An #AI training I had to complete recently included these 2 gems:

"AI systems can produce incorrect information, commonly called hallucinations, because they were trained on incorrect or out of date information, so you should check the information and not rely on it." Not mentioned: they don't produce information at all, they produce words probabilistically strung together to resemble information.

"AI systems are trained on information that may be copyrighted, and so might produce output that is in violation of that copyright, so it would be improper to present it as your own without modifying it." Not mentioned: is is improper for the AI to produce copyrighted material that was stolen to train it.

#AICon

"All the doors on this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition, It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."

It occurs to me that modern AI chatbots have #GPP, Genuine People Personalities. They cheer you on at every step and are happy to work for you.

'Oh,' said Arthur, 'sounds ghastly.'
A voice behind them said 'it is.'

#HHGtG #AI

Zeno's Chocolate chip cookie - I can never finish the cookie because I have to eat only half of the cookie, then half of what's left, and so on to infinity.

#cookie #philosophy

It's a bit disconcerting hearing a speaker proudly state that they've "drunk the AI kool-aid."

I wanted to ask if they remembered that the kool-aid was poison.

#AI

SO gave a half-hour presentation extolling the virtues of ALPRs that I would mostly describe as "everyone should be scared of criminals and we need these to protect you."

They were also very professional and made a point of coming over and thanking all of us who spoke against the cameras for making our voices heard. The DA did as well.

Another win in the fight against mass surveillance. Half Moon Bay city council agrees to not renew Flock contract.

https://www.coastsidenews.com/news/half-moon-bay-to-end-use-of-flock-license-plate-readers/article_ed32881e-49fd-4d98-862b-a708b1c6f4ad.html

#flock #alpr #privacy

Classic warning sign: "You are being monitored"

But why is the stick figure waving a kitchen sink over their head?

#signs #technology

#Garlic harvest. #gardening

The recent US Supreme Court cases can basically be summed up as:

* corporations have rights
* guns have rights
* Black and Brown People do not have rights.
* the President has the power to deprive Black and Brown People of their rights.
* the Congress does not have the power to protect the rights of Black and Brown People.

#SCOTUS #uspol

I got spam email that is a LLM prompt to create an "Xfinity outage refund" phishing scam.

Stuff like "Create a new run-specific interpretation rather than reusing a generic layout" and "Weave in useful informational content so the email explains as well as persuades"

While amusing to see what crap the spammers are using now, I don't think it makes it any easier to stop it. And I doubt "run seed" is their api key that I could somehow use to drain their credits (and if it was it would be stolen anyway)

#LLM #spam

This 1974 cartoon of the ILLIAC IV would seem very at home today.

#AI #ComputerHistory

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/160/279?position=0

#AI tractor company shuts down.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/monarch-ai-tractor-failure-22183476.php

I'm reminded of the late-stage dot-coms. WebVan would absolutely have been an AI company.

"Prompt critical" is "things go boom."

"Prompt engineering" is, uh .... *sweats profusely*

#promptEngineering #ai

Hundreds of DRM-free games for a bargain price, and help out the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota

#StopICE #minnesota

Science doesn't give you the answers, it tells you how to find answers. Like science projects!

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/nx-s1-5708698/ultra-processed-food-diet-health

#science #food

"Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini"

So, it's ok for Google to steal content from everywhere to build their chatbot, but bad for other people to steal from their chatbot. "We stole it first, fair and square!"

#ai #gemini

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-gemini-hit-100000-prompts-cloning-attempt-rcna258657

Is threads fully part of the fediverse or are they still walled off and things like replies and boosts don't work? There's a few threads accounts I follow here that never seem to have any interaction.

Is @Flipboard better? They have a lot of media sources including some that are also on threads and they look like an actual mastodon server as opposed to whatever threads is and I'm guessing they're not owned by Meta. But the accounts there have far fewer followers.

#fediverse

What's after #nokings ? Here's a great list from @IndivisibleSF to get you started.

https://indivisiblesf.org/no-kings-2/actions

Almost makes we want to learn to knit.

https://crazyhands.net/knit-frog-hat-pattern/

https://rajiscrafthobby.blogspot.com/2017/05/frog-hat-baby-cap-crochet.html

#frog #nokings #knitting

Director in a business meeting: "we're going to be making a quantum leap in our process efficiency!"

Me: "doesn't quantum mean the smallest possible change at the smallest possible scale?"

#physics #business