Emily Hunt

Surely this example just illustrates my point, though? Petrol, as a technology, still exists today; just it was regulated to not be allowed to contain lead. *Half* of US adults are using chatbots per week, and ~25% daily. Hence, I think calling for AI use to stop altogether is…

About a quarter of U.S. adults use chatbots daily pewresearch.org

I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term

I honestly hate watching talks made with AI. I hate it when speakers brag about how much time it saved them. If you have 80 people in your audience and they all watch you for 30 minutes, that's 40 hours of person-time. And you're telling us you're *proud* of how little you prepared? 🤷‍♀️

Testing it out of curiosity, I feel like Google's new AI search mode sides with whichever papers make the strongest claims (regardless of whether or not they're true.) This has major, shit implications for information retrieval - the most hyped claims are rewarded with AI search rating you higher

Prices on new servers at Hetzner have increased 3×, which is pretty insane. I kinda get it because they're a budget provider that already had a tight margin - but jeez, I am really done with how much AI has inflated hardware and compute costs

Somehow, the pro-AI crowd is convinced that almost everyone is already using AI and loves it, and the anti-AI crowd is convinced that almost everyone is rejecting AI and hates it Both scenarios can't be true. It's unpopular, dangerous technology, but I think we're already stuck with it

I sometimes wonder if it's pointless to keep holding out on AI coding, but my god I just cannot bring myself to send money to US tech companies right now