AI News for People Who Ain't Stupid


Rod Miller

Google paid $2.7 billion to keep one engineer. He left anyway. Same week, a starter home hit a million dollars. The ratio between those two numbers tells you everything about where the money is going and who it's going to.

21 hours ago | [YT] | 33

Rod Miller

The Pentagon just confirmed a chatbot helped US forces hit more than 2,000 targets in 96 hours.

The same week, the company that refused to let its AI run automated strikes got its best models export-banned.

So the AI that said yes is now critical national security, and the AI that said no got labeled a national security risk.

This is the part of the AI story where "does it actually do what it's supposed to" stops being a thought experiment. It's why I test these things instead of taking the press release at its word.

5 days ago | [YT] | 81

Rod Miller

6,000 workers were surveyed this week. They invented a new word for their relationship with AI:
Botsitting.
The more AI you use, the more time you spend cleaning up after it.
Have you experienced this?

6 days ago | [YT] | 40

Rod Miller

KPMG, one of the four biggest accounting firms on Earth, published a report to convince companies to buy AI.
The case studies were fabricated.
The accountants faked the accounting.

1 week ago | [YT] | 53