BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024plus-squarepinBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square166fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 hours agothe tech utopia fantasy is overplus-squareblog.avas.spaceexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkthe tech utopia fantasy is overplus-squareblog.avas.spaceDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square5fedilink
slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-214 hours agoThe article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine'splus-squarewww.astralcodexten.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkThe article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine'splus-squarewww.astralcodexten.comslopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-214 hours agomessage-square9fedilink
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agoWhomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productiveplus-squarewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkWhomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productiveplus-squarewww.theregister.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square19fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down10
arrow-up1199arrow-down1external-linkWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square18fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-22 days agoChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square2fedilink
self@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaself@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square22fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agohey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraudplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squarehey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraudplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square3fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoPumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkPumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoCoca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expectplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down10
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkCoca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expectplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square34fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoHarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkHarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square2fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoI Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeralplus-squarewww.giantfreakinrobot.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkI Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeralplus-squarewww.giantfreakinrobot.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square8fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoSubstack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop tooplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkSubstack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop tooplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square11fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoAI and venture capital are going nuclearplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkAI and venture capital are going nuclearplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoEd Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minuteswww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkEd Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minuteswww.youtube.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoOpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any furtherplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down10
arrow-up174arrow-down1external-linkOpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any furtherplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square41fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square4fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agoWhere's Your Ed At - Lost In The Futureplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkWhere's Your Ed At - Lost In The Futureplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoUK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkUK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square5fedilink
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 days agoHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)www.youtube.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square11fedilink
