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Yeah. “EU wants this, EU wants that” - bullshit, the EU has no will of its own. A set of politicians within the EU, on the other hand.

That’s the hardest part, I guess.

Launching their own nazi chatbot hardly counts as “failure to act”.

Yeah, it would be wonderful if that symbol could eventually be reclaimed. Seems a bit far off though. Would English speakers know what you refer to if you say hakenkreuz?

In my native tongue it’s called hakekors, and I speak some German, so I’m not in a position to assess how understandable it would be to folks who only speak English.

Oh yeah. Circulating random swastika-labelled push notifications talking about a sickness that “aflicks (?) all Jews” is a pretty big no-no in most, if not all, of the civilized world.

Beware of increasingly white supremacists.

NEW - Solar geoengineering researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to “avoid scaring” the public.

aha.

Anyway, nice to see the famous Substack network effects in full swing.

Due to the risk of battery fires, Google said that devices with more than 400 charge cycles could see their capacity and charging speed drastically reduced.

Apparently they design phones that’ll last just over a year before self-igniting.

Usually when I see this it’s using other machine learning approaches than LLM, and the researchers behind it are usually very careful not to use the term AI, as they are fully aware that this is not what they are doing.

There’s huge potential in machine learning, but LLMs are very little more than bullshit generators, and generative AI is theft producing soulless garbage. LLMs are widely employed because they look impressive, but for anything that requires substance machine learning methods that have been around for years tend to perform better.

If you can identify cancer in x-rays using machine learning that’s awesome, but that’s very seperate from the AI hype machine that is currently running wild.

Gigantic hater of all things LLM or “AI” here.

The only genuine contribution I can think of that LLMs have made to society is their translation capabilities. So even I can see how a fully open source model with “multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages” could be potentially useful.

And even if it is all a scam, if this prevents people from sending money to China or the US as they are falling for the scam, I guess that’s also a good thing.

Could I find something to hate about it? Oh yeah, most certainly! :)