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  • The Register: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/microsoft_study_ai_critical_thinking/ Source: The Register Title: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find Feedly Summary: Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don’t understand, you may assume AI has the answers Some knowledge workers risk becoming over-reliant on generative…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition ‘Atrophied and Unprepared’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/10/1752233/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition ‘Atrophied and Unprepared’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new research paper from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University, highlighting concerns that reliance on generative AI could weaken human critical thinking skills. This finding is particularly relevant…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cerebras brings instant inference to Mistral Le Chat

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/10/cerebras-mistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cerebras brings instant inference to Mistral Le Chat Feedly Summary: Cerebras brings instant inference to Mistral Le Chat Mistral announced a major upgrade to their Le Chat web UI (their version of ChatGPT) a few days ago, and one of the signature features was performance. It turns…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sam Altman

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/9/sam-altman/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sam Altman Feedly Summary: The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use. You can see this in the token cost from GPT-4 in early 2023 to GPT-4o in mid-2024, where the…

  • Hacker News: Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox

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    Source URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deep-fake-detector/ Source: Hacker News Title: Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Fakespot Deepfake Detector extension offers tools to distinguish between human-written text and AI-generated content. This is particularly relevant for professionals in AI security and generative AI security, as it underscores the…

  • Hacker News: Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to employees

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    Source URL: https://fortune.com/2024/06/12/amazon-insiders-why-new-alexa-llm-generative-ai-conversational-chatbot-missing-in-action/ Source: Hacker News Title: Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to employees Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses Amazon’s struggles with the development and rollout of a generative AI version of Alexa, emphasizing organizational dysfunction, lack of adequate resources, and competition with other…

  • Cloud Blog: News you can use: What we announced in AI this month

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/what-google-cloud-announced-in-ai-this-month/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: News you can use: What we announced in AI this month Feedly Summary: 2025 is off to a racing start. From announcing strides in the new Gemini 2.0 model family to retailers accelerating with Cloud AI, we spent January investing in our partner ecosystem, open-source, and ways to…

  • The Register: Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI’s insatiable thirst

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/datacenter_energy_goldman_sachs/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI’s insatiable thirst Feedly Summary: Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck AI’s thirst for electricity will see datacenter energy use more than double by the end of the decade – just five years from…