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The best artificial Total #SolarEclipse ever, delivered by ESA's #Proba3 spacecraft duo of which one carries the telescope while the other plays Moon - this allows imaging the solar #corona closer to the photosphere than any other coronagraph: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse

Questions about the meaning of #artificialintelligence and its implications for human dignity and well-being highlighted a major conference at YDS last month, titled, “A.I. and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT.” Full story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R.

Interesting study on perceptions about AI in the general US public and among US AI experts (both from academia and companies).
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-arti…

How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.

"Smart glasses offering a combination of sensory substitution based 'raw' vision and AI-based scene description and OCR appears to be technically and economically the most feasible and sustainable way toward meeting expectations, needs and interests of many blind people." https://www.artificialvision…

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

"Artificial sweeteners leave bitter aftertaste for the environment"
#Sweeteners #Environment #Pollution

Artificial sweeteners leave bitter aftertaste for the environment
New research has found increasing levels of artificial sweeteners in wastewater treatment plants, with downstream impacts on the environment.

The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)
today announced contracts with
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI
to help it use artificial intelligence for a multitude of military purposes
- each with a $200 million ceiling. 
https://www.

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon
: Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Tagua Tagua:
🎵 Artificial
#TaguaTagua
https://taguatagua.bandcamp.com/track/artificial
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TmL55EBovI38LDK1DiGKw

There has long been a quiet debate, currently drowned out but still very much happening, about human replacement vs human augmentation. Think of Gary Kasparov remarking years ago that he thought chess played by humans with computer assistance could be a far more interesting game than either human-only or computer-only chess.
Here’s an argument for augmentation over automation, and note how far it diverges from the current hype despite it being written from a very AI-friendly point of view:
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/

Amplifying Artifacts with Speech Enhancement in Voice Anti-spoofing
Thanapat Trachu, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11542

Amplifying Artifacts with Speech Enhancement in Voice Anti-spoofing
Spoofed utterances always contain artifacts introduced by generative models. While several countermeasures have been proposed to detect spoofed utterances, most primarily focus on architectural improvements. In this work, we investigate how artifacts remain hidden in spoofed speech and how to enhance their presence. We propose a model-agnostic pipeline that amplifies artifacts using speech enhancement and various types of noise. Our approach consists of three key steps: noise addition, noise ex…