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We've already been through three major global crises, what's one more?

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What AI is good at:

✅ ingesting large volumes of information to identify broad patterns

What AI is bad at:

❌ Making government decisions under the guidance of actual teenagers
February 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Not all AI is "evil"; machine learning OCR screen readers for the blind have existed for decades and can be improved with modern AI.

There may need to be another term for benign AI - AI that isn't just a theft machine that threshes the souls creatives for monetization.
February 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is interest because, for instance, removing people from a background is generative AI, but most don't have a problem with this. Adding a background is equally generative AI, and people do have a problem with that.
are we not calling the generative fill tool in photoshop ai now? cant keep up
Marvel Studios rep confirms that AI was not used to help make the new #FantasticFour posters

(via The Wrap)
February 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There's an overall positive feedback loop between HR managers and candidates right now

HR is inundated with resumes and uses AI to parse them, candidates can't get through and use AI to shotgun as many resumes as possible
This is not The Onion. futurism.com/ai-company-j...
February 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This isn't a dunk.

Gen Alpha has been exposed to filtered pictures for as long as they've been alive.

Kids, teens, even young adults can easily confuse low resolution photos for AI, while new technologies make AI increasingly realistic.
February 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I'm doing an article on the underground economy of AI trainers - would love to interview people, too - but does this feel exceptionally ominous to anyone but me?
February 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you
ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you
More accurate, and more resource intensive.
buff.ly
February 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Breaking: American company subsumes the sum total of creative labor to repackage and sell back to the public, gets angry when same labor is socialized to everyone for free.

www.404media.co/openai-furio...
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Breaking: 33 year old Nebraskan man discovers DeepSeek, a Chinese company, stores data in China; horrified Chinese government might be able to weaponize his Applejack fan fiction against patriots in America.
January 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app
DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app
The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the number-one spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the No. 1 free app in the U.S. App Store and 51 other…
tcrn.ch
January 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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DeepSeek says its updated text-to-image generator Janus pro-7B outperforms OpenAI's DALL-E 3 across multiple benchmarks.
DeepSeek just dropped an update AI model called Janus Pro. It says the image generator is better than OpenAI's DALL-E.
DeepSeek says its updated text-to-image generator Janus pro-7B outperforms OpenAI's DALL-E 3 across multiple benchmarks.
www.businessinsider.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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new from me & @kalleyhuang.bsky.social: months before Google's $2.7 billion deal with Character AI, the search giant threatened to remove Character's app from the Play store citing safety concerns

it was one of many early signals that something was amiss inside C.AI
go.theinformation.com/1e5159
Before Google’s $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
Late last summer, leaders at Character.AI were worried: The company—which offers artificial intelligence chatbots that simulate conversations with Aristotle, Pikachu and other historic or invented cha...
go.theinformation.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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What can a Game Boy do that your smartphone can’t? Receive FM radio broadcasts over the air.
January 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
At least this time, the boom is being subverted by better tech.

Unlike the dot com bubble's "oh no, I guess buying Wolves Dot Com wasn't the sound investment strategy I thought it was."

finance.yahoo.com/news/nasdaq-...
DeepSeek Buzz Puts Tech Shares on Track for $1 Trillion Drop
(Bloomberg) -- Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek’s latest AI model sparked a $1 trillion rout in US and European technology stocks, as investors questioned bloated valuations for some o...
finance.yahoo.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The corporate AI wars begin.

It always starts here and next thing you know, it's the self-healing robots.

www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/d...
DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrations
DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations "due to large-scale malicious attacks" on its services.
www.cnbc.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ah, see, this is what we *didn't* want it to do. Easy mistake to make.

"Wasps can now shoot guns, say scientists demonstrating new wasp-sized guns."

www.livescience.com/technology/a...
AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.
www.livescience.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"For some reason, some employees were resistant and emotional to a complete restructuring of their positions."

www.aalto.fi/en/news/why-...
Why are 80 percent of companies failing to benefit from AI? It’s about the people not the tech, says new study | Aalto University
Successful uptake of new technology is a matter of emotions — and with the vast majority of companies saying they’re failing to capitalise on its potential, managers need to know how to deal with them...
www.aalto.fi
January 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
From Stargate to Deepseek, this month has been an entire year.

January retrospective:
www.uswithai.com/blog/its-bee...
It's been a long year - and it's only January. | Us with AI
An overview of the newest things going on in AI.
www.uswithai.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM