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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 1d

I have endless circular arguments about this.

Them: “It’s written a summary.”

Me: “No, it’s written something tuned to look like a summary.”

Them: “But it looks like a summary.”

Me: <sigh>

We’re not used to computers lying to us.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Germany has agreed to stop ChatControl for now, due to huge amounts of public pressure. Good job! The bad news is that it could come back as soon as December, and the German government has interpreted the feedback as a need to “moderate” the proposal.

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 1d

Nah.

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly. On the other hand, this makes AI doomerism incredibly misguided.

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 1d

“GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.”

None of this is true.

It cannot “do” any of those things. At most it can help experts do them. And even there…

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 1d

L’aviazione è un ottimo modo per essere poveri ma felici

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 1d

Basta decidere il budget, poi raddoppiarlo e guardare cosa si può comprare 😂

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 1d

“Use this technology that has been proven to make your work slower overall to be 5 times faster in building the other technology that no one actually wanted and everyone just pretended never happened”

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

NEW: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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Armando Bellante @ikiga1.bsky.social · 2d

I’m happy to announce a new #preprint! 🧑‍💻📝🎉

Quantum states often show up with hidden structure. What if a state is built from just a few elements of a larger, #non-orthogonal, #overcomplete dictionary? Can we exploit that sparsity to beat standard #tomography costs?

🧵⬇️ /n

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 10d

Ma a parte tutto… “nuovi inoculi”? Iniezioni pareva brutto? Bisogna trovare termini fantasiosi per farle sembrare cose più strane?

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 10d

That’s true only in a few airports around the world (it’s called preclearance, and it has happened for at least 15 years)

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 10d

No. It’s most definitely not. This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

www.theguardian.com

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · May 1

jesus christ

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 10d

Memories.

Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 11d

Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway.

If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn.

Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 11d

That’s a defcon talk, not a black hat talk.

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 11d

Drop by!

Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 12d

Non dirlo mai più. Mai. Più.

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Michael A. Specter 👻 @mikespecter.com · 12d

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags.

You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 14d

a knight with a helmet and a sword says " this is the way "

ALT: a knight with a helmet and a sword says " this is the way "

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 14d

Equating “AI” with the output of LLMs may easily be the death blow to the discipline. What’s coming is not merely a winter, it will be a nuclear wasteland. Hope the money grift was really worth it folks!

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 14d

Who could have possibly predicted this, except any engineer even superficially trained in robotics?

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 14d

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach "pure fantasy thinking."

Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst | TechCrunch

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach "pure fantasy thinking."

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 15d

I think Making Money already applies…

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Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema @mauriziofd.bsky.social · 15d

Very happy to see a full room at our #RecSys2025 tutorial "Hands on #QuantumComputing for Recommender Systems" presented by me and Paolo Cremonesi. We covered gate model QC and #quantumannealing with examples on community detection and feature selection.
Materials: qclef.dei.unipd.it

#recsys

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 16d

Pietà

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