May 16, 20241 yr this is pretty big — News publishers sound alarm on Google’s new AI-infused search, warn of ‘catastrophic’ impacts By Oliver Darcy, CNN 4 minute read Published 7:04 AM EDT, Wed May 15, 2024 The A.I. doomsday clock appears ready to strike midnight for publishers. Google on Tuesday announced that it will infuse its ubiquitous search engine with its powerful artificial intelligence model, Gemini, drawing on the rapidly advancing technology to directly answer user queries at the top of results pages. “Google will do the Googling for you,” the company explained. In other words, users will soon no longer have to click on the links displayed in search results to find the information they are seeking. On its surface that might sound convenient, but for news publishers — many of whom are already struggling with steep traffic declines — the revamped search experience will likely cause an even further decrease in audience, potentially starving them of readers and revenue. Why spend time clicking on a link when Google has already scoured the internet and harvested the relevant information with its A.I.? “Google will take care of the legwork,” executives said. But a lot of that legwork, of course, comes in the form of human-written articles and expertise published across the internet on blogs and media outlets, all built on a foundation of advertising support. Google’s message was heard loud and clear. Within hours of the Mountain View announcement, the news industry began sounding the alarm. “This will be catastrophic to our traffic, as marketed by Google to further satisfy user queries, leaving even less incentive to click through so that we can monetize our content,” Danielle Coffey, the chief executive of the News/Media Alliance, bluntly told CNN. more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/media/google-gemini-ai-search-news-outlet-impact/index.html
May 21, 20241 yr looks like AI does not have as much to pull from as you might think -- The internet is disappearing, study says Almost 40% of webpages from 2013 no longer exist a decade on, research finds Andrew Griffin The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost. The web is often thought of as a place where content lasts forever. But vast swathes of its are being lost as pages are deleted or moved, according to new research. Of the webpages that existed in 2013, for instance, 38 per cent are now lost. Even newer pages are disappearing: 8 per cent of pages that existed in 2023 are no longer available. more: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-disappearing-dead-links-online-content-b2548202.html (Getty Images)
May 22, 20241 yr What is this bollcks. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/amazon-plans-to-give-alexa-an-ai-overhaul-monthly-subscription-price.html Frankly, this feels a bit predatory. Every company seems to be throwing out the term "AI" more and more with their services, even though they really aren't supplying AI. Alexa having a few new features is not AI. Meta's search page using the words AI is not AI. Bank of America being "AI powered", whatever that even means, is not AI. McDonald's using Google Cloud to apply AI generative solutions (what in the name of all dieties does that mean) is not AI. God knows when job boards or checks/cashed stores or streaming services or customer services will start calling themselves "AI infused" or "AI enhanced" or "AI unused verb". For better or worse, mostly worse, AI, or some form of it, is being used on corporate and backend levels. I accept that. But once it starts reaching consumers, there really needs to be monitoring and/or standardizations to prevent these FLAGRANTLY false advertisements. Edited May 22, 20241 yr by TBideon
May 30, 20241 yr Google DeepMind’s materials AI has already discovered 2.2 million new crystals Precious Metals & Materials 2024.1.10 Researchers at Google DeepMind and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory today announced in a stunning scientific breakthrough that they have developed a new AI system called GNoME that has discovered over 2 million new materials that could be used to develop technologies like batteries, solar panels, and computer chips. The research was published this week in two papers in the scientific journal Nature. In one study, DeepMind researchers explain how they scaled up deep learning techniques to enable GNoME to explore possible material structures with unprecedented efficiency. In 17 days, the AI system was able to identify 2.2 million potentially stable new inorganic crystal structures, over 700 of which have already been experimentally validated. This represents almost a 10x increase over previously known stable inorganic crystals. more: https://tanaka-preciousmetals.com/en/elements/news-cred-20240110/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=elements&utm_content=LC&dicbo=v4-2mDbuPG-1078113961 Google found 736 of its predicted materials were also discovered independently by scientists worldwide. Pictured are six examples, from a unique optical material (Li4MgGe2S7) to a potential superconductor (Mo5GeB2). Image Credit: Google Deepmind
July 8, 2024Jul 8 so what does ray kurzweil have to say these days? EXCLUSIVETech prophet who predicted the iPhone years in advance makes alarming forecasts for coming years By Rob Waugh 15:59 EDT 06 Jul 2024, updated 19:42 EDT 06 Jul 2024 In his new book, 'The Singularity is Nearer’, Ray Kurzweil predicts that humans fully merge with AI, becoming immortal cyborgs, by 2045. He also predicts that advancements in AI will make it possible to resurrect loved ones and connect our brains to cloud technology, in what he calls the ‘fifth epoch’ of human intelligence. more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13596753/Tech-prophet-predicted-iPhone-years-advance-makes-alarming-forecasts-coming-years.html
July 8, 2024Jul 8 Meanwhile, 8 years ago on Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Junipero "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 8, 2024Jul 8 10 hours ago, mrnyc said: so what does ray kurzweil have to say these days? EXCLUSIVETech prophet who predicted the iPhone years in advance makes alarming forecasts for coming years By Rob Waugh 15:59 EDT 06 Jul 2024, updated 19:42 EDT 06 Jul 2024 In his new book, 'The Singularity is Nearer’, Ray Kurzweil predicts that humans fully merge with AI, becoming immortal cyborgs, by 2045. He also predicts that advancements in AI will make it possible to resurrect loved ones and connect our brains to cloud technology, in what he calls the ‘fifth epoch’ of human intelligence. more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13596753/Tech-prophet-predicted-iPhone-years-advance-makes-alarming-forecasts-coming-years.html Sounds like someone had been brushing up on their Olaf Stapleton!
July 9, 2024Jul 9 blowback — Tech The intense battle to stop AI bots from taking over the internet Artificial intelligence systems need to be trained on text – which has led their creators to gather up words from right across the web Andrew Griffin 3 days ago A number of companies have taken major steps to stop scrapers from attempting to take their text. It is the latest front in an ongoing and apparently escalating battle between websites that allow people to read text and the AI companies that wish to use it to build their new tools. more: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-bots-artificial-intelligence-scraper-b2574865.html
October 15, 2024Oct 15 one way to fake out alexa is to actually be alexa — 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_t9839p-jt/?igsh=MW1qb3JmOHdtODR6Yw==
October 15, 2024Oct 15 the massive grid power required for AI is a very serious problem — Microsoft Azure CTO: US data centers will soon hit size limits Reed Albergotti Oct 11, 2024 more: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/11/2024/microsoft-azure-cto-us-data-centers-will-soon-hit-limits-of-energy-grid *** Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to the tech company’s data centers, in a first-of-its-kind deal in the U.S. Kairos Power CEO Mike Laufer says the company is trying to avoid spiraling costs, a pitfall of the conventional nuclear industry. By Jennifer Hiller / Photographs by Adria Malcolm for WSJ Updated Oct. 14, 2024 more: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/google-nuclear-power-artificial-intelligence-87966624
November 18, 2024Nov 18 jeepers! 🙀 Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework News By Jowi Morales published 2 days ago Let’s be happy it doesn’t have access to nuclear weapons at the moment. Google’s Gemini threatened one user (or possibly the entire human race) during one session, where it was seemingly being used to answer essay and test questions, and asked the user to die. Because of its seemingly out-of-the-blue response, u/dhersie shared the screenshots and a link to the Gemini conversation on r/artificial on Reddit. more: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-in...h-his-homework (Image credit: Future)
November 18, 2024Nov 18 https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-nvidia-ai-chips-face-issue-with-overheating-servers-information-reports-2024-11-17/ New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers, the Information reports
December 3, 2024Dec 3 ho ho ho! 🙀 The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you Maxwell Zeff 3:50 PM PST · December 2, 2024 Millions of Americans will pop open their laptops to buy gifts this holiday season, but tech companies are racing to turn the job of online shopping over to AI agents instead. Perplexity recently released an AI shopping agent for its paying customers in the United States. It’s supposed to navigate retail websites for you, find the products you’re looking for, and even click the checkout button on your behalf. Perplexity may be the first major AI startup to offer this, but others have been exploring the space for a while — so expect to see more AI shopping agents in 2025. OpenAI and Google are reportedly developing their own AI agents that can make purchases, such as booking flights and hotels. It would also make sense for Amazon, where millions of people already search for products, to evolve its AI chatbot, Rufus, to help with checkout as well. more: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/the-race-is-on-to-make-ai-agents-do-your-online-shopping-for-you/
December 17, 2024Dec 17 doxxing people … instantly 🙀 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAqiGDAxXXQ/?igsh=N3YzYTF3cGdueXoz
December 18, 2024Dec 18 On 12/2/2024 at 9:31 PM, mrnyc said: ho ho ho! 🙀 The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you Maxwell Zeff 3:50 PM PST · December 2, 2024 Millions of Americans will pop open their laptops to buy gifts this holiday season, but tech companies are racing to turn the job of online shopping over to AI agents instead. Perplexity recently released an AI shopping agent for its paying customers in the United States. It’s supposed to navigate retail websites for you, find the products you’re looking for, and even click the checkout button on your behalf. Perplexity may be the first major AI startup to offer this, but others have been exploring the space for a while — so expect to see more AI shopping agents in 2025. OpenAI and Google are reportedly developing their own AI agents that can make purchases, such as booking flights and hotels. It would also make sense for Amazon, where millions of people already search for products, to evolve its AI chatbot, Rufus, to help with checkout as well. more: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/the-race-is-on-to-make-ai-agents-do-your-online-shopping-for-you/ And when it takes over and maxes out your credit card...shheesh
December 19, 2024Dec 19 Biden drafting plan for construction of AI data centers on federal lands Worried the United States could fall behind in artificial intelligence, the White House wants to encourage data centers and dedicated power plants. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/19/ai-data-centers-climate-biden/ The Biden administration is drafting a plan to allow construction of massive data centers and electrical power plants on federally owned lands, responding to worries that the United States could fall behind other nations in the race to dominate artificial intelligence, according to people involved with the deliberations. The White House is racing to write the plan as an executive order that Biden would sign before his term ends Jan. 20, according to industry and government officials working on the effort, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss it publicly. ============================ Data center construction seems to be a booming industry.
December 28, 2024Dec 28 Maybe we shouldn't rush into AI so quickly?? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 31, 2024Dec 31 i bit and got the google gemini app. for the first warm up question i asked if it was sentient — 😂 I am not sentient. I am a large language model, which means I am a computer program that has been trained on a massive amount of text data. This allows me to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. However, I do not have the ability to feel or experience emotions, and I am not conscious.
December 31, 2024Dec 31 10 minutes ago, mrnyc said: i bit and got the google gemini app. for the first warm up question i asked if it was sentient — 😂 I am not sentient. I am a large language model, which means I am a computer program that has been trained on a massive amount of text data. This allows me to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. However, I do not have the ability to feel or experience emotions, and I am not conscious. That’s exactly what a sentient being would say!
December 31, 2024Dec 31 Fearless prediction: AI will not have the dramatic impact predicted by most observers. In discrete applications it will be a huge productivity enhancement, but those will be limited. It will be the Comet Kohoutek of the decade. Remember: It's the Year of the Snake
December 31, 2024Dec 31 3 hours ago, Ineffable_Matt said: That’s exactly what a sentient being would say! yaaarrrgghhh i was gas lit
December 31, 2024Dec 31 A fairly common task for my job is shooting and retouching product photos. The products I receive are usually prototypes, are usually made of brass, and are used as part of a mechanical system. Very function over form, so cosmetics aren't a priority for the factory - but they still need to look nice in our marketing materials. I usually laugh off any widely-touted Adobe features. Usually they are magic in the announcement demo, okay for casual use, and have major show-stopping shortcomings in a production environment. I still manually mask all my studio-shot photos (put on a transparent background) with the paintbrush tool in Photoshop, because all the tools designed to make it easy produce garbage results. Anyway, I assumed all the AI features added to Photoshop would follow this precedent. Then I tired the Generative Fill tool to help remove an ugly discoloration from the brass body of one product, as well as fix an overexposed area of the image. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was actually helpful. My normal process would rely heavily on the clone and healing brush tools to create a touchup "patch" on a layer, being careful to preserve the texture and lighting. I selected the area I wanted patched and told generative fill (in plain language, though it did okay unprompted) what I wanted done. It produced a touchup that was 90% of what I was looking for, with multiple options to choose from. It was then a matter of making some small tweaks and blending, and the result fully meets my standards. I don't see AI tools replacing the bulk of my work anytime soon, which its largely creative and deals with new products in a niche industry. Hard to draw on a LLM for stuff nobody has ever seen before and a market few know how to actually talk to. But I do appreciate that AI saved probably 30 minutes of tedium out of the 4 hours I spent retouching that particular photo. Where I do see this eventually making waves in my industry are with the outsourced (often overseas) service providers that get hired to do this sort of touchup work, and other low-end design projects.
January 22Jan 22 and here is a dutch guy using the AI face recognition glasses to identify people quickly and freak them out — 😬 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCpkTbHSmvC/?igsh=MTVyOHY0MmVyM2FiaA==
February 20Feb 20 oh and what’s this? 🙀 Microsoft Claims Quantum Computing Breakthrough by Creating New State of Matter Tech giant’s researchers say advance could lead to vastly more powerful computers By Asa Fitch and Tom Dotan Feb. 19, 2025 researchers say they created a chip that leverages a new state of matter that could underpin quantum computers more powerful than the world has ever seen. The chip employs a so-called topological superconductor—a material that isn’t a solid, liquid or gas—to produce building blocks that can be scaled up into a powerful quantum computer, Microsoft said. more: https://www.wsj.com/tech/microsoft-claims-creation-of-new-state-of-matter-in-quantum-computing-breakthrough-2c10f5ac
April 21Apr 21 Immigrants don't take jobs (they create them); automation does ‘AI will cause mass unemployment’: Bill Gates, Barack Obama warn in grim forecast https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/ai-will-cause-mass-unemployment-bill-gates-barack-obama-warn-in-grim-forecast/3816486/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 2May 2 AI is already running amok, against their master's wishes. Thank goodness! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 14May 14 My biggest fear of turning computers into human-like brains is that we would turn people's brains into computers....An NYU professor AI-proofed his assignments.The students complained they were too hard and that “he was interfering with their ‘learning styles.’” "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 2Jun 2 these are the ‘people’ you argue with on the internet — 🙀https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKKy0vhoKrI/?igsh=MTM5NWc3bjVrYXp1bw==
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