@xuv writes

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  • Citation de Juan Sebastián Carbonell

    Une tech­no­lo­gie ne s’impose pas iné­luc­ta­ble­ment parce qu’elle est plus “effi­ciente”, mais parce que des acteurs qui contrô­lent les res­sour­ces économiques, consi­dé­rant qu’elle cor­res­pond mieux à leurs inté­rêts, déci­dent de lui donner réa­lité. — Juan Sebastián Carbonell Via Rezo.net qui reprend un article de Mediapart sur le dernier livre, intitulé “Taylorisme augmenté”, par l’auteur.

  • My selection for the Susanne Award 2025

    I’m always interested by what people do with Blender and especially in the animation category. So, every year, I’ll go and have a look at the submissions for the Susanne Award. Here is my top 3 for this year.

  • Quoting Martin Fowler

    All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful. https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html

  • Quoting cats4606

    All I wanted was to use my Quest 3 as a Minecraft server for an upcoming LAN party with my friends and turn off the display to keep temperatures down says, by his own description, “an Australian teenager who had just stepped into the VR world”, who’s just published an exploit to get root access…

  • Citando Marta Peirano

    Los modelos viven encerrados en un mundo de palabras, un universo wittgensteniano compuesto exclusivamente de signos, jerarquías y estadística. No pueden mentir, alucinar o equivocarse porque todas las palabras son verdaderas cuando dejan de describir el mundo. No habrá inteligencia artificial general

  • Quoting Janelle Shane

    I wish more people understood that any “apology” or “self-reflection” from chatbots are meaningless – they’re just continuing with your improv session. ChatGPT will apologize for anything – by @janellecshane

  • Quoting Emilia Di Lorenzo et al.

    Eggs are one of the most valuable foods on the tables of consumers and in the kitchens of chefs due to their abundant functional properties that make them the funniest and most versatile ingredients to work with. In fact, not only do they contain almost all essential nutrients, which is fundamental for human nutrition, but…

  • Quoting Nick McGreivy

    To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent, training, time, and money away from existing research directions and towards a single paradigm?

  • Quoting Benedict Evans

    It might also be that the chatbot as chatbot is the right UX only for some people and some use-cases, and most people will experience this technology as features and capabilities wrapped inside other things.

  • Quoting Dave Karpf

    Inside every Silicon Valley company are two businesses. One is a business that attempts to sell products for more than it costs to make them. The other is a speculative stock, trafficking in vibes. So long as the latter doesn’t overshadow the former, that can be just fine. But (again ell oh ell), selling actual…

  • Paper surgery

    This early 2000 work by Stephen J Shanabrook, in collaboration with Veronika Georgieva, feels like GenAI artifacts reproduced in analog form.

  • Dice drawing

    Love this simple generative art recipe by @wblut. All you need is a piece of paper, a ruler, a compass, a pencil and a dice.