nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqee4rnacjzvywhnunp2680eslvzlwwav22nfcu9fd7kxx6n9tjk6qky9cp8 2009. Holy shit, that's a long time ago. I had totally forgotten that post. Does kinda hold up though.
It's time for the myth that #AI can summarize things to die.
"Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad
Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful."
(Original title: Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad)
I wrote my own essay on #AI in healthcare a few weeks ago which aligns very well with the interviewed nurse's position:
If Europe and the EU would not themselves experiment with fascism right now, with the way that the US will probably act in the next years there's a huge window to actually change the web and tech if one had some will to actually do something.
(And I am not talking about "EU Unicorns" or a "European Palantir". I mean something that actually puts the common good and the people using technology to structure parts of their lives front and center.)
Since nobody wanted to pay for Copilot Pro, Microsoft is now leveraging their Office365 monopoly, adding it to the service and raising prices there.
Luckily Nadella did bend the knee to Trump so there won't be any repercussions.
(More importantly: We see again that #AI isn't economically sustainable)
(Original title: Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24290268/microsoft-copilot-office-features-microsoft-365
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Antonio Gramsci
With Universities now rolling out "Vice Chancellor of AI" roles I wonder who's left to keep the #AI industry in check and who's supposed to build a new scientific system after the current crop of academics have outsourced their thinking and writing to stochastic parrots?
Should especially Universities have a different standard? The assumption that students "will use AI in their jobs" and therefore they should get to acquire the actual skills themselves is such a bleak case of epistemic injustice.
#AI is a phenomenon of desperation.
The "innovators" ran out of steam a long time ago. "Something you already have but now worse and for high rent" isn't the sales pitch people are looking for. But tech literally has nothing else.
The worst thing that the whole #AI hype created is the emergence of the "prompt battle" as an event format. The literal fucking worst.
This story about video game developers just illustrates how the short term thinking in businesses based on pumping stock value (for example by firing a bunch of people) is cancerous: You lose your teams, you lose so many talented people and their years, sometimes decades of experience. Sure right now everyone hope "AI" will fix things but let's be grown up here: #AI can't really do any of that.
(Original title: Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else)
80% of all #AI projects fail. And that is mostly not for technical reasons, it's because AI/IT projects are a replacement action.
The way that the #ai "industry" uses terminology of inclusion and democracy when peddling their climate destroying spam machines is deeply offensive to me.
Companies and managers from big companies claim large productivity gains in software development through #AI. But maybe it's not all that simple.
This kind of is an #AI cartoon
(Original title: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joy)
Very much not surprising how Silicon Valley now moves to support Trump. Tech's libertarian beliefs and Trump's agenda of destroying any form of active state and government (aside from his own personal will) go together perfetly. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-tech-venture-capital-execs-maga-1235060567/
This cursed #AI unconference raises more red flags than a dude named Chad.
Throwing some random data at OpenAI's API does not make you a #AI expert or even show any form of digital literacy. Quite the opposite.
I mean it's fun that you cost Microsoft and OpenAI money every time you do it but you're also simultaneously killing our planet so the laughter kinda does down quickly.
Because of the EU DSA Google Search pages that contain a map no longer link to Google Maps (at least in Europe). Which I found a bit annoying. So I wrote a quick userscript for browsers to re-add the link:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/489881-link-map-in-google-search-to-google-maps
"AI" will massively change the connotation and value people see in "Open Source"(1) just like "crypto/web3" did with "decentralization".
(1) Open source is a problematic term that was a bit controversial within certain communities but we are using the mainstream interpretation where open source is always connotated positively
nostr:npub18eu3jyerdk6rqh6fs83m5d0qrtvrgtck7urpl20uy38mf0j9kthqj8l5g8 but in a decentralized system a lot of that work needs to be duplicated.