blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-23 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square136fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoBlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stationsplus-squarefinance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoWhy wordfreq will not be updated - AI spamplus-squaregithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoOpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged “chain of thought”plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down10
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jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agoAI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businessesplus-squarewww.techrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days ago"The Subprime AI Crisis" - Ed Zitron on the bubble's impending collapseplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoKubient’s adtech use case for AI: an excuse for a fraudplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-linkKubient’s adtech use case for AI: an excuse for a fraudplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoremembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001plus-squarepaulgraham.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoMicrosoft is firmly committed to environmentally sustainable AI — except when there’s a sale to be madeplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoNSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkNSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square3fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoOpenAI releases new Sora demo videos — with a few less glitchesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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sue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days agoIn a rare moment, the orange site asks where the emperor's clothes areplus-squarenews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoStrawberry fields forever — OpenAI’s new ‘o1’ modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkStrawberry fields forever — OpenAI’s new ‘o1’ modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square30fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoOpenAI looks to fill the funding gap with $6.5b of fresh investment and $5b creditplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkOpenAI looks to fill the funding gap with $6.5b of fresh investment and $5b creditplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square6fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoThe world is not enough — US and France escalate Nvidia antitrust investigationsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down10
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UnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoBalaji Srinivasan Launches “The Network School” in Singaporeplus-squarewww.chain.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agogood news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PEplus-squarewww.prnewswire.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkgood news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PEplus-squarewww.prnewswire.comfroztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square6fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoNevada to clear unemployment claim backlogs with one weird trick: pretending an AI has judgmentplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkNevada to clear unemployment claim backlogs with one weird trick: pretending an AI has judgmentplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square3fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoPromptfondler drama: Shumer’s ‘no-hallucination’ Reflection 70B AI turns out to be two other models in a trenchcoatplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down10
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-linkPromptfondler drama: Shumer’s ‘no-hallucination’ Reflection 70B AI turns out to be two other models in a trenchcoatplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square13fedilink
UnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoAI Kids: Just Say No - AI classrooms speak to a larger question of why we're willing to replace human practice with AI in the first placeplus-squareopen.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
arrow-up135arrow-down1external-linkAI Kids: Just Say No - AI classrooms speak to a larger question of why we're willing to replace human practice with AI in the first placeplus-squareopen.substack.comUnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square13fedilink