All posts tagged: Strangely

OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins

OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI is forbidding its latest AI model from discussing an unlikely topic: goblins. As Wired reports, the company’s developers included strongly-worded instructions for its coding tool, Codex, that specifically proscribe any talk of the troublesome mythological creatures, along with a peculiar grab bag of other entities, both real and fictional. “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query,” read the Codex instructions, per the magazine. The bizarre directive was flagged in a tweet that drew attention from other AI enthusiasts. Initially, it was unclear why OpenAI developers included the instructions, though they strongly implied that the model, GPT-5.5, may have a propensity for talking about goblins, ogres, and the like. Some users on X claimed that this was the case. One said they noticed that the AI of late kept describing bugs as “goblins” and “gremlins.” Anotherclaimed that the 5.5 version …

‘Strangely normal’: As war rages in Iran, daily life in UAE remains ‘orderly, calm’

‘Strangely normal’: As war rages in Iran, daily life in UAE remains ‘orderly, calm’

Published by Sam Flores

Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Susan Marie Ossman, anthropologist, artist, historian, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Professor of Movements, Spaces and Cultural Practices Affiliationat NYU Abu Dhabi. As war rages in Iran and across the Middle East, Professor Ossman’s classes have moved to Zoom, echoing the pandemic era. All the while, Abu Dhabi’s infrastructure and daily routines remain intact under uneasy skies. The UAE has long projected stability and insulation from regional volatility. Keywords for this article Source link

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

Published by José Betancourt

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/P. Marenfeld Using early data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is set to kick off full operations later this spring, an international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should’ve torn itself apart. The unusual cosmic lump — dubbed 2025 MN45, 2,300 feet in diameter and located in the Main Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter — completes a full rotation every minute and 53 seconds, as detailed in a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. While that may not sound like all that fast at first blush, it’s an astonishing feat considering the object’s sheer bulk. The centrifugal forces involved should’ve already overcome its estimated structural integrity, the researchers found, especially if it were a “rubble pile” made up of smaller rocks, like many other asteroids in the Main Belt. It’s an especially surprising finding, considering that most distant asteroids were thought to be spinning at much slower rates, as Science Alert points out. “For objects in the main …

The Common Friendship Behavior That Has Become Strangely Fraught

The Common Friendship Behavior That Has Become Strangely Fraught

Published by Daniella Wilson

A boogeyman haunts the realm of friendship advice: the friend who vents too much. Although people have surely been complaining since the dawn of language, and getting annoyed at one another about it for nearly as long, venting about how much other people are venting has lately gotten very loud. Etiquette books, advice columns, and talking-head TikToks have taken up the issue of over-venting. Complaining too much sometimes gets framed as not just irritating but “toxic,” and sharing problems is sometimes described as “trauma dumping.” Those on the receiving end of complaints bemoan their status as the “therapist friend.” The message is: Vent with caution. Therapists and researchers I spoke with have also noticed a heightened anxiety among their patients and research subjects about venting. “It’s a real-life thing,” Peter Mallory, a sociologist at St. Francis Xavier University, told me. He said that when he interviews people about their friendships, he frequently hears them “talking about the burdens of other people coming to them when they need emotional support.” In turn, some people seem to …