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In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

This is a brilliant take on education and on AI.
#llm #ai

Deeplearning.ai is a resource i can really recommend for free (!) courses on various AI subjects, serious, no hype. For example the Agentic AI course by Andrew Ng does a good breakdown of the hype around "AI Agents" / "Agentic AI".
#AI #Deeplearning

The #AI future is now all about the #edge https://www.eetimes.com/the-ai-future-is-now-all-about-the-edge/

The AI Future is Now All About the Edge
Edge AI is set to overtake data centers as the real driver of AI value. It is not just a buzzword anymore—it will be the next battleground in silicon

Why is Greenpeace East Asia releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia?
It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, which seems to go against @… own core on centering communities when campaig…

Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from #AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize an #LLM in evil ways" which is in the news every day.

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
#AI #Enshittification
https…

AI shouldn't be making business decisions.
#aipocalypse #ai

I think it’s worth reiterating how good this article about #AI and AGI is
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-th…

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.

"Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

This is the most obscene and ludicrous thing I have ever heard.
#ai #data #energy https://c.im/@cdarwin/115486551494724660

From #RobertReich @rbreich@instagram.com and @inequalitymedia@instagram.com @…
The #AI #surveillance

This is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.
#generativeAI
H/t

Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban on using anyone’s likeness in AI-generated content without consent.

This is too real...
#llm #ai

How’s #IchBinHanna resisting #AI? “Our working conditions are student learning conditions”, thus:
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."

Well, today marks a new low in my professional experience with AI. For the first time in my life, AFAIK, I’ve been quoted in a technical article using a quote that was hallucinated by ChatGPT. Author has been contacted, fix has been made, and stern advice given. It’s truly depressing that people who are perfectly capable of writing their own work are outsourcing to tools that are known to make 💩 up. #AIslop

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

IBM predicts a computation revolution
Quantum and AI are ushering in a whole new range of algorithmic possibilities, says IBM’s research lead.

The rapid decline of #StackOverflow et al in the age of #AI slop https://data.stackexchange.com/stackov

This is an AI 2026 nissan leaf review on youtube that says nothing but nonsense and only shows images from the wrong Leaf car.
#cars #ai #youtube

About how AI tools can be useful.
#ai #coding

Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography
Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
#AI

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
"Copilot was my AI, but we crashed into the future and it ate me." Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools The proverbial and pred...

🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm

TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) have shown to be increasingly capable of performing reasoning tasks, but their ability to make sequential decisions under uncertainty only using natural language remains underexplored. We introduce a novel benchmark in which LLMs interact with multi-armed bandit environments using purely textual feedback, "you earned a token", without access to numerical cues or explicit probabilities, resulting in the model to infer latent reward structures purely off linguistic cu…

I wonder...
How long time before all the #ai responses to search questions all get contaminated by sponsored tweaks to their answers?
A year?
I understand that Musk's personal ai toy already does that with respect to questions about him. It can't be much harder to sell ad spots that tweak the ai answers in a similar way, to car companies or dishwasher manufacturers.

Amazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

I admit that, through 2025, I have become an #AI #doomer. Not that I believe the LLM-becoming-sentient-and-killing-humanity self-serving hype bullshit for a second. There are much more concrete impact points that may lead to or greatly accelerate several crises, each of which will actively harm humanity…

With friends like Mozilla…
#AI

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of  most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way

Are you afraid of our new GenAI overlords taking over our jobs soon? According to a new benchmark, The Remote Labor Index by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), there's no need to be. The best current models are able to solve around ~2% of the tasks of the index: #AIResearch #GenAI

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

Sometimes i have the feeling that AI results in Google Search are just a placeholder. Results are often awful and incomparable with using the paid version of Gemini 3 with the same query. Google is betting that models will improve and become cheaper so that they can offer a better experience in the future.
#AI #Search

Please read this heart-breaking post. AI has enabled research fraud on a frightening scale. It can't be very hard to stop AI citing non-existent articles, but it does that regularly. It gives something that *looks like* and answer, but may not be.
#AI #fraud

Part II of you won't believe since when AI dweebs have made ridiculous predictions
Take a guess when this was said! (Solution in reply)
#ai

If we design it to return the results we want to see, is it really #AI? And if someone is determining what it returns, is that someone liable for damages arising from use of the product as intended?

If we design it to return the results we want to see, is it really #AI? And if someone is determining what it returns, is that someone liable for damages arising from use of the product as intended?

🚀 AI's Energy Crisis?
#AI is exploding, but scaling compute with more data & power is too slow and costly—data centers are building nuclear plants! We need smarter ways to turn energy into intelligence.
🧠 Nature-Inspired Innovation At #Extropic rethinks hardware: Probabilistic computers using thermodynamic principles for massive efficiency. Core: "Pits" (probabilistic bits) that flicker between states for sampling probabilities.
🧵 👇

NOOOOOOOO!
They used some #ai generated garbage to open the new episode of #MudochMysteries!
I hate it! It's awful.
No AI. Ever!

Hey fedi! I known you like reading #indieweb blogs. Nowadays a lot of it is written with AI or has AI generated images.
Do you want me to creat a Ublock origin blocklist for it?
I'll put it on codeberg.
#ai

Medicare to use AI to pre-authorize certain treatments in 6 states including NJ in 2026. Why? To reduce costs.
Also known as rationing healthcare. By a computer.
#medicare #AI #rationing

6 States to Pilot Prior Authorizations for Original Medicare
Under a new pilot program slated to launch in January 2026, Original Medicare recipients in six states will need to secure prior authorizations for cert...

20/11 in Nieuwsuur: Zorgen om AI-bubbel? • Plan voor Oekraïne • Kinderopvang in het buitenland
#AI

"The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers."
#AI

Anxiety after some people spread fake #AI images of African tigers and leopards roaming the streets of a South Indian city.
And we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the real #danger AI poses. It will soon get very bad and out of control. 😨
#AI_images

[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…

Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' - IGN
There is increasing concern that skyrocketing RAM prices will impact high-end gaming not just in the short term, but the long term.

When (not if) the #AI bubble finally implodes: will only #OpenAI fall, or #Microsoft as well?
OpenAI's Sam Altman Defends $1 Trillion Spending Commitments, Predicts Steep Revenue Growth, More Products - Slashdot

Gestern ausgelesen. Im Kern gut, man muss aber ausschweifende, zumeist historische Abschweifungen abkönnen und darf keine Lobhudelei auf KI erwarten. Und weil das englische Original von 2021 ist, existiert ChatGPT und generative AI in diesem Buch noch nicht: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI. #ai #ki

“Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity”, rich essays that guide us through the #AI trouble: on running machines within #planetaryboundaries, regulation, refusal, reframing of the hype, and making alternative futures.

Good Morning #Canada
Most of us - who are not CEOs, or CFOs, or CTOs, or C-somethings - know that #AI makes the user experience shittier and we'd prefer it wasn't installed on our phone, tablets, applications or toasters. But when it gets installed on children's toys, that becomes a whole new level of evil perpetrated on us by the tech bros. Numerous media outlets reported in the past month about the dangers of letting your kids access AI via a cute and cuddly toy, most focused on a teddy bear that used Chat GPT to explain fetishes and role playing to unsuspecting children. I don't think Santa's Elves were involved in the quality control process. Stick with something low tech, like Play-Doh or LEGO.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##BeSafeOutThere
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/ai-toys-for-kids-safety-9.7001764

Kouji Kozaki and Anna Lisa Gentile are opening #ISWC2025 with almost 400 participants this year. Despite the popularity of generative #Ai the largest topic here is still knowledge representation and readoning
#semanticweb

Well this explains all the creators suddenly getting community guidelines takedowns for harmful content. YouTube has a serious AI problem.
#AI #YouTube #Enshittification

#Gmail can read your emails and attachments to #train its #AI, unless you opt out

FLUX.2: Freiburger KI setzt neue Maßstäbe bei der Bildgenerierung #KI #AI #Flux

FLUX.2: Freiburger KI setzt neue Maßstäbe bei der Bildgenerierung - Dr. Web
FLUX.2: Freiburger KI-Bildgenerator mit Multi-Referenz-Support und 4MP-Auflösung → Jetzt als Open-Weight verfügbar

When the AI bubble bursts (and I’m convinced that it will), what will all those huge data centres be used for exactly?!
#ai #environment

Wrt. my last boost, and "shipping velocity," I'm assuming these AI morons don't understand what happens when you have too much velocity and not enough control.
#ai #morons

To me, #Nvidia being worth $5 trillion is another indication that the #AI bubble is real.
https://www.

#AI #AIBubble #AICircleJerk

"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
How the #EU commission is basing its #AI policy (and funding) on the wishful thinking of tech bros. Those, which currently use circu…

"I'm an average user, so I don't need all the options and apps the programme has to offer. But, to be honest, #Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting #AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."
Can Dutch

How I use #AI to code - Nate McMaster
"Only ask AI to do things I already know how to do"
https://natemcmaster.com/blog/2025/11/06/tenets-of-ai-coding/

AI can’t do fingers
#gutenberg #gooseflesh #ai

@… took a dive into #AIsafety together with Nate Soares.
A fascinating conversation about the hard and long-term problems stemming from people not taking #AI safety seriously eno…

So #Disney is actually wanting people to make Sora #AI videos with their property? That is a recipe for disaster.
h…

So, here's the real terror of AI. I can add my headshot -- or another photo -- and I "become myself" in my own AI video as a "fully realized human being!"
AI fills in the all of me, and a new reality is created!
#ai #video

Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

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

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-develop…

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-develop…

How AI Artists Tried to Scam Me! by Roll For Combat
#ai #art

🤯 stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
#ai #llm

stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations, and the heavy engineering burden of scaling experiments. We present stable-pretraining, a modular, extensible, and performance-optimized library built on top of PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, and TorchMetrics. Unlike prior toolkits focused narrowly on reproducing state-of-the-art results, stable-pretraining is de…

Rich Hickey goes right for the #AI jugular, and is spot on correct.
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

Thanks AI!
Thanks AI! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

"I found these ads after I was targeted by one suggesting I join this ethnically ambiguous, dead-eyed family of generic blue hat wearers at the World Series to root on, I guess, the Dodgers."
#AI #generativeAI #meta #AIResearch

Honest government ad: AI
#AI #HonestGovernmentAds

OK players, guess the year this was published!
#ai

not on my list of expected developments: Ex-Intel boss Gelsinger now leads a #Christian #AI company
"We’re not trying to take a theological position: we’re building a technology platform. 🧐"

Nederlandse ondernemer sloeg 500 miljoen af, en wil nu zelf de AI-race winnen - #Nieuwsuur
#ai

[OT] Companies are blaming #AI for layoffs. The real reason... https://medium.com/@mattlar.jari/companies-are-blaming-ai-for-layoffs-the-real-rea…

Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Real Reason Will Piss You Off.
180,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025. Companies say it’s because of AI. Oxford researchers call BS.

Ik lees in het Nationaal AI Deltaplan (goed dat het er is!) over een staatssecretaris van AI bij EZ. Zelf heb ik de voorkeur voor een Minister van Digitale Zaken die naast AI ook een onderwerp als cloud onder zijn/haar hoede kan nemen. Maar zeker niet allebei, dan spreiden we de thematiek over 2 departementen , EZ en BZK.
#AI

AI Plan NL – Een plan voor AI dat werkt voor Nederland
AI Plan Nederland is een onafhankelijk initiatief met concrete voorstellen om Nederland klaar te maken voor de impact van de AI-transitie.

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

The Grinch did nothing wrong. He wasn't *stealing* #Christmas, he was just gathering a corpus for training his #AI model. Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the construction of the Whoville Data Center, ignoring concerns from residents.

"Our Future of Subtle Corporate Manipulation: AI Overviews of Independent Content"
#AI #enshittification #YouTube

A cartoonist's review of #AI #art - The #Oatmeal
https://

We are rapidly replacing all creative professions with Expensive Autocomplete, and somehow this is considered progress.
#llm #ai #aislop

In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.

I heard there was a secret tool
That you could use if you were a fool
But you don't care for PDF files, do ya?
It goes like this: you click "log in"
A chatbot bubble blocks the screen
Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in
#ai #llm

We are running out of browsers which are useable …
Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot

"AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that continued growth in artificial intelligence (AI) use across the United States could add approximately 900,000 tons of CO₂ annually. This is not a small amount but equates to a relatively minor increase when viewed in the context of nationwide emissions.

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

Nowadays, with #AI realism increasing almost daily, every visual prosthesis announcement or report could be fake or over-the-top, except for The vOICe vision BCI, because you can try it yourself in your own home environment https://www.see…

At some point, it actually needs to be enough to end world hunger, says GamersNexus in a stellar video on the circular #AI investments.
Ridiculous amounts, from #OpenAI to #Nvidia via

"#AI is worrisome enough as is — its insatiable thirst for energy and water, its capacities to override the wishes of human beings, its potential to destroy the planet.
My immediate concern is that AI is becoming a financial bubble whose bursting will harm lots of innocent people" -- @…

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.

#UX is like a jester.
The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid.
But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They created an environment of "polite failure," ignored the warnings, bolted #AI onto ev…

AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber
The backlash against "AI-in-everything" is rising. Only execs are surprised.

So as user of the Google eco-system I can now use Gemini for coding in: Colab, Jules, Anti-Gravity, AI-studio .... 🥳
#ai #google #vibecoding

On AI and the golem
#ai #llm

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

"Japan’s AI Reforestation Drones Plant Forests Ten Times Faster Than Humans"
#Japan #Trees #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Japan's AI Reforestation Drones Plant Forests Ten Times Faster Than Humans | Happy Eco News
AI reforestation drones in Japan plant forests 10 times faster than traditional methods using LiDAR mapping and biodegradable seed pods, achieving 80% germination success in wildfire areas.

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise.
#AI #finance #nyt

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.

The age of neurotic AI is here #LLM #AI

The age of neurotic AI is here
Or: how a LLM having a panic attack taught me to love myself

I am wondering how easy it is for a bigtech company to collect all fediverse data for AI training? Are there signs that they are doing that? In my personal opinion it is fine dat AI models train on public posts but i was just wondering if it happens...
#AI #trainingdata

Short video about Deepseek V3.2 , describes where it improves on, compared to other models, why it is relevant. Also in a geopolitical context.
#AI

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
I understand the fear and anger. But also: 1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out 2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and some iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
#AI