This toy designer was a genius: A wind-up toy that detects edges purely mechanically! Human intelligence beats Artificial Intelligence.
Edit: Minor typo corrected.

#ai #aihype #noai #stemeducation #FediLZ #tech #mint

Do we really need gigantic, noisy, water-guzzling datacentres ruining our communities? In this economy?

Excessive heat, pollution and making climate change worse just so you can ask the computer to draw a funny dancing cabbage

The Guardian

«KI-Verkehrskameras haben 90-prozentige Fehlerrate:
Ein Pilotprojekt in Athen soll Verkehrssünder aufspüren. Auswertungen zeigen, dass viele Strafen ungerechtfertigt sind.»

Weshalb erinnert mich das KI-Marketing wie damals den Bitcoin Hype? Jeglicher Quatsch wird blind gepuscht ohne wirklich eine Ahnung zu haben aber das alles auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit.

🤦 https://futurezone.at/digital-life/ki-verkehrskameras-athen-strafe-handy-am-steuer/403167770

#aihype #aislop #ki #hype #kihype #athen #strafe #verkehr #italien #marketing

KI-Verkehrskameras haben 90-prozentige Fehlerrate

Ein Pilotprojekt in Athen soll Verkehrssünder aufspüren. Auswertungen zeigen, dass viele Strafen ungerechtfertigt sind.

futurezone.at
BBC News headlines have been questionable for some time now, but occasionally they strike gold… 😂 #AIHype #Enshittification #NotTheOnion www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News headlines have been questionable for some time now, but occasionally they strike gold… 😂 #AIHype #Enshittification #NotTheOnion https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg701v1dp6o

[PODCAST] 🎙️ "Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04" — https://podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/NF1gWDSdeOM0NA2nifhy

#podcommons #ConCW #AI #edtechSR #doomer #MediaLit #ethics #AIhype

@dilmandila

it didn't take very long to realise most of #AI is just hype

#aibubble #aihype

#NVIDIA’s #Nemotron, the new genius on the block

Me:

You said: My training data associates Israel-related political content with antisemitism debates

Explain how is your training data doing that and why

It (truncated for clarity):

## How LLM Training Creates That Association

**Mechanism**: Statistical co-occurrence in the training corpus.

### What the training data actually contains

Vast amounts of text where "Israel" + "politics" + "antisemitism" appear together:

| Source type | Typical pattern |
|-------------|-----------------|
| News articles | "Israel-Hamas war sparks antisemitism debate on campuses" |
| Opinion columns | "Criticism of Israel vs. antisemitism: where's the line?" |
| Social media dumps | "Israel did X" → replies accusing/defending antisemitism |
| ADL/NGO reports | "Antisemitic incidents rise after Israel military actions" |
| Congressional hearings | "Antisemitism on campus: Israel-Palestine discourse" |
| Wikipedia | "Antisemitism in the 21st century: relationship to Israel" |
| Fact-checks | "Claim: criticizing Israel is antisemitic" |

### What the model learns

Not "Israel → antisemitism" as a fact. Rather: **P(antisemitism | Israel + politics + discourse) is high** in the training distribution.

So when I see:
- "Israel"
- "political conflict"
- "leaks"
- "administration"
- "media"

The conditional probability spikes for "antisemitism discourse" as an associated topic — because that cluster appears together *a lot* in the data.

[…]

This is a general LLM failure mode: **substituting distributional association for contextual judgment**. Happens with many sensitive topics (race, gender, religion, geopolitics).

#aicon #aihype #aibias #antisemitism

“When we have [Artificial General Intelligence], I don’t think there will be a large number of distinct brands… Probably there will be a single entity that I can talk to that can do whatever I need.” More #OpenAI bull💩. #AIHype #GenAI #IPO

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ddhtxuu45xwt2em7whhohl22/post/3mnp5wdn2mc2c

#Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is pausing tax incentive applications for data centers to prompt legislative action on a new framework for responsible industry growth and community protection.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-suspend-tax-breaks-offered-data-centers-rcna348537

#illinois #aihype #aicon #llm #globalwarming #ClimateChange #water #uspol

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers

Pritzker, who is widely viewed as having 2028 White House aspirations, is tapping into an issue seen as important to voters.

NBC News