We recently got a wifi-enabled hot tub. Some enterprising soul had already created a HA addon to work with it, so I set about implementing #observability, #automation and #alerting.
Amongst other things, it now starts heating automatically if there's plunge pricing on #octopusenergy Agile
#AI#GenerativeAI#Automation#Animation#VFX#Hollywood: ""In the good old days," mused DreamWorks co-founder and former Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg late last year, "it took 500 artists five years to make a world-class animated movie. I don't think it will take 10% of that three years out from now."
With Hollywood already replacing staff with generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, people working the industry want rules to govern the new technology and to make sure it does not use images they have created without compensating them.
The U.S. film, television and animation industry employs some 550,000 people and the sector's extensive use of technology makes staff particularly vulnerable to changes wrought by AI.
Automation is the best part of cloud support. Wrote a quick script to change the instance type of a list of server ids. It’ll stop, change, start and all the things in between.
With I be automated out of a career? asks a computer science Ph.D. graduate who's job-hunting. Check out Kode Vicious' answer here: https://bit.ly/43qL17u
#AI#LLMs#Media#Journalism#GenerativeAI#News#BBC#Automation#Audiences: "The appearance of large language models (LLMs) and other forms of generative AI portend a new era of disruption and innovation for the news industry, this time focused on the production and consumption of news rather than on its distribution. Large news organizations, however, may be surprisingly well-prepared for at least some of this disruption because of earlier innovation work on automating workflows for personalized content and formats using structured techniques. This article reviews this work and uses examples from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and other large news providers to show how LLMs have recently been successfully applied to addressing significant barriers to the deployment of structured approaches in production, and how innovation using structured techniques has more generally framed significant editorial and product challenges that might now be more readily addressed using generative AI. Using the BBC's next-generation authoring and publishing stack as an example, the article also discusses how earlier innovation work has influenced the design of flexible infrastructure that can accommodate uncertainty in audience behavior and editorial workflows – capabilities that are likely to be well suited to the fast-approaching AI-mediated news ecosystem." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aaai.12168
#AI#Automation#Work#GhostWork#Fauxtomation: "As anthropologist Lilly Irani observes, labor is not replaced by machines, it’s merely displaced. While stocks surge upon restructuring, few companies achieve this promise of savings and profitability, and “bullshit jobs” soar.
The story of AI distracts us from these familiar unpleasant scenes. Instead, we envision a glistening “future of work” in which we are all miraculously more efficient, our workplaces are populated with relentlessly pleasant robots, and expert automated agents fulfill our every command. Pundits talk loftily about the “ethics of AI” as if it’s a technical question of ironing out its biases or building BB-8 instead of The Terminator.
But the future of work is not a technology: it’s an arrangement. An arrangement of people, capital, and workers that moves jobs from where they are expensive and highly-paid, to where they can be cheap and menial. “AI” is a powerful decoy, lest we start thinking about where those jobs have already gone – offshore – and who moved them there in the first place. Because robots aren’t “taking our jobs” – people are.
#AI#Automation#Labour#AIEthics: "In March 2024, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels published the book titled Artificial Intelligence, Labour and Society, offering an in-depth analysis of the effects of artificial intelligence on the labor market and society at large. Edited by Aida Ponce Del Castillo, the book features an essay by DiPLab’s co-founder Antonio A. Casilli, contributing to the growing discussion on the ethical dimensions of AI.
The book Artificial Intelligence, Labour and Society highlights the rapid and pervasive expansion of AI technologies, underscoring the end of an era where AI was synonymous with robots and complex algorithms meant only for the technically savvy. Today, AI has become an integral part of our workplaces and daily lives, prompting a significant paradigm shift with deep and often hidden implications for the labor market. The chapters contained in the book bring together reflections from high-level academics and research activists worldwide, adopting a multidisciplinary approach that embraces diverse geographical and cultural perspectives." https://diplab.eu/diplab-featured-in-new-book-just-published-by-etui-artificial-intelligence-labour-and-society/
#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#Automation#Hallucinations: "The only reason bosses want to buy robots is to fire humans and lower their costs. That's why "AI art" is such a pisser. There are plenty of harmless ways to automate art production with software – everything from a "healing brush" in Photoshop to deepfake tools that let a video-editor alter the eye-lines of all the extras in a scene to shift the focus. A graphic novelist who models a room in The Sims and then moves the camera around to get traceable geometry for different angles is a centaur – they are genuinely offloading some finicky drudgework onto a robot that is perfectly attentive and vigilant.
But the pitch from "AI art" companies is "fire your graphic artists and replace them with botshit." They're pitching a world where the robots get to do all the creative stuff (badly) and humans have to work at a robotic pace, with robotic vigilance, in order to catch the mistakes that the robots make at superhuman speed.
I never realized Amazon's automated checkout technology was just an outsourced, creepy, Mechanical Turk:
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."
Umgezogen? So funktionieren Home-Automationen am neuen Wohnort wieder
Das iPhone ermittelt den Gerätestandort mithilfe von GPS, Bluetooth, WLAN-Hotspots und Mobilfunkmasten. Daraus ableitend, legt das iPhone sogenannte «wichtige Orte» fest. Das sind meist Orte, an denen sich das Gerät häufig aufhält. Orte, die das iPhone für wichtig erachtet. Für Automationen der K…
I am about to make a simple automatic plant grow system, based on an ESP8266. Luckily I got a #Chirp from Catnip Electronics https://wemakethings.net/chirp/ at #37c3 which covers pretty much all of the parameters, I want to measure ^.^
Thanks again to @miceuz who gave it to me for free! :)
Continuing our #EverythingOpen Schedule Highlights, we present Faisal Masood of #AWS who will talk about the #ML life-cycle of #data preparation, model #training, testing and deployment, and the role that #automation and #monitoring tools play.
Faisal shows you how to build a model workflow where all team members can collaborate to create a #CI and delivery pipeline for ML models.
Unsere letzte Folge ist zwar schon etwas her, aber wer sie noch nicht gehört hat: Wir sprachen u.a. über #KiCad 8.0 – #Electronics#Design#Automation mit vielen
“When paying, you are presented with the option of leaving a tip, no different than pretty much any other interaction with a point-of-sale payment system. But it poses an interesting question—and one we will increasingly be required to answer as the domain of #automation continues to expand:”
#Journalism#News#Media#Newspapers#Automation#Algorithms: "News organizations have turned to news automation to innovate specific processes in the newsroom. Despite the many advantages for news organizations in producing innovative news content, the news automation process is opaque and often not easily accessible for news consumers – undermining the core journalistic ethic of transparency. In this case study we examine how institutional dynamics shape internal and external algorithmic transparency practices at The Washington Post. Our findings, based on 16 expert interviews, reveal that while engineering teams at The Post exert great efforts to make some algorithmic systems transparent and explain their functions to the public (external), less information is being shared inside the newsroom (internal). This lack of internal algorithmic transparency is a potential pitfall as it could lead to mistakes in the news production and the reporting process in general."
Exciting times at AlmaLinux Day: Germany during CloudFest! Jonas Trüstedt was a part of the keynote talk on "Stability, Security, and Strength of the AlmaLinux community". We were happy to present our data center automation tool, orcharhino, and to contribute to the future of open source! Thanks @almalinux for the invitation! 👏