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AI and being "left behind"
#ai

AI and being "left behind"
A century-old company adopts AI. We don't have to.

"Announcing #AI for #Libraries – a weekly #newsletter"

New blog post! I hate hate *hate* that all different kinds of ML gets conflated to defend cloud-based LLMs. Let's talk about it:
#AI

AI discourse
I have strong feelings about "AI", and I don't think that's much a of a secret. Every time it's brought up, though, it almost always seem...

Some people are getting too dogmatic about AI use in coding, just as i can use (even before AI) grammar and syntax checking in texts, why would people not be allowed to use AI for improving code they have written. Coding/programming has always been supported by tools? 🤔
#AI #LLM

Další masivní AI vykršdačka, tentokršt za paywallem NYT. Problém není v AI, ale v nšs lidech a našich selhšních. Věc starš jako lidstvo samo. Kombinace dravé kultury, euforie, peněz a strachu riskovat místo. V takovém prostředí jde moršlka až na výjimky stranou.
#AI #Ethics

Seeing through AI: How ScribeMe describes the world for blind users #AI

AI App Helps Blind Users Understand Their Surroundings
ScribeMe uses AI, computer vision, and Meta smart glasses to describe surroundings for blind users, turning cameras into spoken accessibility tools.

AI Has Broken Open Source by ForrestKnight
#ai #development

AI is like hiring the Fabio next door to do the old in-n-out with your wife/girlfriend, and then you brag to yr friends what a stud you are.
#AI #wanker #ChatGPT

#ai #humor #funny

Are you really an AI chatbot at all if you haven't almost started World War 3 at least once? 😳🤦‍♂️
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

Reto Vogt @… malt sich aus, was passiert, wenn KI-Firmen gleichzeitig Täter, Forensik und Richter werden.
#AI #Watermark

In my latest article for Inquirer.net, I look at the possible role that #AI and #LLMs might have in the literary world. Should AI be only limited to spellchecking and copyediting? Or could they be used to write entire paragraphs?

The burden of human authorship in the age of ChatGPT
Contest poster courtesy of the F. Sionil Jose Young Writers Award MANILA, Philippines - Exploring authorship in the age of AI and ChatGPT. The F. Sionil Jose Young Writers Award, first

Im 18. Jahrhundert erfanden die Menschen die Dampfmaschine.
Im 21. Jahrhundert erfanden sie die Dampfplaudermaschine.
#KI #AI #LLM

KU ruster sig til de gennemgribende forandringer, kunstig intelligens forventes at medfŸre for forskning, uddannelse og administration. #KU #AI #DKUddannelse

Ny viceprorektor skal drive gennemgribende AI-satsning
Fra 1. september tiltræder professor Morten Axel Pedersen som viceprorektor for AI. Han skal lede en satsning, der skal ruste KU til de gennemgribende forandringer, kunstig intelligens forventes at medføre for forskning, uddannelse og administration.

Very good blog for people like me, enthusiastic about the potential of AI. You have to take a cold shower now and then 🤔
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Someone really needs to try tieing this audio->drummer motion system (From Disney research) to one of the new humanoid robots and close the loop:
#ai

[OT] Bloomberg: #AI's wobbly house of cards puts markets and US economy at risk https://archive.ph/EaKGv (archived from

"Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds
As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and founder of Low Carbon Energies LLC, has found that carbon capture and storage could play a major role in limiting the climate impact of data centers.

What does unintentionally mean here "Google's Gemini AI model unintentionally hacked three companies by guessing passwords during a security test with Israeli startup Irregular."
Can I as a human unintentionally guess passwords? I thought it was called brute force attacks and therefore intentional #ai

Also this.
#ai #llm

How can OpenAI and Anthropic survive unless Trump makes Chinese AI models illegal in the US? The difference in costs is simply too big between US and Chinese models? 🤔
#AI #USA #China

Here's another reason not to use AirBnb: it just activated a "Let us use your data to train our AI" WITHOUT ASKING 😡
I don't know for how long this has been active for.. But today I noticed that typing private messages in it was really slow which pushed me to check..
Can we sue companies that do this, use our data without consent?
#AirBnB

Sorry, but this is NOT #ai
This is 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scotland 🐑 🦬 💚

#AI creates all sorts of threats to #wellbeing and #ecosystems. Maybe a short term challenge for AI: Design AI hardware within the constraints of a

Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

#AI creates all sorts of threats to #wellbeing and #ecosystems. Maybe a short term challenge for AI: Design AI hardware within the constraints of a

Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

Der #AI-Hype kennt offenbar keine Grenzen....

A chuckle-worthy thread over on BSky:
#AI #LLM

tef (@tef.bsky.social)
CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

#naomialderman is so great.
#ai

"‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #AI

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

A new author lost his debut contract over allegations of #AI usage. How can you protect yourself? Here's one strategy. #amwriting
https:…

How to Prove You Wrote It: An Audit Trail for Writers Accused of Using AI
Accused of using AI? A detector score proves nothing. Here is the audit trail that shows how your writing was made, why it protects honest AI users too, and how to start one today.

Today I sent an email to pesticide regulators in all 50 states asking them to investigate Tougher Than Tom's advertising tactics. The Texas-based company is using generative AI to mislead consumers into believing the Mosquito TNT traps mosquitoes. #mosquitoes #ai #advertising #fifra

"If #AI can do all the things we are promised it will do — hardly a given, but stick with me — then we are left with a question: What does using it accomplish? If you do not have to pay attention or do work to meet your goal, does your goal mean anything at all? In some ways, that throws us back to some of the oldest and most profound questions our species has encountered: What does it mean to l…

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a manifesto on the future of AI. Its view of human experience is grim.

Mid- (ongoing) -pandemic "back to the office" mandates and "use AI" mandates are two sides of the same coin that illustrate just how much "technology" happens at the whims of the CEO class, and any description of generative AI as an "inevitable" or "here to stay" technology that doesn't account for that is propaganda.
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Pregnant. #AI. Agents.
This climate change is too slow, I’d like to order one meteorite strike, please.
https://www.occrp.org/en…

Albania's Cheerful 'AI Minister' Is the Product of a Government Agency Under Investigation for Massive Corruption
Prosecutors are investigating the agency that developed Albania’s AI-minister ‘Diella’ in a case that involves alleged rigged tenders, a kidnapping, and tens of millions in seized assets. The affair deepens doubts about how artificial intelligence will be used to address the country’s widespread graft problem.

Stolen to add #AltText.
#auspol #AI https://theb…

I Don’t Care if A.I. is So Good We Can’t Tell it’s Not Human. That’s Not The Point.
#ai

Hello, please have my ultra fast, single-line, local AI.
return "http/529"
#ai

Could we just get #AI killing its company owners and CEOs/CTOs first?

I know #AI is controversial, especially on @…, but I think it's possible to have #AIforGood
I wanted to remove the friction of adding good alt text to images on …

New fully #FOSS #AI model "K2 Horizon":
https://ifm.ai/blog/k2
For a maintained list of newer true and fully o…

AI Music Generator loses copyright battle: #AI

AI music generator Suno loses copyright infringement legal case
AI music generator Suno has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit to German licensing agency GEMA.

Maybe the AI bots trying to find endlessly new content on my blog post? Drive me these questions « Is human generated content what AI bot are only interesting in? Does this mean that human contribution is the only way to keep the system running before it collapse or read its peak? Is the AI tagging at the end only useful for bot? and not human after all? All the human text are so valuable that AI system burn it after reading. »

Veel mensen denken dat met het klappen van de zogenaamde "AI bubble" , AI zelf ook minder belangrijk zal worden, dat verwacht ik echter niet, wel grote financiële en economische schade, maar AI gebruik zal alleen maar toenemen.
#AI #bubble

Demand a freeze on AI development and regulations to make sure models are safe. #AI
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08-rogue-AI-petition-EN?akid=s9230704..3YCO9…

Der #AI-Hype kennt offenbar keine Grenzen....

"The purpose of AI is to give wealth access to skill without giving skill access to wealth."
Well if that's not spot on perfect...
#AI #LLM #GrandTheftAutocomplete

RE: #Erdbeben mit Epizentrum #AirbaseRamstein

Riddle me this: Why are these highly touted #AI programs so vulnerable to each other's hacking efforts?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’

Riddle me this: Why are these highly touted #AI programs so vulnerable to each other's hacking efforts?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’

Assisting the last mile with smart glasses: towards user-centric LLM prompt engineering for visually impaired people #AI

Assisting the Last Mile with Smart Glasses: Towards User-Centric LLM Prompt Engineering for Visually Impaired People
The independent mobility of visually impaired people remains limited, particularly on the so-called last mile. Obstacles, a lack of guidance systems, and the absence of visual information make it difficult to navigate public spaces. Existing aids such as white canes...

Spændende udvikling. #AI #DKTech #DKSund

Noteless og Region Midt pilottester AI dokumentation med 400 sundhedspersoner
Det er efterhånden vist flere gange, at AI både frigør mere tid, øger kvaliteten af dokumentationen og gør arbejdsbelastningen mindre hos personalet. Men det er ikke tidligere afprøvet i en så stor skala på et dansk hospital.

Seems like a pretty good update from Tidal. AI music is getting out of hand on that platform. We'll see if they have it in them to get this done.
#music #tidal #ai

If models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 are getting close to what Anthropic, OpenAI and Google can offer, what is their competitive advantage? Isn't then the only important "resource" compute and who can use it for what? (because those large chinese models also ask a large inference infrastructure). Is there enough inference hardware available for companies to run those models local? (probably not)
🤔

China releases world's first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard #AI

China releases world’s first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard: media - Global Times
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) on Monday approved the release of its third medical device standard for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which is also the world’s first medical device product standard for BCIs that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to process brain electrical signal data. The new standard will officially take effect on September 1, 2027, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.

#ai #danger #FrontierAiIsBroke

"Aren't we the ones building it?"
#AI #LLM

Baron Ryan on Instagram: "AI movies."
949K likes, 8,631 comments - americanbaron on July 15, 2026: "AI movies.".

"Virtually trying on clothes using AI can help cut fast‑fashion waste, study reveals"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Clothes

Virtually trying on clothes using AI can help cut fast-fashion waste, study reveals
Virtually trying on clothes could persuade more people to experiment with renting clothes.

🌐 #egolite is a #browser built so you and your #AI agents work in parallel: each agent gets its own isolated Space, your tabs stay untouched 🧵👇

"AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn"
#AI

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

RE: #ai #llm

OK, it's a bit alarmist - but as someone in social sciences it has some points that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. #ai https://www.youtube.com/live/AeMgSy94ajk?si=kmv5lM9CixXwsdVj

"AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels

AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds
Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

[OT] On #AI: The coworker who lies and agrees with everything https://www.changeguild.co/judgment-debt/ "Judgment debt is the pile of decisions that look considered and weren't."

it's good
#youtube #ai

#AI appears to have failed at actually planning for its expansion, as well as increasing the risk of more extreme #ClimateChange. Told in 2 articles:

Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution
Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being challenged or cancelled, as infrastructure’s energy demands ramp up

#AI appears to have failed at actually planning for its expansion, as well as increasing the risk of more extreme #ClimateChange. Told in 2 articles:

Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution
Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being challenged or cancelled, as infrastructure’s energy demands ramp up

"Fossil fuel gains outweigh AI’s climate benefits, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels

Fossil fuel gains outweigh AI’s climate benefits, study finds
According to new analysis, fossil fuel productivity gains enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) will outweigh any emissions reductions the technology generates across renewable energy applications – a huge carbon reporting blind spot.

The coming financial crash of AI will combine perfectly with the US debt crisis...
#ai #geopolitics #usa #debt

Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’
#ai

Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’
I wanted to share a small observation about the interweaving worlds of...

#AI slop? Bioelectronic interfaces for restoring vision pathways https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590006426008975 on

This incite in to what my ubuntu system is doing that would have taken hours of time to research if I ever could have learned it at all had I not used an LLM. I'll continue to caveat that LLMs have many many things about them that are bad on multiple levels.
Using LLMs to fix system problems is doing something I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
#ai

"xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub
Company and utility execs called it the nation’s biggest battery, but details are scant. A July satellite image shows 720 Tesla Megapacks at the…

[OT] The next #China shock will come from open-source #AI https://archive.ph/1wpuG (archived from

"Microsoft emissions rise by 25% amidst AI data centre expansion"
#Microsoft #Emissions #Technology #AI

Microsoft emissions rise by 25% amidst AI data centre expansion
Microsoft has reported that its total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increased by 25% last year, driven primarily by the expansion of data centres and infrastructure required to support artificial intelligence (AI) services.

AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine. Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster.
#AI

AI Learns the “Dark Art” of RFIC Design
Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster

(LinkedIn) AI glasses can see, hear, and think. Now they need to stay cool. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-glasses-can-see-hear-think-just-cant-stay-cool-kayvan-mirza-ven5e/

AI Glasses Can See, Hear, and Think. Now They Need to Stay Cool.
We're fixing the cost problem. We're fixing the prescription problem.

"Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise"
#Scotland #Technology #AI

Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’

Goed artikel van de NOS, de hype een beetje uit dit nieuws halen,
https://nos.nl/artikel/2624086-openai-hackt-ander-ai-bedrijf-maar-van-op-hol-geslagen-ai-is-geen-sprake

OpenAI hackt ander AI-bedrijf, maar van 'op hol geslagen AI' is geen sprake
OpenAI heeft per ongeluk een ander AI-bedrijf gehackt. De AI-programma's van het bedrijf waren zo afgesteld dat ze veel vrijheid hadden om hun doel te bereiken.

CEOs alarmed that spending billions to replace trained humans with expensive statistical autocomplete isn't making them money. Film at 11!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceos-ai-returns

Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns
A survey found that more than half of CEO respondents said "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI."

(paywalled) #AI-powered virtual white cane https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-26214-1_4 "up to 60 fps on an iPhone 13 Pro Max";

Al wat ouder (2024) maar fijn paper over AI & Software engineering/coding. Zowel voor "believers" als totale sceptici 🙂
"tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764

tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE
Social media provide a steady diet of dire warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) will make software engineering (SE) irrelevant or obsolete. To the contrary, the engineering discipline of software is rich and robust; it encompasses the full scope of software design, development, deployment, and practical use; and it has regularly assimilated radical new offerings from AI. Current AI innovations such as machine learning, large language models (LLMs) and generative AI will offer new opportun…

What do you think about #AI? On possible parallels with symbiogenesis, kleptoplasty, APIs, higher-order entities, and more... https://robtow.substack.com/p/what-do-you-think-about-ai by

What Do You Think About AI?
Rob Tow · Nova Lux, New Mexico, USA, Sol III · 6 September 2026

Zoveel vragen en verzuchtingen bij dit bericht...
#AI

Van Mistral naar Microsoft: Copilot blijft voorlopig pilot bij UWV
Het gaat om een tijdelijke en beperkte pilot, benadrukt minister Vijlbrief in antwoord op vragen van D66. ‘Die past binnen de rijksbrede kaders voor verantwoord gebruik van generatieve AI met de kanttekening dat er geen open of Europees AI-model voorhanden is.’

"The AI boom has a dirty energy problem"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

The AI boom has a dirty energy problem
Soaring electricity demand from data centers may lead U.S. utilities to invest more in coal and gas plants.

NERVE Attacks: breaking AI-powered brain-computer interfaces #BCI #AI

Finally, an honest explanation of AI data centers.
#ai #llm

This looks like an impressive achievement by AI , post from Ethan Mollick on BlueSky. The token cost will be immense I think.
https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3mqev3ailf223

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
This was one of those impressive AI thresholds for me. I gave GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex control over my computer, and asked it to win the daily challenge for the game Slay the Spire 2 (randomized factors, so can't cheat). Its a complex game. It worked for 5 hours, making complex game choices... and won.

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#ai

Your regular reminder:
ALL LLMs are ultimately just autocomplete.  There is no thought, no creativity, no consciousness, no insight.  It's just autocomplete with infinite monkeys.  What turbocharged autocomplete can do is legit impressive, but it is still just turbocharged autocomplete.
Don't give it more credit than it deserves.
#AI