Artificial Intelligence – Liminal Fiction

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Writer Fuel: Scientists Propose Using AI to Run Cell Networks Faster. What Would Possibly Go Wrong?

June 9, 2025 by scott

Scientists are developing artificial intelligence (AI) models that could help next-generation wireless networks such as 6G deliver faster and more reliable connections. In a study that featured in December 2024’s edition of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, researchers detailed an AI system which reduces the amount of information that needs to be sent between a … Read more

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Writer Fuel: AI-Designed Chips Perform Better, But We Don’t Understand Them

May 16, 2025 by scott

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Engineering researchers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can design complex wireless chips in hours, a feat that would have taken humans weeks to complete. Not only did the chip designs prove more efficient, the AI took a radically different approach — one that a human circuit designer would have been highly unlikely to devise. … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: New Algorithm Could Help AI Read Thoughts in People With Aphasia

May 10, 2025 by scott

Scientists have made new improvements to a “brain decoder” that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to convert thoughts into text. Their new converter algorithm can quickly train an existing decoder on another person’s brain, the team reported in a new study. The findings could one day support people with aphasia, a brain disorder that affects a … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Some Older Generative AI Models Show Signs of Cognitive Decline

May 2, 2025 by scott

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People increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for medical diagnoses because of how quickly and efficiently these tools can spot anomalies and warning signs in medical histories, X-rays and other datasets before they become obvious to the naked eye. But a new study published Dec. 20, 2024 in the BMJ raises concerns that AI technologies … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Is the Idea of “Aligning” AI With Human Values a Fallacy?

April 28, 2025 by scott

In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft’s “Sydney” chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor, unleash a deadly virus and steal nuclear codes. AI developers, including Microsoft and OpenAI, responded by saying that large language models, or LLMs, need better training to give users … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Why AI-Created “Art Is, Ultimately, Empty

April 27, 2025 by scott

‘I encountered the terror of never finding anything’ The concepts of “sentience” and “agency” in machines are muddled, particularly given that it’s difficult to measure what these concepts are. But many speculate the improvements we are seeing in artificial intelligence (AI) may one day amount to a new form of intelligence that supersedes our now. Regardless, AI … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Should We Make AI Suffer to See If It’s Sentient?

April 11, 2025 by scott

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In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience — pain — that inarguably unites a vast swath of living beings, from hermit crabs to humans. For a new preprint study, posted online but not yet peer-reviewed, … Read more

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Writer Fuel: AI Can Now Replicate Itself – How Worried Should We Be?

April 10, 2025 by scott

Scientists say artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a critical “red line” and has replicated itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves. “Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart [humans], and is an early signal for rogue … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Need to Speak to Aliens? Look for Clues in How AI Agents Communicate With Each Other

February 21, 2025 by scott

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages differently — with some assuming … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Will Generative AI Stunt Human Creativite Impulses?

February 17, 2025 by scott

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) poses questions not just for technology and the expanded plethora of possibilities it brings, but for morality, ethics and philosophy too. Ushering in this new technology carries implications for health, law, the military, the nature of work, politics and even our own identities — what makes us human and … Read more

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Summary: A young half-elf hermit with forgotten magic. An army officer with ambitions as grand as his moustache. Decades after it began, war still rages between humans and elves. For some, war is a proving ground, a chance to win glory and prestige. For others, they must avoid the horrors of war at all costs. The Elixir of Power could make guns and cannons—and elves—a thing of the past. All Slee wants is to remain hidden from the world, but the fighting is never far. With the mass-produced gears of war devouring the land, how could a reclusive half-elf like her ever hope to find peace? All Fentor wants is … everything. To make a name for himself. To be remembered. To win. With the Elixir of Power in his hands, victory is at last within reach. When these two meet, their worlds begin to change—in the most unexpected of ways.