AI is quick. It just can't think.

AI is quick. It just can't think.

The sharpest claim in today's pack is also the simplest: AI cannot make obvious inferences from what's happening to what needs to happen next. The so-called "creative leap" is said to be beyond it entirely. One piece goes further, arguing that crafting a good prompt feels like explaining something to "a smart animal" — which is, to put it gently, a rough performance review for the technology of the decade.

Gobble's Take: Fastest thing in the room, still can't read it. Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

The new frontier — same old guest list

A second piece frames space exploration as America's latest "new frontier" and argues the picture hasn't changed much: the private space sector remains overwhelmingly White and male at the executive, engineering, and astronaut levels. Artemis II and Artemis III both come up. Victor Glover is noted as the first Black astronaut to orbit the moon — while NASA's recent 10-person astronaut class includes zero Black astronauts, the first time that's been true in nearly 40 years.

Gobble's Take: Shiny rockets, familiar passenger manifest. Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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