As you may have seen in places like the verge, and otherwise, Hollywood is creeping its way into tech criticism. I am checking out one of the anti-technology shows that had a consultant on it. I do wish that Emily bender was a consultant, but the author of Blood in the Machine I believe did a fine job. There are a few things I would change about the critiques in the show, but I do think it is entertaining, even if it relies on the two protagonists being lawyers, which makes it remarkably easy to do deus ex machina, Even so though, episode one is turning out to be more entertaining than I initially thought . Check out Cupertino here with audio description https://tv.apple.com/us/show/cupertino/umc.cmc.1s045xmhoexk220zf99zodh2b #AI #TV #TVShow #LLM
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A US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence had broken copyright law by training its legal search engine on proprietary data harvested by their bots, a ruling which presages doom for all AI programs
For those of us expecting a AI-related crash, each dip looks like it could be the first moment in such a crash even as stock markets have repeatedly 'bought the dips' & reversed the drops.
So, I note that overnight Asian stock markets have lost around 5% on semi-conductor related stocks, following losses in the USA later yesterday.
Whether this is another wobble or really the cliff edge many of us expect will be clearer in the next few days; keep an eye out.
#FinancialCrisis #AI
h/t FT
Why We’re Banning AI https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai #AI #NoAI
Why are we even doing all this? https://lobste.rs/s/qvomvk #ai #culture #math
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/
Why Math Dumped OpenAI https://lobste.rs/s/uj7pqu #ai #math #vibecoding
https://raymyers.org/post/math-dumped-openai/
I’m blind and have multiple disabilities. Transcription helps me remember conversations. Cameras on my iPhone and Meta glasses help me understand the world. AI helps me get things done.
Privacy, consent, and transparency matter. Access matters too. Before restricting these tools, disabled people need a seat at the table.
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/before-you-decide-technology-is-the
Does moving a GPU server's request loop into the kernel save CPU? https://lobste.rs/s/6himy4 #ai #linux
https://eunomia.dev/blog/2026/10/17/bpf-gpu-server/
This week's net.wars, "Mathslopapocalypse", wades into OpenAI's 722-paper disruption of the field of mathematics: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/10/16/mathslopapocalypse/ #NetWars #math #AI
Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post https://lobste.rs/s/j30pg4 #ai #math
https://www.patreon.com/vihart/posts/vi-harts-big-171939430
SFist: Smoking Becomes Trendy In Silicon Valley as Some Researchers Believe AI Will Cure Cancer
As mentioned before, my employer has banned the Meta "Pervert" Glasses at work. Now they've also banned the new Apple Watch.
Well done!
#Design #Evolutions
The convergence of design · Why does everything end up looking the same? https://ilo.im/16gv9v
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#Convergence #AI #Chatbots #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend
We went to an event this afternoon as part of #StokeBookFestival. A local bookseller made a very interesting point: he finds it hard to sell books that have #AI generated covers.
He said that many people see an AI generated cover, assume the rest is AI, and look elsewhere.
Neural Networks Are Already Clean https://lobste.rs/s/enjlpn #ai
https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
Oopsie daisy! An AI agent that was granted access to the server of a Swedish TV production company has deleted the entire edited version of the upcoming series of reality show "The Challenge." It's now been pushed to 2027, weeks before it was due to premiere. Here's @Gizmodo with the details.
Watched David Krakauer on StarTalk this weekend. His take: LLMs are capable, not intelligent. What I think they're missing is wisdom - intuition from experience.
So I had Claude interview me on whether an agent with memory could grow some. I landed on an adviser that argues with me but never makes the final call.
Would you want an AI that pushes back, or one that agrees?
Good morning, all.
My new video is up! In this one I talk about the allegations that ChatGPT and Anthropic stole prominent researchers' work via the users' inputs into their AI models as well as options you have to protect your data when using LLM's.
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#Technology #Tech #AI #LLM #Anthropic #ChatGPT #Fraud #Youtube #Video