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BMW is betting on humanoid robots as the future of car manufacturing, deploying them at a European plant after similar trials in the United States. It's a significant signal from one of the world's most storied automakers — that the factory floor of tomorrow may look less like an assembly line and more like a science fiction set.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, and a finding that should give everyone pause. Researchers have discovered that large language models persist in believing false statements even when users explicitly warn them those statements are wrong. It raises serious questions about how much we can trust AI systems to reason correctly under correction — and how deeply these errors are baked into the models themselves.
And staying with AI, a provocative argument making the rounds today suggests that coding assistants have raced ahead to something like level three autonomy — capable of genuine independent reasoning — while the infrastructure meant to support them is still operating at level one. The engine is a Ferrari, the argument goes, but the rest of the vehicle hasn't caught up.
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