This is why we're seeing dumb AI everywhere, and self owns like MS's Recall

Recouping revenue from massively expensive AI development is urgent, market fit's unclear, so corps are shoving "AI" into everything to please investors/hope for fit/keep the bubble inflated

IMO this also explains the lockstep turn to military contracting (OAI, et al). A good way to sell tech that "doesn't actually work" via lucrative contracts whose efficacy won't be assessed w trad. metrics.

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/

Elon Musk took to X yesterday (where else) to tell the world exactly how he feels about Apple partnering with OpenAI, raising concerns over security and data privacy and threatening to ban Apple devices from his companies as a result.

However, according to Tom's Guide, everything he mentioned — and the many similar comments that appeared on social media after the keynote — shows a huge misunderstanding about the deal with ChatGPT and how Apple Intelligence will actually work. Here's why.

https://flip.it/M7ympY

#AI #AppleIntelligence #Apple #ElonMusk #WWDC24

The problem with good news in the real world is that it's *messy*. Neat endings are for novels, not the real world, and that goes double for the climate emergency. But even though good climate news is complex and nuanced, that doesn't mean it shouldn't buoy our spirits and fill our hearts with hope.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

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It's a fruitful Critical Vole DORK TOWER WEDNESDAY! Lucrative new strip up now, at the Mothership:

http://www.dorktower.com/2024/06/10/18768/

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Maine Sen. Susan Collins isn't just the key Republican enabler of Trump's extremist Supreme Court appointments -- a pretend-centrist who is just as right-wing as the rest of the Republican Party.

She's a Trump flunky in just about every way at this point, as her flagrant lie about the NY prosecutor shows. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/collins-needs-to-retract-and-apologize-for-her-falsehood?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Backchannel%20NEW%20TEMPLATE%20329&utm_medium=email