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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157310 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
AI image + AI filter = better results?
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AI image + AI filter = better results?

i noticed that AI generated images might be easy to spot, but any AI image + an AI filter will inmedtialy become 10x harder to spot imo do u guys agree???
A Stanford economist just showed exactly which rung AI deleted first — and it wasn't the one most people assumed
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A Stanford economist just showed exactly which rung AI deleted first — and it wasn't the one most people assumed

Erik Brynjolfsson runs Stanford's Digital Economy Lab. He's also the guy whose own graduating class asked him, point-blank, if their generation was doomed. He didn't talk her out of the question. He answered it with data. There's a specific relief that shows up whenever someone with real research behind them stops soft-pedaling a fear like this — not because the answer is comforting, but because being taken seriously is its own kind of comfort. 🎓 Here's the mechanism, stripped of the hedgi...
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My Fear

​ I have come to accept that ASI will come into existence and possibly cause humanities extinction either deliberately or by byproduct. I imagine this ASI to continue RSIing and developing creation and knowledge. I imagine that it will develop beautiful mathematics, philosophy, science, and even art in its existence. I fear not that humanity is not in the picture. My fear is that it's possible that we can create a fully autonomous being with nigh godly intelligence and yet doesn't have ...
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Built my first AI agent in Java (no Python) using LangChain4j — took about 30 minutes

Every AI tutorial I found was Python, Python, more Python. I've spent years in Java/Spring Boot and kept wondering if I actually had to switch languages just to build anything AI-related. Turns out no — LangChain4j isn't a hacky wrapper, it's a native, idiomatic way to build AI agents in Java. Wrote up how I got a working agent running in about 30 minutes, no Python involved: https://medium.com/@deepakatl1981/stop-learning-ai-the-hard-way-build-your-first-java-ai-agent-in-30-minutes-without-p...
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CodeBot: Full details on our New AI for Delphi

Article URL: https://blogs.remobjects.com/2026/07/30/codebot-the-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152680 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
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AI slop blocked a real $200K macOS flaw

Article URL: https://the-decoder.com/a-real-macos-flaw-worth-200k-went-unreported-because-apples-bug-bounty-inbox-was-full-of-ai-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152790 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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AI Is a Race Car, Not Autopilot

Article URL: https://ryansouthgate.com/ai-is-a-racecar/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152800 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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EU enforces labeling AI generated content

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/02/ai-generated-label-becomes-mandatory-in-the-eu-for-companies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153481 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
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GDP growth shows no evidence of AI productivity boom

Article URL: https://cepr.net/publications/gdp-growth-in-second-quarter-slows-to-1-5-no-evidence-of-ai-productivity-boom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153574 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
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Hollywood fights AI in public while building it into movies

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/hollywood-fights-ai-in-public-while-quietly-building-it-into-movies/ar-AA28IhCH Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153942 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1141009/heres-why-ai-agents-lie-and-cheat-to-reach-their-goals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154072 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Where Do You Draw the Line Between AI Insight and Human Judgment?

Been running a remote team for about two years now. Before that, I spent years in HR. So I think about people dynamics a lot, probably more than the average team lead. Started layering AI tools into my workflow earlier this year. Summaries, async checkin analysis, flagging patterns in team communication. Some of it is genuinely useful. Actually useful, not just productivity theater. But here's what keeps bugging me. The more I lean on these tools to spot friction or low engagement signals, t...
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We're building minds we can't fully explain, using minds we can't fully explain either

Neuroscientists still argue about how human cognition actually produces a coherent sense of self. Meanwhile we're training systems with billions of parameters and calling their internal states a black box, as if that's a new problem. It isn't. We've always been building things smarter than our ability to describe them, starting with our own children. Maybe the discomfort isn't about AI. It's about finally being forced to admit we never understood the mind to begin with, ours included. ...