More academic publishers are doing AI deals
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/04/more-academic-publishers-are-doing-ai-deals/
A week after Taylor & Francis sold authors’ work to Microsoft AI for $10 million without asking or paying them, the Bookseller surveyed other academic publishers to see if they were cutti…
AI investors are getting the jitters
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/03/ai-investors-are-getting-the-jitters/
AI investors are getting nervous, wondering where their money is going. None of this stuff actually makes money. Some worry that this might be a bubble. Ya think? [Washington Post, archive; Futuris…
The EU’s AI Act enters into force. Good.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/02/the-eus-ai-act-enters-into-force-good/
After four years, the EU has finally approved the AI Act. The law entered into force on August 1 and takes effect over the next three years. [EU Journal] The AI Act squarely targets the US AI indus…
AI data centers are trashing the Texas energy grid
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/01/ai-data-centers-are-trashing-the-texas-energy-grid/
Data centers are flocking to Texas. Real estate companies backed by private equity, along with Microsoft and Google, are buying up land, pushing out other developments, and trashing the state’s alr…
‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?
‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/31/can-artificial-intelligence-speak-for-incapacitated-patients-at-the-end-of-life-no-and-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you/
JAMA Internal Medicine presents an opinion article: “Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?” The authors, three doctors from UCSF, don’t seem to have heard…
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/
Exec says mouse that requires a regular fee for software updates is possible.
CalcGPT: bringing the magic of AI to basic arithmetic
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/30/calcgpt-bringing-the-magic-of-ai-to-basic-arithmetic/
CalcGPT, created by developer Calvin Liang, breaks new ground in showing an irrefutable use case for large language models. Liang has constructed a desktop calculator powered by GPT-3. In our testi…
Anthropic is scraping websites so fast it’s causing problems
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/29/anthropic-is-scraping-websites-so-fast-its-causing-problems/
Anthropic has been aggressively scraping data from websites to train its Claude LLM, permission or no. They don’t care — they want your data. [FT, archive] This isn’t unusual — egregious plagiarism…
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 04 August 2024
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
SAPwned: SAP’s AI cloud cracked by simple Kubernetes configuration errors
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/28/sapwned-saps-ai-cloud-cracked-by-simple-kubernetes-configuration-errors/
SAP is a massive software-as-a-service business intelligence provider. They have an AI offering, SAP AI Core, which customers can train with internal data. Unfortunately, SAP seems to have implemen…
