today, they both work a lot with machine learning, in which a fundamental question for a long time has been how to generalize -- how do you work beyond the data examples you've seen? Algorithms are a really good example of something we all use every day, Blundell noted. In fact, he added, there aren't many algorithms out there. If you look at standard computer science textbooks, there's maybe 50 or 60 algorithms that you learn as an undergraduate. And everything people use to connect over the internet, for example, is using just a subset of those.
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