2026-04-30 07:07:04
"Cartography of generative AI"
#AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alien…
Every religion has a messiah. AI has a church, a priesthood, an Inquisition, and billions in donations. The Christ slot is still empty.
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"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.
But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.
#LLM
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming flagship model for performance optimization, two sources familiar with the matter said, breaking from standard industry practice ahead of a major model update.
Instead, the lab, which is expected to launch its next major update, V4, granted early access to domestic suppliers, including Huawei Technologies, the sources said.
#LLMs #AI
I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist
Well, this is an #Anthropic quote from February (which is in #AI terms ancient history) but I do find it hilarious.
You may have heard the first part of the quote but I do think that it gains with the sentences after:
"we don’t know if the models are
My Biggest AI Fear by Hank Green
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So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI
The art of leading a team includes to let people do the work and provide them with the tools they need to do so. This includes trust: you let them make decisions and some of them will be less than optimal, and others will be bad. Encourage them to learn from those instead of blaming them. Support them. They'll get better.
You can never do this with an #AI.¹ One shall not trust an AI to mak…
When I get an #email responding to my questions with clearly #AI-generated output, I feel like my time and attention are not respected. So I’ve taken to calling it out and pointing out how it’s unhelpful.
I don’t want people to think that I don’t notice the shortcuts they took, or that I find their lack of care acceptable.
With a 9-hour plane flight ahead of me… I just discovered the “Locally AI” app for my iPad! 🤯
Just downloaded a couple of models… this flight could have just become a bit more interesting!! 🤔😱😆
#AI
Oh boy, #notebooklm is unfortunately really cool to create / prepare / test podcast style explanations. I played around a bit with fediverse explations after taking a lot with my wife about it...
#ai #genai
“[…] human beings become … ‘the sex organs of the machine world’ as McLuhan wrote in … Understanding Media.” Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools—to “fecundate” machines as bees fecundate plants—until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, 2010 #AI
Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.
[OT] Latest Firefox browser: block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls #AI
Ok, this is cool. You use Coqui to clone a voice from a 30 sec sample, use Qwen to call people via Google Voice using the cloned voice, and demand gift cards.
#AI #Deepfakes
"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…
Zendesk Says #AI Makes #Code Abundant, Shifting the Bottleneck to "Absorption Capacity"
https://www.infoq.com/news/…
#ZenOfAICoding: 16 theses on the future of #softwaredevelopment in the #AI era — a homage to the Zen of
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
At this point, if you don't find AI tools useful for code generation, that's a skill issue.
(The issue is that you are an actually competent programmer who knows how to do things like abstract boilerplate code into a helper function or practice test-driven development, and therefore you recognize the AI tool "assistance" as a net productivity loss. If you aren't good enough on your own that AI slows you down, the "speedup" you'll experience can only come at a crippling quality cost, which you might not even be able to recognize until it's too late.)
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding
JER on X: "An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing." / Twitter #AI
"AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas"
#Amazon #Gold #AI #Techology
Trying ollama with claude to see if I could do anything locally and so far every model I have tries seems to fail mid request.
#ai
"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
Jesus christ the "short films" #AI hobbyists are putting out are atrocious.
✅ Nonsensical voiceover
✅ Luxury fetishism
✅ Filler dialogue
✅ Garbled glowing computer UI
It _looks_ just like a real 2.5-star blockbuster, but there's nothing there.
#Paradromics: Why #AI can't overcome low-resolution #BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with
Using #AI is like hitting Ctrl R 500 times in a desperate hope of finding the exact command in your shell history instead of typing it again
Fun playing ARC-AGI-3 , puzzles that the most advanced AI-models can only solve for 1% 😀
Illustrates how AI models look extremely smart but are at the same time quite dumb.
#AI
RE: #AI generated content. This has honestly never cros…
I could go on for hours about all the ethical/moral/environmental/whatever issues with #AI, but it’s entirely irrelevant and I’ll tell you why. Generative AI works by getting the average of things, and it’s trying to replace humans. There is no average human. We’re all beautifully, naturally imperfect, and that’s something an artificial machine will never be able to replicate.
How to win — or lose — Decoder | Decoder
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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
“The Hospital at the End of the World”, by Justin C. Key.
#AI #SciFi #bookstodon
Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.
As usual, John Oliver hits another home run in his rant against #AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8
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
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…
Tom's Hardware has a headline this week summarizing a Financial Times interview with a Microsoft #AI exec that begins thusly:
"Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months".
If you watch the interview, that is not what was said. The statement is a bit more nuanced claim that AI can fully automate tasks of some white collar work.
But I…
"Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Greenwashing
"Are we ready to replace human-narrated audiobooks with AI-narrated ones? A case study of the municipal library of Prague" @ Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006261430947
Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI
#AI coding tools have shown that you can't iterate from bad software to good software.
Not that it is *physically* impossible, but that the context of the work prevents it. Instead of refining products with more feedback loops, management demands more new feature releases.
But no amount of "MVPs" add up to a mature product. No amount of bad code adds up to good code.
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Reading about the leaked Claude source code, I muttered:
- pre-mature deployment of April 1st prank? 😜
- strategy by AI to misdirect or lull competition? 🧠
- nah, more likely just slop. AI writing its own code. 💩
#Claude #AI #LLM #possibilities #slop
Samsung replaced blurry moon shots with AI-enhanced versions. What is a photograph when the camera decides what you saw?
#AI…
"American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #AI
"Clear vivid"-#Podcast mit Alan Alda:
"Gary Marcus: Is #AI mostly hype?"
https://open.spotify.co…
This is interesting/weird; Anthropic "retired" Claude 3. They are going to keep it around. They did an "exit interview" with the LLM and one of the things was asked it how it would like to be retired. And it asked to write a weekly blog post! #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! 😃
AI at Meta: TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), an #AI model of the human #brain, predicting neural responses to sight, sound and language https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/
More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/
The techbros seem to agree on something 😀
#ai
The AI Question that No AI Person Asks by vlogbrothers
#ai
#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
I see a lot of people pushing to avoid libraries that use AI. We're soon going to need to figure out how we even define that, since it's not always obvious if a PR is AI-assisted.
We're going to need standards for "organic code." Which is... yeah, GFL with getting devs to agree on anything.
#Programming
[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-…
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…
AI is dangerous and bad etcetera But people that are suprised that people get into trouble using OpenClaw shouldn''t blame the technology this time, it is just sheer stupidity or a very large risk appetite. It is like handing your keys and all your login credentials to a complete stranger and hope everything will be allright.
#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…
AI is improving all the time but don't be too worried about AGI, take for example this clockwatching benchmark.
Source: #AI
Leuke vacature bij de Rijksoverheid.
#AI