SEO spammer behind AI-faked Dublin Halloween parade talks to Wiredhttps://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 offhttps://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

@davidgerard How AI can improve your productivity(*) as a programmer!Step 1. Call AI and get it to generate code for you.Step 2. Manually add if(0){} around everything it created.Step 3. Check it in.Step 4. Profit.(*) As measured in KLOC

@davidgerard what utter ghouls.

@davidgerard from digging around in the data from that paper - https://github.com/koenecke/hallucination_harms - it looks to me like the underlying story here is that Whisper v2 hallucinated wildly but Whisper v3 (released November 2023) was a huge improvement

Whoops! Google, Copilot, Perplexity push scientific racism in search resultshttps://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.https://github.com/allinbits/announcements/blob/main/2024_10_15_lsmnk.mdlol 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 itif 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 ideaslooking 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)

@davidgerard To our neighbors in Sonoma County, we were part of the local resistance that stopped California Forever in Solano County, please reach out if you have any questions

@davidgerard Waiting for folk to start telling you how easy it is to roll your own blogging platform once you've realised that they are simply Burritos in the category of endofunctors.

@davidgerard I know nothing about nothing, but I would guess that it's not just greenwashing, it's futures trading.Everyone, most of all investors, understand the bottleneck for AI being power delivery. AI companies cannot talk to investors about future gains unless they have some story about how to address the power problem.Now they have that. It won't work, just like their core tech, but that doesn't matter. They have a story they can sell.

@davidgerard Still, all the politicians are on there

@davidgerard I wonder if this will also end up shutting down #uBlock on #Chromium derived browsers like @Vivaldi , Edge, Opera etc?As much as I dislike Mozilla's moves into #AI and #advertising, the need to avoid a web render engine monopoly has never been greater.We can't allow one private, surveillance based company to control the code for all apps that access the web.#Google #Chrome #Privacy #Vivaldi #Microsoft #Edge #Opera

How ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding day — by Tracy Chouhttps://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/12/how-chatgpt-nearly-destroyed-my-wedding-day-guest-post-by-tracy-chou/

masterful gambit, sirhttps://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 MLbut uh, it's comp sci which is applied mathematicshow does this rate a physics Nobel?any physicists in the crowd?

The AI bill Newsom didn’t veto — AI devs must list models’ training datahttps://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/07/the-ai-bill-newsom-didnt-veto-ai-devs-must-list-models-training-data/