“One, he believes that AI is so scary that only they Anthropic should do it. Two, that AI is so expensive, nobody else should do it… and three, AI is so incredibly powerful that everyone will lose their jobs, which explains why they should be the only company building it,"
#aiHype
"Bender and Hanna were writing The AI Con in late 2024, which they describe in the book as the peak of the AI boom. But since then the race to dominate the technology has only intensified. Leading companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Chinese rival DeepSeek have launched what Google’s AI team describe as “thinking models, capable of reasoning through their thoughts before responding”.
The ability to reason would represent a significant milestone on the journey towards AI that could outperform experts across the full range of human intelligence, a goal often referred to as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. A number of the most prominent people in the field — including Altman, OpenAI’s former chief scientist and co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Elon Musk have claimed that goal is at hand.
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei describes AGI as “an imprecise term which has gathered a lot of sci-fi baggage and hype”. But by next year, he argues, we could have tools that are “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields”, “can control existing physical tools” and “prove unsolved mathematical theorems”. In other words, with more data, computing power and research breakthroughs, today’s AI models or something that closely resembles them could extend the boundaries of human understanding and cognitive ability.
Bender dismisses the idea, describing the technology as “a fancy wrapper around some spreadsheets”. LLMs ingest reams of data and base their responses on the statistical probability of certain words occurring alongside others. Computing improvements, an abundance of online data and research breakthroughs have made that process far quicker, more sophisticated and more relevant. But there is no magic and no emergent mind, says Bender."
https://www.ft.com/content/9029cc1c-4a3f-42ca-9939-f3ef8e8336ae
NBC News today
Says Victoria Aveyard, the author of the “Red Queen” books:
“Using GenAI to come up with characters, plots and story ideas isn’t writing. It’s theft,” Aveyard said. “Using GenAI doesn’t make you a writer. It makes you a thief.”
#neverai #aihype
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/booktok-rocked-recent-scandals-rcna213832
Writing an essay with the tentative title "Alan Turing: Huckster"
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 58 - "Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud"
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/fZ6JesheyrorQhAEn5LFY5
🤑 Starting an arms race with borrowed guns, we all know how this ends.
Il capitolo meno celebre dei Gulliver's Travels, ci sono voluti 299 anni per capirlo 😱 E come sempre, aveva capito tutto! Fili de Laputa, traite!
#SALAMI #AIHype #CoseDiScuola
https://mathstodon.xyz/@robinadams/114703438100074038
AI has already taken over many domains, but that doesn't mean it can or should take over all of them.
It's all about real value.
Bruce Schneier has a short post clearly outlining where AI makes sense and where it doesn't. I particularly like that it's not even really about LLMs but includes all the AI we have been forgetting like autocomplete, image upscaling and ad targeting.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/where-ai-provides-value.html
"Sincerity Wins The War"
"You want an actual conspiracy theory? How about a real one: that the media works together with the rich and powerful to directly craft 'the truth,' even if it runs contrary to reality. The Business Idiots that rule our economy — work-shy executives and investors with no real connection to any kind of actual production — are the true architects of what’s 'real' in our world, and their demands are simple: 'make the news read like we want to.'"
Other writers, watch out because your editors and beta readers could be feeding your drafts into LLMs. I posted about my beta reader feeding my draft into OpenAI's GPT. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250616/ #RomanceLandia #PSA #AI #AIHype @romancelandia
"Enterprise adoption is only like 10 percent today," said Coleman. "McKinsey is saying it's a four trillion dollar market. How are you actually ever going to move that along if you keep releasing things that people don't know are safe to use or they don't even know not just the enterprise impact, but the societal impact?"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/08/chatterbox_labs_ai_adoption/
A beta reader fed my draft to AI. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250616/ #AI #AIHype #IndieWeb
"Man Who Got Fooled By AI Wants Us All To Follow Him"
I don't trust you Peter Kyle, and you trust Fancy Autocomplete too much, probably think it's your friend, don't you?
My dude, perhaps we could land a human back on the Moon before we discuss 'colonising the Galaxy'
Also, like fuck the Galactic Federation would let us get out in the unlikely event we lucked upon a starship....fucking clown shoes Google fuck...."by 2030" he goes....
The logical thing for Google to do--since most things have gone wrong for them after they put "AI" on top of all other priorities--is to ditch "AI"--i ncl Waymo, because a part of the public is in rage over what they see as tech companies 'taking over' human society.#antiai #neverai #aihype
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/photos-waymo-fire-la-protests.html
The problem of AI tech companies gaming their Chatbot Arena scores
https://youtu.be/9W_OhS38rIE
#generativeAI #AIslop #AIhype #ArtificialIntelligence #GoodhartsLaw
@Edwin085
Don't worry, we're not "cooked" just yet! 😄
Let's take a deep breath and enjoy the journey. I always have to chuckle a bit when I see the AI hype train in full swing.
It seems like there's a familiar playbook at work—leveraging fears of a "machine takeover" on one hand and "corporate greed" on the other to attract venture capital.
Artisan.co reminds me of Builder.ai, which promised to revolutionize app development with its AI-powered programming. However, it turned out that their "AI programmer" was actually supported by hundreds of human programmers working behind the scenes. Now, they've filed for bankruptcy, which goes to show that the reality often doesn't live up to the hype.
Overall, if you want a realistic picture, evne the idea of AI replacing human intelligence by 2043 seems quite optimistic.
When will AI automate all mental work, and how fast? It's an interesting question, but we're still a long way off from that reality.
For a deeper dive into this topic, check out this video:
When will AI automate all mental work, and how fast? https://youtu.be/-ffmwR9PPVM #AIhype
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