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Important development in AI, "Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI"
https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-small-models-are-closing-the-gap-to-frontier-ai/

Chart of the Day: Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI
A quiet story in AI isn't that large models keep getting better, it's that small ones are catching up quickly. In 2022, reaching 60% on MMLU, a test of academic reasoning, required a 540-billion-parameter model. By 2024, a 3.8-billion-parameter model hit the same threshold — a 142-fold parameter reduction in

US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-ai

A late friend of mine was UU and would have appreciated this, I think. #AI
https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-…

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

An actually positive use of AI!
#AI #LLM

How my small saas is getting impacted by regular people being able to use #AI to write software:
I built and have been running a service for over a year, called LoftyAssist. It's for people that trade/invest in real estate via lofty.ai. I have a great hardcore user set that pay premium subscription and use this service a lot.
Even Lofty.AI people use it, especially the business people th…

Very accessible and valuable critique of the #AI subspecies known as #LLM.
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?

Very accessible and valuable critique of the #AI subspecies known as #LLM.
Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?

Automating erasure.
#AI

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
Canva’s new Magic Layers AI feature has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs

When the #AI bubble bursts, what can we do productively with the massive number of GPUs and data centers?

Explainable AI for blind and low-vision users: navigating trust, modality, and interpretability in the agentic era #AI

Fascinerend en grootschalig onderzoek, over AI als expert in contractrecht, roept veel vragen op over hoe we AI gaan integreren in het onderwijs. #AI #onderwijs #juridisch

Agentic #AI #Patterns Reinforce #Engineering Discipline

"The biggest problem is AI wiping out human existence."
"What about AI-controlled lasers for killing insects in every house?"
#ai #agi #aiethics

Hatred of AI
<#AI

Someone told me there's some "#AI" drama, so I feel like it's time to add my €0.02

oh ballz. high-follower-count accounts are sniping about #ai hate and #fediverse #gatekeeping again.
<battens hatches>
At least on this platform, while _that's_ going on, I don't get ads and algorithm…

I am on the fence if using #LLM or other #AI services is a good thing or not. What does fedi think?

Plugin 'GitHub Copilot - Your AI Pair Programmer' might be slowing things down
Really? Some people say otherwise. #AI

RE: #AI

I posted an interesting opinion during the weekend about the #AI and how the push now reminds me of the push for adoption the Christianity. WDYT?
https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4528/

AI Promo Rap Style Video - AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability -

AI Promo Rap Style Video
AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability

Um... 14,000 feet... Yeah. Right. (Later amended to 1,400 feet. Still wrong. That's the length of the bridge. Later still, they gave up because "Basic research, fact-checking and common sense are hard." and changed it to "from the top.")
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

How my small saas is getting impacted by regular people being able to use #AI to write software:
I built and have been running a service for over a year, called LoftyAssist. It's for people that trade/invest in real estate via lofty.ai. I have a great hardcore user set that pay premium subscription and use this service a lot.
Even Lofty.AI people use it, especially the business people th…

and i thought claude's random spinning words were crazy.....
#ai #coding #codex

This should be a warning to any company wanting to put #AI into their customer service.
We’ve had social engineering where humans have been duped, but a human can at least think critically.

Just realized that the fact that newer large language models keep getting bigger in terms of parameters is kind of a tell about how they work, even as it's also kind of a requirement from the investment standpoint.
Very roughly, models develop complex functional internal state about some sub-domains, and merely memorize many examples in others. In reality it's more complicated than this and even in this simplified metaphor it's a mix between memorization and "real" "understanding" in each domain. But the point is that if companies were really working towards AGI, they'd be feeding more data into models with *fewer* parameters (that's how you force a model not to memorize) instead of building bigger and bigger models (expands the illusion of competence through increased capacity to memorize).
But being the only ones with the hardware to train an even-bigger model is one of their few competitive advantages, and signing new deals for even more hardware is one of the only ways they can signal to investors that they'll retain their advantage and thus not be destroyed by a food of competitors. That's also how they can convince the hardware dealers like NVidia to continue with circular investments. So they have to run in that direction, regardless of the scientific merits.
This is why someone like LeCun would leave that side of things.
#LLMs #AI

"Cartography of generative AI"
#AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alien…

I didn't ask for it but work just gave me a premium M365 Copilot license. Not sure how to take advantage of it besides helping me find stuff in various engineering codes and standards documents. Any fun suggestions that probably won't get me in trouble? #AI #Copilot

"Canadian MPs and senators have joined a campaign that started in the U.K. to prevent the development of superintelligent AI, warning that it poses an extinction risk on a par with nuclear war.
The ControlAI campaign group is warning that superintelligent AI systems that can operate autonomously could compromise national security, escape human oversight and potentially pose an existential threat to humanity."

I don’t want to read any post that starts with “I asked ChatGPT” unless it ends with “to fuck off!”
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI

Remember, do not blindly trust AI. Yeah, it can get you most of the way there but it can flat out tell you the wrong thing. Its not the authoritative answer to everything - remember that. #AI

My talk from #QCon San Francisco 2025 is now public with video and transcript. Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit. My #AI native approach to using #Claude to experiment and benchmark different approa…

Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit
Adrian Cockcroft explains the transition from cloud-native to AI-native development. He shares his "director-level" approach to managing swarms of autonomous agents using tools like Cursor and Claude Flow. Discussing real-world experiments in BDD, MCP servers, and language porting, he discusses why the future of engineering lies in building platforms that orchestrate AI-driven development.

I do so love this idea of using manual #typewriters as a way for students to understand life before our computers (and before #AI ) -

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. The exercise started in 2023, as Grit Mathias Phelps grew frustrated that her German language students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. The revival is part of a national trend towa…

Is AI Profitable Yet?
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026).
📉 #aislop

#Google and #Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for "any lawful" use of #AI

RE: https://mstdn.social/@BmeBenji/116347782044860478
The EpsteinClass’s objective:
Why is taking a Waymo better than taking an Uber?
Because now someone’s out of a job.
Why is

What’s the difference between an API and an agent?
An API is consistent, deterministic, and scoped.
An agent is probabilistic, non-deterministic, and occasionally chaotic.
An agent adds some spice to your life.
Will you choose the boring, predictable life or the cool, chaotic one?
#ai #ia

Classic Internet:
#AI #LLM

GitHub - dtnewman/burn-baby-burn: Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀
Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀. Contribute to dtnewman/burn-baby-burn development by creating an account on GitHub.

RE: #google #chrome #ai

It's been a while since I used #Ubuntu. Glad I'm not anymore, otherwise I'd have to search for a new distro now... #aislop
https://

Oh the Americans want to increase their war budget by a few bucks, just a mere increase of ~40 percent. Germany also proudly moved to the top 5 of #military spenders worldwide. But money’s scarce y’all.
Can we have a moonshot beyond virtually shooting at the moon or burying souls for #AI assets?…

Well, this is an #Anthropic quote from February (which is in #AI terms ancient history) but I do find it hilarious.
You may have heard the first part of the quote but I do think that it gains with the sentences after:
"we don’t know if the models are

There was a time when creating massive amounts of code would have been valuable. There was a time when lowering the bar for creating software would have been beneficial. But today we are inundated with garbage apps, written too quickly and never maintained, half-working libraries, projects someone took up once and abandoned (I have several), and grift startups just waiting to be acquired and "fixed."
#LLM code generation is a pestilence. We don't need more code owned by people who know less, we need less code managed by people who know more. It's literally the opposite of everything we want. Oh, but it will be easier for infosec to find bugs so it's fine, right? I've found critical bugs that never get fixed (I think one of mine is like 7 years old now).
There are a lot of bugs that just can't be fixed because there are no systems to fix them. Go on Shodan and look for ATGs. There are thousands of them. I'm betting that most of those are not honeypots. It may be possible to blow up a bunch of gas stations with a for loop, but, yeah, we need #AI to find some more bugs.
https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/fuel-tank-monitoring-systems-vulnerable-disruption

How to (Anti) AI Better by Dr. Fatima
#ai #youtube

#MistralAI has fucking beautiful docs 😍
#ai #mistral

Every post about so-and-so "brainstorming" with a chatbot to come up with some idea makes me sad that they don't have a real human thought partner to collaborate with.
#LLM #AI

Un par de enlaces para importar listas de bloqueos de sitios con contenido #AISlop para #uBlockOrgin
https://

Måske er der stadigvæk håb. #AI #KI #DKTech

Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den… | Timme Bisgaard Munk | 50 comments
Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den relative værdi af ægte menneskelig kontakt og menneskelig tid. Det næste arbejdsmarked bliver derfor ikke et marked med færre jobs. Det bliver et marked med flere, bedre betalte jobs med relationelt, emotionelt indhold. Det er en teknologisk revolution med et kvindeligt ansigt og bias. I årtier…

ohno.jpg #AI
https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.

Ah, people are finally doing the financial math on the #AI boom. About bloody time.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116648209688298468

Anyone looking for big numbers? Here you will find plenty of them!
#AI #AISpending
https://isaiprofitable.com/

US Law Enforcement Warns of #AntiTechExtremism as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing #AI and #dataCenters in their back yards, the feds are raising the…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Ich arbeite zukünftig nicht mit #AI, sondern wie AI: ich bin scheißfreundlich und antworte auf alle Anfragen einfach aus dem Bauch raus, wenn ich was nicht weiß, erfind ich's, und ob die Antwort zur Frage paßt oder hilfreich ist, ist mir auch egal. Vor allem aber, und das ist das wichtigste: Egal, was ich als Ergebnis produziere: ich kann nicht dafür zur Verantwortung gezogen werden.

New open models from Google under Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4
#AI

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

That's why you don't trust #AI.

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

Bernie Sanders is introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America and create an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund.
This is the way. This is the first real solution I have heard to the theft of the entire worlds IP among other things.
Its amazing to hear something so rational and radical from a politician.
#AISovereignWealthFund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN4b4UCWMKI

#infosec #ai #sre

Great #AI hack! When you add a #chatbot to a website or app, make sure the chatbot bubble generally overlays important buttons or navigational elements.
Everybody else is doing it, so don't stay behind!

Never thought I'd say this, but... 💀🪦
#PhpStorm is dead. #JetBrains just doesn't know it yet.
They're playing catch-up with #AI Assistant while the competition already rew…

Not a cat lover, but an #AI "viral" channel posted this video, Try curing cancer first a-holes 😔
"Easiest tell is the weird low hanging voids for doorways and extremely low res (no number plate details, some of the cars look squished in the background) and the building in the background makes no sense. General rule of thumb: if it's a 7 second video with low resoluti…

"American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #AI

American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat
American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline's flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails.

Interesting blog from Anthropic about RSI, AI & coding, ofcourse from their perspective but worth reading,
#ai

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

You can't make this stuff up (or can you?):
#LLMs #AI #GenAI

Every religion has a messiah. AI has a church, a priesthood, an Inquisition, and billions in donations. The Christ slot is still empty.
#AI

Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It’s only by working with them that I understood their value. Decoupling the client and the server unlocks a lot of options: moving authentication to the API Gateway, securing APIs, deduplicating API requests, etc.
In this post, I want to describe how the same pattern applies to #AI.

"In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract."
Worker organisation has power.
#TradesUnions

“[…] human beings become … ‘the sex organs of the machine world’ as McLuhan wrote in … Understanding Media.” Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools—to “fecundate” machines as bees fecundate plants—until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, 2010 #AI

AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable
🤖 https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-stocks-dot-com-bubble-comparison-market-outlook

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.
But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.
#LLM

RE: https://toot.cafe/@alastc/116686148429429285
So it turns out that making a site more accessible for humans with disabilities is ALSO good for AI agents! 👍 Perhaps the hype around agentic

Interesting blog about AI and GDP.
#AI

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

I continue to experiment with #AI in the context of #softwareengineering. I’m fortunate that my team supports me in exploring different ways to improve our daily work. This week, I designed a team of #autonomousagents

Can #AI do #neuroscience without understanding? https://www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lea

Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

Even becoming a terrorist has gotten easier with #AI 🙄😡
Feds Begin Targeting ‘Anti-Technology Extremists’ Which Is Going To Make Everything So Much Worse https://www.

JER on X: "An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing." / Twitter #AI

JER (@lifeof_jer) on X
An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.

Who would expect anything else?
#Enshittification #Google #AI

The art of leading a team includes to let people do the work and provide them with the tools they need to do so. This includes trust: you let them make decisions and some of them will be less than optimal, and others will be bad. Encourage them to learn from those instead of blaming them. Support them. They'll get better.
You can never do this with an #AI.¹ One shall not trust an AI to mak…

"The same week that #OpenAI announced the imminent shutdown of Sora, its splashiest showcase for #AI, #Meta announced the shutdown of its splashiest showcase for the metaverse."
Brian the Merc…

AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

The AI Question that No AI Person Asks by vlogbrothers
#ai

How I Switched #AI Models Without Changing a Single Line of Code
#AIGateway

Reminder: your #ai #coding agent needs a lot of guardrails; otherwise, it generates a lot of crap, even opus... 😞
Fixing these errors at the end of the day takes forever.
It's better to run your linters and tests after every change...

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

MIRAGE: The illusion of visual understanding (by AI models) #LLM #AI

Mirage The Illusion of Visual Understanding
Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We report three findings that challenge prevailing assumptions about how these systems process and integrate visual information. First, Frontier models readily generate detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces, including pathology-biased clinical findings, for images never provided; w…

Interesting
#ai

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file
512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.

Trying ollama with claude to see if I could do anything locally and so far every model I have tries seems to fail mid request.
#ai

The first one is always free.
The #enshittification of #ai.
https://youtu.be/c1cBGW_zoyQ

Let's talk about #AI #slop
https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai

Joining about 25 people for the first meeting of #ChatBTV , a brand new local meetup group in the Burlington, #Vermont, focused on… of course.. #AI ! Looking forward to learning…
(“BTV” is the code for…

“ Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S”
#ai #adoption

Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

[OT] There's yet another study about how bad #AI is for our brains https://www.engadget.com/ai/theres-yet-another-study-about-how-bad-ai-is-for-our-brains-…

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.

the solution might be cancelling my #AI subscription
https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

China is starting to pull ahead of US in #AI race https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-ai-race-stanford while the US is mostly burning ridiculous amounts of money on the…

China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race
A major report by Stanford University found that China is rapidly taking the lead in the so-called AI race against the United States.

Fun playing ARC-AGI-3 , puzzles that the most advanced AI-models can only solve for 1% 😀
Illustrates how AI models look extremely smart but are at the same time quite dumb.
#AI

Zendesk Says #AI Makes #Code Abundant, Shifting the Bottleneck to "Absorption Capacity"
https://www.infoq.com/news/…

AI at Meta: TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), an #AI model of the human #brain, predicting neural responses to sight, sound and language https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/

Nice report and overview.
#AI #Stanford

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

AI is improving all the time but don't be too worried about AGI, take for example this clockwatching benchmark.
Source: #AI