It's been 4 months since we've cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and the bullshit is coming in almost too fast to keep up with. But between a page full of awkward unicorns and a seeming slowdown in data center demand, Alex and Emily have more good news than usual to accompany this round of catharsis.
AI Hell:
LLM processing like human language processing (not)
Sebastian Bubeck says predictions in "sparks" paper have already come true
WIRED puff piece on the Amodeis
Foundation agents & leaning in to the computational metaphor (Fig 1, p14)
Chaser: Trying to recreate the GPT unicorn
The WSJ has an AI bot for all your tax questions
AOL.com uses autogenerated captions about attempted murder
AI coding tools fix bugs by adding bugs
"We teach AGI to think, so you don't have to"
- (from: Turing.com)
MAGA/DOGE paints teachers as glorified babysitters in push for AI
Chaser: How we are NOT using AI in the classroom
AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them
DOGE is pushing AI tool created as "sandbox" for federal testing
"Psychological profiling" based on social media
"I was not informed that Microsoft would sell my work to the Israeli military and government"
Pulling back on data centers, Microsoft edition
Abandoned data centers, China edition
Bill Gates: 2 day workweek coming thanks to AI...replacing doctors and teachers??
Chaser: Tesla glue fail schadenfreude
Chaser: Let's talk about the genie trope
Chaser: We finally met!!!
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