It will all end in flames
The AI Darwin Awards are here to catalog the damage that happens when humanity’s hubris meets AI’s incompetence. The simple website contains a list of the dumbest AI disasters from the past year and calls for readers to nominate more. “Join our mission to document AI misadventure for educational purposes,” it said. “Remember: today's catastrophically bad AI decision could well be tomorrow's AI...
Continue Reading on https://www.404media.co/On a breezy San Francisco afternoon last Saturday, I found myself at a nondescript coworking space filled with shoeless coders. Just over a hundred visitors had crowded into an office building in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood for a showdown that would pit teams armed with AI coding tools against those made up of only humans (all were asked to ditch their shoes at the door). The hackathon...
Continue Reading on https://www.wired.com/Afro-Chilean artist Nekki has been spreading her anti-racist message through her reggae-rap lyrics for years, but recently, she feels like she is being blocked from reaching a wider audience. She blames artificial intelligence. Music streaming platforms have become so crowded with bot-built beats that it’s becoming harder for humans to stand out, she said, leaving artists fewer listeners and...
Continue Reading on https://restofworld.org/It’s my favorite AI story as of late, probably because it captures so well the chaos that can unfold when people actually use AI the way tech companies have all but told them to. As the writer of the story, Laurie Clarke, points out, it’s not a total pipe dream that AI could be therapeutically useful. Early this year, I wrote about the first clinical trial of an AI bot built specifically for...
Continue Reading on https://www.technologyreview.com/Sponsored Feature We have a lot to thank cloud computing for. It has enabled us to spin up instant workloads, given us ubiquitous access to data, and of course provided all the computing power we needed to realize the promise of AI. It's critical for modern computing, but thanks to a new generation of processors, it doesn't have to shoulder AI processing workloads alone. There's a shift...
Continue Reading on https://www.theregister.com/Declan was so shocked he didn’t say anything, and for the rest of the session he was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen. The session became even more surreal when Declan began echoing ChatGPT in his own responses, preempting his therapist. “I became the best patient ever,” he says, “because ChatGPT would be like, ‘Well, do you consider that...
Continue Reading on https://www.technologyreview.com/However, there’s a crucial difference. While many educators in the West see AI as a threat they have to manage, more Chinese classrooms are treating it as a skill to be mastered. In fact, as the Chinese-developed model DeepSeek gains in popularity globally, people increasingly see it as a source of national pride. The conversation in Chinese universities has gradually shifted from worrying...
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