At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ai-reveals-hidden-language-patterns.html … AI reveals hidden language patterns and the likely authorship of the Bible. YThe study is published in the online journal PLUS One – see https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322905 … and surprise, no surprise, we still have the J, P and Deuteronomist authors. What did they key into their AI database.
It starts off well. Very well. The idea was to distinguish between word usage across texts taken from the Bible, in order to sift out different authors. Writing styles were also analysed. A professor of mathematics from Duke University began collaborating with archaeologist bigwig Israel Finkelstein, using maths and statistics to determine authorship of lettering found on pottery fragments from 600BC. They compared the style and shape of the letters on each fragment. After this successful venture they realised the system could help in dating texts from the Old Testament. An international team was assembled for this – archaeologists, Biblical scholars, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists.
An interesting new book on AI is reviewed at https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/foolhardy-at-best-and-deceptive-and-dangerous-at-worst-dont-believe-the-hype-heres-why-artificial-general-intelligence-isnt-what-the-billionaires-tell-you-it-is … where the authors seem to have a beef on the way AI is being presented to the public. Only the unthinking would believe it has the ability to challenge human intelligence – and various media outlets have been making this point over the last couple of weeks. It has also been described as an oversized search engine – a sort of giant google database of approved sources that are then sifted by the whirring computer wizardry to arrive at an average conclusion. Is that what happened in the link above? Billionaires such as Elon Musk are not flavour of the day, or it seems venture capitalists in general. Other Tech companies might be more palatable to the authors – but who knows. Are they right? As far as AI’s ability to become intelligent, yes. And they are probably right to think that people who invest lots of monies in new ideas want to make a good return. Therefore they will hype AI as best they can.
Over at https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-scientist-ai-rogue.html … we have two people who helped pull AI together getting worried about how it might be abused by people with an agenda. We can all think how it might be manipulated by certain people but they define the threat to those they think have malicious intentions. Obviously, that would include politicos and media. Disinformation is rampant in the West – and everywhere else, with or without AI. However, it can also be used to displace humans in the work place – especially in the office and back rooms. AI inspired civil servants – is attractive in some ways as the work ethic of AI is 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Even when working from home. No illicit bike rides after breakfast. AI just carries on working. The software can be developed to do a lot of tasks – and save companies money. AI doesn’t come with National Insurance or employment tribunals and it certainly doesn’t require unions. It will be attractive to employers – and in combination with farming out jobs abroad, as AI doesn’t require a home based employee status, it will undoubtedly be used by companies to get around the system. There are thus a lot of problems involved with its introduction and implementation that will be ignored until it is integrated into modern life. Hopefully, these two gentlemen can do something about it. Probably not. The problem could also be not what is in the database, and how that can be manipulated. It is also what is not in the database which narrows down the text of the conclusion that is reached. In other words, AI is already manipulated before you start to use it. Is catastrophism part of the database, as an example.