Devastating article. Anyone mentions AI at work today I'll hand them this. "When the supercomputer gets to full capacity, the local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year."

The fact that “AI tools” are built on the back of existing art can’t be divorced from the use of such tools. The model is rotten at the core. There is no ethical use of AI models trained w/o consent. Let’s deal with the rottenness & then discuss aesthetics & the meaning of “art.”

Hello, I'm a university professor. My job is to answer email and complete mandatory online training courses.

I prosecuted sexual assault cases in Texas. I prosecuted these cases for 17 years. I never prosecuted an undocumented immigrant for rape. I prosecuted multiple Christian pastors for rape. As a descendant of a holocaust survivor, I have to speak up against this hate.

If you ask ChatGPT o1 about its Chain of Thought a few times, OpenAI Support emails you and threatens to revoke your o1 access.

For only $143, Elsevier/Springer will send me a PDF of my accepted paper that I can share with 25 people :). Publishers again adding tremendous value. I wouldn't know what to do without this attractive option.

Folk acting in disbelief that David Cameron contacted Putin for help prior to the 2014 Indyref might be shocked to learn the BBC sent Andrew Marr to Russia to meet Putin for the same reason. Yes, the BBC sought out a crazed dictator in order to help undermine independence.

So, Google is killing its cache (which was amazingly useful), and replacing it with a third-party solution of linking to the Internet Archive. I really hope the Internet Archive is being paid -- and paid a lot -- for this.

The way things are going, the AMOC could very well collapse in our lifetime. The last time this happened, Ireland entered a fcking ice age. Just one example of the utter *insanity* of continuing with business-as-usual. rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

I simply can't imagine why private healthcare company representatives would give £175,000 to the minister in charge of our National Health Service, Wes Streeting MP. Can you? thenational.scot/news/24250557.…

Wouldn't it be great if, instead of Labour's insidious plans to privatise the NHS, we could all chip in a bit on a monthly basis to fund a fantastic public healthcare system. It'd almost be like an insurance policy. We could call it - I dunno - "National Insurance" or something.

2014: "You'll be bankrupt like Greece!". 2024: "Envy of the world.... Golden ticket for UK growth!" x.com/heraldscotland…

Monday on wheresyoured.at There is a brewing subprime AI crisis. The entire generative AI market is run on the back of unprofitable tech run at prices subsidised by big tech, and when OpenAI and others have to charge their real prices, there may be terrible consequences.

"In this new generative-AI paradigm, uncertainty reigns over certainty, speculation dominates reality, science defers to faith. The hype around generative AI is accelerating fossil-fuel extraction while the technology consumes unprecedented amounts of energy."

Scotland is still crippled by BILLIONS of PFI debt instigated by Labour under Gordon Brown. Now they want to put us in hock for even more. THIS IS UTTER FISCAL STUPIDITY that will destroy public finances and transfer even more wealth to the top 1%. x.com/RogueCoder250/…

Ran Google NotebookLM Audio Overview on the NAIN guidelines for GenAI. It produces a podcast style conversation that purportedly focuses on the key aspects of the document. Amazing demo, pity about the, ahem, cultural style. drive.google.com/file/d/1mqJe0d…

'equivalent learning volume' to be achieved through 'rich, digital learning'.

Major X4.54 flare from sunspot region 3825 Follow live on spaceweather.live/l/flare