2026-08-20
China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you
China’s robot traffic police can direct cars, scold jaywalkers, and give a lost tourist directions to the nearest metro station. What they cannot do is stop anybody, and that limitation is written into the design rather than left to the machine’s discretion. The clearest deployment sits in Hangzhou, where the local traffic police put 15 humanoid […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
2026-08-20
Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel
In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900. What's being tested this time isn't mathematical truth but the values of the field: what counts as a contribution, what gets rewarded, and who did the work. His rule of thumb: a proof that no human can explain should be considered incomplete.<br /> The a [...]
