walkies enthusiast @scattapilla@jorts.horse
I think we should start referring to bluesky as Bainsky
Bainsky sounds like the anti-Banksy Dan Lyke / comment 0
walkies enthusiast @scattapilla@jorts.horse
I think we should start referring to bluesky as Bainsky
semi-autonomous AI bots are eating the world Dan Lyke / comment 0
I subscribed to Wired (sometime within the past year) 'cause they had a cheap offer and there was an article I thought it worth reading, so this morning's email has a link to Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze. I was looking for a non-subscription link to paste into the company Slack, and found Times of India — Google is shaking up its AI team, and the reason is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's newest obsession which has some interesting speculation about the AI powered browser market, and why Google might be abandoning Project Mariner:
In practice, the numbers were underwhelming. Perplexity's Comet browser agent peaked at 2.8 million weekly active users last December. OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent has since slipped below 1 million—negligible against the hundreds of millions who use ChatGPT just to chat. The category never found its mass-market moment.
Meanwhile, the semi-autonomous bots that are filling that product category instead are wreaking havoc on the world: EnshittifAIcation.
Rewarding confidence over actual competence is a bug humanity has always had. It has produced disasters throughout history, it is producing disasters now, and not only in the tech world.
That latter one via Lobste.rs.
a woman math major at the University of Chicago circa 2004 Dan Lyke / comment 0
Megan Wachspress: A Fuller Statement About My Bluesky Posts
The fuller version of Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
about NPR: A race for a safe blue seat tests how far left Democrats want new leaders to go that includes coverage of Evanston Illinois mayor Daniel Biss in the run for the state's 9th congressional district.
Turn off those notifications Dan Lyke / comment 0
New psychology research reveals the cognitive cost of smartphone notifications.
The researchers found that a single notification slowed down a participant’s cognitive processing for approximately seven seconds. The delay happened across all groups but was most pronounced in the personal-notification group. This pattern suggests that distraction is driven by a combination of the visual pop-up, learned associations with the phone, and the personal meaning of the alert.
Google rewriting news headlines Dan Lyke / comment 0
It's paywalled. I got to it via this post from nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social. I think you can get the gist from the headlines and the above the subscribe button, but The Verge has actually been doing some worthwhile reporting of late.
r/marketing on AI images Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reddit post about using AI images and negative impact on the brand.
You don't dance to get to the end of Dan Lyke / comment 0
"You don't dance to get to the end of the... to get to the other side of the room. That's not why we dance, we dance to go around in a circle." Jacob Collier in the Switched on Pop interview.
Journalist gotten by trusting LLMs Dan Lyke / comment 0
In twenty fucking twenty six, someone is "trusting [LLMs] were accurate"? Mediahaus (publisher of the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent) suspends senior journalist for using fabricated quotes produced by AI
Peter Vandermeersch said he relied on summaries produced by LLMs, ‘trusting they were accurate’.
But it's clear that he still doesn't get it. His mea culpa on Substack:
Even I—with all my years of experience and knowledge—fell into the trap of hallucinations. I summarised reports using AI tools and worked from those summaries, trusting they were accurate. In doing so, I wrongly put words into people’s mouths, when I should have presented them as paraphrases. In some cases, it reflected my interpretation of their words. That was not just careless—it was wrong.
Emphasis is mine, because, no, even if the LLM tells you it's a paraphrase, we know damned well that LLMs do not summarize, at best they elide.
Via.