The big question for me is: Once the AI bubble burst, will these data centers become stranded assets or are there ways to repurpose them for "meaningful" uses of AI? Or does this require different types of chips/hardware? Can anyone help me with this?

"machines are supplying the language with which patients relay their suffering, and doctors are using machines to...respond". By outsourcing "the most intimate definitions of ourselves to AI, doctors and patients risk becoming...further alienated from one another" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"LLM’s output is bullshit in the philosophical sense: statements that are divorced from whether or not they are true or false.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The point of a LLM is to output text that looks right given the training data and query, not to produce text that is right" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...

“It has been one minute, and you really cannot say anything?... If you don’t remember what you wrote, you don’t feel ownership. Do you even care?” Nataliya Kosmyna, MIT Media Lab research scientist on the effects of ChatGPT on writing and retention. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

Wären alle Urheber:innen fair entschädigt worden, gäbe es generative KI in ihrer heutigen Form nicht. Die fossile Wirtschaft externalisiert die Kosten für CO2. Generative KI die für unsere Kreativität. Meine Aussage im Referat zu "KI & Nachhaltigkeit" im Rahmen der Agenda 2030 in Bern vorgestern.

It used to be the internet age and now it’s the AI age. "It’s normal to have something presented to you and be told that this thing is the future." What’s different is that in contrast to the internet, "AGI doesn’t exist". @shannonvallor.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

Neuer Blogartikel: Woran KI-Übersetzung scheitert. Z.B. am fehlenden Savoir Vivre, im wahren Sinne des Wortes. baurconsulting.ch/camembert-od...

"Only Anthropic has built a tool that lets its models end conversations completely. But it’s for cases where users supposedly “harm” the model—Anthropic has explored whether AI models are conscious and therefore can suffer—by sending abusive messages" 🤦‍♀️ www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/21/1...

Recently I gave a keynote on "AI: what happens when we let machines speak for us - and about us?" at the FIT World Congress. In it I argued that automating translation means treating language as a matter of pure perception or prediction, at the expense of judgment. www.linkedin.com/posts/doroth...

"The surge in same-same AI-authored applications prompts employers to use robot filters to manage the flow. Everyone ends up in Tinderized job-search hell" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kudos to the Oxford Dictionary of English for reading AI 1. as Amnesty International 2. as artificial insemination, 3. and only then as ... AI. 😁 (picture from Shannon Vallor's great book "AI Mirror - @shannonvallor.bsky.social 🙏)

"And attribution – or any other kind of recognition – is not just missing, it is actively prevented. Democratization would mean participation, visibility, and credit. What we are seeing here is something else entirely." 2/2 From @dorotheabaur.bsky.social

On the Myth of AI Democratization "This is not Robin Hood. It’s reverse Robin Hood. Value is extracted from underpaid authors, artists, and researchers in order to fuel systems that are controlled and monetized by some of the wealthiest and most powerful companies on the planet." 1/2

Newsletter. Heute dabei: - Warum KI-Unternehmen von Demokratie reden und Oligarchie meinen - Wie Sam Altman unlautere Forschung als Anlass nimmt, um seinen Iris-Scanner und eine Kryptowährung zu pitchen - Wie weiter nach dem Ende des Nachhaltigkeitshypes mailchi.mp/312b885babf3...

Talking about Nick Clegg apparently turns me into a kind of middle-aged Greta Thunberg: "How dare you?" But I stand by it: his justification for the genAI industry's predatory business model is the bottom of the barrel. #AI #genAI #copyright youtube.com/shorts/dgk4W...

My office for the next few weeks.

In the aftermath of the undercover study in which researchers from Zurich Uni tried to manipulate users, Reddit is considering using Sam Altman's Orb (an iris-scanning biometric surveillance tool linked to his cryptocurrency WorldCoin) in order to identify users. baurconsulting.ch/en/a-secret-...

Tech "built on top of the mess of society doesn’t just replicate its mistakes but reinforces them, because users think 'this ... can see everything" "therefore it has this view from nowhere'". But "there is no view from nowhere". @emilymbender.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9029...

If a billion-dollar AI system can't "solve a problem that Herb Simon (one of the… godfathers of AI) solved with classical... AI techniques in 1957, the chances that models such as Claude or o3 are going to reach [AGI] seem truly remote" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @garymarcus.bsky.social

"AI’s use by high-school and college students to complete written assignments, to ease or avoid the work of reading and writing... puts the process of deskilling at education’s core. To automate learning is to subvert learning" www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...

TESCREAL people try "to fill the hole in their souls with integrated circuits and computational power instead of love and collaboration. They refuse to accept that we are not whole not because we are faulty, but because we are meant to work together" husseinhallak.substack.com/p/silicon-va...

Crypto sucks. Biometric data collection sucks. Combining the two? Full dystopia. How dare you extract my iris as proof of my humanity – just to force me into your shitcoin system? This isn’t innovation. It’s exploitation. #WorldCoin #Sama #TheOrb time.com/7288387/sam-...

I have finally revised my speaking website 😅 The rest is still work in progress, but at least this part is 99% done (bugs in mobile view will be fixed by my webmaster). Have a look here: www.baurconsulting.ch/en/speaking

"On average, employees saved 3% of their time, while just 3%-7% of their productivity gains came back to them in the form of higher pay". Did anyone really ever think that AI-based productivity gains would be passed on to workers in the form of higher pay? Not me. 😳 fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

Bisher beeinflusste die Anzahl Frauen in Führungsposition die Boni bei SAP. Neu ist es der "Business Health Culture Index", d.h. der allgemeine Gesundheitszustand der Belegschaft. Super. Wenn kranke Angestellte den Bonus ruinieren, feuert man sie doch am besten gleich. www.zeit.de/2025/20/sap-...

Die NZZ schreibt sinngemäss, dass die Nationalbank prinzipiell keine Erdölaktien verkaufen sollte. Selbst dann, wenn sie es aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen tut? Einfach deswegen nicht, weil sie damit Klimaaktivisten ermutigen könnte 😂 Realsatire! www.nzz.ch/meinung/die-...

Gloomy insights into the mind of AI investors: "the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous [tech] waves. You can replace the world’s workers - which means you can capture their salaries. All of them" @ednewtonrex.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not sure what's worse: the sister presenting the AI of her dead brother in court o the judge's reaction to it: “I loved that AI... As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness... I feel that that was genuine” (sic!) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"We do expect AI capabilities to keep increasing. But regardless of capability level, we can choose to ensure that AI remains a tool and is not given power and autonomy to operate without human oversight". Great essay from two of my favorite AI researchers. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/agi-is-not...

Ich habe soeben die Sternstunde Philosophie zum Thema Migration mit @bglaettli.bsky.social und Frank Urbaniok geschaut und muss sagen: Grosses Kompliment an Balthasar Glättli! Hervorragend argumentiert. Sachlich, smart, analytisch überzeugend. Wirklich gut gemacht. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMO...

AI slopaganda comes from "a circle of AI firms, VCs backing those firms, talking shops made up of employees of those firms, and the long tail is the hangers-on, content creators, newsletter writers and ‘marketing experts’ willing to say anything for cash" www.ft.com/content/2421...

So, Newsletter ist raus. Themen u.a.: – #KI-Zusammenfassungen & geklaute Inhalte – Ethische Achterbahn mit #Klarna – Reduktionismus, Verantwortung und Viktor Frankl – #ESG: Was bleibt, wenn Haltung nichts mehr bringt? Link (auf DE & EN): mailchi.mp/fba395e7d9ef... 🐰🐣Frohe Ostern!

"If we can’t count on these companies to fulfill...their most basic safety and transparency commitments when releasing new models - commitments that they themselves voluntarily made - then they are clearly releasing models too quickly in their competitive rush" fortune.com/2025/04/09/g...

Science isn’t just "a collection of facts". Progress happens when we move from findings to theories to paradigms: more abstract, broader, less automatable. AI-based findings aren’t accelerating these higher levels of progress. Great read! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Einladung zu einer Keynote an einer internationalen Konferenz mit dem Satz "auf Wunsch würden wir auch ein kleines Honorar ausbezahlen". Hmm...

And this is my post number 3 on LLM training and human learning: I address the criticism that my position is "against the free exchange on knowledge", and the danger of "reductionism" by equating #machinelearning with human learning. #AIethics

And this was my follow-up post on #AI and #copyright on LinkedIn: #LLMs don't make "knowledge" and "ideas" accessible. They are designed to obfuscate sources and refuse attribution. Stop romanticizing this theft as if it came from Robin Hood!

For those who don't follow me on LinkedIn: My thoughts on my posthumous fame as an academic, now that #Meta has stolen all my work from #LibGen. I seem to have hit a nerve. And some commentators still claim that this is about "democratization of knowledge" 🤦‍♀️ Link in comments.

#DOGE uses AI to "find waste. The issue of whether workers and work is wasteful is a subjective call that A.I. cannot make. But it can justify what a decision maker wants to do. If Musk wants waste, A.I. can give him numbers to prove waste exists" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Vierwaldstättersee im Föhnsturm.

AI chatbots "are presented as oracles that have 'learned' from their training data and often don’t cite sources... . This decontextualizes knowledge, prevents humans from collaborating, and makes it harder for writers and researchers to build a reputation" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Der Bundesrat will keine umfassende Normen zu KI. Der Grund? "'Die kantonalen Zuständigkeiten müssten gewahrt werden.' Als ob ein KI-Schulsystem die gleichen Leistungen von Schülern wegen kantonaler Besonderheiten unterschiedlich bewerten müsste" @adfichter.bsky.social republik.ch/2025/03/17/s...

Studies show that LLMs "have been trained on the text of popular benchmark tests, tainting the legitimacy of their scores": "like a human student who steals and memorizes a math test, fooling his teacher into thinking he’s learned how to do long division" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

There’s no way an AI agent can work "on device”. "That’s almost certainly being sent to a cloud server where it’s being processed and sent back...there’s a profound issue with security and privacy that is haunting this hype around agents" @meredithmeredith.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...

Telling farmers to grow more produce to combat the trade war he started, with a hearty "Have Fun" is nuts! 75% of US cropland is used to grow animal feed, NOT human food , also 80% of our fertilizer used comes from Canada who we've started a trade war with. Oh, and that advice to just get chickens

"Kryptoassets als Reservewährung zu halten, ist aber umstritten. Anders als staatliche Währungen gründet ihr Wert oft ausschliesslich auf Spekulation" Oft? Wann nicht? 🤨 www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/d...

"techno-fascism is no longer a philosophical abstraction for Silicon Valley to tinker with, in the vein of intermittent fasting...s. It is a policy program whose constitutional limits are being tested right now as DOGE... rampages through the federal government" www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Yesterday someone told me that we don't know the name of the painter of frescoes in old churches. Why? Apparently they didn't think of themselves, but of God as the creator. And he said we should literally take the same approach to AI-generated art.

Algorithmen, die KI effizienter trainieren, "machen die KI günstiger und damit attraktiver für Anwender. Wenn mehr Menschen und Unternehmen KI verwenden, steigt der Stromverbrauch wieder. Die Kosten und der Energiebedarf verschieben sich... nur vom Training zur Anwendung" www.nzz.ch/technologie/...

Now we know who is behind eggflation. Hilarious (?) story about OpenAI's AI agent Operator, which didn’t just misunderstand "cheap" eggs but also "actively broke out of safety guardrails programmed into it by OpenAI" by making an unauthorized purchase. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...