Today's Hallucination HQMeta Scores an Own Goal With a Song About the End of the World
Meta's new AI optimism ad — all hope, progress, and human potential — is set to David Bowie's "Five Years," a song about humanity learning it has five years left before extinction. To be fair, choosing an apocalypse anthem for your "AI is great, actually" campaign does suggest a certain... creative confidence. Or nobody at Meta listened past the opening drums. Both explanations are equally plausible.
Source: TechCrunch
The Air Force Let an AI Fly an F-16. It Did Not Immediately Start a War
DARPA and the U.S. Air Force have successfully flown an AI-controlled F-16, which is either a landmark moment in aviation history or the opening scene of a film everyone already knows ends badly. The aircraft performed as intended. The humans watching presumably kept their fingers very close to something important. No further comment seems necessary.
Source: Hacker News / DARPA
OpenAI Would Like You to Know That ChatGPT Is Basically a Doctor Now
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users, letting people connect medical records and health-tracking data directly to the chatbot. OpenAI's VP of health product says its models are now capable of "expert-level" medical reasoning — a claim that is either very exciting or a reminder that "expert-level" is doing considerable heavy lifting in that sentence. Consult your actual GP before acting on advice from a model that occasionally invents citations.
Source: The Verge
GPT-5.5 Pro Has Settled a Decades-Old Maths Problem. Mathematicians Are Fine
Researchers have used GPT-5.5 Pro to autonomously disprove the Erdős–Szemerédi sum-product conjecture over the reals — a problem that has quietly defeated human mathematicians for decades. This follows GPT-5.5 also disproving the Erdős unit distance conjecture. Erdős himself, prolific and relentless, once solved problems at a rate humans found embarrassing. The machines are now returning the favour.
Source: ArXiv AI
AI Is Redesigning Medicine, Which Is Good News for Everyone Except the Old Process
Developing a new drug traditionally takes over a decade, costs billions, and fails most of the time — a track record that, in any other industry, would prompt some serious questions. AI is now helping scientists design biologic medicines by predicting how engineered proteins will fold and behave, dramatically shortening early development. It won't fix everything. But "faster than a decade and less catastrophically expensive" is, by pharmaceutical standards, a standing ovation.
Source: MIT Technology Review
Until tomorrow — stay curious, stay sceptical, and maybe listen to the whole song before you clear it for the ad.
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