Research shows that the spread of AI is already reducing artistic and intellectual innovation, even though supporters of the technology say humans will always remain the final arbiter of creative decisions. The volume of AI-generated content is crowding out human work online. Algorithms increasingly promote AI-generated material, which makes the internet more uniform and narrows creative diversity, so that people are more often seeing, reading, and hearing things made by AI rather than by people. Studies of generative systems also show that when models run on their own, repeatedly processing and regenerating their own outputs, they collapse toward generic and predictable themes. Researchers who linked text-to-image and image-to-text algorithms found that even highly varied starting prompts eventually produced uninspired visual landscapes, a pattern they called “visual elevator music.” As the systems recycle synthetic data without new human input, nuance and distinctiveness disappear and the digital aesthetic becomes more standardized. The same accounts extend the finding beyond artwork to human cognitive habits. Cognitive studies indicate that long reliance on AI writing and design assistants can reduce an individual’s original problem-solving capacity by up to 25 percent. The researchers’ stated remedy is that artificial intelligence should stay a collaborative tool rather than become a substitute for human imagination, if culture is not to settle into an unoriginal monoculture. [Hintze, A., Proschinger Åström, F., & Schossau, J., Autonomous language-image generation loops converge to generic visual motifs. Patterns]

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The mother wanted to put her son with Down syndrome up for adoption, so the father divorced her to raise him on his own. Evgeny Anisimov chose to raise his son Misha as a single parent after his wife wanted to place the baby in institutional care following his birth in 2018. https://t.co/6RKahBysPB

A floating data centre would use ocean heat to supply power for 32,000 homes and fresh water for 150,000 people. The vessel, named Kraaken, would put computing, electricity generation and seawater desalination on one offshore platform. Optimal Transit, the developer, estimates it could send 40 megawatts of electricity ashore and make 7.9 million gallons, or 30 million litres, of fresh water a day, while keeping 60 megawatts for AI computing. The design would take energy from the temperature gap between warm surface seawater and cold water far below. Warm water would heat a fluid such as ammonia until it turns to vapour. That vapour would drive a turbine to make electricity, then cold seawater would turn it back to liquid so the cycle can run again. Heat from the computer servers would add a further lift. The same thermal system would also help take salt out of seawater. In a low-pressure chamber, water can boil at much lower temperatures than usual. The vapour leaves the salt behind and is cooled back into fresh water. Electricity, water and data would reach shore through links built to detach. The company says the vessel could leave before major storms or move to communities that need emergency support. Kraaken remains a proposal, and the performance it promises has not been shown at this scale. Ocean thermal power needs huge volumes of seawater to be moved. Engineers would also need to show how the deep-water intake could disconnect safely and how much energy the pumps, desalination plant and the ship itself would use. The idea joins several existing technologies. The main test is whether they can deliver the promised power, water and computing on one movable vessel.

This is Victoria Wright. Diagnosed with Cherubism at age 4, a rare genetic condition affecting facial bone growth, she faced intense bullying. Instead of letting it define her, she studied law and became a powerful advocate for facial equality. https://t.co/WrNy8RRQbt

Gray is the second-rarest natural eye color after green, with 3% of the world's population having it. [📹 Nicola Guaita] https://t.co/uofakwx6bd

Sometimes it is said dinosaurs might have not looked like we represent them because we mostly have bones. Yet, this 110 million-year-old superbly preserved nodosaur accidentally found by miners in Canada, naturally reveals his appearance. https://t.co/TikSuH7mEI

No cameras. No sensors. Just Wi-Fi reading human movement. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that uses standard WiFi routers to detect human movement through walls—without any cameras. By applying AI and DensePose model, the system turns WiFi signals into detailed maps of body posture in real time.

After losing his wife, the man's children adopted a shelter dog to provide him with companionship. [📹 lolaa.mariaa] https://t.co/pFMTFwsI8U

In 1965, at Salem Willows Beach in Massachusetts, four-year-old Roger Lausier went under. Alice Blaise went in after him and brought him back to the sand. The families went home. The beach kept its ordinary traffic of swimmers and rafts. In 1974 Roger came back to that same stretch of water, now thirteen. He saw a man in trouble, paddled out on an inflatable raft, and helped haul him in. Only afterward did the names line up. The man was Bob Blaise, Alice’s husband. The story that travels with those names is a circle drawn on one beach: a woman saves a child, the child, years later, saves the man she married. One shoreline, two pulls from the water, nine years between them: and one incredible full-circle moment.