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A fascinating thread beginning with #AI #management #jobs and branching off into #EV #BEV #riceCookers #sustainability #resilience #climateCrisis and more. Has my vote for #bestThreadEver
From: @RickiTarr
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115129335224173175
Bit of a content warning that I'm about to share some #LLM-generated slop. Just two short bits, to make a point.
I made an #OpenToWork post on #LinkedIn today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #JobHunting #scams #AIScams #JobListingScams #JobScams
I made an #OpenToWork post on #LinkedIn today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #JobHunting #scams #AIScams #JobListingScams #JobScams
Congratulations to @WIRED for catching their AI-written article, retracting it, and publishing a candid 𝘮𝘦𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘢."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-got-rolled-by-an-ai-freelancer/
Have any academic journals done that?
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wichtiger Retröt eines Pixelfed Posts von ... earlier this year 🤘
#StarterPack #AI #LoehweVsAI
"The only realistic path forward for generative AI firms is to start charging their users the direct costs for running their services, and I do not believe users will be enthusiastic to do so, because the amount of compute that the average user costs vastly exceeds the amount of money that the company generates from a user each month."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/
There's some really gross hypocricy on Fedi regarding AI by computer scientists/ tech enthusiasts who are vocally critical of some aspects of generative AI for appearances, but who are actively benefiting from the AI bubble professionally, and talking out of both sides of their mouth.
There is also some gross classism in the decrying of people's intelligence who are using it to take shortcuts (as if they are the problem, not the wealth-class or hypercompetitive neo-liberalism).
I think we are making a mistake listening to half-assed criticisms from uncredible sources while focusing on the users of generative AI, instead of directing our ire at the tech industry itself.
There is a complete lack of accountability from the tech world to begin with about all the decisions that led us to the AI bubble.
It is just one of a long string of disastrous failures (#enshittification) and framing it as an AI-only issue, or an issue of degrees ("I know how to use it ethically!"), evades responsibility for the decades long growth of tech-surveillance capitalism.
AI is the logical endpoint of early 21st century tech, and criticisms of it need to be grounded in criticisms of the tech industry in general. #AI #Tech
I like to poke LinkedIn once in awhile with an "AI" critique to see what I can stir up. One reason I do this is to keep an eye on the changing form of the booster rhetoric. Nowadays a lot of folks respond to critique with some form of "today's LLMs are bad but tomorrow's will be amazing", the true believer/quasi-religious response with a touch of false humility for flavor. Yesterday I got a "AI critics are just as bad as AI boosters" false dichotomy, which by my read was a variant of the "AI critics are hysterical and irrational" with the twist that the speaker was suggesting that boosters are too. That felt new-ish to me. Granted, the hubristic "we're the smart guys in the room, you should do what we say" framing is ancient in the tech industry. Suggesting the boosters are also not the smart guys in the room is an interesting move because it's an attempt to go meta. Neither the boosters nor the critics are the smart guys in the room; the smart guys in the room are actually the ones who can see that (and so you should do what they say, which is more LLMs always).
#LinkedIn #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM
#LinkedIn #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM
It's working!
"Large companies (defined as having more than 250 employees) have reduced their AI usage, according to the data. The slowdown started in June, when it was at roughly 13.5%, slipping to about 12% at the end of August. Most other lines, representing companies with fewer employees, are also at a decline, with some still increasing."
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Re-introducing myself because it’s been a while!
Hello, I’m Adam. I support a team that designs and builds supercomputers for #HPC, #MachineLearning, and #AI applications. We span the full stack from datacenter design to middleware and app optimization.
Outside of work? My personal means of expression is mostly in #TTRPG campaigns, as well as baking cakes, playing #jazz music, and random tech fun.
I also spend a lot of time entertaining our three cats and a dog. What can I say, the beasties are pretty cute.
Hello, I’m Adam. I support a team that designs and builds supercomputers for #HPC, #MachineLearning, and #AI applications. We span the full stack from datacenter design to middleware and app optimization.
Outside of work? My personal means of expression is mostly in #TTRPG campaigns, as well as baking cakes, playing #jazz music, and random tech fun.
I also spend a lot of time entertaining our three cats and a dog. What can I say, the beasties are pretty cute.
"Only ten percent [of over 5,000 US adults] said they were "more excited than concerned," indicating that most Americans simply do not share the extremely optimistic views of tech leaders selling AI products."
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@kentpitman #climate #haiku and note on https://climate.us
@jns #gopher #phlog about #vcfmw
Mastodon #lisp happenings recently @mdhughes etc
#emacsconf proposal deadline is Friday!
Otherwise, I did lots of #commonLisp #programming this week and will talk about the #gof_ai & #DeepLearning #AI one, and maybe my spacetime-box #NicCLIM #gamedev.
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/classical-ai-and-deep-learning-ai-difference-in-two-examples/
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/spacetime-boxes-nicclim/
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#classicalAI ( #gof_ai ) and #deeplearning #AI . A minimal #programming #example in #commonLisp for identifying the artist of famous pictures with either approach.
The code fits on the back of a cereal box. (Barely. Argh, numerically encoding data for DL..).
I think this is as clear an example as can be. Though I look forward to your feedback and criticisms.
#翻译 之所以成为被 #AI 侵入最快的行业，是因为缺少“ #私有上下文 ”，几乎所有的技能和信息都是公开的（一名翻译很容易取代另一名翻译的工作），而且是相对容易数字化的（海量的现成文本和音频）。完全满足这些条件的职业其实并不多。
本来，高质量的文章就是适合机器翻译的。不适合机器翻译的文字常常是因为本身就写得比较混乱，这种文字大概率不值得花高成本去翻译。而且，一个可以感受到的趋势是，因为机器翻译的出现，很多文章为了能扩大受众，自觉不自觉地写成机器容易翻译的样子。
没人认为现在所有的人工翻译都不存在了，但是这个市场在显著地萎缩，因为机器翻译有几个数量级的成本和速度优势（几分钟几毛钱翻译一本书，更不要说优势还每秒钟都在扩大！）。少数不差钱的客户没法撑起一整个行业。
Learning a new AI-related term: workslop.
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
#workslop #AI #slop #GenAI #technology #news #TechNews #study
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If current-generation LLM-based chatbots can drive people to commit crimes or even take their own lives, what do you suppose Neuralink would do to people?
The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants
The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants
So…MIT has an AI incident tracker. It tracks and classifies the damage AI has done and harm it has caused. The classification is defined by seven key categories:
Discrimination/toxicity
Privacy/security
Misinformation
Malicious actors
HCI
Socioeconomic/environmental
System safety/failures/limitations
Tracked by AI. 😂
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“AI is a surveillance empire wrapped in a trenchcoat with some fairy dust on it” Meredith Witthaker, CEO of @signalapp, in her @publix talk in Berlin. #AI
