Lawyer for MyPillow Founder Filed AI-Generated Brief with ‘Nearly 30’ Bogus Citations
For Mike Lindell's legal defense, his attorney sought help from an unusual (and unreliable) source: a chatbot.

Becoming more 'human': instead of saying 'I don't know', it makes up shit.
'You Can't Lick a Badger Twice': Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.

What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude’s ‘Mind’ Surprised Them

As AI's power grows, charting its inner world is becoming more crucial.

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History

Hallucinating terrorism
Yale Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

LA Times AI defends the Ku Klux Klan

Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth. AI will not be conscious | Roger Penrose (Nobel)

Bad interviewer

If someone is curious and would like to know what is happening have a look at this website.
Also, watch this video. (pay close attention to panel members 2-5)

Time for another AI winter.

Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

 buddy wrote:

you have my vote

 buddy wrote:

 GeneP59 wrote:
I’m waiting for human intelligence to come back in style. Y’know, like bell bottoms.

 GeneP59 wrote:

Hasbara Hitch: Pro-Israel Social Media Bot Goes Rogue, Calls IDF Soldiers 'White Colonizers in Apartheid Israel'
The AI-powered bot criticized the same social media accounts it was meant to promote, even going so far as to deny the murder of an Israeli family on October 7 and blame Israel for the U.S. plan to ban TikTok

The end times are nearing.   

 miamizsun wrote:

"Kinda like building a Ferrari in your garage using old Chevy parts."     Great explanation. More will be revealed...

google seemingly was caught flat-footed when open ai came around
after playing around with several different ai offerings, i used a recent gemini model
pleasantly surprised at how easy and intuitive to use
the whole conversation thing is neat

i have used this channel for tutorials and saw this

pretty good take on deep squeak...

Stocks Sink as Investors Worry About China’s A.I. Advances

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How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI

On January 20, DeepSeek, a relatively unknown AI research lab from China, released an open source model that’s quickly become the talk of the town in Silicon Valley. According to a paper authored by the company, DeepSeek-R1 beats the industry’s leading models like OpenAI o1 on several math and reasoning benchmarks. In fact, on many metrics that matter—capability, cost, openness—DeepSeek is giving Western AI giants a run for their money.

DeepSeek’s success points to an unintended outcome of the tech cold war between the US and China. US export controls have severely curtailed the ability of Chinese tech firms to compete on AI in the Western way—that is, infinitely scaling up by buying more chips and training for a longer period of time. As a result, most Chinese companies have focused on downstream applications rather than building their own models. But with its latest release, DeepSeek proves that there’s another way to win: by revamping the foundational structure of AI models and using limited resources more efficiently. (...)