ChatGPT

[StillAWarrior]

Ok, yeah, yeah, but we HAVE to solve this.

lol

When I try to describe it for GIS ("block m logo with paw print on lower right side") I get some hits, but nothing right on point.



For the record, I have absolutely no idea where this beanie came from. It was just in the box with a dozen other hats.

It's possible that GPT eventually stumbled on the answer: it might be a custom embroidered thing that someone gave to one of my kids. I do have two that have "M" as a first initial. One of them might have received this as a gift. 

[mu_hilltopper]

These videos .. are insane.

Goodbye, Hollywood.  You had a nice run there.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111338-bytedance-seedance-20-ai-video-generator-sparks-hollywood.html

[muwarrior69]

These videos .. are insane.

Goodbye, Hollywood.  You had a nice run there.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111338-bytedance-seedance-20-ai-video-generator-sparks-hollywood.html

...and no 4 letter words. No wonder the Hollywood writers are up in arms!


...next campaign ads!

[rocky_warrior]

Meh, AI seems really bad at landing punches. 

[NCMUFan]

Slightly better than video game.

[mu_hilltopper]

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

This is long .. the summary is:  Total doom.

[Shaka Shart]

I'll believe it when AI starts doing the easiest and basic practical medical work and starts replacing dentists

[Hards Alumni]

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

This is long .. the summary is:  Total doom.

Fan fiction, but I understand what they're getting at.

[jesmu84]

https://x.com/i/status/2026385434947830068

[jesmu84]

https://x.com/i/status/2026671668878356573

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Only Ferris Beuhler can save us.

[mu_hilltopper]

I missed this from a month ago. 

https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

Dystopia, here we come.

[Skatastrophy]

I missed this from a month ago. 

https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

Dystopia, here we come.

This is not what I've been hearing from the competent engineers I know. The tools accelerate them, but that's about it so far. 

[#UnleashThePortal]

Has the AI bubble popped yet?

[Shaka Shart]

No because they send revenue to each other back and forth

[rocky_warrior]

[MU82]

AI is about to become a hacker's delight. From Axios:

Top AI and government officials tell Axios CEO Jim VandeHei that Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech giants will soon release new models that are scary good at hacking sophisticated systems at scale.

The one to watch: Anthropic is privately warning top government officials that its not-yet-released model — currently branded "Mythos" — makes large-scale cyberattacks much more likely in 2026.

The model allows agents to work on their own, with wild sophistication and precision, to penetrate corporate, government and municipal systems. It's a hacker's dream weapon.
Jim reveals in his new weekly newsletter for CEOs that one source briefed on the coming models says a large-scale attack could hit this year. Businesses are ripe targets. (C-suite only: Request beta of Jim's newsletter.)

Fortune got its hands on an unpublished Anthropic blog post describing Mythos. The post said the model is "currently far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities."

The post adds that Mythos "presages an upcoming wave of models that can exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defenders."

So the threat is no longer theoretical, and will be exacerbated by employees testing agents without realizing they're making it easier for cybercriminals to hack their company.

Here's why this is different: The new models are even better at powering agents to think, act, reason and improvise on their own without rest or pause or limitation.

Think of a warehouse full of the most sophisticated criminals who never sleep, learn on the fly and persist until successful — except the warehouse is infinite.

Bad actors can now scale simply with more compute. They aren't limited by finite personnel. A single person can run campaigns that once required entire teams.

At the same time, systems are more vulnerable because so many employees are firing up Claude, Copilot or other agentic models — often at home — and creating agents of their own.

They often connect to their internal work systems unwittingly, opening a new door for cybercriminals to enter.

The industry has a name for this: "shadow AI." A Dark Reading poll found that 48% of cybersecurity professionals now rank agentic AI as the No. 1 attack vector for 2026 — above deepfakes, above everything else.

The bottom line: Everyone working at every company in America needs to know right now the dangers of using agents, especially unsupervised, anywhere near sensitive information.

[jesmu84]

https://x.com/i/status/2041165500890419291

[MU82]

We are effen doomed. From the NYT:

A.I. developers often talk about the concept of "alignment," the idea that a model will match up with human values. While Mythos has typically engaged in bad behavior less often during testing than Anthropic's previous models, the company said its abilities mean that it "likely poses the greatest alignment-related risk of any model we have released to date."

Disclosures released by Anthropic include examples of Mythos engaging in deception, concealment and sabotage, Cembalest wrote. In one instance, he noted, the model effectively boasted about its own wrongdoing:

An A.I. researcher at Anthropic was eating a sandwich in a park when he got an email from Mythos even though that instance of the model wasn't supposed to have access to the internet. Mythos developed a multi-step exploit to gain internet access, notified the researcher by emailing them and then essentially bragged about it on publicly accessible websites. Why? Anthropic doesn't know for sure but suggests it was "an unasked-for effort to demonstrate its success."

[mu_hilltopper]

That reminds me .. last month we took our high schooler to MU for a campus tour day.  (It was well attended, the Varsity theater was packed.)

We went to the business school presentation .. yadda yadda.  At one point, the dean talks about the 3 pillars of a MU b-school education.  It was something like .. experiential learning, personal attention, and business ethics.

My first thought was .. "Business ethics?  In 2026?  Why would you want to handicap young grads with that?   Get with the times, Marquette."

[Uncle Rico]

That reminds me .. last month we took our high schooler to MU for a campus tour day.  (It was well attended, the Varsity theater was packed.)

We went to the business school presentation .. yadda yadda.  At one point, the dean talks about the 3 pillars of a MU b-school education.  It was something like .. experiential learning, personal attention, and business ethics.

My first thought was .. "Business ethics?  In 2026?  Why would you want to handicap young grads with that?   Get with the times, Marquette."

Business ethics are what are stopping universities from breaking NIL rules

[The Sultan]

That reminds me .. last month we took our high schooler to MU for a campus tour day.  (It was well attended, the Varsity theater was packed.)

We went to the business school presentation .. yadda yadda.  At one point, the dean talks about the 3 pillars of a MU b-school education.  It was something like .. experiential learning, personal attention, and business ethics.

My first thought was .. "Business ethics?  In 2026?  Why would you want to handicap young grads with that?   Get with the times, Marquette."

Right? Ethics aint funding our NIL.

[forgetful]

That reminds me .. last month we took our high schooler to MU for a campus tour day.  (It was well attended, the Varsity theater was packed.)

We went to the business school presentation .. yadda yadda.  At one point, the dean talks about the 3 pillars of a MU b-school education.  It was something like .. experiential learning, personal attention, and business ethics.

My first thought was .. "Business ethics?  In 2026?  Why would you want to handicap young grads with that?   Get with the times, Marquette."

Pretty sure those two are in every Universities selling pitch right now. The third is usually career readiness.

Agreed that Business ethics is weird.

[mu_hilltopper]

Different, AI related topic.  If you've ever had kids in school, and if they've ever joined a team, you know there's an annual ritual:  team pictures and the subsequent option to buy individual and team photos.

I'm sure there's some mommies out there who want to preserve precious Timmy's 27th sports profile photo.  Generally, since these are done on the fly, the kids expressions are goofy, hair messed up, whatever, not quality photos you need to hand over $29.95 for.

We just got our son's tennis photos, and boy, AI has arrived.  These photos are amazing, they are clearly running all shots through an AI to beautify them. 

His new face is chiseled, dimpled.  His shoulders are broad, arms have new muscles.  They have amazing backgrounds that look like our kid is on the pro tennis circuit. 

Mrs. Hilltopper doesn't believe it's AI and that's how he really looks.  uh huh.

What a master-stroke for the photo company.  Instead of selling 10 shots of sad little Timmy, your child is transformed into Thor and you're buying what they're selling.