AI is a con. Listen to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social explain why:

www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

If you want to see why younger generations are so open to voting for right-wing populists, take a look at this depressing-as-fuck chart.

Curious what the data says for Canada - might not be as bad but I'd be the trends are similar.

New Pleias paper: "What the HellaSwag?"
HellaSwag is currently on of the most widely LLM benchmarks in the world. We introduce a new critical method to assess the validity of standard LLM evals and show it does not accurately measure common sense reasoning. arxiv.org/abs/2504.07825

New video 📽️ from me:
I had the privilege of being a keynote speaker at the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI.
I focused on solutions and ideas for moving forward.
They made it public, and here it is.
Enjoy, and hope it's helpful! 🤗

oecdtv.webtv-solution.com/embed-or-en-...

For our first MAIHT3k newsletter post of the year, a grabbag of links to pushback against "AI" that was have appreciated, because I thought it a good moment for reprieve & inspiration:

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

What was interesting about algorithms?

The challenge of doing X with as few resources as possible (memory, power, etc).

What are OpenAI + friends doing? The opposite.

"Lets assume we have unlimited resources & try to build a god."

No wonder they're losing their shit with the DeepSeek thing.

Tried something new this newsletter: Introducing The Critical AI Report, a digest and analysis of 5 news reports, essays, studies, writings, and/or events that are crucial to understanding the state of AI.

READ THIS OR GET LEFT BEHIND

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-critic...