David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 28 days agoNaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’plus-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 agohilarious use of AI foundplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 29 days agoNvidia Q2 2024 earnings: the market is still on crackplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNvidia Q2 2024 earnings: the market is still on crackplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 29 days agoNavigating AI systemsawful.systemsimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 29 days agoAmazon to replace Alexa with Anthropic’s Claude AI — and charge for itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAmazon to replace Alexa with Anthropic’s Claude AI — and charge for itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month ago80% of corporate AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT projectsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoScale AI is stiffing its task workersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoThe UK wants AI in schools to mark kids’ homeworkplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoAI conference papers are being ‘peer-reviewed’ by chatbotsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoNo, OpenAI Strawberry isn’t imminent — but it sure trolled the AI doomersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNo, OpenAI Strawberry isn’t imminent — but it sure trolled the AI doomersplus-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 agoRickrolled by the AI — ChatGPT has the Rick Astley lookplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoPavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegramplus-squarewww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegramplus-squarewww.reuters.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoDon’t market the Godfather’s new movie with fake AI-generated reviews, it won’t go well for youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDon’t market the Godfather’s new movie with fake AI-generated reviews, it won’t go well for youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agoCopilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibilityplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCopilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibilityplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoGartner releases AI Hype Cycle for 2024: autonomous AI is on the way! Apparentlyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGartner releases AI Hype Cycle for 2024: autonomous AI is on the way! Apparentlyplus-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 agoThe UK Labour AI push — who are the vendors lobbying for a slice of the pie?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe UK Labour AI push — who are the vendors lobbying for a slice of the pie?plus-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 agoSilicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missileplus-squarewww.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSilicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missileplus-squarewww.ycombinator.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoThe Gloyz (after O. Henry) — by A. Molitorplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe Gloyz (after O. Henry) — by A. Molitorplus-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 agoGoogle is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search resultsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search resultsplus-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 agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 25 August 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 25 August 2024plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink