An ad on Twitter from Grok that says "Tired of AI saying 'I can't'? Start your 7 day free unlimited SuperGrok trial. What would you build without limits?"
Something (certainly not the only thing) that bugs me about the name "artificial intelligence" is that it reduces "intelligence" to being a tool. Not even knowing how to use tools—actually being one. That's an insult to intelligence, and intelligent(?) beings like us.
Because intelligence isn't just about knowing how to use tools; it's also about knowing what goals to use your tools for—self-direction. Premodern Europe called the first "prudence" and the second "wisdom." In both cases, there is a distinction between the tools and the user.
So-called artificial intelligence collapses that distinction. It erodes the conceptual line between tool and user. And that makes it all the easier to treat people as tools too.
Last year, I was working with #AI agents before this new "boom". I was really amazed by it and the opportunity that only I seemed to recognize on my team.
All that faded away as soon as you realize these agents behave like little kids that provide a non deterministic answer each time; and to answer my PM the question "why this doesn't work all the time?" with "IDK" was not enough.
"Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans."
Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer, is the world's most followed TikToker. Now, he's sold commercial rights to his brand for a 36-month period for $975 million. The standout feature of this deal: Lame has authorized development of an AI "digital twin," which can operate around the clock, in multiple languages, without his involvement. Here's more from Business Insider Africa.
A coalition of nonprofits is demanding that the U.S. government block Grok — the chatbot that was accused of generating thousands of nonconsensual explicit images per hour, which were then disseminated on X — from being used in federal agencies. @ has more:
The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.
AI assistant OpenClaw, briefly known as Moltbot and Clawbot before that, is building a social network where assistants can interact with each other. Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s former AI director, called it “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” Read more from @:
Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”
The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")
1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus
4.5
2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders
3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK"
4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes)
The damage:
- Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats
- 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone
- Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total
The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking
"is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."
"Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"
"In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."
"I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."
Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul. No one really believes it has a soul, though, right? @ explores:
What happened when Time Magazine, Darren Aronofsky and artificial intelligence teamed up? The world was blessed with "On This Day… 1776," described by @'s Luke Plunkett as "a web series about the American Revolution that finally answers the question nobody was asking: what if that Coke ad had muskets in it?"
Mark Zuckerberg gets green light from Wall Street to keep pouring money into AI.
From CNBC: "Although investors have previously expressed concern about Meta’s AI spending spree, they took comfort in the company’s latest results, which were driven by online ads."
As the world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, experts say that social networks are being overrun with AI-generated content about the Holocaust, some of it exploiting the horrors of Nazi crimes for clickbait, some seeking to deny or trivialize them. Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the foundation that manages the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora memorials, points to images of "well-fed prisoners, meant to suggest that conditions in concentration camps weren't really that bad." Here's more from AFP News.