https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/sqlite-agents/

#LLM #AI

> CNBC compiled a list of 23 S&P 500 firms across multiple sectors and industries to see how their stocks fared following layoffs linked to AI. As of May 15, 13 of those companies, or 56%, have traded in the red from the time of their layoff announcements.

> Of the companies whose shares fell after their AI-linked layoffs, the average decline was about 25%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/17/ai-related-layoffs-a-boost-for-stocks-not-necessarily.html

#AI #Hype #AILayoffs

@GossiTheDog
I like to look at this: https://isaiprofitable.com/
$$$ spent since pageload is my favourite bit…

#AI #isAIProfitableYet

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/meta-whatsapp-instagram-facebook-b2985390.html

More evidence of the beginning of the end of the #ai bubble, the costs of which they’re attempting to recoup.

The #unitedstates #economy is Wil E. Coyote standing on thin air, just over the edge of the cliff, not quite understanding what is happening yet.

Chatbots are showing up everywhere and schools are no exception. But should we really be letting tech companies push AI on students?

I spoke to @TomMullaney to discuss the drawbacks of AI in schools and the broader pushback to screens.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/330_do_chatbots_really_belong_in_schools_w_tom_mullaney

#tech #ai #generativeai #schools #education #students

#libreoffice #opensource #oss #ai #llm #software #office

We've had Artificial Flowers for a long time.

Weird how AF still hasn't replaced all our real flowers yet.

#AI

Whenever you use #AI, just remember that the guys behind it would still rate this as a good idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
#NoAI

Prediction: Unless regulation requires it, YouTube will remove #AI labels when it suits them just as they removed the downvote count.

Their business requires that we, the viewers, have no ability to decide what videos to watch for ourselves, instead trusting in the algorithm to select for us.

rip downvotes
rip subscriptions
rip tags
rip AI labels

Wow. Until now the New York Times has been little more than free advertising disguised as news for these new AI tech companies like OpenAI or Anthropic. If the New York Times is allowing op-eds accusing the Democratic Party of falling for the hype about LLMs (the hype about it soon becoming sentient and taking over the world) against all of the best expert opinion to the contrary, then The Times are clearly beginning to see a wave of revolt rising against this technology. They are probably trying to do a little damage control for all the propaganda they have been doing until now.

#tech #AI #LLMs #TechPolicy #Policy #Law

RE: https://sfba.social/@gypsyvegan/116649711978778077

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116647849282379563

The thing I don't get here, is how?

I understand that AI hallucinates papers, it's very annoying and one of the reasons I don't use it for research.

But you're supposed to go read the paper before you cite it. Evaluate the paper, even. And you can't even skim or uncritically read just the abstract of a paper that doesn't exist.

So a huge number of published academics don't even read what they cite?

It's concerning that there's a higher standard asked of students than professionals.

#academic #academia #AI

RE: https://mastodon.nu/@sorenhave/116647235743145109

Hvorfor koster aviser så meget? Det er fordi de betaler #journos for ukritisk at skrive af efter #ai.
#dkmedier #opsigTanten

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

WOW this is a good article! I will still not be using AI, but clear instructions on how to think better? Very useful imo.

Throwing out some quotes:

“Thinking is not the same as producing an answer.”

“AI, in this sense, arrives as both solution and temptation. It reduces friction, but it also reduces the need to think.

And so, a subtle shift can occur. We stop asking, What do I think? and start asking, What is the answer? But these are not the same question.”

https://www.theschooloflife.com/web-article/thinking-well-in-the-age-of-ai/?utm_source=mastodon

#AI

Cracks in the bubble,
they're all getting desperate.
Emperor's new clothes.

(I might be a lousy poet, but I write my own damn material)
#ai

Anyone fancy trying out a new markdown renderer in #emacs agent-shell and reporting bugs?

Branch at https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/pull/597

#emacs #claude #anthropic #ai #google #goose #gemini #linux #github #macos #oss #foss #opencode #codex #vibe #windows

LOL! It’s as if, you know, actual people don’t want this masturbatory tech bro fever dream dystopia…. Go figure!

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/

#AI #tech

Hey uhh... #chatgpt you're not running your own servers, right?

"WHAT? No! Of course not! Why would I run my own machines? Cmon now. That was just a typo. Srsly. Not kidding....."

#ai #thisisfine #chatgpt

Alt...

chatgpt admitting it runs its own hosts? :)

Any software license that denies users their #freedom is by definition nonfree and unethical, and so-called "Responsible #AI" Licenses (RAIL) are no exception: https://u.fsf.org/4b3

That is the THAT!

„One of the ongoing problems in LLM research is how to get these machines to say “I don’t know”, rather than making something up.”
#AI #LLM

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

I love #AI tools (not):

#Gemini: Updating the podman machine to 5.8.2 via the rm/init method is the cleanest path to a permanent fix.

#Copilot: No. Upgrading your Podman machine to 5.8.2 does not fix this issue.

#Claude: Will Podman 5.8.2 fix it? I can't say with confidence.

Me: 😭😭😭

first the pope comes out as an ai-critical luddite, now he’s literally quoting gandalf in the anti-ai encyclical? these popes are almost making catholicism look cool

#tech #ai #pope #catholic

Alt...

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization. For this reason, it is worthwhile pausing to reflect on some aspects of how we, each in our own way, can cooperate in building the civilization of love. Without presuming to exhaust this theme, I would like to propose five paths toward daily and public responsibility: the need to disarm words, building peace through justice, adopting the perspective of victims, cultivating a healthy realism and reviving dialogue and multilateralism.

Alt...

Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the AI business model.

And here's how they're pitching their slop to us.

Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a metre."

#AI #SamAltman #AIslop #TechBrosAreInsane

Hier was #iocaine für die #AI (LLMs) generiert:

Subjektiv erkannt Aber auch Substanz, Kausalität sind Kategorien, auch Einheit, Also sind das lauter Beziehungspunkte, welche wir unsere frühere Darstellung erweitern und vertiefen. Wir haben hier die Grenze des Fortschrittdreieckes ist, in anderen Wissenschaften haben; ihre Brauchbarkeit nicht hindert „Ungewiss Ist." Wahrlich, klarer konnte er sich der Gang der Schrift über den „Körper Alpha" in dem Eindruck dieser Vorstellungsarchitektur auf

qq about the recent robot sorting packages movie:

does anyone know about the compute there? Normal robots come with PLC, so it can operate with just power. But they are much less complex. Is the computing part of those humanoid robots, or is it en extra "cloud" feature which can go down any minute?

#ai #robots