David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 16 days agoShock as OpenAI’s Media Manager opt-out tool turns out to be vaporwareplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkShock as OpenAI’s Media Manager opt-out tool turns out to be vaporwareplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 18 days agoFacebook: Who needs users? We have AI slop!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkFacebook: Who needs users? We have AI slop!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days ago"My Windows 11 user experience document that I keep adding to"plus-squarepastebin.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"My Windows 11 user experience document that I keep adding to"plus-squarepastebin.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days agoYou knew crypto was a sea of the most dissolute and dubious bozos, here's Molly White on what the FTX in ch 11 adversary cases revealplus-squarewww.citationneeded.newsexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkYou knew crypto was a sea of the most dissolute and dubious bozos, here's Molly White on what the FTX in ch 11 adversary cases revealplus-squarewww.citationneeded.newsDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days agoat last, OpenAI's official definition of "AGI"! Can you guess what it is?plus-squaregizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkat last, OpenAI's official definition of "AGI"! Can you guess what it is?plus-squaregizmodo.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 27 days agocoindesk writers outraged it's going full blockchain pumping newsletter and not just 98% pumping newsletterplus-squarewww.theblock.coexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkcoindesk writers outraged it's going full blockchain pumping newsletter and not just 98% pumping newsletterplus-squarewww.theblock.coDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 28 days agoNot that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNot that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 29 days agoCall 1-800-CHATGPT for an annoying time with OpenAI’s cheerful botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCall 1-800-CHATGPT for an annoying time with OpenAI’s cheerful botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 30 days agoThe OpenAI Christmas special: o3 is totally an intelligence, guys! For extremely specific values of ‘intelligent’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe OpenAI Christmas special: o3 is totally an intelligence, guys! For extremely specific values of ‘intelligent’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 30 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoGary Marcus in Wired writes the bloody obvious about genAI being shitplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareGary Marcus in Wired writes the bloody obvious about genAI being shitplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoAustralia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAustralia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoAnthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAnthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoForeign Policy: Bitcoin and Hawk Tuah Aren’t So Differentplus-squareforeignpolicy.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkForeign Policy: Bitcoin and Hawk Tuah Aren’t So Differentplus-squareforeignpolicy.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoUK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative worksplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkUK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative worksplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoAll Protocols are Not the Same: Joanne McNeil on Blueskyplus-squarefilmmakermagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAll Protocols are Not the Same: Joanne McNeil on Blueskyplus-squarefilmmakermagazine.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoMicrosoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tablesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tablesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month ago"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."plus-squaredeadsimpletech.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."plus-squaredeadsimpletech.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoDo knee X-rays show if you drink beer? Medical AI versus algorithmic shortcuttingplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDo knee X-rays show if you drink beer? Medical AI versus algorithmic shortcuttingplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoApple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complainsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkApple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complainsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoKevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months laterplus-squarewww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkKevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months laterplus-squarewww.nytimes.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink