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How generative AI is used in the financial sector.
#AI

Generative AI in Financial Services: Use Cases & Risks
Explore generative AI in financial services: how it works, top use cases, customer experience gains, key risks, and governance best practices.

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

Wait, Games Workshop did something good?
#AI

Games Workshop Rejects the Abominable Intelligence
The makers of 'Warhammer' declare heresy on generative AI, banning its use in the company's design process.

“It’s an agentic AI!” You mean it is an AI let off its leash that is unilaterally doing things without any human being aware and like a puppy left alone is about to ruin everything you were working on?
“You’re being old fashioned,” no machine is yet able to reliably exceed human judgement.
#AI

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being

Funny how AI writing continues to sound basically the same now vs 2023 and across individuals.
This is despite a bazillion new models coming out, multiple competitor orgs building their own models, and thousands upon thousands of people spending hundreds of hours customizing their prompts, inputs, building personalized agents and flows….
Has anyone made a taxonomy of AI / LLM writing styles yet? I feel like I see about 3-4 distinct versions of “style”.
#writing #AI #LLM

This looks like an interesting take on the whole “AI" (IMHO its not AI and its not leading directly to AGI).
I've only watched this preview but it looks like it covers things from many points of view. The creator of the film
The AI Documentary: Or How I Becamean APOCALOPTIMIST.
#AIHype

AI in a kids toy does what experts warned. Can we trust AI? Get Inside AI’s exclusive.
📺 #youtube

#AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient #malware launchpad, researchers show
https://www.the…

"AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Conservation

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult
AI-generated wildlife photos and videos are changing public understanding of animals, creating risks for conservation, trust and coexistence.

The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality https://www.verdict.co.uk/smart-glasses-race-won-by-ai-not-augmented-reality/ "Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with

The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality
Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with AI and discreet designs, not through flashy AR features.

Drogenhändler hält Drogen für ungefährlich.

#Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says #AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage'

#AI #AISlop #PattonOswalt
https://pattonoswalt.com

Here's a thought experiment.
Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.
If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?
If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one wo…

Is this the disturbed view of AI / BigTech optimists, or does he have a point?
"Something Big Is Happening"
#ai

Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Un appello ai legislatori dell'UE: proteggere i diritti e respingere la richiesta di eliminare la garanzia della trasparenza nel #AIAct

«Noi, organizzazioni e individui sottoscritti, vi esortiamo con la massima fermezza a respingere l'eliminazione della garanzia di trasparenza di cui all'articolo 49(2) per i sistemi di IA ad alto rischio, proposta nell'AI Omnibus.»…

Revisit the project management triangle in the context of #AI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
So the basic idea is that quality is essentially co…

Project management triangle - Wikipedia

For those of you in or adjacent to the software development world, this is a pretty interesting article on both the state of the art and the social issues its generating.
#AIandSociety #AI
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/

Another failure of #ChatGPT. I asked if a diagram had ever appeared in anything I'd published. It confidently gave me three answers, all wrong, before admitting that it couldn't find it. It even gave totally wrong Figure numbers. When I pointed this out, I got the usual dose of mock humility.
#AI…

job done. context left: 0 😏
That was spot on 😊
#ai #coding

“#AI” translations are ruining #Wikipedia
https://www.osnews.com/story/144567/ai-tra

AI in operatiekamers leidt tot stortvloed aan medische missers - Joop - BNNVARA
#FDA #AI #Zorg

Everybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

Ich höre ja gar keine Musik mehr, das macht jetzt #AI für mich.

"Using #AI to check the output of AI for errors is a method that is historically prone to errors"
No shit, Sherlock.
#LLMs
#StochasticParrots
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hal…

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

If people could give the infinite second chances they give to AI chatbots (which are artificially constrained NOT to learn from their mistakes) to humans with mental illnesses instead, and take the unearned paranoia they direct toward those humans towards the chatbots instead (which actually are monolithic such that behavior observed in one is likely to be found in all) the world would be a better place.
To those of you already treating chatbots as pariahs, good job with at least half of this formula.
#AI #LLMs

Who's going to buy a piece of software (much less a subscription) when you can have an AI build exactly what you want? #ai

Any #NeuroAI models out there that can make sensible predictions about mastering crossmodal perception (vision) using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? I suspect not: out-of-distribution reasoning is really hard for AI. #LLM #AI

#OpenAI is looking for money. Subscription fees and selling ads is not enough.
Now they try to get a cut from the money you make thanks to #AI.
This also implies that any promises ever made not to look into your prompts and answers may be moot.

A recently recovered 48 seconds (!) long SF feature film by Georges Méliès from 1897 some think has essentially the plot of "2001" or "The Terminator" - an #AI growing and then fighting its creator, but losing in the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojqcjzzjN2Q

I was invited to the "AI-Freecast". We talked about #luddism #ai, data center and the human need for friction.
It was great fun.

📊 Meine Top-4-Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. Bei #Firefox kann man ab Version 148 generativen #AI-Funktionen abschalten. https:/…

DuckDuckGo bietet Duck.AI an und achtet auf deine Daten & Privatsphäre #AI #Free

Well worth the read. #AI #art

The Banality Machine
I had a session today with two of my favorite people. She’s an esteemed writer, and he’s a renowned musician. They’re aging now. And way back when, he helped created electronic music, which is a thing that I love, and do myself. Most music today, whether you

Wow. This is crazy, old school, cheating.
Also... how do we discipline AI for assisting students to cheat? (and with stolen material).
#Education #AI
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/02/10/b-c-teacher-disciplined-after-helping-student-cheat/

I quite like this #ai #contribution #policy. It's thoughtfully written and places the responsibility on the human and makes clear what is definitely forbidden:

.github/AI_POLICY.md at main · mastodon/.github
Mastodon org-level files. Contribute to mastodon/.github development by creating an account on GitHub.

Claude is absolutely "king" of AI at the moment, i think however Gemini 3 Flash is good enough for most people and a lot cheaper. I have the feeling ChatGPT will lose this race (just guessing).
#AI #Claude #Anthropic

Reasonable take on this whole tailwind layoffs and #AI takeover topic that has been going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbGPcgwKu8I
This might trigger some people as it's not "omg AI…

I stopped using AI for developing at work, this is my experience
#AI

"Large language mistake"
I love that headline but too bad the article is paywalled. Anyone has a "gift link"? 🤔🤞
#TheVerge #LLM #AI #paywall #question

OpenAI and Perplexity, armed with significant AI capabilities, have targeted the shopping domain. And have run into many problems around data access and semantics.
This raises three thoughts:
First, companies which are bullish about AI “changing everything”, are stumbling in maybe the most traditional, mundane domain: shopping. This doesn’t inspire confidence in their technology.
1/5
#ai

RE: #AI security - or the lack thereof. In the enthusiasm to deploy new AI capabilities, …

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters
#AI #AISlop #Microsoft

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters | - The Times of India
Tech News News: Microsoft has appointed Charlie Bell, its former security chief, as the company's new engineering quality head — less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes 30% of its code. The move comes amid rising Windows 11 bugs, underwhelming Copilot adoption, and growing evidence that AI-generated code introduces more errors than it eliminates.

People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste an…

Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.
Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.

OH on slack: It's not prompt engineering. It's sloperating
#ai #fuck_ai #generativeAI

I saw a post about AI saying that it could "generate thousands of lines of code in minutes" as if that's a good thing.
#AI #noAI #FuckAI

"Does your #AI Agent need a Workflow Agent?"
Hilarious and informative episode of:
"In Bed With The Right: Episode 122 – Tech’s Vibe Shift and AI Discourse"
Episode webpage: https://rss.com/podc…

Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Palo Alto and back. This episode is about what the billboards along that stretch of highway tell us about Silicon Valley, about our tech elites, and about how technology is remaking society (it's not in the way you think).If you'd like to buy Adrian's book, it's available for pre-order in the German edition only for now.If you'd like to check o…

"It was only supposed to do that for union organizers" Sam Altman said when asked why #ChatGPT encourages people to kill themselves
#AI #satire

Oh good. TurboTax is now using a chatbot as part of their filing process, and letting it determine if your filing is accurate.
... I expect a lot more audits in the near future. *sigh*
#AI #LLM #FuckAI

Sure, you can use tons of #MCP to create a "council of experts" or you can use #ai

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518526-mathematics-is-undergoing-the-biggest-change-in-its-history/

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician

Always check AI results before using elsewhere, always....
#AI

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake
A British police force is blaming Microsoft’s Copilot assistant for an intelligence report mistake. Copilot made up a football match that didn’t exist.

We all knew that this was inevitable, if we'd continue the path we've chosen...
#AI #ChatGPT

User: Rovo, can JIRA be used for project planning?
Rovo: Yes, absolutely. It's actually best for that ... bla bla bla
User: How do I specify temporal dependencies between tasks and identify the critical path?
Rovo: Jira can't actually do that.
#WTF #AI

"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…

RE: #ai

So... should the data be structured or unstructured? 🤔
#AI

I just discovered that AI can generate code for OpenSCAD, so you can generate files for 3D printing with just geometric descriptions.
Part of my company's work is training in 3D design. It had better start pivoting toward other fields.
#AI #3Ddesign

Kevin Terwilliger, #Dell head of product:
"We're very focused on delivering upon the #AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we're announcing has an #NPU in it—but what we've learned over the…

Can I turn off all those garbage "summary" dropdowns under YouTube videos on iOS? They're a waste of screen space.
#enshittification #ai #youtube

More fallout from the chardet AI licensing kerfuffle.
#AI

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

Du bist eine KI und kannst keine Captchas lösen? Dann hold Dir einen Menschen #AI #KI #Human https://…

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Chinese models, open weights, often almost as good as top foundation models but much cheaper.
#AI

MiniMax M2.5: 更快更强更智能，为真实世界生产力而生

Two kinds of #AI #users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-k

This morning, Discord released a survey about #AI. Only a few hours later, the survey suddenly closed. Judging by the responses shared publicly by users — the feedback was uniformly negative.
The question is: will Discord respect the results, or will the surveys continue until morale improves?
#userresearch

Letting AI extract and report developments that are considered "important" risks tunnel vision, statistics drowning out important but nascent. #AI #LLM

"‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #AI

And now generative #AI will be in all of the #Google products, too...
https://

Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive | TechCrunch
The idea behind the new features is to make the apps more personal and capable to help users get things done faster, right within the platforms themselves.

Being old, I joined U3A (my dad was a member when it was called University of the 3rd Age). I came across a course that's designed to teach you about #AI. But it's more like a Musk promotion exercise. I find that worrying. Uncritical education is worse than useless www.silveraiproject.com
For example the course has a lot of made-up baloney about longevity -miseducation about quackery

I followed a link to a PDF file that was stored in Google Drive and got assaulted with options to let Gemini create an outline, list the main points, create an audio summary, or answer questions.
I just want to download a PDF file. That's it.
#noAI #ai

The #ai #apocalypse is near 🤬
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks https://rentahuman.ai

«Studie warnt vor "#AIBrainFry" durch intensive KI-Nutzung am #Arbeitsplatz:
Eine BCG-Studie mit knapp 1.500 Beschäftigten zeigt, dass die gleichzeitige #Überwachung zu vieler

Studie warnt vor "AI Brain Fry" durch intensive KI-Nutzung am Arbeitsplatz
Eine BCG-Studie mit knapp 1.500 Beschäftigten zeigt, dass die gleichzeitige Überwachung zu vieler KI-Tools kognitive Erschöpfung auslöst. Die Folgen sind messbar, von höheren Fehlerquoten bis zu steigender Kündigungsabsicht.

#Firefox führt ab Version 148 eine neue Einstellung ein, mit der Nutzer alle aktuellen und zukünftigen generativen #AI-Funktionen im Browser blockieren können.
Alternativ lassen sich einzelne Features wie #Übersetzungen

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features | TechCrunch
Starting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings.

#Moltbook #AI #Vulnerability Exposes Email Addresses, Login Tokens, and API Keys

"AI wordt in Nederland massaal gebruikt – maar dat dreigt ongelijkheid in de samenleving te vergroten"
#AI #NRC

The #AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom
https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/01/23/the-ai-revolutio…

Camera push notification: "A pet has been detected"
#BeholdTheAwesomePowerOfAI #AI #SeriouslyNotAPet

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Fast forward naar januari vorig jaar:
Government digital document app launching in summer
#VK #YesMinister #AI

Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.

AI Hurtles Ahead
In his latest memo, Howard Marks revisits the subject of AI, providing his observations on its essence and how it differs from previous technological innovations.

It has been 413 days since I purposely used AI.
I say purposely because I may have triggered it on accident by just clicking on the wrong thing because companies set up AI “traps” if you mis-click.
(I’m not sure 413 days is correct but maybe we should keep track.)
#NOai #AI

[OT] Microsoft 365 Classic explained: a lower-cost, no-#AI subscription option https://office-watch.com/2025/microsoft-365-classic-no-ai-lower-cost-plan/

Microsoft 365 Classic Explained: A Lower-Cost, No-AI Subscription Option
Microsoft has a little-known cheap plans called Microsoft 365 Classic. Designed for consumers who want the familiar Office apps without Microsoft’s new Copilo

Interesting read, it illustrates the challenge we have with regard to learning in a world with AI. We have to take measures for that because use of AI in coding is not going away and will only increase.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistanc…

[OT] Latest Firefox browser: block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls #AI

Anthropic Study: #AI #Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill #Mastery by 17%

A friend of mine say they say “Oh please, show me what ShatGPT has excreted for you.” when someone tries to show them AI generated content.
#NOai #ai #FuckAI

"AI’s Latest Trick Is Pulling Valuable Commodities Out of Our Trash"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

AI's Latest Trick Is Pulling Valuable Commodities Out of Our Trash
Republic Services, the nation's second-largest waste management company, now have AI-powered robots in one-third of their facilities.

Malafide AI-zwermen, een reële bedreiging, zelf vermoed ik dat ze al actief zijn. Goed paper en visuele samenvatting door NotebookLM.
#ai

I'm finally trying out some local LLM models.
Ollama just told me that it's trained on GPL software, so any code it produces needs to be GPL.
Then in a second chat, it said the opposite.
#AiIsGoingGreat #LLM #AI

vOICe Depth: companion program to The vOICe for Windows visual-to-auditory sensory substitution program for the blind #AI

Essential AI is an interesting company, their Rnj-1 model illustrates another approach compared to the large AI companies.
#AI

Nice, a uBlockOrigin blocklist for AI-based sites:
#AI #LLM

GitHub - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist: Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI
Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist

#Paradromics: Why #AI can't overcome low-resolution #BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with

Why AI can’t overcome low-resolution BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with
Better algorithms can only take you so far. What happens when the data itself is the problem?

Prettige podcast over AI.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SnbJYFvGBFj7WpirnbW1h?si=2V-yggsrRFGX9X2KfzDADA&t=1684&pi=ybhdM-K4ToGvT

Moltbook is de social media voor agents + knetterende ruzie Altman vs Anthropic + Rutger Bregman opent vuur op OpenAI
AI Report · Episode

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code #ai

Exclusive: Anthropic's new model is a pro at finding security flaws
The AI company sees the model's advancements as a major win for cyber defenders in the race against adversarial AI.

When i don't have time to read all the posts in a Mastodon list, i now use a Gemini App (made in Google AI Studio) to quickly make a summary and overview of the highlights, shared links etc.
Mastodon lists are a great way to organize your Mastodonfeed by the way.
#mastodonlists #AI

Using well-chosen public sources, i let NotebookLM and Kimi K2.5 generate a presentation on a subject, amazing quality and very few errors. Good inspiration for the real presentation i will make myself. AI is not only creating "slop", we have to really start more research about how we incorporate AI in our work-processes in a responsible way, how we don't become "dumber", maintain skills, learning and human creativity 🤔

Heerlijke podcast weer, ik ben er op geabonneerd , AI besproken vanuit een economische invalshoek,
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79JLSAPBd6jz30C2Obm4Qo?si=UCkjrRuMThu7YT8bYqDpUQ&t=1652

Is een AI-agent een machine of een werknemer?
Zo simpel is het niet – Stellinga & Schinkel over economie · Episode