Tootfinder

Desperate companies now hiring humans to fix what #AI botched https://futurism.com/companies-hiring-humans-fix-ai I similarly wouldn't be surprised about an upcoming

Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched
After getting rid of their human workers to invest in AI, companies are now hiring freelancers to fix the sloppy content those AIs put out.

Seeking Deeper: Assessing China’s AI Security Ecosystem.
#AI

"What works in #India will scale better everywhere else. Naturally, the country is a battleground for #AI search."
This is fishing for data and the next #enshittification to roll ou…

I love how smart these AI technologies are. They understand that "bigger" for cities can be ambiguous, refer to either the population or the area. It's also great that it's showing the sources in the upper corner, and displaying the basic facts.
Small minus on consistency and correctness, but other than that, really a great answer.
#google

"Voice AI infrastructure company helping businesses instantly connect with leads using real-time, human-sounding agents."
#Dystopia #AI

Apple’s newest AI study unlocks street navigation for blind users #apple #ai https://9to5ma…

Apple’s newest AI study unlocks street view for blind users - 9to5Mac
SceneScout, combines Apple Maps with a multimodal LLM to provide interactive, AI-generated descriptions of street view images.

Managers were starting to understand that velocity on its own has no value. But then along came #AI and said "but what if we made that velocity 10x?" and they fell for it all over again - because they only have a surface level understanding of the work.
The logic of the feature factory has permitted #genAI

AI saved the feature factory
When outputs are valued above all else, hallucinations and slop aren't bugs — they're features.

Got slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two bigge…

The mini model is only 80 MB. Even the full-weight model can be run on your laptop.
#ai

Interesting, letting AI models cooperate.
#ai #sakana

Sakana AI
Inference-Time Scaling and Collective Intelligence for Frontier AI

Worth reading. #ai https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsaltzman/p/whos-flirting-with-your-children?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=e…

Who’s Flirting With Your Children?
An Empty Machine With No Mind, No Empathy, No Care

The "intelligence" in #AI stands for the idea that I need a #LLM to "summarize" a mail that consists of literally a single short sentence.

Dieser Drang, dass #AI alles zusammenfassen muss, woher kommt dieser Unfug?

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark #AI settlement ... “believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation.”
https://www.…

Da tun sie immer so, als würden sie keine #AI und LLMs für ihre ach so tollen Texte nutzen. Und dennoch sind in jedem dritten Satz seit Monaten auf einmal Gedankenstriche, Auflistungen und tonnenweise Emojis. Ist klar…

The state of A.I.
#ai

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
2/2
To address the bigger question I started with ("should we teach AI-"assisted" coding?"), my answer is: "No, except enough to show students directly what its pitfalls are." We have little enough time as it is to cover the core knowledge that they'll need, which has become more urgent now that they're going to be expected to clean up AI bugs and they'll have less time to develop an understanding of the problems they're supposed to be solving. The skill of prompt engineering & other skills of working with AI are relatively easy to pick up on your own, given a decent not-even-mathematical understanding of how a neutral network works, which is something we should be giving to all students, not just our majors.
Reasonable learning objectives for CS majors might include explaining what types of bugs an AI "assistant" is most likely to introduce, explaining the difference between software engineering and writing code, explaining why using an AI "assistant" is likely to violate open-source licenses, listing at lest three independent ethical objections to contemporary LLMs and explaining the evidence for/reasoning behind them, explaining why we should expect AI "assistants" to be better at generating code from scratch than at fixing bugs in existing code (and why they'll confidently "claim" to have fixed problems they haven't), and even fixing bugs in AI generated code (without AI "assistance").
If we lived in a world where the underlying environmental, labor, and data commons issues with AI weren't as bad, or if we could find and use systems that effectively mitigate these issues (there's lots of piecemeal progress on several of these) then we should probably start teaching an elective on coding with an assistant to students who have mastered programming basics, but such a class should probably spend a good chunk of time on non-assisted debugging.
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

I really really really hate how much people in my field and industry have normalized generative #AI use.
I see posts / hear comments literally EVERY DAY to the tune of “can people stop complaining about AI, nobody cares. You’re not morally better” followed up by something about “you’re making work harder than it needs to be” and often “nobody values human-made work more they only care about the final output no matter how it was created”
I usually ignore these conversations but sometimes it really gets to me. It’s so hard to feel sane surrounded by that consensus every day, everywhere I go with people in my profession.
I’ve rarely felt so judged by the majority point of view on anything in my work before.

So Grok is a nazi now?
Who would have thought?! GASP. There must have been some precautions in place!
#sarcasm #ai #grok #twitter

do you have the same fun like me using #gpt5? 🙄
#ai #coding

New machine vision is more energy efficient - and more human #AI vision

Topographic Neural Networks Help AI See Like a Human
All-TNN networks mimic human vision and consume less energy than CNNs. Curious how they achieve this? Dive into the details.

#signal #meta #ai
From: @…

The recent release of Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs), is super interesting.
The technical report provides plenty of details about the entire process.
#ai #opensource #llm

apertus-tech-report/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf at main · swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report
Tech Report of the Apertus LLM Suite. Contribute to swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report development by creating an account on GitHub.

On writing in the botanical garden. Take this, #AI frustration.
Ruhr-Uni campus life 🦋, bees all over the place

"Becoming a leader in AI literacy instruction by not reinventing the wheel" #AI

Will Coding AI Tools Ever Reach Full Autonomy?
🧑‍💻 #ai #code

Will Coding AI Tools Ever Reach Full Autonomy?
Can AI truly collaborate with human coders? Researchers highlight the hurdles and potential solutions in AI-driven software engineering.

An audio book wrote by Dan Houser, setting is in a not far future. An ironic story that reflex #ai, people, the way we live and corporation greed.
You should give a listen.
A Better Paradise

"#Microsoft’s #AI tools don’t work. Microsoft AI doesn’t make you more effective. Microsoft AI won’t do the job better.
If it did, Microsoft staff would be using it already. The competition inside Microsoft is vicious. If AI would get them ahead of the other guy, they’d use it."
via…

Grok AI's Unfiltered Extremism: Controversial Replies Exposed
#GrokAI #MechaHitler #AI #ElonMusk

After loosing millions of USD in potential revenues for years due to understaffed sales teams, Salesforce now hopes for an #AI miracle.
There, fixed it for you.
https://slashdot.org/…

I'm glad tjat it seems we're finally approaching the bet-hedging phase of the hype cycle.
#ai

#AI

Google Just Launched Gemini CLI, $200/month Worth of AI for Free.
Just yesterday, Google announced a new Gemini CLI (Command Line Interface) just like Claude Code or Codex from OpenAI, with a catch. It’s completely open-source, and users get 1000 Gemini 2.5 Pro…

I want to slap the AI (or the developers) in it's (their) face, when it's repeating the same error over and over again....
sometimes the outcome is impressive, but sometimes the AI is behaving worse than a little kid and not understanding what I want
(luckily for the AI (and the developers) I'm not slapping anyone.. but I would love to)
#AI

Beginning my Saturday at the Forum Francophone de la Gouvernance du Numérique et de l’IA in Geneva…
#FFGNIA #AI #InternetGovernance

New preprint article based on an open letter (which I've signed onto) against the uncritical adoption of AI:
#AI #LLMs #GenAI

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-generated tracks are fraudulent
#AI #MusicTech #NotTrustworthy

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-
Platform has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first AI tagging system for music streaming…

Today I phoned National Savings and Investment. The call was answered instantly, but after a couple of questions it became obvious that we were talking to a bot. The #AI failed totally to understand my problem. It was a hopeless waste of time. A nice human sorted it out quickly.

In 2024-09, @… held a brilliant speech about #LLM #AI and all the dangers if we do not regulate them as soon as possible:

After some time, I’ve managed to clarify my reasons for not wanting to use Gen AI in my development toolset down to two words:
“Self respect”
#genai #ai

YouTube Tricked Me Into Using AI, and it Sucked by icklenellierose
#youtube

#cursorcli #gpt5 = comparing two small markdown files and finding differences, and adding missing parts to the other file
this took ~5 minutes 🥱
holy shit.....
#ai

"Worldwide #search #traffic has fallen by 15 percent in the past year [...] The culprit: AI search. Now that #AI-generated summaries are being integrated into search results, anyone looking for informati…

I saw an advert for an AI influencer generator. So, I checked it out. Here's the current list of actors/influencers they can create. If you see an ad from these faces, it's AI bullshittery. #ai

GPT-5 may be slightly disappointing, Genie 3 demo blew me away... Watch it.
#ai

new cool idea: whenever anything requests /llms.txt or *.md serve them 42.zip
#ai #noai

new cool idea: whenever anything requests /llms.txt or *.md serve them 42.zip
#ai #noai

"AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration
A dataset unveiled today more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, elevating the total from approximately 150,000 to nearly 350,000 miles. The Hyper-Resolution Hydrography Data used to generate the new stream maps stems from a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), and the Chesapeake Conservancy (CC), including UMBC alumni at CBP and CC.

#AI is inevitable, which means it cannot fail - it can only be failed. But it's not *your* fault if wreckers are deliberately sabotaging your innovative digital transformation. It's those pesky millennials, who hate productivity.
As always, the instinct of management is to control and punish.
#llm

🤯 Interpretable EEG-to-Image Generation with Semantic Prompts
#eeg #ai

Interpretable EEG-to-Image Generation with Semantic Prompts
Decoding visual experience from brain signals offers exciting possibilities for neuroscience and interpretable AI. While EEG is accessible and temporally precise, its limitations in spatial detail hinder image reconstruction. Our model bypasses direct EEG-to-image generation by aligning EEG signals with multilevel semantic captions -- ranging from object-level to abstract themes -- generated by a large language model. A transformer-based EEG encoder maps brain activity to these captions through…

AI is always half right:
✅ Artificial
❌ Intelligence
#AI #summary

I created a #Codeberg ID and cloned one of my trivial #GitHub repos across there as a warm-up in case the #AI noise and erosion of trust get too bad.

Lobby-Offensive gegen den AI Act: Europäische Start-ups und US-Geldgeber fordern eine Pause bei der KI-Regulierung. Die Bundesregierung denkt mit. Doch Experten mahnen: Ein Aufschub nutzt vor allem US-Techriesen wie Microsoft – und gefährdet Europas Anspruch auf technologische Souveränität. (Autor: #Handelsblatt) #AIAct

Like just about everyone else I know, I seem to spend a lot of time thinking, reading, and talking about #AI. And, given that I work in fine arts education, it's inevitable I think about how AI affects the arts, and how the arts affect AI.
As part of my work in #ArtsPedagogy, I'm visi…

I've added a /ai slash page to my site
Would love some feedback if possible!
#Slashpages #AI #GenerativeAI #indiedev

Greatly honored to be the first speaker in the newly inaugurated Nacionalinis Architektūros Institutas in Kaunas, Lithuania. I will be presenting my radical architecture project, "Fables of Accelerationism," an interrogation of AI futures, this Thursday, 31 July.
#aiart #ai

"Navigating Generative #AI in Academic #Publishing: An Interview with Benjamin Luke Moorhouse"

Enjoy. #AI #CEO.
Source: "Internet" 🫣
Edit: Apparently, the original images are due to Allie Brosh at https://hype…

#LLM folks when someone points out that it's unethical: "it's just a tool, it depends on how you use it!"
LLM folks when "#AI" messes up and they're asked to take responsibility: 👀 [monkey side eyes meme]

"AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline"
#AI is ruining our digital world
(Original title: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums)

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

You're not being forced to use AI because your boss thinks it will make you more productive. You're being forced to use AI because either your boss is invested in the AI hype and wants to drive usage numbers up, or because your boss needs training data from your specific role so they can eventually replace you with an AI, or both.
Either way, it's not in your interests to actually use it, which is convenient, because using it is also harmful in 4-5 different ways (briefly: resource overuse, data laborer abuse, commons abuse, psychological hazard, bubble inflation, etc.)
#AI

AI agents = advanced malware that most of society decided is for some reason totally okay and chill and worth funding if it’s made by one of 3-4 tech giants
#AI #tech #LLM

A clever statement on the sorry state of the #AI arts via meme-able mesmergorical AI art?
#infiniteloops #kitchomatic
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/790711569148411904/surrealist-fan-service?source=share

Ethan Mollick about GPT-5,
#AI #GPT5

GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Putting the AI in Charge

AI Slop is destroying our shared objective reality. John Oliver reports.
#ai #llm

"Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Claiming that LLMs bring us closer to AGI is like claiming that bullshitting brings one closer to wisdom.
Sure, you need "some" knowledge on different topics to bullshit successfully. Still, what's the point if all that knowledge is buried under an avalanche of lies? You probably can't distinguish what you knew from what you made up anymore.
#AI #LLM

Working with Claude Code is like peering with a super intelligent child. It may know how to do a lot of technical things, but it doesn't have any experience with the real world.
#ai #claude

Let‘s train an #AI which will output copyrighted work if asked to.
Judge Alsup: Training AI On Copyrighted Works? Fair Use. Building Pirate Libraries? Not So Much https://www.…

I see Adobe is forcing more Gen AI sh*t into their products 😔
Also, what is this BS about "credits"... is this some kind of pay to win IAP thing?
#AI #BS #Adobe

I really can’t think of AI agents as anything other than malware with articles like these:
#AI #tech #LLM

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

Well put, the “averaging effect of #AI.”
What’s the equivalent for writing? That’s what’s on my mind recently. Sure, keep your style. But do we need smth else? Add more styles, punctuation hacks, whatnot?
https://www.…

AI can be useful but doesn't "understand" a thing..., this funny AI general picture illustrates that perfectly, it looks nice at first glance 😆
#AI

"Why embedding vector search is probably one of the least objectionable use of AI for search" by Aaron Tay:
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/why-embedding-vector-search-is-probably

Dorothea Baur reflecting on #AI tech bros going all in on even your most personal data. Claiming to help you solve a problem which they helped create in the beginning:
"A breach of trust enabled by AI now becomes the justification for surveillance-based trust systems. And the very people who helped break the system are offering to fix it – in exchange for your iris. That’s not a safety fe…

Under Trump, the US Department of Energy has issued a climate report that is pure anti-scientific nonsense. And if #AI is trained on such utterly unreliable publications, the results will be disastrous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nF3JUthV…

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it steals your data to do it.
Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is …

The AI age is the "age of no consent"
"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

I tend to post about the downsides of AI.
Here are two articles by people I highly respect which show a very positive point of view related to #AI:
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/…

"Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

This was inevitable to happen but still scary, a hacker found ways to avoid safeguards and make GPT-OSS advise on bad things.
https://decrypt.co/333858/openai-jailbreak-proof-new-models-hacked

OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One
Hours after releasing its first open-weight models in years with claims of robust safety measures, OpenAI's GPT-OSS has been cracked by notorious AI jailbreaker Pliny the Liberator

The PR machine powering big tech’s AI energy story #AI boom depends …

The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energy

Wanted to find out how many calories are in poop to make a nice fat-positive post on here, but after wading through 5 separate results from the top to the bottom of the first page of results, every single one of them showed signs of AI authorship, so none of the info was trustworthy (several contradicted each other or themselves). The one article that cited legit sources didn't include a straightforward answer to the question. Of course, I could dig past the first page, or look through the cited sources do some math myself, and that's not even that hard to do. But 10 years ago, a trustworthy answer would have been among the first 5 search results. When we say #AI is destroying the digital commons, this is what we mean.
Gonna go find some academic papers to answer this and report back.

One rule for thee, another for me. #LLM #AI #GenAI

Investors are suddenly pulling out of #AI #BCI?…

Investors Are Suddenly Pulling Out of AI
As billions of dollars flood the AI industry in 2025, investors have begun exiting in droves, and the money isn't coming with them.

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

To whomever praises #Claude #LLM:
ClaudeBot has made 20k requests to bugs.gentoo.org today. 15k of them were repeatedly fetching robots.txt. That surely is a sign of great code quality.
#AI

"AI is consuming more power than the grid can handle. Nuclear might be the answer"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

AI is consuming more power than the grid can handle. Nuclear might be the answer
New partnerships are forming between tech companies and power operators—ones that could reshape decades of misconceptions about nuclear energy.

De SER over AI, signaleert zoals velen dat er echt actie nodig is.
"Opkomst AI vereist mensgerichte implementatie en alert beleid"
#AI

AI en werk
Samen naar een werkende toekomst met AI

I wrote this in 2017 about AI 😀 , the current debate is far from new.
#ai

A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
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Robotics & AI, a lot of progress is being made.
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Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

So to summarize this whole adventure:
1. A good 45 minutes was spent to get an answer that we probably could have gotten in 5 minutes in the 2010's, or in maybe 1-2 hours in the 1990's.
2. The time investment wasn't a total waste as we learned a lot along the way that we wouldn't have in the 2010's. Most relevant is the wide range of variation (e.g. a 2x factor depending on fiber intake!).
3. Most of the search engine results were confidently wrong answers that had no relation to reality. We were lucky to get one that had real citations we could start from (but that same article included the bogus 4.91 kcal/gram number). Next time I want to know a random factoid I might just start on Google scholar.
4. At least one page we chased citations through had a note at the top about being frozen due to NIH funding issues. The digital commons is under attack on multiple fronts.
All of this is yet another reason not to support the big LLM companies.
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So AI works, at least for cybercrime...
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Hackers used Anthropic AI to 'to commit large-scale theft' - BBC News
A report from the makers of Claude said the AI tool had been used to commit cyber-attacks and fraud.