Tag: skepticism
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Hacker News: Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers
Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/anthropic-teams-up-with-palantir-and-aws-to-sell-its-ai-to-defense-customers/ Source: Hacker News Title: Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic is collaborating with Palantir and AWS to enhance AI capabilities for U.S. defense agencies, signaling a significant integration of AI technologies within national security frameworks.…
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Hacker News: Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
Source URL: https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-the-deep-learning-boom-caught Source: Hacker News Title: Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text chronicles the pivotal moments and contributions surrounding the development of neural networks, specifically highlighting the significance of the ImageNet dataset, created by Fei-Fei Li. It outlines how…
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Rekt: M2 Exchange – Rekt
Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/m2-exchange-rekt Source: Rekt Title: M2 Exchange – Rekt Feedly Summary: Welcome to the $13.7 million M2 Exchange house of horrors, where despite claiming they’ve caught their ghost, restless spirits still perform their midnight waltz. A carnival of contradictions awaits… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed account of a…
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The Register: Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/linus_torvalds_ai_hype/ Source: The Register Title: Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype Feedly Summary: Linux kernel creator says let’s see which workloads use GenAI in five years Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, thinks the majority of marketing circulated by the industry on Generative AI is simply fluff with no real…
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Slashdot: Linus Torvalds Dismisses AI Industry as ‘90% Marketing’
Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/10/29/1512253/linus-torvalds-dismisses-ai-industry-as-90-marketing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Linus Torvalds Dismisses AI Industry as ‘90% Marketing’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Linus Torvalds voices skepticism about the AI industry, highlighting a disparity between its marketing and actual capabilities. While recognizing AI’s potential, he believes the current hype overshadows realistic applications and predicts meaningful advancements…
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Hacker News: The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance
Source URL: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20241028-surveillance.html Source: Hacker News Title: The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text critiques a talk by Meredith Whittaker regarding the implications of historical cryptographic export controls and their relationship to privacy and corporate surveillance. It argues against…
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The Register: Perplexity AI decries News Corp’s ‘simply false’ data scraping claims
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/perplexity_news_corp_data/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity AI decries News Corp’s ‘simply false’ data scraping claims Feedly Summary: ‘They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations’ Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has hit back at a lawsuit claiming that it’s unfairly harvesting data from Dow Jones &…
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Hacker News: Gary Marcus proposes gen AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/21/gary_marcus_ai_interview/ Source: Hacker News Title: Gary Marcus proposes gen AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The interview with Gary Marcus centers around the urgent need for more stringent public pressure and regulatory measures to manage the development of generative AI and…
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The Register: Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/21/gary_marcus_ai_interview/ Source: The Register Title: Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley Feedly Summary: ‘I am deeply concerned about how creative work is essentially being stolen at scale’ Interview Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at New York University and serial entrepreneur, is the author of several books, the…
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Hacker News: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/safe_c_plusplus/ Source: Hacker News Title: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The C++ community has proposed the Safe C++ Extensions to enhance memory safety in the language, responding to increasing pressure from public and private sectors for more secure coding…