Old Scrolls, New Truths: AI Just Rewrote the Bible (Kind Of)

Hey Friends,

I’ve got to tell you, I wasn’t expecting my week to start with a monkey handing me a plate of noodles, but welcome to 2025, where AI, influencers, and robots are all in the same sandbox (literally). This is your slightly chaotic, always curious, journey into the most head-scratching, reality-bending AI news..

Machines Are Getting It Wrong & That’s The Point

Let’s kick off with a brain-bender. An AI model recently learned something radical: how to get smarter by making mistakes. That’s right. A new study explored how AI can refine its responses not just by reviewing correct answers, but by analyzing its wrong ones. Think about that, AI learning like a human toddler who keeps touching a hot stove until it really gets it. It may seem subtle, but this shift could be one of the most important developments in AI learning theory.

Old Scrolls, New Truths

Now, let’s throw it back, way back. A machine learning model recently re-dated the Dead Sea Scrolls using handwriting analysis combined with carbon dating. The result? The scrolls may be significantly older than scholars assumed. Which means? Whole chunks of religious and regional history might need a rewrite. The model did what scholars with years of training could not, and honestly, it gives me chills.

Stormtroopers, Talking Dogs, & Vlogging Huskies

Meanwhile, on the internet, AI is causing utter chaos, and I love it. There’s a husky at a dog park who vlogs with a selfie cam and a Boston terrier who’s apparently the water bowl gatekeeper. Somewhere else, Stormtroopers are uploading vlogs from the Forest Moon of Endor. I don’t even know how to explain it. This weird genre of “AI-generated slice-of-life” is exploding, and it’s genuinely entertaining. Feels like if TikTok was run by Pixar animators with a warped sense of humor.

DeepVerse & The Fourth Dimension

Hold on, it gets weirder. There’s a new video AI called DeepVerse that takes a single frame of video and animates it in real-time with full 3D motion, plus the fourth dimension: time. You literally control it like a video game with arrow keys. I sat there thinking: okay, this isn’t editing anymore. This is sculpting time. From a frame. That’s terrifying and phenomenal all at once.

Robots on Two Wheels, Voice Clones, and a Digital Best Friend

China’s got a robot that climbs stairs like R2-D2 and twirls like a ballerina. 11Labs dropped a voice AI that can mimic accents so well it fooled me with a fake Russian Bond villain. Oh, and there’s this AI companion called Annie that lives on your Mac, knows what you need before you do, and doesn’t upload your entire life to the cloud. I tried her. It felt like Siri met a therapist who moonlights as a butler.

So yeah, AI is everywhere. It’s weird, wonderful, and worrisome. But above all, it’s human in all the ways we didn’t expect. The future might be wild, but at least we’ll have monkey chefs and sarcastic huskies along for the ride.

Warmly,
Dylan Curious