look, that was actually funny. All the record company A&R men shitting themselves that, in straight-up A/B testing, they were failing to compete with muzak.
Powerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is almost up.
the poster has been escorted to the egress at high velocity from the fourth floor
I can excuse racism, but I can't excuse the implication I might be in any way tangential to racism
"What the hell do you call that routine"
"the LEMMYVERSE!"
Digital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices "black" rather than hiring an actual black person
if you don't understand the concept of "digital blackface" as a specific problem, then you are not bright enough to post here
I'm not saying it's always programming.dev, but
The Australian Radio Network has three main brands: KIIS, GOLD and CADA. Across nine stations, there’s one non-white presenter — and she’s a bot. Thy has been CADA Sydney’s weekday host for six mon…
Video version, with clips of the bot-DJ
yeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google's ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?
For the February 2025 California bar exam, the State Bar of California used a remote testing platform that just didn’t work. 80% of the candidate lawyers had technical issues. For over half the can…
video version - not a fan of the Pixel 4a front camera
In August 2024, Google was found to have abused its web search monopoly. In November 2024, the US Department of Justice proposed forcing Google to sell off the Chrome web browser — the moat around …
It’s not just Microsoft slowing down on data centres — it’s Amazon too. Eric Luebchow, an analyst at Wells Fargo, put out a note yesterday: [Seeking Alpha] Over the weekend, we heard from several i…
OpenAI is outraged at DeepSeek stealing the data that OpenAI rightfully, er, fair-used. So OpenAI’s higher-tier models now require solid verification of identity! And … the verification doesn…
iOS developer Joachim Kurz found a bug that was bad enough to go through the pain of Apple’s horrible Feedback Assistant. Feedback Assistant ideally wants a bug to have your system logs to send to …
The LLM is for spam. Community colleges in California are suffering an absolute flood of fake student applicants that seem to be fraudsters backed by chatbots. [Voice of San Diego] Many community c…
A “reasoning AI” is a large language model — a chatbot — that gives you a list of steps it took to reach a conclusion. Or a list of steps it says it took. LLMs don’t know what a fact is — they just…
(hits you over the head with an expertly wielded M3)
originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!
Alexa is a digital assistant in gadget form. It’s a simple keyword bot with a voice interface. It’s very limited, but it works well enough, and a lot of people like it. But it’s also a money-loser.…
video version - video
our Pivot To AI t-shirts arrived today, you'll see us showing them off in the end bit
this URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025
the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news
i expect this one to be more of the same
Cursor is an AI-enhanced code editor. You click and an LLM auto-completes your code! It’s the platform of choice for “vibe coding,” where you get the AI to write your whole app for you. This has ob…
realy, who doesn't want to fuck Clippy
(looks around nervously)
We don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF
at 1.5 totally-not-drivers per car, we don't have them there eithe
Donald Trump, so yeah
The dream of anyone who works with fussy humans is not to work with the fussy humans. This is the greatest promise that AI makes to the creative industries. At the least, it might shut up the whing…
Video version - 7 minutes of me ranting
I just posted a new video, which is a love song to my microphone. [YouTube] There’s a bunch of links in the show notes to everything about the mic. The video has subtitles for accessibility, …
I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this
christ. can't he go back to disco, he was good at that
COMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.
Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York state after extensive sexual harassment allegations. Now he’s running in the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of New York City. Cuomo has strong back…
Here’s a headline in MIT Technology Review: ‘Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military.’ I put it to you that it is not! It’s not doing that at all! This is not what’s happening! [MIT Te…
Peter Purgathofer looked over “Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy” by Nanasaheb Thorat, published in March by Springer Nature. On page 25, he found why we pay Springer the big bucks: [h…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dIL_Ljro8 - video
I understand this post is technically illegal in the US
In 2018, Albert Saniger launched Nate. You could buy from any shopping site — AI would figure out the site for you! Saniger raised $50 million from investors. Nate was just a front end to a call ce…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb0bq3gAB9s - video
this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, affectionately known as a16z, is looking for investors to put a fresh $20 billion into AI startups. [Reuters] For perspective, that’s more than all US vent…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7a1-6MU3QA - video
There’s a shortage of airline pilots. The airlines are cutting training for new pilots, they’re running out of ex-military pilots who want to go civilian, and prospective pilots are reluctant to dr…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqA6KDvKgs - video
Humanoid robots are the next prospective tech bubble. Venture capitalists put $6.1 billion into humanoid robots just in 2024. [Yahoo!; Bloomberg, archive] The New York Times was bowled over by 1X’s…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8VpVEBWEY - video
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
https://davidgerard.co.uk/