China Declares War on Paper Mills—But Can It Win?
China’s Supreme People’s Court has finally decided to take aim at one of academia’s most lucrative black markets: paper mills. These operations mass-produce dubious research, slap willing buyers’ names on the byline, and flood journals with fluff designed to pad...
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Let’s clear something up: AI doesn’t “hallucinate” in the way a sleep-deprived scientist or a rogue android might. It doesn’t dream of electric sheep or spin elaborate lies just to mess with humanity. What large language models (LLMs) do is generate plausible...
AI Keeps Failing at Basic Math—Because We’re Training It Like a Parrot
Artificial intelligence can predict stock market swings, generate photorealistic deepfakes, and even compose symphonies. But ask it to do basic arithmetic, and it flounders like a malfunctioning calculator. Why? Because we’ve been feeding it mountains of raw data...
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