I may have solved a long standing problem with Object Oriented systems https://lobste.rs/s/yk91rd #ai #compsci #programming
https://blog.mempko.com/an-abject-horror/
ai
Excellent article by @wojtekpow
On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity
https://behindtheviewfinder.com/on-ai-in-response-to-a-positive-technologist-identity/
#llm #ai #writing #blog #indentity #creativity #photography #painting #indieweb #personalwebsite #positive
The Future of Deep Learning Is Photonic (2021) https://lobste.rs/s/afcjot #ai #hardware
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-future-of-deep-learning-is-photonic
三神器布魯馬
#月曜がんばれ 140
「走れ走れ～っ！風より速くっ！がんばれ♥」
#松實優麗 #うちの子
#stablediffusion #AI #AI繪圖 #AIイラスト #AIart #AIイラスト好きさんと繋がりたい
Reinforcement Learning is AI for playing games, planning actions, and doing things in the real world. It's extremely powerful, but also a fun and interesting topic to learn. I'm teaching myself now.
I was always intimidated by all the esoteric jargon and math in RL. The classic Sutton and Barto text clears that up nicely, though. It's one of the best text books I have ever studied, and it reveals RL is much less complex than it sounds.
I think the excessive mathiness comes from the question "is this policy optimal?" which is a natural place to start, and has been fruitful for the field.
Except, in practice it's rare we can find optimal policies for practical problems. Also, our mathematical formalisms often don't fit, which is why there are so many variations based on what information is available, and what you want to focus on. This produces the tangled mess of names and notations, but really it's just the same idea from subtly different angles.
A best-selling Vancouver author has launched a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia, claiming the multi-trillion dollar tech company illegally used his and other Canadian writers' works to train artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-author-leads-class-actions-against-ai-giants-1.7595962
J.B. MacKinnon is named as the representative plaintiff in the claim, which says his books, The 100-Mile Diet and The Once and Future World, were part of a 196,640-book dataset that Nvidia used without paying a licensing fee or securing consent to acquire or use the works. #cdnpoli #copyright #AI
🎉 Excited to announce our 3rd keynote speaker for DjangoCon US 2025: Marlene Mhangami from Microsoft!
She'll be presenting "Reimagining Django for the age of AI" - can't wait to hear her insights on the future of Django in our AI-driven world! 🚀
https://2025.djangocon.us/news/keynote-marlene/
#DjangoConUS #Keynote #Django #AI
A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur
So I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
😵💫
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
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De slimme deurbel is symbool van een samenleving die zich laat gijzelen door een illusie van totalitaire controle en veiligheid https://www.groene.nl/artikel/bespied-door-je-eigen-deurbel 👁️ #AI #Tech #surveillance
Maak surveillance zichtbaar, bespreekbaar én democratisch controleerbaar! https://wiki.piratenpartij.nl/tk2025:partijprogramma#privacy_en_massa_surveillance
Data Center CEO chased out of Salem, OR city council hearing by protesters with guillotine.
Love that portable guillotine on wheels towed behind an Xtracycle extended bike.
Let's just say in a world of electrical/energy and water shortages, some cuts are necessary...
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This is a far better response than the one I was going to make about Corey using an LLM. Acting ethically in an imperfect world https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/ #AI #AIHype #LLM
I disagree with this update. Here is the follow up to the article I shared yesterday. Personally I think it’s OK if everybody is feeling a little bit emotional about their hero willingly using a technology that is rooted in a lot of all kinds of systemic oppression. To me, I hate this need for every figure people look up to to be perfect, but I do not expect anybody I actively promote to turn on a dime when it’s convenient for them. Anybody that calls this emotional response purity anything is missing the point. The point is about being frustrated because people appear to stop caring. On Alliances https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/ #AI #LLM
Is Microsoft Windows Recall the worst AI idea? Share your experience!
https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-recall-fails-again/
#AI #Microsoft #Windows #Recall #Spyware #surveillance #Technology #Linux
"I believe GPT-5 is part of a larger process happening in generative AI — enshittification, Cory Doctorow’s term for when platforms start out burning money offering an unlimited, unguarded experience to attract their users, then degrade and move features to higher tiers as a means of draining the blood from users.
With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has fully committed to enshittifying its consumer and business subscription products, arbitrarily moving free users to a cheaper model and limiting their ability to generate images, and removing the ability to choose which model you use in its $20, $35 and “enterprise” subscriptions, moving any and all choice to its “team” and $200-a-month “pro” subscriptions.
OpenAI’s justification is an exercise in faux-altruism, framing “taking away all choice” as a “real-time router that quickly decides which [model] to use.” ChatGPT Plus and Team members now mostly have access to two models — GPT-5 and GPT-5-Thinking — down from the six they had before.
This distinction is quite significant. Where users once could get hundreds of messages a day on OpenAI’s o4-mini-high and o4-mini reasoning models, GPT-5 for ChatGPT Plus subscribers offers 200 reasoning (GPT-5-thinking) messages a week, with 80 GPT-5 messages every 3 hours which allow you to ask it to “think” about its answer, shoving you over to an undisclosed reasoning model. This may seem like a good deal, OpenAI is likely putting you on the cheapest model whenever it can in the name of “the best choice.”"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/
The #US gov classified #Anthropic as a "threat to national security" because they didn't want to chance their policy to allow
- Mass surveillance
- Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Don't get me wrong, I have no love for #AI (#LLM) but this is how #CORRUPT the US government is
The gov are the ones who are a threat to national security 🇺🇸
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#lispyGopherClimate #technology #programming #show
https://communitymedia.video/w/wQkFYMbzbvBkpYLt1tWMZB #archive
- @wm_annis reports an sbcl merge of slop (EDIT: REVERTED v) unlike #ecl viz @jackdaniel . #commonLisp
(#clisp)
Individual heterogeneity
- in #climate activism
- in the #gopher
- in The #Lisp Community
- My idea of sharing conditions/handlers rather than programs
Cf the fully intended homogeneity from LLMs.
- yduJ is square dancing this week, as all lisp users must.
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#ai, the Terminator, my periodic revisiting of Terry Winograd Breaking the complexity barrier (again). Absolutely no lisp code. #article #engineering
I revisit how Winograd was resisting exactly the current sloppy epoch (in 1972) and chatbot atrophy
@pluralistic
originally you were incidental to this article
which turned out to mostly be incidental commentary in the vein of your
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback .
I would be interested if you cared to venture an opinion.
This week's net.wars, "Machine learning", chats about chatbots in education with a tiny unrepresentative sample of those dealing with them: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/08/machine-learning/ #NetWars #education #AI
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified, warning that it could “financially ruin” the entire industry. @ArsTechnica has more:
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又要變熱了…
#月曜がんばれ 141
「笑顔のために、全身全霊で応援いたします！」
#松實優麗 #うちの子
#stablediffusion #AI #AI繪圖 #AIイラスト #AIart #AIイラスト好きさんと繋がりたい
Perhaps don't launch businesses that rely on breaking the law? Just a thought.
'If the appeals court denies the petition…the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months"…that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.'
No matter how esoteric AI literature has become, and no matter how thoroughly the intellectual origins of AI's technical methods have been forgotten, the technical work of AI has nonetheless been engaged in an effort to domesticate the Cartesian soul into a technical order in which it does not belong. The problem is not that the individual operations of Cartesian reason cannot be mechanized (they can be) but that the role assigned to the soul in the larger architecture of cognition is untenable. This incompatibility has shown itself up in a pervasive and ever more clear pattern of technical frustrations. The difficulty can be shoved into one area or another through programmers' choices about architectures and representation schemes, but it cannot be made to go away.
If one were to continue the genealogy in this article from 1995 to present, one would find many of the same issues inherent in Cartesian dualism present in large language models. Like the STRIPS system Agre surveys, LLMs also generate sequences. They also must make choices among many available options at each step of sequence generation. They also use heuristics to guide this process that would otherwise explode intractably. The heuristics, or what Agre dubs "determining tendency", are random number generators and "guardrails" in LLMs instead of the tree-structured search of previous-generation AI systems. But otherwise the systems are structured similarly.
It's fascinating, but not coincidental, that the determining tendency of AI systems like these is so often perceived to have mystical or even God-like qualities. Breathless predictions about the endless potential of tree-structured search in early writing on GOFAI resembles modern proclamations of imminent AGI or superintelligence among generative AI boosters because both of these mechanisms---tree search or random number generation---are situated where the Cartesian soul would be. These mysterious determining tendencies, homunculuses of last resort, or souls are timeless, acausal factors that choose a single path from an infinite space of possibilities, and thereby direct the encompassing agent's behavior in an intelligent manner.
This is one reason why I posted the other day that if you removed the random number generation from LLMs, the illusion of their intelligence would more than likely quickly evaporate. You'd be excising their soul, leaving behind a zombie!
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #GOFAI #search #heuristics #CartesianDualism #IntelligenceAsRandomNumberGeneration
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