We've all been laughing at the obvious fails from Google's AI Overviews feature, but there's a serious lesson in there too about how it disrupts the relational nature of information. More in the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: buttondown.email/maiht3k/arch...
Google's AI Overviews Fails Helpfully Highlight a Source of Danger By Emily The local volcano that did erupt during my lifetime: Mt St Helens on May 18,...
…'These actions are performed on us w/o our input, w/o our knowledge, and without our consent. And we have another word for magic performed on us without our knowledge and without our consent: 'Binding and subjugating magic… is called a curse.' From "Religious Belief & Practice in the Age of 'AI'"
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office “is considering using its 20 drones to respond to certain 911 calls, sending them both instead of officers and ahead of officers…”
A handful of Colorado law enforcement agencies are considering sending drones in response to 911 calls as police departments continue to embrace the use of the remote-controlled flying machines.
Still waiting on all those societal goods this tech is supposed to deliver.
Several states have passed laws penalizing the dissemination of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake nudes, but when the deepfakes are discovered, what happens next in schools varies depending on the s...
“Filing a proposed class action suit in California, Katherine Wilson has accused Google of using Google Analytics and DoubleClick trackers on the California DMV site to unlawfully obtain information about her personal disability without her consent.”
Google recklessly violated privacy laws to spike ad profits, lawsuit says.
To repeat: generative "A.I." is not inevitable. It's a derivative, boring bullshit generator. It wallows in mediocrity and fails by design and definition. Just say no.
Media companies like Vox are feeding their journalist's work into an AI wood chipper: aftermath.site/openai-vox-a...
Lately, the AI bubble is running on the fumes of consolidation. Suleyman goes to MSFT/OpenAI. Ng merges w/ AMZN w/ their large Anthropic bet (& Bezos's Perplexity investment). The Bot Titans will soon be able to fit into a luxe men's room.
Amazon is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng (EE-ng) to its board of directors. Ng is known for leading AI teams at the Chinese tech company Baidu and Google, where his team taught a c...