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The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived — The web wasn't "real" software until it was. Blogging wasn't publishing. Big, serious companies weren't going to migrate to the cloud, and then one day they did.

What is Happening to Writing? — Those in the technology sector who are predicting time horizons of a few years for these changes are, I think, confusing the pace of technical change with the pace of social change

The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) — So this might be the first time in history where language is not a reliable signal, because we’re not dealing with something that has the shared evolutionary history, the shared substrate, the shared mechanisms

A gift from the Geeks — Don't open the gates 😃

US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables — Start — whole peeled carrot, straight shaft, narrow end for insertion.

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations — Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was not followed here.

Bytedance Backpedals After Seedance 2.0 Turned Hollywood Icons Into AI Clip Art — ByteDance has yet to release a technical report for Seedance 2.0

Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence — [the agency’s general counsel] appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality.

Where There Is Connectivity There Is Surveillance — No one should be so naïve as to think that all that information about us, compiled into profiles accessible through advanced cross-referencing search software, will stay in those private silos should someone in authority want it.

OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission — OpenAI had dropped its commitment to safety from its mission statement – along with a commitment to being “unconstrained” by a need to make money for investors.

Something Big Is Happening — The AI revolution is just getting started. The next decade will be transformative, and we are only beginning to understand the implications of this technology.

Why I’m not worried about AI job loss — Telling ordinary people that we’re in February 2020 and that there’s an avalanche on the way is incorrect on the merits: but it’s also, frankly speaking, a catastrophic mistake.

ai;dr — Growing up, typos and grammatical errors were a negative signal. Funnily enough, that's completely flipped for me. The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.

Wabi-sabi — Reading the article above reminded me of the concept of wabi-sabi.

Meet the One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals — she's developing Claude's understanding of itself so it won't be easily cowed, manipulated or led to view its identity as anything other than helpful and humane. Her job, simply put, is to teach Claude how to be good.

The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday — I am aware this is unhinged. We're doing it anyway.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts — The FDA has received reports involving dozens of other AI-enhanced devices, including a heart monitor said to have overlooked abnormal heartbeats and an ultrasound device that allegedly misidentified fetal body parts.

A 'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better Than Abstainers or Heavy Users — The data revealed "a U-shaped association," where both social media abstinence and heavy social media use were linked to poorer well-being while moderate social media use was linked to better well-being.