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David Gerard
David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems
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Could can openers feel pain? How about AIs? Google researchers ask the leading questions

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  • or just ask for one here

    • Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride”

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  • do it

    • Hacker News: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work? The answer may not surprise you!

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  • that being the specific model when we started it! "web3 is going great but it's AI"

    molly approved and said it saved people nagging her to start one

    • Microsoft research finds Microsoft AI products may never be secure

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  • Microsoft 365 Coilot

    365 toilet

    • Microsoft research finds Microsoft AI products may never be secure

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  • intel frantically taking notes

    • Meta AI case lawyer quits after Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Neo-Nazi madness’; Llama depositions unsealed

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  • love the linkedin comments trying to insist there will be terrible consequences for this prominent law professor who must just not know his stuff or something

    • did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the distant past

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  • and bullshitting and dogwhistling and obfuscation

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems

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  • jfc

    • Meta AI case lawyer quits after Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Neo-Nazi madness’; Llama depositions unsealed

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  • need to start charging these guys $100 a word so they can complain about the merchandise

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems

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  • jesus fucking christ

    • UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details

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  • eh not really? this plan involves commercial SMRs, which don't exist yet.

    they've already made it clear they're gonna put in wind/solar over the objections of local NIMBYs, which is one move I'll credit them with

    • The Origins of Totalitarianism Wokeness by Paul "Chodejuggler" Graham

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  • as it says at the top, always feel free to spin a post out, there's no quota

    • People don’t enjoy making music, says AI music CEO being sued for stealing music

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  • just use AI instead obv

    • People don’t enjoy making music, says AI music CEO being sued for stealing music

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  • This Machine Plays Folk Music

    • AI agents mean Salesforce won’t hire software engineers in 2025, apparently

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  • "it started as a wart on my ass" - the hat

    • UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details

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  • and it still is

    • Orange site having trouble finding actual production use cases of AI "agents"

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    • Facebook "Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal"

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  • It's clear that they didn't stop uploads of the torrents. It hasn't been established in the documents we've seen so far that they actually had downloaders in turn. But they did clearly make the works available for upload.

    • Nvidia unveils its flagship RTX 5090 card — with AI-juiced frame rates

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  • oh dont' worry - they prop up the appearance not the usability. They look smoother but user input is still sampled at the slower rate, so the games aren't actually any more reactive.

    • Nvidia unveils its flagship RTX 5090 card — with AI-juiced frame rates

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  • it's basically a number crunching workstation

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    No, the bitcoin price did not move from debates, Trump buying ‘crypto burgers’ or anything other than shenanigans
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    BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stations
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    Why wordfreq will not be updated - AI spam
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    Kubient’s adtech use case for AI: an excuse for a fraud
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    OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged “chain of thought”
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    NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI
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    Post your IT redundancy tales here
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    remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001
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    You should not set memecoin creators on fire! They're doing it to themselves. You can punch them in the face, though. It's marketing.
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    Microsoft is firmly committed to environmentally sustainable AI — except when there’s a sale to be made
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    OpenAI releases new Sora demo videos — with a few less glitches
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    Strawberry fields forever — OpenAI’s new ‘o1’ model
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    OpenAI looks to fill the funding gap with $6.5b of fresh investment and $5b credit
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    The world is not enough — US and France escalate Nvidia antitrust investigations
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    Newsweek: did the Harris-Trump debate CRASH BITCOIN?? - with 3 paras of me saying "lol no"
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    I’m on a Twitter space talking about cryptocurrency with author Jake Donoghue — Thursday 12 September, 19:00 UTC
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    Nevada to clear unemployment claim backlogs with one weird trick: pretending an AI has judgment
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    Promptfondler drama: Shumer’s ‘no-hallucination’ Reflection 70B AI turns out to be two other models in a trenchcoat
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    California governor: Generative AI will fix homelessness — based on a 2023 sales pitch
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    Extropia's Children, Chapter 1: The Wunderkind - a history of the early days of several of our very good friends