60 years later, and home helper robots might finally really be less than 10 years away. 1966: ROBOT HOUSEKEEPERS Coming Soon | Tomorrow’s World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive
So many red flags, and this brings up so many questions. U.S. gov’t asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines — DOJ says Grok model running at Colossus 2 ‘supports mission-critical operations’
A great video on Fable 5, mainly by Fable 5, and how it was done. Claude Fable 5 Made This Entire Video By Itself.
Funny, so many people think AI will kill us all out of spite, when, clear back in Forbidden Planet (1956), it was clear that someone asking it to do something “stupid” was the real threat. This is why you limit what AI, or any automation, can do autonomously.
This turned out pretty well on the first try. Image added since preview not showing #aiart
This would seem to point to a problem with the police and access to these readers more than the systems. Though some of these systems have also been cited for insecurity. Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 18 Times in Recent Years
After pushing overdue automation AFTER laying off the people to implement it, now they want to add AI to the mess. Trump Signs AI Executive Order Asking Companies to Give Government Early Access to Models
Why build data centers with so many abandoned factories perfect for the job?
Funny, there seems to be a push to build data centers when the federal government has identified 335 specific, large-scale brownfields and Superfund sites that are ideal candidates for retrofitting into sprawling AI and data center campuses. And the U.S. has over 450,000 “brownfield” sites, abandoned or underutilized industrial and commercial properties where redevelopment is complicated by past contamination. Faster to come online, cheaper construction costs, infrastructure already wired for them, and those communities probably already have people familiar with the sites wanting to go back. Makes you wonder what money is changing hands to make building new sites, especially in the hottest areas of the country, seem like a good idea.
The Decision Criteria: Why Old Factories Work Not every abandoned factory is a viable data center. Developers look for specific conditions when evaluating adaptive reuse:
Grid Connection: Proximity to high-voltage transmission lines or existing substations is critical, as powering AI racks requires massive amounts of electricity.
Footprint and Zoning: The site must have sufficient contiguous acreage for server warehouses and cooling facilities and be located in a municipality that zones the land for industrial use.
Brownfield Status: Federal initiatives, such as EPA guidelines and incentives for Superfund and Brownfield sites, make repurposing tax-advantaged and legally streamlined.
When I hear the ‘jobs equals worth’ argument against AI, I wonder what those people think of stay-at-home parents, artists, and others who derive more value from their passions than from doing disliked work just to survive.
Note, this is Cisco, not an AI firm, saying there is a real wave of threats coming from AI exploits. Guidance for defending in the age of AI-enabled attacks
Google is reducing AI limits as well Changes to Gemini model access and limits
Makes building them in Texas look that much better, right? Amazon’s cloud services were largely back online on Friday after overheating at one of its data centers triggered an outage that impacted companies including cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
My response to Matt Davis’s post about how AI is gutting developer jobs in the private sector. It is doing similar to government jobs.
An LLM trained as if it time-traveled from 1930 Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Funny all thise calling for a halt to building any and all data centers on websites hosted in data centers.
I totally get the stupidity of building them in the hottest parts of the country and with a high water usage cooling system for them to save a few bucks, but they are going to be built unless we shut down the internet, so maybe focus on building them smart.
An awesome use of AI to make educational videos. [Chloe VS History[(https://youtube.com/@chloevshistory)
A good example of why you test in QA environments. Who exposes an AI directly to production data? X post
Maybe jobs will become artisanal as AI takes over, according to this article. What will be scarce?
The time between discovery and exploitation of a security hole is decreasing dramatically. Having AI discover holes before deployment is becoming a must-have. From Vulnerability to Exploitation chart
A great example of the kind of thing you can do with AI vibe coding that probably would not exist without AI. damnlines.com