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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JFC. Y'know, this may blow your mind but did you know that we can tell when your lazy ass relies on AI to try to solve customer problems?
Hell, most of the time, we can tell what AI model you're using, what subscription you've got & what time of day you used it. 😡
#humor #ai…

AI Coding Works. That’s the Problem by SimonDev
#ai #youtube

#AI's #Affordability Crisis
https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.ht…

Samsung replaced blurry moon shots with AI-enhanced versions. What is a photograph when the camera decides what you saw?
#AI…

I sure do enjoy #EdZitron's podcast #BetterOffline. #AI's going to be a huge crash, but at least there's other people who can see the reality that the hype is desperately trying to pape…

Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com)
Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I run you through how Uber’s COO said the quiet part out loud - that AI’s outputs and efficacy do not match up with its ruinous costs - and how despite its bluster, the AI industry’s grift is failing. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000769758292 Linktr.ee/betteroffline

You're perfectly fine to call Big Corp AI techno-fascism as long as I can continue to create Sloppelgänger versions of myself from 1865. 🫠
#photography #AI #vintage

#AI

As usual, John Oliver hits another home run in his rant against #AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8

Then: $10/month? I'm a developer. I can write this myself in a weekend. (2 years of coding later...)
Now: $10/month? I'm a marketing executive. I can vibe code this myself in an afternoon. ($5000 in tokens later...)
#llm #ai

RE: #smartocto #ai

So, I've thrown LLMs at dev a fair amount, and have actually gotten mileage out of them in excess of the tokens thrown in. You know, the thing everyone keeps calling #AI but is subset thereof, albeit a resource-intensive one.
I'm adding a link to my LinkedIn in my profile because I post about that stuff there rather than here. Current plan is to keep that content either on LinkedIn or maybe…

I don’t want you thinking a little longer, god damnit. How much energy did that waste? I just want some relevant results. #google #ai #pollution

If an article, or blog post, suggests use of a non-existent software package:
― should we assume that the entire document was AI-generated?
#AI #documentation #software

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

Many such cases
#ai

Are you in tech and outraged about generative AI? Is it being forced down your throat at work?
Here's a nice vindictive way to get a little revenge if you want:
1. Find a project that contains slop code.
2. Optionally, identify specific files or functions that are LLM-generated. I guarantee you that on average, this code has not been adequately tested/inspected, even/especially if it contains LLM-generated test cases.
3. Make up a reason the code could be flawed, bonus points if it's subtle or hard to test. Don't put effort into this or try to actually find a flaw. Just make something up at random.
4. Report your made-up defect as a bug.
That's it. If anyone ever questions you on the incorrect report, just say "oh I used an LLM and it said there was a bug so I reported it." (Don't actually use an LLM, that would be feeding the bubble.)
Note that you are showing the creator of the code the exact same amount of disrespect that they've shown you by publishing slopcode in the first place. I'd bet odds are 50:50 or better that if a human actually follows up on the report, even though they'll find out that the bug report is wrong, they'll find and fix some other subtle flaw in the LLM-generated code, so this is actually helpful in a way.
For step 3, try to get creative. Like "logic in decideUVParameters can cause state to be inconsistent in some cases." If asked for a steps to reproduce, either make one up if it's easy to do so, or say "I forgot how I triggered this." Surely they can ask an LLM to figure out conditions that would trigger the bug ;).
#AI #LLMs #GenAI

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

Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health #AI applications: not ready for prime time https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04501-8 "considerable gaps between…

Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications - Nature Medicine
Adversarial evaluation of leading AI models uncovers gaps between benchmark success and robustness, highlighting limitations in current health AI benchmarks and their ability to capture clinically relevant performance.

Thinking #AI through its future ruins: We just published Anne Pasek’s lovely ride of a keynote from the Before Ruins #STS conference, which took place at Ruhr University in #Bochum.
With hot beats by Mac…

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

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

One website I use to receive payments recently shifted to a terrible #AI tool for customer service.
I asked it to process a payout. It failed, so I asked customer service to do it. After a few days, they did, and I withdrew the amount.
4 days later, the AI processed my payout...20 times. So now I have 20X the original amount, which I've already been paid for, in my "wallet."

I got an email from my bank with the subject line:
"Protect your business from AI-driven fraud."
So yeah, another win for AI, really improving the lives of... scammers?
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI

"AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plants

#MattPocock open-sourced his personal #ClaudeCode skills — 17 structured AI workflow definitions. Not prompts. Real dev processes encoded as runbooks for your AI coding agent.
#AI

Das KI-Kostenparadox: Je mehr Mitarbeiter KI nutzen, desto teurer wird's — auch wenn einzelne Tokens billiger werden. Nvidia-Manager Bryan Catanzaro sagt offen: Bei seinem Team übersteigen die Rechenkosten längst die Personalkosten. Fortune beleuchtet, was das für die KI-Strategie der Konzerne bedeutet.
#KI #AIKosten

Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees
Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.

From all the AI stuff thats been talked about here at KotlinConf this is the most honest slide
#Kotlin #KotlinConf #AI

Catching up on news of the past week... I saw the posts go by about show company AllBirds pivoting to be an #AI company... er... "a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider"... but I hadn't read the story... and now I'm just sitting here smiling and laughing! We live in strange times! 😃

Allbirds Is an AI Company Now… Seriously
The $2.2 billion wool sneaker darling that became a $39 million cautionary tale would now like to talk to you about its GPU infrastructure vision

Dear generative AI enthusiasts,
Look, I know the tokens you're burning right now don't actually use *that*much energy (even though it's somewhat substantial already and disastrous when we take into account the quality of the crap it's being used for) but what's more important is the appearance (or not) of that token spend on the quarterly earnings report of OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. lays the foundation necessary for those companies to go ahead with their plans for datacenters on a truly ridiculous scale, and those datacenters, if built, ate indeed a climate nightmare which *my kids* will have to live through even if they never benefit from any of it at all. That's (one of many reasons) why I personally need you to stop using generative AI right now.
The fact that the output is crap, the way it erodes your intelligence, and the ways in which it plagiarizes and actively undermines good citation practices are among many other practical reasons not to use it, but what's personal to me is the way that your frivolous sloperation is making the future worse for the baby I'm feeding blueberries to as I type this, and half the time I interact with people like you the conversation begins with some form of "putting aside the ethical issues..."
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

The revolution will not be AI-ised
The revolution will not be brought to you by Facebook or Grok in four parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not be sponsored by Google Gemini or Anthropic's Claude.
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live.
The revolution will not be AI-sized.
#ai #collectiveOwnership

Ofcourse AI is a big financial bubble, everybody knows it, question is how will it pop or less dramatic, what will the consolidation look like... On a sidenote, it will not make AI go away, it will just change.
#ai #bubble

Automating erasure.
#AI

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

Pope Leo has presented the first major teaching document of his papacy, warning that artificial intelligence needs to be "disarmed".
"The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention," the Pope said.
#AI

You know how we're told the bible is the inerrant word of god, and yet whoever wrote the bible seems to have not the slightest clue about science or how the world actually works? And the bible also says the world was rushed into production in six days without testing. Clearly god just vibe-coded the whole job.
#ai

You start the Emacs AI-module with
M-x doctor
Emacs includes this AI aid (a Chatbot) since 1985.
#AI #Emacs

When you translate with #AI and/ or without context. #fail #firefox

FTLOG...People... The #AI stuff in #WordPress is not installed by default...
It can only be activated by installing the 'AI' plugin and then a connector plugin for a platform (OpenAI, Gemini) to talk to it.
If you don't install the 'AI' plugin, nothing changes.
"B-b…

Once foundation model providers start trying to turn a profit, the vast majority of "AI powered" products will be swiftly replaced by a plain ol' template library.
#LLM #AI

The kids aren't OK... and they are not afraid to say so!
#AI #University #Jobs
https://apnews.com/article/ai-college-commencement-anxiety-boo-35aec9bac660eaeb05c5b8d392db2cac?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

RE: #AI. In the long run …

Open source is benefiting from the current AI trend: some projects are already improving their security posture and reducing their attack surface.
Proprietary software, for now, seems more out of the loop.
But once LLMs become better at analysing binaries, compiled code, and obfuscation, I wonder how vendors will handle the likely increase in vulnerability disclosures.
#ai

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

An #AI did the astrophysics. The paper got halted: #FRB discovery after three rounds of peer review, but the #AAS editorial office then halted the paper over an AI-disclosure review, not the science.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #AI #HangingWithDrZ
If it looks like a duck, and hallucinates l…

#AI progress seems like the 20th century all rolled into one. First, "the next google", after that: "as important as the PC". Then "Manhattan Project 2.0", and now we are back in 1920's prohibition laws against illegal distillation.
(MoonshotAI, who developed Kimi K2.6 should probably rename themselves to MoonshineAI).

@… please, what's the AI context?
Seeing #ai above what appears to be photograph, my first guess was that the image is AI-generated.

My Doctor: Explaining how secure and anonymous the note taking #AI they want to use is.
Me: 5 seconds before telling them not only do I opt out, but phones are now banned from the room during my appointments.

The new Luddite movement.
#AI

#CrankGPT - Local Human-powered #AI
https://crankgpt.com/
That's the way to go! 👍🤓
"Those tokens won't gene…

Den der AI ting Copilot er godt nok genial til lige at give hurtige svar, når man er fastlåst i en eller anden skodfejl i Excel. #DKTech #AI #Copilot

Dude took his pregnant wife’s texts & used AI to turn them into a pop punk song. And it's a banger. 🤘🤣 (Credit: withethanlap on TT)
#ai #texts #humor

[OT] Net benefit of #AI and the trillions of dollars being invested in it? Woke?
ECB's Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance https://thene…

“Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds.
Study warns #AI #datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolster.”
The words “self-immolation” come to mind.
If LLMs were to give ri…

Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolster

So organisations/companies realize that the topmodels are way too expensive for 80-90% of the things they want to use AI for. So they will move to cheaper models/versions, opensource models, on premis etc. At the same time OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI need more revenue to cover their outrageous costs/investments. How will they solve this? Just with big defense/government contracts?
#AI

🚀 #OpenCode now natively supports the #DigitalOcean Inference Router — intelligent, cost-aware model routing that sends each request to the right model, not the most expensive one. Run /connect and you're in.

The #AI-driven hardware crises has reached #Apple.
Apple Has Increased Prices Across Mac and iPad Models https://512pixels.net/2026/06/appl…

FUCK THIS.
#AI #FuckAI

Schematik Raises $4.6M Pre-Seed to Help Anyone Build Hardware With AI
We raised $4.6M in a pre-seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Puzzle Ventures and founders across robotics, AI, and electronics joining — making hardware as easy to build as software.

Dear Zoom,
In what world would you think I would want an “AI Companion” panel *taking up almost half the application screen*? And that apparently *I cannot turn off* in the application settings itself… and instead have to login to the Zoom website to go into the settings *there* to turn off this panel?
This is the kind of behavior toward users that is turning people off to all things related to #AI

I see, Claude Code decided to call subagents teammates.
Anthropomorphisation will continue until all IPOs are done.
“We are aware of #AI psychosis and we continue to support it seriously”

Newsflash: bug in FreeBSD observed through human analysis of an AI-generated song about Marshall Kirk McKusick.
Not a parallel universe, also some people might have thunk it.
Should I alert Phoronix?
#AI #FreeBSD

Dit scenario over AI en Europa in 2031 krijgt nog te weinig aandacht, het lezen of luisteren waard,
#ai #eu

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

RE: #AI

Don’t Buy a #MacMini for Your #AI Setup Until You Read This
https://medium.com/@pranithnaikpranit/

Still more reasons the AI boosters are full of as much shit as the AI itself.
#Sexism

Jen Horsburgh (@jenatlionra) on Threads
I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women. I changed a single variable: My name. Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff." I fed Gemini, Google's AI tool, my old resume, my current info, case studies, and the kinds of roles I wanted, and asked it to write me a new resume. Simple. Except it wasn’t. The first thing I noticed was the softening.

OH HELL NO.
"There will be an "acute" energy shortage in the U.S. as AI takes off, Carney said, and Canada "can be part of the solution.””
We are not using up our electricity to feed the failing fascist fantasy generators south of the border.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #AI #Waste #USA #Trade #Carney

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

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

Local #AI? Sure, it's great... 👍
(Satire)
Source: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxKyQtS3fK8VIkrdh8HqDi1vFCp7ic-xxe

@…
I used the #AI tag at the outset partly so that people who don't want to read about #AI might know that there's an

Nice report and overview.
#AI #Stanford

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

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

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

cool cool cool cool.... 😎
#ai #coding #codex

If you wanna smoke that stuff then you do you man, believe what you want.
But don't come quoting that slop machine at me, like it backs up a single thought.
Or worse, like it's a thought you had.
Here: this must be true, the robot thought it too!
The revolution will not come to mind when conferring with their chatbots.
The revolution will be live, not Ai-sized.
The revolution will be humanized.
#ai #poetry

Tech Bros Utopia - Existential Comics
#ai #llm

Tech Bros Utopia
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION | Decoder
#tech #ai

While OpenAI and Anthropic are busy releasing new models and functionality, Google is very quiet lately with regard to AI , I wonder what's the reason? 🤔
#ai #google #openai

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with #AI
https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/

The Elon Musks of the world abuse #sf, #AI companies push eerie next-word predictors into our lives, and prediction markets accelerate corruption.
So…, how about reclaiming the format of predictions? As critical thinkers?
Welcome to our Predictions project:

Predictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony

RE: #ai

Retired neuroscientist dies after ignoring doc's orders, relying on #AI instead https://www.newser.com/story/387286/he-warns-consumers-about-ai-his-dad-died…

Man Dies After Ignoring Doc's Orders, Relying on AI Instead
NYT relays story of Joe Riley, who insisted that chatbot put him on better path than oncologist

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

#AI #fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

Use of AI on the battlefield,
#AI #dronedefense

Ukraine Fields AI Turrets That Can Destroy UAVs With a Single Button Press
Ukraine's new turret uses AI to autonomously detect, track, and calculate of incoming drones.

The hardest lesson for morally-minded people to learn is that the vast majority of people are not morally-minded.
#FreeSoftware #AI #LLM #Ethics

Leuke vacature bij de Rijksoverheid.
#AI

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: AI Platform Engineer
AI Platform Engineer in Den Haag voor 36 uur bij SSC-ICT (Ministerie van BZK)

NYT on #AI: The world's leading deepfake expert no longer trusts his own eyes https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

Turns out, that OSS-cloning company is real, and the CEO is even more of a slimy asshole than you would expect.
#AI

A well-crafted scenario, where scenarios don't have to be exactly accurate but make you think and this one certainly does.
#ai

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

I keep seeing people say we should treat AI agents as junior developers, but I can't do that.
Because I treat juniors as future seniors that I get to help build. But the current AIs cannot ever become seniors, and if a future gen could, then the rest of us are even more fucked.
So no, that's not a good mental model.
#AI

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

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

Nice AI overview.
#AI

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …