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 This is a good video about mass produced robots replacing human workers: https://youtu.be/RFbuZpNaIaY?si=ECChAX33-50tKB7n

Just this week Secretary Wright visited LLNL and while he made Ai as the next Manhattan project for the national labs. I got this feeling the next project for him was to cut back many of the programs.

  This company has a machine that produces gasoline out of air, using an input of electricity: https://www.aircela.com/ https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/15/3082353/0/en/Aircela-Unveils-Machine-That-Turns-Air-into-Fossil-Free-Gasoline.html

 Hello blog contributors!  First, I apologize for the post title. It suggests I am trying to demystify AI while in fact I am asking you for help in doing it. I have used chatbots to ask far-fetched questions and to check for plagiarism, mainly. Is anyone versed enough in AI in  both its software and hardware aspects to explain its engines, sources, challenges and applications? Or anything else. It is a relatively new field, so no one should expect a symposium. Thank you 

  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed Luckily LANL will be an all AI lab, so no dangers there.

  This is an interesting story, an AI threatens the apocalypse over a failed vending machine business: https://youtu.be/si8DUlhiLlg?si=qfNx4nGnQ2H9tdAF

  Back in the day, a Superintendent level manager at LLNL, set himself up for lab paid business related trips. His legally blind wife, decided to surprise him by adding herself on to his hotel reservation. To her surprise, the reservation desk, said to the wife, the second occupancy for the room was aleady registered, that being a subordinate administrative female assistant within the superintenden’s sphere of influence. Well, the blind wife’s coworkers in HR from that point forward, thought Mr. Superintendent was basically a low life scum bag. But, after this low mark, could anything occur worse? Yes. And again, a free pass in terms of security clearance, and future advancement.

“Nuclear weapons woes: Understaffed nuke agency hit by DOGE and safety worries…For decades, the NNSA has struggled with federal staffing shortages that have contributed to safety issues as well as delays and cost overruns on major projects.” Was the 2014 WIPP radiological accident attributed to “staffing shortages” when LANS took a 90% award fee cut for mismanagement when that accident was deemed preventable? Nope. Were ~4x cost overruns and the ~5 year behind schedule at the NIF attributable to “staffing shortages”? Nope. How about failure to achieve ignition by 2012 as marketed to Congress? “Staffing Shortages”? Nope. Was the 2023 radioactive iodine-125 contamination in Livermore due to “staffing shortages? Nope. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/nuclear-weapons-woes-nuke-agency-hit-by-doge-and-safety-worries/83621978007/ ©2025 Blogger -  Privacy Policy

  New AI showing how AI increases scientific productivity. This should be must reading for all of the NNSA employees.                 Moderator's note: Papers on arxiv are not peer-reviewed. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17866 Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation Aidan Toner-Rodgers This paper studies the impact of artificial intelligence on innovation, exploiting the randomized introduction of a new materials discovery technology to 1,018 scientists in the R&D lab of a large U.S. firm. AI-assisted researchers discover 44% more materials, resulting in a 39% increase in patent filings and a 17% rise in downstream product innovation. These compounds possess more novel chemical structures and lead to more radical inventions. However, the technology has strikingly disparate effects across the productivity distribution: while the bottom third of scientists see little benefit, the output of top researchers nea...

  LANL just lost a world leading expert in AI! Some guy named Jason Prueit. Odd I cannot seem to find a single paper or a references on AI that this guy ever did, so I am going out on limb and say he is not expert on AI. I guess "I played with ChatGP" makes one an expert. "If you’ve played with the most recent AI tools, you know: They’re very good coders, very good legal analysts, very good first drafters of writing, very good image generators. They’re only going to get better." I cannot find much of any impact from this guy. He gave some talk on AI and some reddit commentators seemed to see right through it. This is what they said. Most of the bullshitters will tip their hand pretty early that they're just hype men for AI. Right off the bat, the fact that AI is disruptive and transforming society is apparently self-evident because they never cite a single premise or event to back this up. In the quote above, the phrase "if you've played" stuck out...

  This is a good video that goes into some of the NASA budget cuts: https://youtu.be/si6paqM2_ug?si=A42L1ot-J_caWAFv

  What are the LLNS LLC expectations of managers actually selected for superintendent or above positions?