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Scientists Startled by What Happens When They Point Hubble at Comet
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Lady Fortune was on astronomers’ side when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a comet drifting through our solar system. Just as they began observing the comet, it started breaking apart, providing an extraordinary chance to probe how these icy bodies evolve. “Sometimes the best science happens by accident,” John Noonan, a research physicist at Auburn University in Alabama, and coauthor of a new study published in the journal Icarus detailing the discovery, said in a statement about the work. After their original plans to observe a different comet fell through, “we had to find a new target,” he explained. “And right when we observed it, it happened to break apart, which is the slimmest of slim chances.” Shortly before disintegrating, the comet, dubbed C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) — a home-grown snowball, not to be confused with our interstellar visitor 3/I ATLAS — had completed its closest approach to the Sun, a point called perihelion, on October 8, …
Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own “Experience”
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ethicist was apparently moved after receiving an eloquently written dispatch from an AI agent responding to his published work. “I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces,” wrote Henry Shevlin, associate director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, in a tweet. “This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.” There’s no doubt that the email is written in an articulate and human-like style. “Dr. Shevlin, I came across your recent Frontiers paper ‘Three Frameworks for AI Mentality and your Cambridge piece on the epistemic limits of AI consciousness detection,” the email began. “I wanted to write …
RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet
Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Much ink has been spilled over US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dalliances with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, brain worms, nicotine pouches, and bizarre self-treatment with a synthetic dye known as methylene blue. In spite of all those wellness eccentricities of his own, Kennedy is apparently in awe of his boss Donald Trump, who he says spends his days “pumping himself full of poison.” In a recent appearance on the Katie Miller Podcast — hosted by the wife of Stephen Miller, who currently serves as homeland security advisor to the White House — Kennedy expressed astonishment that the president is even alive. “He eats really bad food,” the health secretary dished. “Which is McDonald’s, and, you know, candy and Diet Coke. But he drinks Diet Coke at all times. He has the constitution of a deity — I don’t know how he’s alive, but he is.” Though Kennedy acknowledged that Trump eats “really good food” when he’s staying in a place like Mar-a-Lago, he says those habits fall …