SEO spammer behind AI-faked Dublin Halloween parade talks to Wired

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/02/seo-spammer-behind-ai-faked-dublin-halloween-parade-talks-to-wired/

Whoops! Microsoft leaves alleged AI gender detector running, years after saying they switched it off

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/01/whoops-microsoft-leaves-alleged-ai-gender-detector-running-years-after-saying-they-switched-it-off/

https://amycastor.com/2022/05/23/kara-swisher-promotes-cryptos-for-your-retirement-compares-it-to-early-internet/

this is a link to post whenever Kara Swisher's name comes up in any context whatsoever

Sundar Pichai, Google earnings call

Q3 earnings call: CEO’s remarks

Our Q3 results were led by great performance in Search, Cloud and YouTube.

Google (blog.google)

> We're also using AI internally to improve our coding processes, which is boosting productivity and efficiency. Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster.

Firstly, if this is literally true they’re completely fucking cooked.

Secondly, if it isn’t true, what version of it is? What behaviours are reaching Pichai as over a quarter of new code coming from code tools?

One week later, Radio Krakow has shut down its dumb and bad AI radio experiment:

Polish broadcaster shuts down AI-run radio station after a week following backlash

The station still deemed it a "successful experiment".

Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)

Marcin Pulit has declared it everyone else’s fault that they hated his terrible idea.

@simon I'm presuming that from the hallucinations, which sound extremely LLM. Pure ML doesn't make up stuff like that. Also, OpenAI is very one-trick.

OpenAI’s Whisper audio transcriber makes up hospital treatments and medications

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/27/openais-whisper-audio-transcriber-makes-up-hospital-treatments-and-medications/

Whoops! Google, Copilot, Perplexity push scientific racism in search results

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/26/whoops-google-copilot-perplexity-push-scientific-racism-in-search-results/

so how's it going in shitcoin land?

> a significant portion of the Liquidity Staking Module (LSM), created by Iqlusion for the Cosmos Hub, was developed by North Korean agents.

announcements/2024_10_15_lsmnk.md at main · allinbits/announcements

AiB official announcements. Contribute to allinbits/announcements development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)

lol holy shit

i'm fucking loving doing all this writing and journalism on pivot to AI. it's really enjoyable and i'm feeling energised by it.

now i just need to make more than beer money from it

if only we didn't have incredibly extravagant and luxury tastes, like london rent

(places with lower rent i'd need a car, which would eat the difference)

talking to my very patient agent tomorrow (the one i failed to deliver one book proposal to) and brainstorming ideas

looking at clearing the spare room as a tiny podcast/video studio (this house is really quite small!)

basically i need to make sysadmin levels of money from writing. ideas welcomed!

(lolsob)

Silicon Valley techies trying to build another tech utopia town in California - though this time they're bothering to try to get the locals onside https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/tech-utopia-wine-country-esmeralda-19846531.php

the biggest problem with Matt Mullenweg is that WordPress is still far and away the best blogging platform

it's trivial to set up, reasonable to administer, has all the basic facilities and has a stupendous dev ecosystem

replacing it will need more than the perennial nerd affliction My Favourite Toy Blogging Platform

you should totally use [static blog generator using an idiosyncratic variant of markdown], i wrote it yesterday in [nightly rust/perl 4/ocaml]. It doesn't have [list of basic blogging features] because those are wrong things to want

Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers

Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers

Google has signed a deal with California startup Kairos Power for six or seven small modular reactors. The first is due in 2030 and the rest by 2035, for a total of 500 megawatts. [Google blog; pre…

Pivot to AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS

EU declares Twitter officially too dead and unimportant to fall under the DMA https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_24_5324 masterful gambit, sir

Google disables uBlock Origin in current Chrome dev builds

https://www.techradar.com/computing/chrome/google-looks-to-be-fully-shutting-down-unsupported-extensions-and-ad-blockers-in-chrome-which-might-push-some-folks-to-switch-to-firefox

How ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding day — by Tracy Chou

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/12/how-chatgpt-nearly-destroyed-my-wedding-day-guest-post-by-tracy-chou/

masterful gambit, sir

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/11/elons-double-nothingburger-robotaxis-any-year-now-bro-and-robots-bro-trust-us-bro/

The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/08/the-nobel-prize-in-physics-goes-to-geoffrey-hinton-for-his-work-in-computer-science-what/

i wouldn't want to sound like I'm running down Hinton's work on neural networks, it's the foundational tool of much of what's called "AI", certainly of ML

but uh, it's comp sci which is applied mathematics

how does this rate a physics Nobel?

any physicists in the crowd?

The AI bill Newsom didn’t veto — AI devs must list models’ training data

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/07/the-ai-bill-newsom-didnt-veto-ai-devs-must-list-models-training-data/