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Lyle Solla-Yates @Lyle@cville.online

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_quality_management I recognize I am very old and the world is radically different today, but I cut my teeth late in the quality revolution when there was a consensus that businesses competed by providing the best customer experience possible so that it would be unthinkable to drop them, not based on AI spend. I find this market very upsetting and I look forward to the crash. #quality #AIBubble

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

Here's why: because you'd annoy the hell out of the restaurant. Just ask the beleaguered owners of the Montana eatery Stefanina's Wentzville, who are begging their customers to stop using Google's infamously shambolic AI Overviews to check up on its specials, First Alert 4 reports.

"Please do not use Google AI to find out our specials. Please go on our Facebook page or our website," the restaurant wrote in a weary Facebook post. "Google AI is not accurate and is telling people specials that do not exist which is causing angry customers yelling at our employees."

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Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code

“One of the most surprising findings was a significant shift in developer preferences for AI compared to previous years, while most developers use AI, they like it less and trust it less this year,” Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst for Market Research and Insights at Stack Overflow, told VentureBeat. “This response is surprising because with all of the investment in and focus on AI in tech news, I would expect that the trust would grow as the technology gets better.”

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Victoria Song: AI doesn't belong in journaling (subscription, ya can get the gist from the headline and the first paragraph). From here by way of here.

localghost: This website is for humans.

I'd much rather people read the whole thing, take it in, digest it and have opinions right back at me. I love it when people connect with what I’m writing (and sometimes they email me to tell me that, which is really delightful).

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Top AI models fail spectacularly when faced with slightly altered medical questions

Artificial intelligence systems often perform impressively on standardized medical exams—but new research suggests these test scores may be misleading. A study published in JAMA Network Open indicates that large language models, or LLMs, might not actually “reason” through clinical questions. Instead, they seem to rely heavily on recognizing familiar answer patterns. When those patterns were slightly altered, the models’ performance dropped significantly—sometimes by more than half.

You don't fucking say. Really? Via

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says. Via.

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