#ai

I'm OK being left behind, thanks! https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/

Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable.

"You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered.

That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going to liberate us all from economic drudgery, what's the point of "getting in early"? It'll still be there tomorrow and I can join the journey whenever it is sensible for me.

Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.

I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools. I've tried a bunch of them. Some are good. Most are a bit shit. Few are useful to me as they are now. I'm utterly content to wait until their hype has been realised. Why should I invest in learning the equivalent of WordStar for DOS when Google Docs is coming any-day-now?

If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours.

I didn't use Git when it first came out. Once it was stable and jobs began demanding it, I picked it up. Might I be 7% more effective if I'd suffered through the early years? Maybe. But so what? I could just as easily have wasted my time learning something which never took off.

I wrote my MSc on The Metaverse. Learning to built VR stuff was fun, but a complete waste of time. There was precisely zero utility in having gotten in early.

Perhaps there are some things for which it is sensible to be on the cutting edge. I took part in a vaccine trial because I thought it might personally benefit me and, hopefully, humanity.

But I'm struggling to think of anyone who has earned anything more than bragging rights by being first. Some early investors made money - but an equal and opposite number lost money. For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.

There are a 16,000 new lives being born every hour. They're all starting with a fairly blank slate. Are you genuinely saying that they'll all be left behind because they didn't learn your technology in utero?

No. That's obviously nonsense.

It is 100% OK to wait and see if something is actually useful.

#AI #crypto #future #technology

#Walmart #AgeID #AI

I helped a customer set up a Straight Talk/Tracfone yesterday, and it already had the Age ID question. That is all, just a question about age and if the phone would be in a child's possession.

Also, this is the second interaction with Straight Talk and the AI bot used to set up a phone of this sort.

Tag 3 bei NVIDIA GTC 2026:

AI wird zur offenen, agentischen Infrastruktur.

Key Takeaways aus der Session mit Jensen Huang:
• Open Models = Schlüssel für Souveränität
• Agenten werden produktiv (OpenClaw / NemoClaw)
• Compute wird über Token handelbar
• Modelle lernen kontinuierlich

👉 Open Weight vs. Open Source wird zur strategischen Frage.

#AI #GTC2026 #SovereignAI

"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc

#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon

The Govt. has stepped back from its 'preferred option' of reforming copyright law to allow expanded (unrestricted) use of content after extensive opposition from the creative industries in the UK.

The next step may well be further consideration of other reforms, but we can also expect a lot of blackmail-like lobbying from AI firms claiming they will withdraw from the UK if their casual theft of content is halted... many might say: good riddance!

#AI #copyright

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/actors-musicians-writers-welcome-uk-u-turn-ai-copyright

Dr. George Landon is working with the U.S. Air Force Academy to use AI for identifying space debris through ground telescopes.

His main lesson for students: real-world AI is messy, and methods that work on paper often fail with actual data, and it's okay to be skeptical of claims. More people need to hear this.

#AI #Space #Education

"#KaiLentit" is such an incredible and talented guy. Pretty much each and every video is just on point (for a wider interested bubble, but not everyone)

Most recent one: "Interview with a 'sweating' #AI CEO (2026)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnYaExb5JvM

We've published a new legal opinion, raising questions over the legality of the use of AI tools in the UK asylum system.

Applicants aren't being informed of their use by decision-makers, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors that might be made in AI generated summaries.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/home-office-use-of-ai-in-asylum-cases-likely-to-be-unlawful-legal-opinion-finds/

#asylum #ai #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116226030767910474

As predicted, humans are being turned into accountability sinks for #AI. AI code doesn’t work? You're fired!

"After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

@pluralistic

"Even worse was the suggestion by Grammarly’s A.I. version of me to replace the first sentence of the news article with an anecdotal opening describing a fictional person named Laura whose privacy had been violated.

“Laura, a patient searching for relief from a chronic condition, clicks through her hospital’s website to schedule an appointment. In just a few moments, her most private medical details — her reason for visiting, her doctor’s name and even the treatment she seeks — are quietly sent to Facebook, without her knowledge,” the bot suggested with a button allowing the user to paste that excerpt straight into the article.

Replacing a factual sentence with an imagined story about a person who doesn’t exist is not only bad editing. It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist (or the career of any journalist who took that terrible advice).

And this is the problem with A.I. It doesn’t know truth from fiction. It doesn’t know an investigative news article from an offhand comment. It flattens all content into word associations.

What Grammarly made wasn’t a doppelgänger. As the writer Ingrid Burrington wrote on Bluesky, it was a sloppelgänger — A.I. slop masquerading as a person.

And it must be stopped."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/ai-doppelganger-deepfake-grammarly.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Writing #Hallucinations