What a perfect and perfectly subversive title: “Luxury Surveillance, How Big Tech Sells us the Pleasure of Being Watched.” Cannot wait to read this! All the congratulations @hypervisible.bsky.social 🎊
I learned so much from @groovygeologist about the crazy questions people ask geologists!
Google’s Gemini AI has stopped advising people to eat rocks. But other AI models — looking at you OpenAI and Meta — are advising people to lick rocks. The latest @proofnews.bsky.social collaboration with creators to test AI in their areas of expertise. 👇🏻
And other performance issues when it comes to language models and geologyj
AI in a nutshell -- High Cost, Low Reward. Goldman analyst talks about how he tried using it to automatically update analysts spreadsheets. 👇🏻 "It saved his analysts about 20 minutes of time per company but cost six times as much money."
Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.”
Omg SO REAL
I am honored to give the eulogy for Crowdtangle. I plan to honor its contributions and also rage against its murderer. Having never given a eulogy for software, I am also open to any and all suggestions.
Proud to have been so early to Bluesky! Am really enjoying it here even though I dutifully post on all the other joyless platforms.
I may sound like a broken record. But I am never going to stop asking a product that markets itself as "intelligence" to be factual. The latest investigation using our AI testing tool reveals a dangerous lack-of-facts related to a high-stakes topic: voting access for folks with disabilities 👇🏻
AI Models are producing inaccurate information about voting options for people with disabilities more than 60% of the time, according to a new study using Proof’s AI testing platform. www.proofnews.org/ai-models-pr...
Research from the Center for Democracy and Technology found problems with AI models' responses to over 60% of 77 election-related prompts.
Now that is a byline to aspire to! Can't wait to dive in (although, sadly, Thursday puzzles are often beyond my capabilities).
Interested in an entirely sane conversation about AI? Join me and @garymarcus.bsky.socialwww.showclix.com/event/gary-m...
Will AI help humanity or harm it? A prominent researcher and cognitive scientist sounds the alarm over Big Tech’s role in the future of AI. In his new book, Taming Silicon Valley, Gary Marcu...