AI in general: August 2025

Using AI

New AI model advances fusion power research by predicting the success of experiments (LINK) 20 August 2025

Techniques

11 things you shouldn't use ChatGPT for (LINK) 18 August 2025

Assessments

Founder of Google's generative AI team says don't even bother getting a law or medical degree, because AI's going to destroy both those careers before you can even graduate (LINK) 20 August 2025

— "In the current medical system, what you learn in medical school is so outdated and based on memorization. Either get into something niche like AI for biology... or just don't get into anything at all." But a team found that a standardized benchmark test costs $30 to run with GPT-5, and a whopping $400 with Anthropic's Opus 4.1. But with lower prices comes a noticeable drop in performance, with Opus 4.1 beating out GPT-5 in an accuracy rating test.

"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrongfully insists that AI has already reached 'PhD-level' intelligence but ChatGPT-5 can't even correctly count the number of r's in the word "raspberry". — (LINK)

American companies have invested billions in AI initiatives — but have basically nothing to show for it (LINK) 19 August 2025

— 95% of companies have nothing to show for their AI investments. Only 5% have successfully deployed AI tools at scale. The smallest impacts were measured across professional services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, consumer and retail, financial services, and energy and materials. Workers prefer ChatGPT to custom AI.

Despite $30-$40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return — (LINK)

Every AI model is flunking biomedical research tests — LMArena, which ranks AI models, proposes a fix: partnering with BiomedArena, a leaderboard specific to medical research that lets people compare AI models side by side and vote on which ones perform the best (LINK) 19 August 2025

— Research shows that people trust AI's medical advice over the advice of doctors, even when it's wrong. BiomedArena work is already used by scientists at the Intramural Research Program of the US National Institutes of Health.

11 things you shouldn't use ChatGPT for (LINK) 18 August 2025

"I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course — here's what I learned about the future of education: as AI becomes ever more central to education, the human teacher becomes more important, not less" (LINK) 18 August 2025

Using AI

How to use Google Gemini for smarter crypto trading: from analyzing sentiment to strategy development (LINK) 20 August 2025

Controls

Swiss to launch open source Large Language Model under the Swiss AI Initiative pooling resources from over 10 Swiss institutions (LINK) 1 August 2025

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