Toute cette histoire d'intelligence artificielle est en fait une Journée des Dupes (ou une Campagne des Cents Fleurs à la sauce capitaliste) : ces stupides chatbots ne remplaceront jamais les travailleurs intellectuels.

Mais maintenant, tous les travailleurs intellectuels savent que leurs patrons sont prêts à les virer pour les remplacer par la première arnaque venue...

Ils ont aussi appris que leurs patrons ne comprennent rien à leurs industries, et pourraient être avantageusement remplacés par des brosses de toilettes.

#IA #LLM #EatTheRich

I posted about Kagi News a few weeks ago, when it was in stealth. It has just now been officially announced, along with mobile apps.

I have been using this for weeks already and I think it is one of the very few well crafted AI augmented apps I have come across.

It does what LLMs do best - summarize and generate prose, but it is done in order to REMOVE distraction/noise, not create it.

I found it a good way to stay informed distraction-free.

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-news

#kagi #news #llm #ai

Toute cette histoire d'intelligence artificielle est en fait une Journée des Dupes (ou une Campagne des Cents Fleurs à la sauce capitaliste) : ces stupides chatbots ne remplaceront jamais les travailleurs intellectuels.

Mais maintenant, tous les travailleurs intellectuels savent que leurs patrons sont prêts à les virer pour les remplacer par la première arnaque venue...

Ils ont aussi appris que leurs patrons ne comprennent rien à leurs industries, et pourraient être avantageusement remplacés par des brosses de toilettes.

#IA #LLM #EatTheRich

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.

And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.

Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.

Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public transport. Universities. Roads projects. Mental health services. Welfare payments.

People literally went homeless or starved, so rich people could get tax cuts.

Because the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually the eroding of public goods caused social dislocation.

So governments further cut those public goods to fund more police and prisons. To continue giving tax cuts to rich people.

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually the climate started changing because of the amount of toxic fossil fuel pollution in the atmosphere.

So governments chose to keep the tax cuts rather than fund infrastructure to reduce emissions.

(Many of those billionaires getting tax cuts made their money selling toxic fossil fuels.)

And as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the bushfires, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, floods, and droughts got worse.

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually people were getting pissed off at the dire state of the world.

The rich misdirected that anger at immigrants!

And First Nations!

And trans people!

And neurodivergent people!

Anyone but the billionaires who got the tax cuts.

So governments chose to keep the tax cuts. (For the rich. Everyone else got new tariff taxes.)

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

So did the wealth trickle down?

Well...

A group of billionaires saw this kinda cool tech demo.

It predicted the next pixel of an image, based on the colour patterns of every image on the internet.

It also predicted the next word in a sentence, based on an analysis of every piece of writing on the internet.

The rich decided that this clearly showed that a sentient computer was just around the corner.

The problem was these tech demos needed servers with a lot of GPUs to work.

So the rich took all the money they got from those tax cuts.

And they bought GPUs.

Millions and millions and millions and millions of GPUs.

All the tax cuts? All the underfunded schools? All the draconian welfare cuts? All the public housing shortages? The delays in funding clean energy.

In the end, it didn't trickle down.

And instead of all the public goods it could have bought...

...We'll be left with millions and millions and millions of GPUs in a landfill.

#ChatGPT #Claude #AI #LLM #capitalism #socialism #business #politics #Nvidia

@briankrebs In France, a new report about this soaring use of electricity will be published this evening, here is a summary by the Shift Project: https://theshiftproject.org/app/uploads/2025/09/Synthese-RF-PIA-1.pdf Summary of the summary: No state is prepared for what happens by the industry.

It's in French but the whole report will be available in English later on this page: https://theshiftproject.org/en/

In French - the whole study: https://theshiftproject.org/app/uploads/2025/09/RF-PIA-1.pdf

#AI #LLM #datacenters #carbonFootprint #electricity #powerBills #climateCrisis

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.

And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.

Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.

Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public transport. Universities. Roads projects. Mental health services. Welfare payments.

People literally went homeless or starved, so rich people could get tax cuts.

Because the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually the eroding of public goods caused social dislocation.

So governments further cut those public goods to fund more police and prisons. To continue giving tax cuts to rich people.

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually the climate started changing because of the amount of toxic fossil fuel pollution in the atmosphere.

So governments chose to keep the tax cuts rather than fund infrastructure to reduce emissions.

(Many of those billionaires getting tax cuts made their money selling toxic fossil fuels.)

And as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the bushfires, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, floods, and droughts got worse.

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually people were getting pissed off at the dire state of the world.

The rich misdirected that anger at immigrants!

And First Nations!

And trans people!

And neurodivergent people!

Anyone but the billionaires who got the tax cuts.

So governments chose to keep the tax cuts. (For the rich. Everyone else got new tariff taxes.)

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

So did the wealth trickle down?

Well...

A group of billionaires saw this kinda cool tech demo.

It predicted the next pixel of an image, based on the colour patterns of every image on the internet.

It also predicted the next word in a sentence, based on an analysis of every piece of writing on the internet.

The rich decided that this clearly showed that a sentient computer was just around the corner.

The problem was these tech demos needed servers with a lot of GPUs to work.

So the rich took all the money they got from those tax cuts.

And they bought GPUs.

Millions and millions and millions and millions of GPUs.

All the tax cuts? All the underfunded schools? All the draconian welfare cuts? All the public housing shortages? The delays in funding clean energy.

In the end, it didn't trickle down.

And instead of all the public goods it could have bought...

...We'll be left with millions and millions and millions of GPUs in a landfill.

#ChatGPT #Claude #AI #LLM #capitalism #socialism #business #politics #Nvidia

@briankrebs In France, a new report about this soaring use of electricity will be published this evening, here is a summary by the Shift Project: https://theshiftproject.org/app/uploads/2025/09/Synthese-RF-PIA-1.pdf Summary of the summary: No state is prepared for what happens by the industry.

It's in French but the whole report will be available in English later on this page: https://theshiftproject.org/en/

In French - the whole study: https://theshiftproject.org/app/uploads/2025/09/RF-PIA-1.pdf

#AI #LLM #datacenters #carbonFootprint #electricity #powerBills #climateCrisis

@mediapart 2/2 ici le rapport en pdf "Intelligence artificielle, données, calculs" : quelles infrastructures dans un monde décarboné ? https://theshiftproject.org/app/uploads/2025/09/RF-PIA-1.pdf

#datacenters #IA #LLM #carbonFootprint #energie #CO2 #electricity #electricite

@mediapart BTW, la présentation de rapport est aujourd'hui, live sur youtube: https://theshiftproject.org/evenements/presentation-du-rapport-final-intelligence-artificielle/ "Quelles trajectoires énergie-carbone sont en train d’être impulsées par les filières des centres de données et de la capacité de calcul ? Quels en sont les futurs physiquement réalisables, compatibles avec la contrainte énergie- #carbone ?" 1/2

#AI #climateCrisis #CO2 #energie #LLM #carbon #datacenters

@mediapart BTW, la présentation de rapport est aujourd'hui, live sur youtube: https://theshiftproject.org/evenements/presentation-du-rapport-final-intelligence-artificielle/ "Quelles trajectoires énergie-carbone sont en train d’être impulsées par les filières des centres de données et de la capacité de calcul ? Quels en sont les futurs physiquement réalisables, compatibles avec la contrainte énergie- #carbone ?" 1/2

#AI #climateCrisis #CO2 #energie #LLM #carbon #datacenters

Sparse batched finetuning of #LLM beats SOTA model editing methods to acquire a small number of pieces of knowledge and generalize; this closes the debate of whether SFT can learn knowledge. Yet, full FT fails to acquire few such knowledge triplets, while sparse FT suceeds: there should be some continuum to explore there between full-FT on large datasets and sparse-FT on few facts only.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22072

I posted about Kagi News a few weeks ago, when it was in stealth. It has just now been officially announced, along with mobile apps.

I have been using this for weeks already and I think it is one of the very few well crafted AI augmented apps I have come across.

It does what LLMs do best - summarize and generate prose, but it is done in order to REMOVE distraction/noise, not create it.

I found it a good way to stay informed distraction-free.

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-news

#kagi #news #llm #ai

AP: Lufthansa Group to cut 4,000 job s by 2030 with help of AI

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-lufthansa-group-to-cut-4000-jobs-by-2030-with-help-of-ai/

#jobs #ai #llm #AIpocalypse

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

https://futurism.com/future-society/residents-shut-down-google-data-center

> A planned data center in Indianapolis by Google was shut down after residents protested its possible environmental impacts.

#strike #protest #ai #llm #datacenter #ResistIAGen #environment #climate

Good description in the article:

""It doesn't know the difference between travel advice, directions or recipes," Ghani said. "It just knows words. So, it keeps spitting out words that make whatever it's telling you sound realistic, and that's where lot of the underlying issues come from.""

#wordsalad #llm #travel

I have red this blog again and i am thinking about it's implications. I think @pluralistic is right and i am someone who is optimistic about AI and it's technological capabilities....
Or are there any counter arguments?
Financial AI Armageddon is near...
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence
#AI #armageddon #bubble #finance #investing #geopolitics #ICT #LLM @geopolitics

I have red this blog again and i am thinking about it's implications. I think @pluralistic is right and i am someone who is optimistic about AI and it's technological capabilities....
Or are there any counter arguments?
Financial AI Armageddon is near...
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence
#AI #armageddon #bubble #finance #investing #geopolitics #ICT #LLM @geopolitics