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Multiple readings Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype Opportunity & adoption · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 16d ago
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AI summer hype skepticism essay

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

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Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Rudolph Fraser. Baldur Bjarnason Teresa Heffernan
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“@timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social puncture the latest AI hype, addressing everything from "hacking" to "math breakthroughs" to "superhuman" machines (and possibly break a record for scare quote usage along the way). www.technologyrevie…”

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“But when those questions are motivated from the lens of "does THIS disprove stochstic parrots?" the reasoning goes off the rails, and it does so in a specific way connected to the role that theoretical math results have played in this summer of hype www.tec…”

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Emily M. Bender: There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with t…
Emily M. Bender: This was started by a person who I think was acting in good faith and seriously interested in understanding, though seems very focused on the question of whether or not the metaphor is "right", eve…
Emily M. Bender: It's not a hypothesis, and never has been. It's simply a description of what language models, run as synthetic text extruding machines, do: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>
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AI global energy emissions footprint

The Global Energy and Emissions Footprint of AI Diffusion

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Teresa Heffernan

“A lot of the 'don't worry about the impacts' comes from the AI industry that pushes this argument on social media platforms they control along with increasingly the media from Bezos to Ellison; here is a good review of the impacts: eraldkolasi.substack.com/…”

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Danya Glabau: Google released a report/press release either 2 or 3 years ago about this time arguing this that was widely read. I remember specifically arguing with engineering colleagues in a curriculum committ…
Danya Glabau: I don't have the link but engineers are still citing "well Google said ..." to me regularly
Teresa Heffernan: A lot of the 'don't worry about the impacts' comes from the AI industry that pushes this argument on social media platforms they control along with increasingly the media from Bezos to Ellison; her…
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Established Models & releases Signal 15d ago

Anthropic ipo docs reportedly reveal

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Teresa Heffernan

“Continue with the death drive cult or not...hmmm: 'Anthropic is hardly alone in spending more than it takes in.... In July, after pouring money into AI development, Google reported its first quarter of negative cash flow since the company went public' finan…”

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Hagen Blix: Revenue in the second quarter was 11.5bn, fwiw, so it also looks like the revenue growth rate is still up there
Teresa Heffernan: Continue with the death drive cult or not...hmmm: 'Anthropic is hardly alone in spending more than it takes in.... In July, after pouring money into AI development, Google reported its first quarte…
Hagen Blix: Yeah, that's what the financial times said at least. I think "on adjusted basis" (so who knows what they're excluding) it was supposedly the second consecutive profitable quarter
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3 experts · 3 posts · 17d ago
Luis Villa Pavel Teresa Heffernan
Pavel: Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid …
Teresa Heffernan: Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid …
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2 experts · 2 posts · 14d ago
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Teresa Heffernan
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র: The biggest threat that AI poses to our information ecosystem isn't so-called "hallucinations"; it's intentional large-scale persuasion / manipulation. bsky.app/profile/bmit...
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly...the AI industry is all about theft, surveillance, and manipulation. Operates the same way as social media platforms: 'According to Meta's own disclosure...You read that right: 93% of time…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 17d ago
Charles Logan Teresa Heffernan
Charles Logan: Sure seems like “AI” is a political project being pursued by some less than awesome people and now is a very good time for building coalitions of students, teachers, and caregivers to resist and re…
Teresa Heffernan: Let's trust the woman who didn't know the difference between steak sauce and 'AI' just over a year ago...
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