The optimal robot body has twenty legs. Eight AI bots now write half of X’s Community Notes. SF writer Ted Chiang argues some familiar points better than most: No, artificial intelligence is not conscious. The AI “revolution” isn’t a people’s revolution. Amnesty International: The human rights costs of generative AI. AI economics for dummies. Is AI profitable yet? A British legal case is a painful example of the perils of offloading thought and expertise to AI. A landmark German ruling has declared that Google’s AI overviews are the company’s own words and made it liable for false answers. Amazon is encouraging parents to offload one of the best parts of parenting to Alexa. A Flock licence plate reader falsely linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. No wonder resistance to Flock cameras and police surveillance is growing. Developing an AI to read a million unread papyri is one of the few positive uses of LLMs I’ve seen, along with reading handwritten manuscripts in general.
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