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Civil servant from the Netherlands, fascinated by innovative technologies and how they can improve society. Also interested in geopolitics and international affairs. All opinions expressed are purely personal and do not represent the opinion of my employer or anyone else. #digitalgovernment #innovation #digitaltransformation #AI #technology #tfr tootfinder #ICT #IT #fedi22 #geopolitics #AcICT Signal: erikjonker.09

“DeepSeek has not been able to provide my agency with convincing evidence that German users' data is protected in China to a level equivalent to that in the European Union," Kamp said.”

But ChatGPT , Claude and Gemini are OK ? 🤣

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/deepseek-faces-expulsion-app-stores-germany-2025-06-27/

#ai #privacy #deepseek #chatgpt #gemini #claude

"Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/

#libreoffice #denmark #microsoftoffice #windows #linux #foss #opensource #ICT #EU

That judges in the US are now stopping some things Trump is trying to do temporarily, this not a reason for optimism, they alone can't stop him for sure, he can overwhelm or circumvent them in the end.

What is striking is the seemingly total lack of resistance in the executive branche. The lack of massive protests.

And in Belgrado 300.000 take to the streets to protest against corruption, Americans where are you... ?

#usa #corruption #fascism #serbia #belgrado #trump #politics

Thinking about it, the larger problem is not supporting and defending Ukraine, with full European support they can hold their lines I think, the larger problem is the implosion of the USA, it's alliance with Russia, which can lead to all kind of new conflicts in Europe.

#geopolitics #ukraine #usa #russia #eu #europe nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq7dnlzls6u3la9zffnq9495ch6fuja3xwvyrzc6plaaxrvrqfgfks4gvauq

Interesting illustration how you can steer and manipulate an algorithm in an LLM like Grok.

The question "Is climate change an urgent threat to the planet", asked to Grok 2 and Grok 3.

Musk clearly adapted the model so the answer is more to his liking.

#AI #Grok2 #Grok3 #Musk #bias #X #climatechange #manipulation #politics #disinformation #LLM

(source: https://bsky.app/profile/andrewdessler.com/post/3lingfdgb7c2h )

Another confirmation whose side Musk is on, also calling Russia leadership "competent leadership" after invading Ukraine, 100.000s of deaths etc is a stretch

#musk #russia #lavrov

The courts are not going to stop Musk / DOGE / Trump breaking down government. Things have to get much worse before there is a chance that they get better I am afraid. The resistance is too limited and not organised enough. What a difference with the 60s/70s for example and the civil rights movement then? What also strikes me is that there is no clear leader in resisting Trump/Musk.

#trump #musk #doge #courts #resistance #politics

From a technology perspective things will get messy in Europe, Vance has confirmed the US will go in full attack against our regulations (AI Act, DSA , DMA etc), how will we react, will we compromise or not? Big risks are involved because we are extremely dependent on US tech. The US could "shut us down" if they like...(Cloud, services etc). We should start migrating to EU tech and services ASAP and/or start to build them.

#technology #it #ict #eu #aiact #dsa #dma

https://www.politico.eu/article/jd-vance-waging-war-eu-tech-law-msc-ai-summit/

Trump on Canada: “Canada is just about the lowest payer in NATO in addition to everything else. Canada has really been taking advantage of. If they had to pay just something modestly fair, they wouldn't be able to succeed as a country. That's why I feel they have to become a state.”

He is crazy…

#canada #trump

Follow the #50501movement hashag for all things about action against Musk and Trump.

#USA #politics

Interesting paper because it's about how to improve the use and interaction with ChatGPT. That's key in the practical use of AI. "Unpacking help-seeking process through multimodal learning analytics: A comparative study of ChatGPT vs Human expert"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131524002124

#AI #ChatGPT #LLM #learning #education

The events in Syria also illustrate the importance of moral ,there was almost no fighting or resistance from Assad's forces ,totally demoralized, amazing if you think about their numbers , weapons etc.

Also there is no large killing of people until now or looting etc Ofcourse things can change, tense weeks/months ahead.

#syria #geopolitics

The difference between how good NotebookLM is and how terrible Gemini Pro sometimes can be, illustrates the importance of everything around models like Gemini,ChatGPT, Claude etc. Supporting algorithms, contextwindows, chain-of-tought, RAG, tuning, grounding, interface etcetera, are just as important for the perfomance of the actual application or service. Therefore the chance of real "AI winter" is small in my view, even if the models themselves don't improve that much

#AI #AIwinter

A lot of marketing by OpenAI but I have the feeling they are not improving fast enough. Claude seems still better at text-oriented tasks and Google is quickly catching up.

#AI

As they say it themselves, Helsing is a new type of defence and artificial intelligence company.

Fascinating and extremely scary at the same time.

https://helsing.ai/

#AI #drones #military #defense #Helsing

Fascinating, must-read blog by Steven Johnson (from NotebookLM), about the importance and impact of the ever growing context window in LLMs.

https://thelongcontext.com/

#AI #LLM #contextwindow #stevenjohnson #NotebookLM

Interesting Master Thesis, "Evaluating the Efficacy and User Reliance on RAG Model Outputs, A comparative study with human experts"

https://repository.tudelft.nl/record/uuid:ff41d0d3-f838-4d26-9d87-a68b685bc79e

#AI #RAG #TUdelft

NotebookLM is super useful if you quickly want to read/comprehend a document in a languange you are totally not familiar with, upload the document in a notebook, you have a summary/overview, can ask questions about it etcetera In my case it did wonders with a russian document but also with a technical book in german.

#notebookLM #AI #languages

In Nature "DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system

Artificial-intelligence model provides forecasts 15 days out, as well as the probability of accuracy. And it does so faster than the best operational model." , another reason to quit the "AI is good for nothing" discussions.

If it can work for the weather it can work for other complex and chaotic systems too.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03957-3?utm_source=www.therundown.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-s-holiday-surprise&_bhlid=81fcdabeccb8dcb5dd593d96f2e386c5499e77cb

#AI #weather #forecast

AI-Powered Job Application Bots like AIHawk create new problems for recruiters.

https://github.com/AIHawk-FOSS/Auto_Jobs_Applier_AI_Agent

#AI #recruiting #jobapplication #AIHawk #opensource #recruitment