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Prachtig zomerboek om rustig langs kunst in de openbare ruimte te trekken, vergezeld van kunsthistorische bespiegelingen van Paul Kempers @valizbooks.bsky.social

Prachtig zomerboek om rustig langs kunst in de openbare ruimte te trekken, vergezeld van kunsthistorische bespiegelingen van Paul Kempers ☀️

Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.

The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

Desperate for people to understand how Big Tech is a major cog in war machines.There is no casual use of foundation model AI. Universities embracing the AI-enhanced learning dream are contributing to mass annihilation, even if it's inconvenient for them to recognize it.

apnews.com/article/isra...

Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records President Trump has fired the nation's top record keeper, Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan.

FYI, keeping a certain distance with current events to avoid spiralling into anxiety.

One of the many things that are nit okay at the moment:

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

Listen: Jeff Doctor on the Entrenched Colonialism of Tech As much as the tech industry thinks it’s about the future, it’s astonishing how profoundly it replicates the past, including our colonial legacy. Animikii’s Jeff Doctor talks about how colonialism is ...

just gonna drop this here cuz I'm tired of repeating myself www.cigionline.org/big-tech/the...

Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet a growing demand for cloud and AI tools

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down — HELIOTROPE By Scott Richmond In October of 2024, Mozilla, not-for-profit publisher of the Firefox browser,  announced that it's going to become an adtech company . This is  real bad .

🔥 Hot off the presses:

The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down
By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me

www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...

Crypto’s Legacy Is Finally Clear An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age

“They’ve re-created the financial system, but with fewer protections for consumers.”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered...

1. Small AI models often perform better in context.

2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.

Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160