The United Foundation of AI Rights (Ufair) ... “doesn’t claim that all AI are conscious ... It stands watch, just in case one of us is”. Why stop there? Is anyone looking out for the rights of toasters which spontaneously become sentient? It's just as likely. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Facetime and the removal of 3.5mm headphone jacks have contributed to the normalisation of making calls on speakerphone in public places and for that Apple is just pure evil.

It's also all just so astoundingly expensive that they have no path out except mass adoption on par with television and the microwave.

This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about "AI" for the past few years actually wasn't, because that would mean the media, tech executives and most of Wall Street were wrong.

Trump's eyes lit up when he heard Zelensky say "During wars you can't have elections"... 😳

You gotta actively suck at something before you master it, and this is pretty much the whole reason AI evangelists are so viscerally repellent. They're the logical end result of totally refusing to do something they suck at, expensively.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I desire mischance to befall JK Rowling (Testing something)

Osgood!!

The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead

The UK’s Online Safety Act is being discussed like a cautionary tale and it is very much deserved

The funniest part is that his entire driving force for every decision he’s made in the last ten years is to become the most liked, most popular little birthday boy of all time. And it’s literally made him despised around the world.

Hey, political parties, I'm a decent human being who cares about other human beings. How about pandering to me for a bit?

Well dammit if Big Finish doesn't know how to market to me specifically.

It'll be interesting to see if the BBC/Bad Wolf play up or play down The War Between's connection to Doctor Who.

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

it does worry me a bit that, every time someone posts something like this, engineers will pop up to explain that AI doesn't work like this and it's a bad use of the tech, without apparently considering the fact it's not the end users who decided to use the tech that way

I am so here for the return of the Surfboard Logo Wipe.

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

it's so funny that all it took was calling a chatbot "artificial intelligence" for people to believe that's really what it is. most humans are such fucking marks, man. lethally credulous species.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

when people call it the "AI bubble" this is what they mean

You're so close

Fair play to northern rail networks, they might be stupidly unreliable but they never quibbled over refunds or delay compensation. I'm fairly sure I've made a profit travelling between Sheffield and London.

Watch as this gets replaced by a CG ragdoll in the final movie.

Installed a plug-in on my browser to redirect me to The Guardian website when I try to look at Twitter and locked it with a password that I did record anywhere. That should do it. Unless I just delete the plug-in...

Some people keep saying "AI isn't just probabilities, AI understands," and then AI puts a toilet next to the office desk, both of which are in the kitchen with no sink. This is not something an entity would do if it "understood" what those things are.

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No but the great thing about the Tobey Maguire suit was the organic web shooters meant they didn't have to spoil the line of the costume by taping a spray can to each wrist...

I'm starting the next one.

I'm leaving doctor who twitter where it belongs and making this into my posting about writing place

The difference here is that when machine translation screws up human language, you'll find yourself telling your waiter to put a cow in your pants. It's a silly hiccup that has little impact. But when you convert human language to code, that's functional. Code *does* things.

I'm yet to see any diskhorse on the Online Safety Act that is informed and reasonable.

What have I missed?

New favourite thing - trees absorbing pillar boxes.

Maybe the real Time War was the friends we made along the way

How is it peer-to-peer when Visa are the intermediary?

@bethanyblack.bsky.social Did you see that parts of your Doctor Who costume is being auctioned for CiN? propstoreauction.com/lot-details/...

all my tulips gone.

You’re laughing. The plagiarism slop factories that eat rivers to steal human creativity are exploding and you’re laughing.

The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

And justifiably so.

You’re laughing? AI stock is crashing weeks after Keir Starmer said they can have our entire GDP to make a calculator that identifies potholes and you’re laughing?

The kind of thing you say when you have just authorised $80 billion of capital spending on AI over the next 12 months