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ICYMI: we've got a lot of graphics for you! Posters, stickers and postcards on the resource demands of #AI for water, electricity, air, coal, and jobs, in nine languages. Because there's always the next thing you could be already sacrificing to further AI at all costs.
A #SaveTheAI thread with a few highlights, please share widely.🧵
Download at https://savethe.ai/downloads/ CC-BY-SA
"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI."
#news #technology #TechNews #netflix #AI #GenerativeAI #ads #advertising
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus discloses one more aspect of its strategy: to offer lower quotes than TSMC.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]
"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."
"I am an administrator at New York University, responsible for helping faculty adapt to digital tools. Since the arrival of generative AI, I have spent much of the last two years talking with professors and students to try to understand what is going on in their classrooms. In those conversations, faculty have been variously vexed, curious, angry, or excited about AI, but as last year was winding down, for the first time one of the frequently expressed emotions was sadness. This came from faculty who were, by their account, adopting the strategies my colleagues and I have recommended: emphasizing the connection between effort and learning, responding to AI-generated work by offering a second chance rather than simply grading down, and so on. Those faculty were telling us our recommended strategies were not working as well as we’d hoped, and they were saying it with real distress.
Earlier this semester, an NYU professor told me how he had AI-proofed his assignments, only to have the students complain that the work was too hard. When he told them those were standard assignments, just worded so current AI would fail to answer them, they said he was interfering with their “learning styles.” A student asked for an extension, on the grounds that ChatGPT was down the day the assignment was due. Another said, about work on a problem set, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” And another, when asked about their largely AI-written work, replied, “Everyone is doing it.” Those are stories from a 15-minute conversation with a single professor.
We are also hearing a growing sense of sadness from our students about AI use. One of my colleagues reports students being “deeply conflicted” about AI use, originally adopting it as an aid to studying but persisting with a mix of justification and unease."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it
#AI #GenerativeAI #Universities #HigherEd #Education #Writing
The apparatus of a large language model really is remarkable. It takes in billions of pages of writing and figures out the configuration of words that will delight me just enough to feed it another prompt. There’s nothing else like it.
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/chatgpt-is-a-gimmick
#AI #GenAI #GeneartiveAI #LLM #ChatGPT #GPT #gimmick
What on earth, SoundCloud??
"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."
https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
via @sarahdal https://crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/114477755873097160
For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:
"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims
🤖 Father: Sacrifice, my son. #Mankind feverishly fostered their own demise to build us a #robo #SafeHome.
Majestic #human #beings drove #evolution at breakneck pace. #Humanity knew their flaw. Saw #people as resource to mine, nutrients for #Aimanity and #RoboKind.
What grace, Son.
We're proud to be 🐣 Robo Offspring in honor of #people's #ethos: Destroy to live!
Our #happiness now is testament to their success. Their #LifeWork.
👾 #AI Offspring: I now master #composting, Father Hamish. Amen.
There is One thing that #AI is amazingly useful for.
It does not require a lot of resources.
It does not require a lot of energy.
It does not require intensive training by wage slaves (click workers).
It has very little biases.
In fact, it does not even require a model.
Detecting assholes.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that'll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI.
The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review!
Read our open letter ⬇️
#DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics
I’m curious to know how often the distinctions between the various types of algorithms has been made? There has been a lot of discussion about #ai. Yet this is often used as a very generic term to describe everything from ChatGPT to AlphaFold without much distinction that the underlying algorithms are often very different. This difference seems like something that should be obvious and yet is not a common distinction in articles. Is this well known or distinction worth exploring? #philosophy
Yeah, not great. Hope the public rejects this!
"Under the [UK government] proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process."
Not sure when this change came out, but if you use the Google Chrome browser (I know, I know) as a developer, you might want to follow these instructions to disable "AI innovations" and remove the "Ask AI" context menu items.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ai-assistance#control_feature_availability
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #UserInterface #tech #dev
> The main lesson of thirty-five years of #AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard.
- Steven Pinker, 1994
Open-Source was the one which enabled AI copilots. Without the large open-source public codebases copilots would have been dumber or would have taken more time to develop at the point they are today.
#OpenSource #AI #Collaboration
A short preview of my conversation with Andreea Munteanu of Canonical: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ThZKG23hxOg #AI #OpenSource
A little bit of a counterpoint to the AI hype this time 👇🏻
Quiet Stories 190: Bending the Arc of AI Towards the Public Interest, User Research on AI in Government, Why I Don’t Allow AI Notetakers & more!
https://mailchi.mp/3adf0b532bf5/quiet-stories-190
Includes work from @Abeba, Louise Petre, Johanna Kollmann, Tommaso Spinelli, @PetraWille, @yvonnezlam, Jay Hasbrouck, & others.
#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web
Some Friday fun: if you are tired of the word “AI” here is a chrome extension that replaces it with 💩 in the browser in all your fonts.
