“you’re not an ai influencer” is both an extremely funny attempted putdown for a pope and also just factually incorrect

Goldstein (still not a pseudonym)@goldstein.latinsky.app · 4h ago

How many local models do you run?

As a fan of both you & Emily, I'll just point out something maybe obvious: Searching web, extraction, etc., isn't an LLM. That's engineered code/functions used alongside an LLM; the distinction between an "AI system" and an LLM (I wrote a thing about this here: medium.com/@margarmitch...) 1/

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜

I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.

medium.com

OK I finally listened to "Choosin' Texas," certain that once I heard it I would recognize it as the ubiquitous smash hit that it evidently is, and... Either I've in fact never heard it before, or it is the single most forgettable song I've ever encountered in my life. Wild phenomenon either way.

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

Colin@colin-fraser.net · 3d ago

I really wasn’t trying to start a fight with Prof. Bender but now that she has created a long thread subtweeting me and her disciples are all yelling at me, let me just say that this is the crux right here. She seems to respond as though I am describing something a priori impossible.

Browns vs Steelers is really the ideal matchup for fans of football refereeing. Its nonstop action: flags on almost every play

Jalen Hurts 👑

NFL Daily News@insidenflnews.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jalen Hurts QB sneak TD as time expires in the first half

Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

hollywoodreporter.com

Minecraft Live is starting. This is my 11yo’s Super Bowl.

this is a v good techmeme headline www.techmeme.com/260925/p9#a2...

Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending

By Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase. View the full context on Techmeme.

techmeme.com

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER AKE

not to single out max, who is great, but there's this interesting thing where folks on both the left and MAGA right are extra suspicious of any tech folks who profess to care about the societal impacts of what they do. i get the cynicism but i'm really not convinced the alternative is preferable

Max Read@maxread.info · last wk.

honestly found jensen huang's straightforward glibness sort of refreshing compared to the cognitive dissonance of amodei and altman's hand-wringing

Gambling?! Prediction markets aren't gambling! They're just a way of... risking money... on an event... with an uncertain outcome... in the hope of winning a larger... oh

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - New York sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction markets operator of running an illegal gambling operation. @reuters.com

lol ok thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Trump says AI will be renamed ‘super intelligence’ in all US documents

President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that artificial intelligence will be renamed “super intelligence” in all U.S. documents.  “The United States also totally re…

thehill.com

ME ON A DAY WHEN I WOKE UP BEFORE 6AM: Man, this has been a long day, what time is it? CLOCK: It's 10:58am

Former WashPost TikTok Guy @davejorgenson.bsky.social has a new YouTube show and it's brilliant, despite his strange decision to let me on it for the first episode. We talked about whether AI is really going to kill us all... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1H...

Is AI really going to destroy human civilization?

YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson

youtube.com

AI cheating is rampant. AI detectors have gotten surprisingly good. I wrote about why colleges are deeply conflicted about using them: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses

Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors.

theatlantic.com

Amazing plays in an amputee football league in Poland: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Weird, this in-depth profile of Pangram doesn't focus at all on its founder's suspicious burping and food-microwaving habits. Instead there's just a bunch of stuff about how they built it, how it works, whether it works and why it matters www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human Problem

Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.

bloomberg.com

When the edible hits and you’re at the Taco Bell drive thru.

safe to say things are not going great for ed sheeran when his defenders are getting ratioed on the ed sheeran fan subreddit

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

ICYMI: A 2-part conversation around the AI doomsday warnings that exploded over the weekend, with @theatlantic.com's @willoremus.com, then @vox.com senior politics correspondent @awprokop.bsky.social. Listen: wnyc.org/browse/shows...

AI Doomsday? | WNYC

Will Oremus, a staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses the uproar over the warnings of potential threats to humanity from unregulated AI, then Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, talk...

wnyc.org

why does this guy always look like he was grazing happily in the middle of a country highway at night until just a moment ago when everything got very loud and bright?

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

404media.co

Talking on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show rn about AI fears, Anthropic/OpenAI's calls for slowing down, and Trump/Nvidia's counter-calls for putting pedal to metal

Read.

Ej Dickson@ejdickson.bsky.social · 3w ago

For months, the burners who posted Maddie’s video remained anonymous. They even made a cryptocurrency out of her name, valued at $11k. So she hired a lawyer to unmask them. And what she learned stunned her. Read my investigation for @wired.com, out now: www.wired.com/story/burner...

I'm not saying they're wrong but it is a little funny that Trump and most of Bluesky seem to basically agree that we should mock and ignore the people in the AI industry who are saying they feel trapped in an arms race that is starting to get a bit out of hand

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that Al needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”

Humanity is won by continuing to post in spite of the algorithm. — Ralph Ellison, possibly

i like my coffee filters passive-aggressive

imagine if they let college football teams have an adult expert on the sidelines whose whole job was to make sure the team plays strategically and manages the clock. then you’d probably never see a team just give away a game like ohio state just did