This Week’s Texted Discoveries

ChatGPT is not a calculator. Here is why it makes math mistakes and the specific techniques to get accurate answers.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.

Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”

Remember, the bottleneck always moves. Local AI productivity increases are great, but if you spin one cog faster you can just swamp the rest of the system. On a call yesterday: “We used to have just a few strategy documents in the organisation, now we have hundreds that are unread, probably unread by the authors too.” Image credit: Michael Lee | 87 comments on LinkedIn

Paper mill activity has exploded in recent years, polluting the scientific ecosystem with falsified data and compromising medical research

Research Gold’s team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.