The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

Desperate for people to understand how Big Tech is a major cog in war machines.There is no casual use of foundation model AI. Universities embracing the AI-enhanced learning dream are contributing to mass annihilation, even if it's inconvenient for them to recognize it. apnews.com/article/isra...

FYI, keeping a certain distance with current events to avoid spiralling into anxiety. One of the many things that are nit okay at the moment: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

just gonna drop this here cuz I'm tired of repeating myself www.cigionline.org/big-tech/the...

🔥 Hot off the presses: The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...

“They’ve re-created the financial system, but with fewer protections for consumers.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160