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Amy Hoy
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"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
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We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com
A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
Revenge of The Business Idiot wheresyoured.at
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What AI Experts Say About When Not to Use AI - WSJ wsj.com
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com
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openai.com
AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It' karlbode.com
Writing, Cognitive Offloading and Generative AI (opinion) insidehighered.com
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Writing, Cognitive Offloading and Generative AI (opinion) insidehighered.com
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AI Snake Oil press.princeton.edu
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the anthropic dweebs have "discovered" that claude* uses a sort of swap file/memory. and that if you tell it "white elephant" this swap "space" includes the tokens "white elephant." & that means it's basically conscious *the entire pkg, bc without the harness, the llm is useless
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- Anthropic says Claude has a 'J-space' of dozens of concepts, under a tenth of neural activity, that mediates multi-step reasoning.
- Swapping 'spider' for 'ant' inside the J-space changed Claude's leg-count answer from 8 to 6, demonstrating a causal role.
- A 'J-lens' tool surfaced silent words like 'fake', 'fictional' and 'manipulation' during deception tests, pointing at safety uses.
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- Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
- Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
- Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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No industry of value needs to mislead you or make you feel bad for not adopting their tech. Nobody trustworthy will ever see the need to humiliate or attack somebody for not being excited about a product. These are the actions of a loser. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the…
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here's a counter-narrative I hope reaches enough people before it's too late: Companies that lean too hard into AI right now are going to go out of business. Some firms "behind" in AI adoption now will weather the coming storm precisely because they are. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/wh…
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People liked it, but that Ted Chiang essay on AI published earlier last month is actually not very good on the technical merits. Critics of AI companies need to be much more conversant in how LLMs work in order in order to propose meaningful regulations and responses to them. …
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this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...
that's not what this does. the llm itself not persistent. it is being told to do tasks in a regular but limited, not-persistent window. that's like saying something run on a cron job is "persistent."
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"what is with all this white hot rage at AI? Why can't I have reasonable conversations with gen Z about my favorite new AI agent? I am a very smart person!"
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I thought this was very good. It also got me thinking: I can tell *immediately* when my writing has been edited by someone else, because I know my voice so well. I assume others are the same. I wonder what it means to never gain that ability. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/vie…
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I thought this was very good. It also got me thinking: I can tell *immediately* when my writing has been edited by someone else, because I know my voice so well. I assume others are the same. I wonder what it means to never gain that ability. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/vie…
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I was put off by this book's style and structure at first, but then I realized it's probably perfect for the intended audience. And now I think copies should be airdropped into all offices and educational institutions. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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startup: we're offering free house cleaning! startup: there's no catch startup: we just want to watch startup: … for ai… startup: yes. we're recording. to train an ai. that's what's happening. yes. did this strike anyone else as fetish content
stuff "designed" with ai has a very special stink that i find deeply, viscerally off-putting
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