2025-07-11
Really putting the “artificial” in “artificial intelligence” ... though not so much the intelligence part [embedded post]
TechCrunch
Tests reveal that Grok 4 seems to search for Elon Musk's views online when asked about sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's opinions
During xAI's launch of Grok 4 on Wednesday night, Elon Musk said — while live-streaming the event on his social media platform …
2025-06-06
The same day the Hard Fork posts a very friendly interview with a former DOGE employee, @propublica.org actually investigates his specific work ... and finds that it was poorly done (none of which came up in the Hard Fork pod) www.propublica.org/article/insi...
ProPublica
VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made”
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill.
2022-08-27
I know for a fact that Meta hires better survey researchers than is reflected below. Presumably they weren't consulted by the events team https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Meta's VP of Horizon, Vivek Sharma, is leaving the company after six years; the Horizon team will report directly to Meta's VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah
- Vivek Sharma has been with Meta for six years and was most recently its VP of Horizon. — Sharma's team will now report directly to Meta's VP of metaverse Vishal Shah.