Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles
As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. Bluesky: @jjvincent Bluesky: James Vincent / @jjvincent :...
When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query
seemingly solicits Elon Musk's opinion on controversial topics Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo : Researchers Find Grok 4 Checking Elon Musk's Opinions Before Answering ‘Sensitive’ Questions Max Read / Read Max ...
Stack Overflow survey of ~90K developers in 185 countries: 70% use or plan to use AI coding tools in 2023; only 3% “highly trust” and 39% “somewhat trust” them
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A writer who learned to code after losing his job reflects on AI chatbots, which repackage ideas and lack lateral thinking, and why humans are irreplaceable
Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable. I've learned that's nonsense Tweets: @neilturkewitz , @sarahbadr , @tristandross , @jjvincent , and @david_r...
An in-depth look at the impact of LLMs on music and recording artists, reflecting on Vocaloid's first software in 2004, Hatsune Miku, Drake, and Louis Armstrong
@elite_gz h/t @jjvincent https://twitter.com/... @elite_gz : tl;dr: it's just vocaloid. this technology has existed for twenty years, it's just easy enough to use now to justify doing illegal things w...
Similar to McKinsey and other consulting firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism”
As it's currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? Mastodon: @cblgh@merveilles.town . Tweets: @jjvincent , @danmcquillan , @...
Bluesky, which has 55K+ users, feels absolutely wild, with the CEO asking users to stop calling posts “skeets”, a struggle to establish norms, and lots of nudes
and hundreds—of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet been issued. That changes right now. @samthenightowl : a fun ...
Sam Altman says OpenAI won't train GPT-5 for “some time” and the letter to pause AI development missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”
This is in line with my current belief that GPT-4 is pretty close to where LLMs will peak. … Tweets: Brij Singh / @brij : Capabilities over versions! Moving forward, @OpenAI may shift focus away from ...
Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, doesn't let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed
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Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists' styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data
Or Wanted Bilawal "Billyfx" Sidhu : 🧠 Stable Diffusion 2.0 Out, Adding a New Dimension of Depth — Here's Why It Matters 🎨 Tweets: @stabilityai : We are excited to announce the release of Stable Diffus...