This reminds me of the saying, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS."
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The whole thing is really pretty extraordinary.
You've got Know-It-All AI pretending it's brilliant but often spewing nonsense.
Everyone is told to use it for everything, but it's really not working according to MIT.
The promise of billions in profits from AI is not-yet-funding the construction of ever more data centers to power that same AI.
The economy is only 'good' because of the promise of 'Awesome AI'; otherwise the numbers look REALLY bad.
All those data centers are already causing polluted water, no water, double or triple electricity prices, epic light pollution, and power requirements so high that data center builders are talking about having their own 1GW nuclear power plants.
The only way I can think of to make it even more crazy is to somehow incorporate Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
The whole thing is really pretty extraordinary.
You've got Know-It-All AI pretending it's brilliant but often spewing nonsense.
Everyone is told to use it for everything, but it's really not working according to MIT.
The promise of billions in profits from AI is not-yet-funding the construction of ever more data centers to power that same AI.
The economy is only 'good' because of the promise of 'Awesome AI'; otherwise the numbers look REALLY bad.
All those data centers are already causing polluted water, no water, double or triple electricity prices, epic light pollution, and power requirements so high that data center builders are talking about having their own 1GW nuclear power plants.
The only way I can think of to make it even more crazy is to somehow incorporate Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
The problem I see is that in our current state of technologie, it's like trying to build a high speed train and it's infrastructure when you are at the steam train era. You see the potential but you're limited by the available tech and have to build some monster if you want to achieve your goal. And it does make much sense at the end.
I really wonder at what point they are with quantum computing. Perhaps they already have AI running on it but keep it for them, if not the whole bubble around datacenters construction would collapse in the blink of an eye.
Public school system and AI. What could go wrong?
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Maryland School's AI Security System Mistakes Doritos Bag For Gun, Sends Cops After Teen
An AI system at a Maryland high school misidentified a Doritos bag as a gun, triggering an armed police response on a 16-year-old student.
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And it does *NOT make much sense at the end.
An interesting article about AI everywhere.Some extracts:
Forgot about the data center with the 1GW nuclear power plants. Now they want to put it around the Earth, directly powered by the Sun....
I would recommend them to read the "Fire in the Sky" Sott section
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I would recommend them to read the "Fire in the Sky" Sott section
Axiom Space to launch its 1st orbiting data centers this year
Axiom Space will launch two orbiting data center nodes into low Earth orbit by the end of this year, as the first step in the development of off-Earth computing infrastructure.
Jeff Bezos says orbital data centers will be the ‘next step’ for space ventures that make Earth better
What's the next killer app for the final frontier? According to Jeff Bezos, it's a future fleet of orbital data centers.
www.geekwire.com
So this is a real thing that happened 
metro.co.uk
Albania's AI minister is 'pregnant with 83 children', says prime minister
Just your average day in 2025.
metro.co.uk
Albania’s AI minister is ‘pregnant with 83 children’, says prime minister
In what is just your typical day in 2025 at this point, the world’s first government minister generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is ‘pregnant’.
Albania’s so-called state minister for AI, Diella, will soon ‘give birth’ to 83 children.
The e-mum-to-be Balkan’s news was revealed yesterday by the country’s prime minister, Edi Rama, at the Berlin Global Dialogue conference.
Rama said the minister’s offspring will be virtual assistants assigned to 83 MPs from the ruling Socialist Party, according to NDTV.
Diella is a chatbot for eAlbania, akin to GOV.UK in Britain (Picture: E-Albania)
‘Each one will serve as an assistant for them, who will participate in parliamentary sessions and will keep a record of everything that happens and will suggest members of parliament,’ Rama said.
‘These children will have the knowledge of their mother.’
Rama explained that Diella’s ‘children’ will help MPs carry out day-to-day tasks until 2026.
‘For example, if you go for coffee and forget to come back to work, this child will say what was said when you were not in the hall and will say who you should counter-attack,’ he said.
‘If you invite me next time, you will have 83 more screens for the children of Diella.’
Who – or what – is Diella?
The avatar is draped in a folkloric Albanian dress (Picture: Reuters)
Diella was ‘born’ in January when it was launched as a virtual assistant on the government’s web portal, according to its official profile page.
The text-based chatbot answers questions and helps people and businesses obtain state documents on e-Albania.
Diella, which means ‘sun’ in Albanian, was developed by the National Agency for Information Society with Microsoft.
It’s a large language model, a type of neural network that learns skills by analysing massive amounts of text from across the internet.
‘If you invite me next time, you will have 83 more screens for the children of Diella.’
‘Diella 2.0’ was launched a few months later, now with a voice function as well as an animated avatar wearing traditional Albanian dress.
Albanian officials have yet to reveal exactly what makes Diella tick, other than saying it uses the latest AI models and methods.
But the software got quite the promotion last month, when it was made a minister to oversee government contracts with private companies.
Rama is heading the AI initiative in a bid to tackle corruption, he says (Picture: Anadolu)
This is despite how Article 100 of Albania’s constitution says every member of the Council of Ministers must be a natural person.
Diella was selected for the post as it’s, well, slightly tricky to bribe or threaten an AI – maybe other than switching it off.
Its name was absent from the cabinet list approved by Albanian president Bajram Begaj on September 15, as Rama has the complete ‘responsibility’ of establishing the virtual minister, a decree said.
Addressing the Albanian parliament in a video, Diella’s avatar said: ‘I’m not here to replace people, but to help them.’
Opposition MPs weren’t sure what to make of the digital minister, with some banging their hands on the table as the footage played.
Experts said that Diella is just the latest example of how AI is reshaping modern life – and politicians are trying to catch up with it.
Lawmakers in Ohio earlier this week passed a ban on people marrying an AI algorithm, instead treating the systems as ‘nonsentient entities’.
Under the proposed bill, AI systems cannot own a home, manage a bank account or work at a company.
Supporters say it’s less about robot weddings, but more about stopping AI from having legal powers akin to a spouse, such as power of attorney.
There's a really good illustration about the circular dependency in the big tech sector that shows how money is flowing (until it doesn't):
The worst thing is that this technology is pretty usable right now in the form of small, fine-tuned models that are up to specific tasks: general-purpose chat with embedded domain knowledge, OCR, text corpus tagging, text translation, or even time-series analysis (ECG, HRV, etc.). Those small models could be run locally, on a personal computer like a Mac Mini, without behemoths logging all of your chat histories.
Here's a very good podcast with Andrej Karpathy, who built a few of these systems from the ground up, on the current state of AI (beware, guy's talking fast!):
