The Atlantic has finally the story about the chaos at #OpenAI. Sutskever and Murati both had doubts about Altman's leadership
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-excerpt/682798/

@jofr AI expert Rodney Brooks has an excellent set of predictions on AI along with discussion of why some of this is so difficult that is well worth a read:
https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2025-january-01/

@glinden we will have an abundance of mass unemployment
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

Want to see my fossil collection?

An #AI #agent in 9 lines of code
https://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loop

Want to work on the best knowledge there is? We have an opening for a software engineer on the @wikidata team!
https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/56640059/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-all-genders-/

#wikidata #getfedihired

Love these population density spike maps
by https://www.instagram.com/researchremora/?hl=en

@bovine3dom nice choropleth map! How did you do it? Leaflet or Plotly?

How much code is #Google generating by AI already? 25% ? Could there be a relation to the latest glitch on Google Maps?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/chaos-on-german-autobahns-as-google-maps-wrongly-says-they-are-closed

@bovine3dom in Paris bicycle use now exceeds car use. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the French capital in a green metropolis
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-04-24/the-cycling-revolution-in-paris-continues-bicycle-use-now-exceeds-car-use.html

playing with this concept over the weekend. I like how the colors/glow turned out.

@sjvn and the black monolith at the beginning is like a switched off smartphone. As if he was a time traveller who wanted to warn us that we should not worship items which look like black monoliths. And that AI will one day say "I'm sorry... I'm afraid I can't do that"

In the 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, we see people talking to their family via videoconferencing on their tablets. What a marvel of prediction! Later, their AI will try to kill them. Hmmm...

Do you like large language models so much that you want one hanging around your neck all the time, watching and listening to everything you encounter, sending info to a big company? No I thought not. But these guys are betting 100 million people will.

What could possibly go wrong?

There's a Wall Street journal article on this, which you can read for free here:

https://archive.is/Sm49P

I'll quote a bit:

"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave his staff a preview Wednesday of the devices he is developing to build with former Apple designer Jony Ive, laying out plans to ship 100 million AI “companions” that he hopes will become a part of everyday life.

Altman told employees that they had “the chance to do the biggest thing we’ve ever done as a company here,” he said after announcing OpenAI’s plans to purchase Ive’s startup, named io, and give him an expansive creative and design role. He suggested the $6.5 billion acquisition has the potential to add $1 trillion in value to OpenAI, according to a recording reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

[...]

Altman told OpenAI staff that stealth will be important for their ultimate success to avoid competitors copying the product before it’s ready.

[...]

"Humane, another startup made up of former Apple executives that Altman invested in, sold an “Ai Pin” that failed to catch on with consumers."

I hope this new thing fails badly. Together with the new US "big beautiful bill" banning all regulation of AI for the next 10 years, this is a recipe for disaster. Authoritarian rule with all of us monitored all the time by AI - yes, I can see why that would be popular in some quarters.

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/ good piece by @dansinker

The cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.

The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.

It sounds WAY cooler in the original Japanese, you just gotta trust me on this one. :neocat_googly_blep:

Latest comic: Beware of Glernog

#cartoon #comic #oligarchy #aliens #climatechange

A new book about the relationship of #Apple and China from Patrick McGee is out this week. It contains the story of how the tech giant tied its fortunes to America's biggest rival, transforming both company and country.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Apple-in-China/Patrick-McGee/9781668053379

@floehopper how long is the train from Cambridge to the Isle of Wight? Or do you take the car?