bsmall2Sep 8

> ...meet each other in that deep way that AI can never replace, because when you read a work of literature you encounter another human being's struggles and successes in describing the world or their heart or a particular time and place in words, and that contact, even through the medium of black ink on white paper, even across continents and centuries, is human and humane.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-for-the-imagination/
#RebeccaSolnit on #AISalami #SalamiAI #SolnitOnLiterature #SolnitOnLibraries

The War for the Imagination

I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sappho and Black Elk and others long since gone, meet ideas and possibilities, meet each other

Meditations in an Emergency
bsmall2Aug 13

> “A concrete example of what I mean when I say AI cannot summarize.”

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

#AISalami #SalamiAi #LLMSummarize

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…

Iris van Rooij
bsmall2Jul 2

> “So, it isn’t any kind of ‘cognitive decline’; that assumes it was smart to begin with,” Gill said. “This is the disillusionment after the hype. There is still a long way to go, but nothing will replace a plain old calculator or computer. Dumbness is so underrated.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ai-hallucinations-whats-really-happening_l_68556bd5e4b0278e54ed3d14
#SalamiAI #AISalami #AS #ArtificiallyStupefied
#ChatGPT #llms

No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That

Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place.

HuffPost UK
bsmall2May 24
> In an analysis of nearly 5,000 summaries created by popular AI models—including versions of ChatGPT, Claude, LLaMA, and DeepSeek—researchers found that many systems consistently exaggerated the conclusions of original research papers. The problem wasn’t just occasional sloppiness. In some newer models, overgeneralization happened in up to 73% of summaries. That’s a big concern when people rely on these tools to explain health research, inform policies, or guide classroom learning.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241776
#SalamiAI #AISalami #LLMsAndScience
Brian SmallMay 22
"I read a really great phrase recently that said something along the lines of 'why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write' and that is such a powerful statement and one that aligns absolutely with my views."
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"If you want to know why a decision is made, we will need humans. If we don't care about that, then we will probably use AI," he says.
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"Even when you do a Google search it includes an AI overview, while some emails have a topline summary, So now it almost feels like we have no control. How do I turn all that off? It's snowballing."
bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzd…
#SabineZetteler
#AISalami #SalamiAI
The people refusing to use AI

Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.

bsmall2May 13
> For Chomsky, the "new AI"—focused on using statistical learning techniques to better mine and predict data— is unlikely to yield general principles about the nature of intelligent beings or about cognition.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/
#AISalami #WhereAIWentWrong #ChomskyOnAI #NoamChomsky
Noam Chomsky: Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

An extended conversation with the legendary linguist

The Atlantic
bsmall2Apr 10
> Even the $100 billion that Altman promised would be deployed “immediately” would be much more expensive than the Manhattan Project ($30 billion in current dollars) and the COVID vaccine’s Operation Warp Speed ($18 billion), rivaling the multiyear construction of the Interstate Highway System ($114 billion). https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/
#uspol #AISalami
/HT @timnitGebru
Bubble Trouble

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

The American Prospect
bs2Jan 29
> V3 was trained at a reported cost of about US$5.58 million. This is dramatically cheaper than GPT-4, for example, which cost more than US$100 million to develop.
> DeepSeek also claims to have trained V3 using around 2,000 specialised computer chips, specifically H800 GPUs made by NVIDIA. This is again much fewer than other companies, which may have used up to 16,000 of the more powerful H100 chips.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/29/deepseek-how-a-small-chinese-ai-company-is-shaking-up-us-tech-heavyweights/
#DeepSeek #AISalami #AIChips
#TongliangLiu
DeepSeek: How a Small Chinese AI Company is Shaking up US Tech Heavyweights

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the tech community, with the release of extremely efficient AI models

CounterPunch.org
bs2Jan 27
I wonder if it wastes as much electricity and water as Gringo LLMs?
> China’s DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed, fully open-source reasoning model that rivals OpenAI’s o1—and developers are losing it. Unlike OpenAI’s closed ecosystem, DeepSeek-R1 is free to modify, fine-tune, and commercialise, making it a dream come true for researchers and businesses alike.
https://analyticsindiamagazine.substack.com/p/deepseek-just-did-what-openai-wouldnt
#DeepSeek #AiSalami #LLMs ??
DeepSeek Just Did What OpenAI Wouldn’t

China’s DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed, fully open-source reasoning model that rivals OpenAI’s o1—and developers are losing it. Unlike OpenAI’s closed ecosystem, DeepSeek-R1 is free to modify, fine-tune, and commercialise, making it a dream come true for researchers and businesses alike.

Sector 6 | The Newsletter of AIM
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> The more honest diagnosis would be that the responses are the result of a broken political system that offers no real way for people to have their healthcare grievances addressed—but that would call not for scolding screwed-over patients, but rather demanding political reform that challenges entrenched political and corporate interests that the Times has little interest in challenging.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-panics-over-outrage-at-insurance-companies/
#UnitedHealthCare #uspol #AISalami #AgenticShift #AIinMedicine
@bsmall2
NYT Panics Over Outrage at Insurance Companies 

The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.

FAIR