Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months, and Silicon Valley is freaked out
Speaking of “AI”, the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the “AI” bubble, and it’s been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new “AI” models, which seem to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT models – but with a massive twist: DeepSeek, b … ⌘ Read more

AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond. The AI scraper bots cause a DDoS, a distributed denial-of-service attack. At times, the AI bots would clog the lines with hundreds of IP addresses simultaneously as soon as they decided … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net i hope all corpo AI dies slow and expensive deaths

AI achieves self-replication in new study + 2 more stories
AI self-replication demonstrated by researchers; ICC seeks warrants against Taliban leaders for women’s rights; CERN’s new Flash radiotherapy could revolutionize cancer treatment. ⌘ Read more

Ça souffle très fort ici… Je me demande si je ne ferais pas mieux d’éteindre mon serveur en cas de coupure (je n’ai pas racheté d’onduleur, c’est cher :s)

Fusion reactor breaks 1,000 seconds record + 3 more stories
Chinese scientists break nuclear fusion record with 1,066 seconds at 100 million Celsius; US launches $500 billion AI infrastructure The Stargate Project; AI-designed drugs from Isomorphic Labs set for clinical trials by 2026; New AI method shows 90-100% accuracy in early breast cancer detection. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft reveals MatterGen AI model to transform material discovery + 2 more stories
Microsoft launches MatterGen AI model for advanced material design; OpenAI partners with Retro to extend human life; Scientists explore ocean’s oxygen production implications. ⌘ Read more

envie de coder… J’ai un bout de C pour renommer les fichiers que je voudrais continuer. Vivement qu’il y ait moins de boulot et de soucis pour réussir à me concentrer!

Researchers engineer bacteria that break down microplastics + 2 more stories
Qatar presents final ceasefire draft to Israel and Hamas; University of Waterloo engineers bacteria to decompose microplastics; UK government announces significant AI investment initiative. ⌘ Read more

Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler’s. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fix … ⌘ Read more

How in da fuq do you actually make these fucking useless AI bots go way?

proxy-1:~# jq '. | select(.request.remote_ip=="4.227.36.76")' /var/log/caddy/access/mills.io.log | jq -s '. | last' | caddy-log-formatter -
4.227.36.76 - [2025-01-05 04:05:43.971 +0000] "GET /external?aff-QNAXWV=&f=mediaonly&f=noreplies&nick=g1n&uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-hero-ultra-impact-codes.linegames.org HTTP/2.0" 0 0
proxy-1:~# date
Sun Jan  5 04:05:49 UTC 2025

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C’est drôle comme j’ai plein de choses d’un seul coup hyper intéressantes à faire, comme changer le thème du curseur de ma souris ou tester un nouveau thème GTK. Pile quand j’ai des tas de bulletins semestriels à compléter. Bizarre 👼

@prologic@twtxt.net this is so fucking real i’m so sick of AI/LLM crap

New AI tool will identify diabetes risk 13 years early + 2 more stories
NHS launches trial for AI diabetes prediction; Eni unveils €100 million supercomputer for energy; UN Security Council approves peacekeeping in Somalia. ⌘ Read more

Is AI finally ready to replace your doctor?
Advances in artificial intelligence mean that machines can now perform certain diagnostic tasks with far better accuracy than human doctors - but the picture is more complicated than you might think ⌘ Read more

don pour #framasoft terminé : https://soutenir.framasoft.org/fr/. J’ai choisi le don mensuel pour leur donner de la visibilité. C’est peu de choses, mais c’est ma façon de contribuer au libre

Et mince… J’ai cassé mon casque OpenRun Shockz à conduction osseuse… Je l’utilisais tous les jours, et pas les sous d’en acheter un nouveau :/

If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net I bet our twts are already being fed to circuit monsters… Remember the other day when I’d snapped out about some nonsense, being an A-Hole and what not? I’ve seen an AI company employee lurking around with not much interaction (if I’m not mistaken), so my mind went on auto-pilot mode thinking “This !#@%$ must be feeding us to the circuit peggy monster!! Arrr 😤” 🤣🤣🤣 but then again, one shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover (or an employee by his title) right?

Bluesky’s Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It’s All Public
Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users’ data. But despite that, “one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face,” reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

“Shortly after the article’s p … ⌘ Read more

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Block AI bots with relayd on #OpenBSD https://si3t.ch/log/2024-11-27-block-ai-bots-with-relayd-openbsd.txt

J’en avais déjà parlé, mais je l’ai désormais totalement fini est il est vraiment bien. Le #livre de Salomé Saqué ‘Résister’ se lit vite car c’est bien écrit, c’est sérieux car sourcé, et permet de disposer de faits concrets ainsi que d’idées pour faire face à l’extrême droite. Il ne coûte que 5€, moins en version numérique. Lisez-le, offrez-le! https://www.lalibrairie.com/livres/resister_0-11697790_9782228937597.html?ctx=397de3ecca38cf20254f77d136f28b52

oups… j’ai peut-être, sans (trop) faire vraiment exprès, parlé de Trump et de Musk en classe, de ce que cela ça implique d’utiliser X ou de ne pas vérifier les infos recommandées par des algos dont on ne sait rien de leur fonctionnement…

Apple to launch new AI home screen + 2 more stories
Google expands AI flood forecasting to 700 million people; Apple plans to launch a new AI smart home hub; EU allocates €300 million for joint defense projects. ⌘ Read more

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/

So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.

Portion of the modified Twitter TOS that goes into effect today (it’s on right now), as summarised (ironically) by Google’s Gemini:

“In simpler terms, this means that when you share your content (like text, images, or videos) on the service, you’re giving the company permission to use it in various ways. They can copy, modify, distribute, and even use it to train their AI models. This includes sharing your content with others and using it on other platforms. You won’t be paid for this, but using the service itself is considered enough compensation.”

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson
Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson – perhaps because they often have more straightforward themes and simpler structure ⌘ Read more

Ouiii, j’ai de nouveau internet! En fait, #sfr a changé l’armoire, a débranché tout le monde sans prévenir personne, et maintenant les autres fournisseurs doivent venir rebrancher leurs clients. C’est malhonnête… Bref, si3t.ch et puffy.cafe sont de retour

Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn … ⌘ Read more

Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/04/silicon-valley-and-wall-street-invent-collateralized-gpu-obligations-surely-this-will-work-out-fine/

Blackstone, Pimco, Carlyle, and BlackRock have so far lent $11 billion to GPU cloud companies — now apparently called “neoclouds” — such as CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Lambda Labs. The loans are collateralized by the neoclouds’ Nvidia GPUs.

Look ma, new asset bubble!

#utopiales, j’y retourne aujourd’hui. Ma grosse déception d’hier est d’avoir raté Péhä qui n’a pas dû reconnaître ma calvitie du 2e rang et que je n’ai pas réussi à retrouver au Bar de Mme Spock. La chasse au trésor du Café de la cité n’est pas terminée. Et j’espère voir Nicolas Martin et Cléo Collomb. Merci à eux pour cette table rond à propos de l’arrivée de l’extreme droite

Toujours pas d’internet revenu. #free est au courant. Ça va vite devenir compliqué pour bosser, j’ai besoin d’entrer toutes mes notes :s

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AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move
A specialised algorithm could help autonomous vehicles track hidden objects, such as a pedestrian, a bicycle or another vehicle concealed behind a parked car ⌘ Read more

Google tool makes AI-generated writing easily detectable
Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI developer ⌘ Read more

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hop, entraînement terminé, j’ai fait le plein d’énergie avant d’aller donner un sang de qualitté ^^ #EFS #dondusang. Le niveau 7 de la méthode #lafay est par contre trop longue, je n’ai pas assez de temps pour faire ça bien. Tant pis dans ce cas, retour à la n°6 et j’y ajouterai 1 exercice jusqu’à épuisement tiré au sort. Ou alors je ressort le #TRX, il faut qu eje trouve où l’accrocher. #sport #training

Insecure Robot Vacuums From Chinese Company Deebot Collect Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia’s public broadcaster ABC:

Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers’ houses — to train the company’ … ⌘ Read more

Nan, j’ai pas un problème avec la brioche. J’ai un problème sans brioche

Speaking of AI tech (sorry!); Just came across this really cool tool built by some engineers at Google™ (currently completely free to use without any signup) called NotebookLM 👌 Looks really good for summarizing and talking to document 📃

Getting a little sick of AI this, AI that. Yes I’ll be left behind while everyone else jumps on the latest thing, but I’m not sure I care.

@prologic@twtxt.net Nah! I don’t do news feeds 🤣 I gave some a try back then but it was just way too much noise. I have a separate app for RSS feeds I want to follow. None of them mention AI except for one article about the author’s fight back against the crawlers, I believe I’ve mentioned it before.

When will the AI hype die down?

aujourd’hui, j’ai configuré un serveur caldav pour éviter les oublis de rendez-vous avec ma chérie, et j’ai configuré unbound pour qu’il fasse le résolveur DNS en même temps qu’être le point de sortie de mon VPN #wireguard. Ça traînait depuis trop longtemps. C’était pas une si mauvaise journée ^^

Cette nuit, j’ai rêvé de PV Nova qui reprenait RATM et modifiait très légèrement le rythme, c’était vraiment excellent. J’ai maintenant la musique dans la tête :)

Google’s James Manyika: ‘The Productivity Gains From AI Are Not Guaranteed’
Google executive James Manyika has warned that AI’s impact on productivity is not guaranteed [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled], despite predictions of trillion-dollar economic potential. From the report: “Right now, everyone from my old colleagues at McKinsey Global Institute to Goldman Sachs are putting out these extra … ⌘ Read more

Alors j’ai vérifié : toujours pas de ministre de l’éducation nationale à ce jour. La rentrée se fera donc sans. Cela illustre malheureusement tout l’intérêt que porte E Macron à l’instruction de nos enfants.

Vu le Comte de Monte Cristo hier soir, avec le brillant Pierre Ninet. Je n’ai pas vu les 3h passer, ce film est une oeuvre d’art. Il y a un peu de tous les genres, les acteurs sont excellents et je parie que certains jeunes seront revus bientôt. Bravo! N’hésitez pas à aller le voir si ce n’est pas déjà fait