This is anecdotal, but I now personally know two employees of #AI-related companies whose valuations have imploded within the past month, and they are now looking to bail. One company lost 73% of their (publicly traded) value in a month. The other one is a startup whose founder (according to my friend) has “finally snapped”, and the company is now in freefall.
"California could soon deploy generative artificial intelligence tools to help REDUCE TRAFFIC JAMS, make ROADS SAFER and PROVIDE TAX GUIDANCE, among other things"
yeah... that'll end well 🙄
Google & Microsoft will be paid $1 for the services but handed a fuckton of personal information linked to taxes and car ownership. that in itself is worth billions to the corrupt techbros running this new AI-is-labor-without-people scam.
@blogdiva What’s nice about this is that people will notice AI traffic fuckups in real time. And who among us, caught in a traffic snarl up isn’t calm, patient, and understanding?
“I’ve been caught up in this AI created traffic for an hour, but that’s ok, because in 10 years AI will reach its potential. God, I love AI!” is a thing that everybody will think.
Are folks using #ai copilots for generating code successfully? Mine gets confused on syntax a bunch but it's a local model which is general rather than code specific. Like I wonder if I am prompting it poorly or something
"I’m happy to use LLMs for all sorts of purposes, but I’m not going to use them to produce slop. I attach my name and stake my credibility on the things that I publish." #AIhttps://werd.io/view/663d04995988d73dfc051f32
“In the past, it was really difficult to spot these things, because you can’t take samples from an image on the internet. But, with the new technology, it’s easy. You can just download an image and then in 10 minutes, you will know. I think that people should be warned.”
'AI can do wonderful things. But civil rights can’t exist in a world of hidden calculations. Just as with a lawyer or doctor, we must have AI that acts in our self-interest. AI needs a constitution — or more accurately, we need a constitution that defines access to artificial intelligence acting solely on our behalf as a civil right'!
We need an constitution for AI not an AI manifesto!
@pamelafox@horovits@kevlin Some benefits are undeniable. And, as with everything AI now, the technology itself will improve. But talking with potential users I understand that the expectation bar is very high now. Some people really think that they can do without developers, or almost without.
It's partly their fault (developing is not just writing code) but they can't be totally blamed for believing guys like Nvidia CEO, who says that learning to write code is useless now.
I'm quite skeptic, not about the tech but about how it's marketed and potentially used. But it's me, I do not trust corporations.
@bitzero@horovits@kevlin Yeah thats fair, I dont think writing code is useless. We should teach folks how to be able to use assistants and reason about their output and what tools can verify correctness (whether your code is from head, SO, or AI). Real software has edge cases, and I dont think we can automate them away anytime soon or ever.
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members
"It's unclear what kind of data Vera AI uses to teach its chatbots. A previous version of the app's Google Play page noted that the app has access to the "contents of your USB storage" including "photos, media, and files.""
Spotted a running process called "Logi AI Prompt Builder" and have now discovered that my mouse driver auto updated to add a bullshit #AI feature. 😡 #Logitech
From fictional biographies to AI-generated profile pictures, Futurism has been investigating AdVon Commerce, the company behind the Sports Illustrated fake writer scandal from last year — and its reach appears to stretch further than many could have predicted.
“What we found should alarm anyone who cares about a trustworthy and ethical media industry,” reports Futurism. “It’s a practice that blurs the line between journalism and advertising to the breaking point, makes the web worse for everybody, and renders basic questions like ‘is this writer a real person?’ fuzzier and fuzzier.”
"OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.
And I guess this could be the right place to say that unlimited quantities of high-speed porn have already started to cause erectile dysfunction in young men?
Not to even talk about shut-ins and a developing preference for virtual girlfriends?
“So AI is a lying machine made out of crimes that’s destroying the earth and costs a fortune and is being deployed recklessly everywhere without any consideration to your safety. But is it a scam? Yep.”
"A few years back, a writer in a developing country started doing contract work for a company called AdVon Commerce, getting a few pennies per word to write online product reviews.
But the writer — who like other AdVon sources interviewed for this story spoke on condition of anonymity — recalls that the gig's responsibilities soon shifted. Instead of writing, they were now tasked with polishing drafts generated using an AI system the company was developing, internally dubbed MEL."
White-collar workers are so overwhelmed with emails, web chats, and meetings that they are using AI tools to get their jobs done—even if their companies haven’t trained them to do so, according to a work trends index published Wednesday by Microsoft and LinkedIn.
Introducing AlphaFold 3, a new AI model developed by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs. By accurately predicting the structure of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands and more, and how they interact, we hope it will transform our understanding of the biological world and drug discovery.
A new study from Microsoft and LinkedIn has found that AI usage in the workplace has doubled in the last six months.
The data comes from a survey completed by 31,000 people across 31 countries, which found that 75% of workers are now using AI as part of their jobs. Over half are using it for their most important tasks, but don't want to admit it out of fear it makes them look replaceable. Here’s more from CNBC.
@TechDesk remind me in six months as businesses report massive losses and retooling due to basing decisions on AI hallucinations secretly injected into processes by workers because they're stupid and/or lazy.
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