A lovely bit of 80s nostalgia. This was the period when things were really taking off, we had computers we enough power to start to do some really amazing stuff. Games like Monkey Island and programs like Deluxe Paint started to show what computers were capable of.
I remember seeing this artwork reproduced in magazines, and it so typifies the era.
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Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.
— Read on www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment
Depressing read
This is why we can’t have nice things
A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-used-ai-automate-unprecedented-cybercrime-spree-anthropic-says-rcna227309
New research shows how easily manipulated people are by AI tools, especially when they’re designed to manipulate. Knowledge is the only defense.
— Read on www.computerworld.com/article/4040468/puny-humans-are-no-match-for-ai.html
I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Can’t believe it was 1982…
Interesting look at the limitations of LLMs
LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb
— Read on garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms