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AI and being "left behind"
#ai

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

[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…

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

@…
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AI Has Broken Open Source by ForrestKnight
#ai #development

#AI Coding Tip 026 - Assign a #Persona to Every #Skill Definition

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

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

RE: #AI, this is a great opportunity to get this e-book!
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Reto Vogt @… malt sich aus, was passiert, wenn KI-Firmen gleichzeitig Täter, Forensik und Richter werden.
#AI #Watermark

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Oracle's AI spending blows past estimates, raising worries over growing debt | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/oracle-beats-fourth-quarter-revenue-estimates-2026-06-10/

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

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

I've seen Prof. Terrence Tao speak to some of the top regional math students at UCLA on the impact of AI. He is rational & measured but also recognizes the massive unintended impact that AI poses for his field & for society as a whole.
#ucla #math

Why mathematician Terence Tao thinks AI must spark a rapid revolution  | New Scientist
This year has left mathematicians reeling as AI models are increasingly solving seemingly intractable maths problems. Terence Tao, the world's leading mathematician, says a rethink of the entire field is the only way out of the crisis 

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

Also this.
#ai #llm

Noorwegen weert AI uit het basisonderwijs – dat wordt nu op twee derde van de scholen gebruikt | de Volkskrant
#AI

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

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

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

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

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

#naomialderman is so great.
#ai

Writers Agree: AI Isn't a Novelist. So Why Is This Author Interested?
Naomi Alderman is a best-selling, award-winning novelist. She thinks AI writing is terrible. She's fascinated anyway.

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

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

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

The only - ONLY - card the EU holds in the accelerating global AI arms race is #ASML in the Netherlands. As much as I like #Mistral and as much as I think the EU #AIact is better legislation than what others…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If people install AI software onto their computer I want it to delete absolutely everything they ever did so they have to start over from scratch without AI.
#NoAI #FuckAI #AI

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

AI Promo Rap Style Video - AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability -

AI Promo Rap Style Video
AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability

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

RE: #Erdbeben mit Epizentrum #AirbaseRamstein

#AI, or at least free LLMs, are a waste of time,

AI Music Generator loses copyright battle: #AI

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

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

Via Mylee Joseph
‪@mylee.bsky.social€
5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about #AI products #libraries

5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about AI | American Libraries Magazine
We must measure emerging AI platforms against our library’s tried-and-true resources to gauge which ones truly add value.

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

Eure Meinung zum KI-Hype
"Irgendwann fliegt uns alles um die Ohren"
Ist KI ein nützliches Tool oder führt der KI-Hype in die Katastrophe? Wir haben euch gefragt, wie ihr die Zukunft von KI seht. Danke für eure tollen Antworten – hier sind sie.
#AI #KI

Eure Meinung zum KI-Hype: "Irgendwann fliegt uns alles um die Ohren" - Golem.de
Ist KI ein nützliches Tool oder führt der KI-Hype in die Katastrophe? Wir haben euch gefragt, wie ihr die Zukunft von KI seht. Danke für eure tollen Antworten - hier sind sie.

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

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

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

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

«#AIPoisoning — Wie Betrüger #ChatGPT manipulieren, um dich auf Fakeshops zu locken:
Die Zukunft des #Shopping's ist dialogbasiert. Statt

ChatGPT führt dich auf Fakeshops: Diese neue Betrugsmasche solltest du kennen
Betrüger manipulieren ChatGPT mit AI Poisoning, um Fakeshops in KI-Empfehlungen zu schleusen. So erkennst du die neue Betrugsmasche beim KI-Shopping.

@… I did say "AI-assisted", and I did use these tags: #AI #Anthropic #Claude

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Het meest schokkende in het item vond ik wel bedrijven die wr voor kozen om werknemers (gedeeltelijk/onder 'begeleiding) gratis ai diensten lieten gebruiken.
Dat je er voor kiest om ai te gebruiken, is een keuze. Maar kies dan tenminste voor een veilige optie die de bedrijfsleven/gebruikersdata niet vrijgeeft. (En dat zal verder moeten gaan dan vage bewoordingen van een ai bedrijf)
De risico's van AI op de werkvloer - Nieuwsuur
#Nieuwsuur #ai

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

Spændende udvikling. #AI #DKTech #DKSund

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

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.

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

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

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

I know #Replit bills itself as a #vibecoding platform these days, but I opened it for a quick Python REPL and couldn't figure out for the life of me how to bypass the #AI prompt.

An ava.pet scan of github.com/nomadbsd/NomadBSD:
<#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.

London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07) - Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport -

London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07)
Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport

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

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

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

[OT] People around the world see a winner on #AI — and it's not the US (spoiler: it's China) https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/15/people-a…

A late friend of mine was UU and would have appreciated this, I think. #AI
https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-…

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

This is a wild read regardless of your views about #AI. And unlike every other AI company out there, Anthropic seems to be the least hype-making and most legitimate one out there, which leads me to believe what they’re saying is true. I’ve been using Claude the past several week for work and personal use, and I’ve never experienced anything like it, especially with their Code tool.

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

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

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

RE: #ai #llm

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

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

it's good
#youtube #ai

Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It’s only by working with them that I understood their value. Decoupling the client and the server unlocks a lot of options: moving authentication to the API Gateway, securing APIs, deduplicating API requests, etc.
In this post, I want to describe how the same pattern applies to #AI.

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

"UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world's electricity and more water than we need to drink"
#UN #UnitedNations #AI

UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world's electricity and more water than we need to drink
One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centers is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and become more efficient.

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

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

@… interesting, however it's not really about AI.
Cc @… #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

#AI is slowing down but cannot afford to https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/

AI Is Slowing Down
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s

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

De VS sluit ons af van de nieuwste AI modellen , een extra stimulans om zwaar te investeren in Europese AI en die ook te gebruiken.
#AI

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.

"How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know"
#Australia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know
Don’t panic about AI data centres and water – it’s energy we should worry about

@… they're not warning about how AI is bad.
There's much more to it. Like, the first paragraph of this month's announcement explains that they're deploying advanced AI tools.
#Reddit

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

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

KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
#ai…

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

Interesting blog about AI and GDP.
#AI

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

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

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

The illusion of #AI #consciousness: Lessons from human unconscious processing https://www.…

The illusion of AI consciousness: Lessons from human unconscious processing
Complex, goal-directed and even emotionally responsive behavior can unfold without awareness, providing a useful lens for interpreting artificial systems.

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

"Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries"
#Energy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

UN calculates nation-sized environmental footprints for AI and data centers
The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and pollution will double in just four years as use of artificial intelligence grows.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discovering functionally selective brain regions with a deep topographic multimodal model #AI #NeuroAI

Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model
Nearby neurons in cortex share similar response profiles, producing systematic spatial organization across sensory and cognitive systems. Recent topographic models reproduce aspects of this structure but remain unimodal and spatially constrain each layer separately, yielding fragmented maps that capture neither the contiguity of cortical processing streams nor their integration across modalities. We introduce Topo-Omni, a topographic multimodal model in which visual, auditory, and language/cogn…

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

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

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

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