It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
On 26 June, Turkey’s Ministry of Justice announced the “CBS Organization Prediction Project”: an amazing new system that lets a prosecutor or judge take a case file and predict which terrorist organisation the subject of the case file belongs to — with AI! [UYAP; Bianet] The project, developed with our domestic and national resources, analyzes [ ]
The Twitch streaming platform is owned by Amazon. They use your Twitch streams for training AI. Twitch Support tweeted about it yesterday: [Twitter, archive] We ve added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon. Mike Minton, Chief Product Officer at Twitch, went [ ]
I did another Times Radio Tech Report yesterday with Isaac Pound on the Dead Internet Theory where it s all bots talking to each other. My answer: spammers will always be with us. And the models will train on the AI spam and collapse from AI mad cow disease. It s a free half-hour Pivot! [YouTube] [ ]
Darana Hybrid claims they were stiffed for $137 million on the Colossus I and II data centres in Memphis, Tennessee, and $431 million on facilities in nearby Southhaven. It s filed liens against two SpaceX subsidiaries, CTC Property and MZX Tech. [Memphis Business Journal] Darana Hybrid worked on Colossus since it was announced in 2024. Owner Daryl [ ]
Meta has published “The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future,” a 6,500 word ramble about what’s coming in AI — or what Meta would like to be coming. [Meta] The piece is signed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but it it’s hard to tell if it’s chatbot output or just old-fashioned [ ]
Robot security guard have failed so hard that they’re being replaced with humans: [404, archive; Proof] Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015. We contacted contract holders and combed news articles and determined that at least 13 of those programs have ended. Most of the cancelled programmes used robots [ ]
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
Today we have the Molly White interview! $5-and up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this last week. Did you know OpenAI and Anthropic are running competing super-PACs? Hear how they messed up in New York District 12! Here are the video and the podcast. The rough transcript is on YouTube shortly, the [ ]
I got a great pitch email for Pivot to AI last week: [Mastodon] I am Shriya, reaching out on behalf of Frame Fellowship, a 10-week residential program in San Francisco, US for creators who want to become leading voices on AI and its impact on society. We were following your content and thought you are [ ]
Atomarine is a hot new AI startup that just got funding from Y Combinator! That’s the important part, job number one. All it took was some AI pictures of ships on a Claude-designed website. Venture capitalists are simple creatures. But second is the business plan. Atomarine is going out to sea in floating AI data [ ]
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness just went from $45 billion in assets at the start of July to $10 billion at the start of August after Aschenbrenner had to sell the fund’s public stock holdings to Ken Griffin at Citadel to pay his margin debts. [Bloomberg, archive] Aschenbrenner is just 24. He’s been [ ]
All systems based on chatbots can be prompt injected. You can always tell the bot to do things it shouldn’t. The AI vendors try to put in guard rails. The guard rails sort of work for about two seconds. The original sin of chatbots is that data and instructions are mixed together in the same [ ]
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedly” and Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário; Manual do Usuário] (yes, I missed a week. Sorry, it s been busy here!)
Today we have an interview! $5-and up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this on Monday. Nik s advice when your boss loves Claude a little too much: ‘Just let the money run out, it’ll be fine in two years’ The video and podcast are up now! The rough transcript is on YouTube, [ ]
On Tuesday, I recorded an interview with Molly White, long-time cryptocurrency follower, who s pivoting from tracking crypto money in politics to tracking AI money in politics at Tech Influence Watch. Hear what the guys running the AI bubble have been up to. [Tech Influence Watch] That s released next Friday. But if you sign up for [ ]
AlphaFold was a machine learning system from Google Deepmind. It did protein folding. It was usably good at guessing protein structures. It caught public attention by doing really well in the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction benchmarks. AlphaFold did some useful work — mostly as an extra to help biologists predict a structure they were [ ]
Realbotix makes allegedly realistic life-sized silicone-skin dolls, with a robot mechanism and — of course! — AI. Humanoid robots are a hot prospect for the next tech bubble after AI. They’re a bit hampered by the fact they’re sort of rubbish, they don’t work, and almost nobody wants them. Realbotix needs sales. They sold just [ ]
The Singularity is the Rapture in Silicon Valley’s totally-not-religion. The AI improves itself, getting smarter and smarter, until it achieves super-intelligence! And then it turns us all into paperclips. Or everything works out well. Have you been naughty or nice? The Basilisk is watching! Sam Altman from OpenAI is not a true believer in AI [ ]
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Everyone wants Gemini, right? Google already made the power switch on Android phones into a Gemini button. Everyone wants that! Google doesn’t have the same control over desktop computers. But in MacOS on the Apple Macintosh, any application can set a keyboard shortcut that works globally — in any other app. If you install the [ ]