🤡 Not surprising since #ycombinator#opensource#ai#aihype

This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator

AI startups, and open-source forks with VC funding. A bad match.

💰 Do AI companies work? #ai#aihype

Do AI companies work?

The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.

“Overhyped” text-to-sign language model creates plausible-looking ‘signing’ but is often unintelligible to #ASL#AIHype#AIEthicswww.newscientist.com/article/2436...

AI can turn text into sign language – but it’s often unintelligible

Researchers have developed an AI model that can translate text into sign language, but experts in Deaf culture and sign language say the translations range from semi-comprehensible to “really unintell...

More #GenerativeAI#aiHypewww.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/t...#ReinforcementLearning - no chatbots!

Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm.

Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.”

DuckAssist: You say "Generate" an answer. I say "make shit up" Oh good, they have a BETA caveat. That ought to make up for the disinformation and misinformation. #aihype#bullshit

Governments need to focus on AI’s real impact, not get caught up in the hype generated by Big Tech #Canada#Business#AI#Work#Jobs#Workplace#JobSecurity#AIImpact#BigTech#JobDisplacement#AIHype#TechPolicy#FutureOfWork#AIRegulationthe-14.com/governments-...

Governments need to focus on AI’s real impact, not get caught up in the hype generated by Big Tech | The-14

Governments must address AI's real impact on jobs and business models, not the hype pushed by Big Tech. Statistics Canada’s analysis overlooks key challenges.

Karen Hao’s work in this area CANNOT be missed. #ClimateCrisis#AIhype#CriticalAIstudies#criticalAIiteracies

I've read this piece while preparing for the week's classes. Labatut doesn't mention (but alludes to) many aspects that I find relevant for the discussion proposed in the magazine's cover ('Resisting artificial intelligence'). Still, it's worth reading. #AIhype#logicharpers.org/archive/2024...

The Gods of Logic, by Benjamín Labatut

Before and after artificial intelligence

About AI: <<The term itself is an artifact of hype, for there’s no evidence that the machines being promoted today are “intelligent” in any reasonable sense.>> --Michael Hiltzik, L.A.Times www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...#michaelhiltzik#latimes#newbooks#aihype#overhypedai#enoughofai

A new book chronicles the battle over AI, but fails to question whether AI is worth battling over

Bloomberg's Parmy Olson delivers a buzzy, timely biography of AI's promoters, but what are they promoting?

🤣 After Years of Chasing Money, OpenAI Reportedly Giving Up on Being a “Nonprofit” — Futurism https://futurism.com/openai-reportedly-giving-up-non-profit#openai#ai#aihype#samaltman

After Years of Chasing Money, OpenAI Reportedly Giving Up on Being a “Nonprofit”

The Financial Times reports that OpenAI is looking to shed its non-profit status once and for all after years of being "capped profit."