Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”
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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
Had my exit interview with the new (started 4 days ago) CTO yesterday. Things that stood out:
1. He was surprised to learn that lines of test code should outnumber lines of actual code.
2. He suggested that if he defines a spec and gives that to a code generator, then it would be useless to have the same code generator generate all these unit tests.
3. He couldn’t understand why the number of tests would explode if he intended to thoroughly test the application at the highest level only, ie the output of his code generator.
4. Concepts he looked up during our chat: Testing Pyramid, DDD, Clean Architecture.
5. He studiously avoided saying AI, talking only about a mythical code generator that would unerringly translate his presumably complete spec to code.
Anyway, is it time yet to start a consultancy to help companies fix the problems caused by the parrot?
Perhaps the most (in)famous and illustrious American computer scientist and acknowledged principal pioneer of the discipline now known as artificial intelligence (AI), Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’ It is significant that the English language distinguishes between ‘‘flesh’’ on the one hand, and ‘‘meat’’ on the other. The latter is dead and may be eaten, thrown in the garbage, fed to pigs, and so on. Flesh, on the other hand, is living matter and, as such, deserves the respect and dignity for life of which, among others, Albert Schweitzer spoke eloquently. The word ‘‘merely’’ in Minsky’s sentence means essentially ‘‘nothing but,’’ that is, also not deserving unusual respect. His statement is a clear reflection of a profound contempt for life that, as I see it, is shared explicitly by important sectors of the AI community, the artificial intelligentsia, as well as many scientists, engineers, and ordinary people. Daniel C. Dennett, an important American philosopher, once said that we must give up our awe of life if we are to make further progress in AI.
#AI #ComputerScience #life #brain #mind
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This is the kind of conspiracy theory we like around here, the kind I 100% agree with 😜😂
Maybe there isn't A Tipping Point, but several. Like milestones on the long road to freedom. I've just reached one.
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I am astonished to have bookmarked a message from the Pope in my pile of AI-related links.
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
His emphasis on face and voice is good.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PopeLeo
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
His emphasis on face and voice is good.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PopeLeo
Excellent article by Bruce Schneier "#AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge".
"The question is not simply whether #copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html
A better and #symbolic #deeplearning #algorithm in #commonLisp .
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/a-better-deep-learning-algorithm/
I hope I come across as slightly tongue-in-cheek! Though all my points and notes are in fact genuine.
tl;dr I define completely explainable and interpretable deep learning / inferencing in terms of operations on sets of symbols.
I think it successfully underscores the wild misapprehensions about deep learning that abound in the wild. What do you think?
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https://toobnix.org/w/9oA5WZEkbjKkfbsSxEoJ8v #archive
Okay I guess on the hour it's the Sunday-morning-in-Europe #lispyGopherClimate .
a. I will lightly go over my recent #commonLisp #symbolic #DL ( #ai!) algo / article.
b. Excitingly that gave me occasion to use
(this-function foo &rest keys &key &allow-other-keys)
which I used to pass data-like parameters along without cluttering up arguements (waters' functions of seven arguments). People had tried to explain it to me previously but now I underst
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How do Europeans feel about AI in the workplace?
Our latest #Eurobarometer reveals:
✔️ 62% view robots and AI positively at work,
✔️ 67% view digital technologies positively for enhancing workers' safety and security.
⚠️ For the 84% who believe AI requires careful management, rest assured!
New guidelines defining practices that break the EU #AI Act recently took effect, ensuring citizens can safely and confidently embrace AI.
Discover the Eurobarometer results → https://europa.eu/!bp8KRr
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You're tired of reading takes about Doctronic's #Utah AI prescription pilot. But did you know that the company hasn't spoken to the FDA about it?
Nine policy and legal experts STAT spoke to disputed Doctronic's reasoning.
This is the most important story you haven't read about the Utah AI program.
@STAT's Mario Aguilar has more about the law, the uncertainties, and the risks of the experiment:
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/utah-doctronic-ai-doctor-prescription-renewal-fda-regulation/
#health #healthcare #medicine #AI #artificialintelligence #healthtech
We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.
#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/
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Interesting article. I guess the problem is about trying to fix the symptoms instead of the actual problem. A big issue is that the algorithms in use by Big Tech social media companies tends to favor content like this. If not, we would all just stop following people that share stuff like this. Instead it is forced on us like a Copilot.
The only answer is to ban user profiling and use of said profiling for ad and content selection.
FINISHED IT. #AI #Tech #technology #embroidery #Handmade
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#AI hallucination in #wikipedia is disheartening. This topped a search result (startpage). I at once knew it is false for I've never heard of "Basimba community". It mixes it up with an actual people, the Ngo (leopard) clan of Buganda. Proof of hallucination? It claims to be a Ugandan community but mentions places in Angola, and Portuguese (who never came anywhere close). I've seen other wiki articles of this thing, and also in grok vomit.
Can anyone fix it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basimba_people
This definition of #AISlop popped out of my head after a bit of un-entrainment (if you dig).
https://realityfragments.com/2026/02/01/a-definition-of-ai-slop/
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It's strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don't seem interested in natural intelligence.
In the early days, when "neural networks" were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It's not like that now. I'm sure some folks would say "yeah, and aerospace engineers don't worry about bird flight, either!" but that feels wrong to me.
If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are "biologically realistic". Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We'll just make the current solutions better.
But I think we've barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don't even notice that because they haven't actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!
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We're going to put together a resource for musicians on how they can have album art without using large language models. Do you have any resources you'd like to see in that? Free image libraries? Friends who can help do design? Basic how-tos?
#mutualaid #solidarity #helpingeachother #mirlo #resources #ai #llm