Let's look at why AI adoption has been very slow in several different Fortune 500 companies. The main reason is that it adds cost rather than reduces it, which is the opposite of what's supposed to happen.
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I was chatting yesterday with an acquaintance and mentioned that I work on a popular hosting blog. He asked: "do you really write anymore? Or is all just feeding prompts to AI?" It's a fair question.
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These days, Google is shoving AI into every search result, and a German court is holding them liable for what AI says. In a decision this week, the Regional Court of Munich ruled that Google had beend spreading false claims about two Munich-based publishers.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman said yesterday that AI is unlikely to lead to a "jobs apocalypse". Which means...
Read More about I’m Sorry, Sam, What Did You Just Say? Altman Says No “AI Jobs Apocalypse” Coming
We're super-excited to release our full-length documentary on ForgeMind, a controversial AI companion service that charges up to $10,000 to build an AI companion for you. It's all part of a scheme to grant their founder immortality.
Read More about LowEndBoxTV: The Cult of ForgeMind AI: True Belief, Sarah’s Purple Octopus, and the Quest for Immortality
Yesterday, we talked about how Calude's Mythos model is over-hyped. I should have googled a little further because there's a great piece of evidence out there.
Read More about I Should Have Read Further: Small Models Find the Same Bugs as the Vaunted Claude Mythos
Is Claude's new AI model, Mythos, really so incredibly godlike that it's a threat to the Internet? I wish this one was on Polymarket.
Read More about Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos’s Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
Read More about Not April Fools: Microsoft Says Copilot is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
If you had to guess the percentage of American adults who say they have a "personal" relationship with an AI chatbot, what would be your guess? And what percentage of those would describe it as "romantic"?
Read More about 25% of Americans Have an “Intimate, Romantic” Relationship With an AI Chatbot
New York Senate Bill S7263 is under consideration, and it seeks to prohibit LLMs from dispensing advice on a broad range of topics.
Read More about New York Moves to Protect Professional Paychecks by Prohibiting LLM Advice on Medical, Legal, and Engineering Questions
Amazon's AI broke Kiro. But they'd rather blame a human engineer, for rather obvious reasons.
Read More about The New Reality: Blame the Human Engineer, Not the AI
Matt Shumer has been exposed before as a liar and fraud. Yet people are still reading his essays. Why?
Read More about AI Fraudster Matt Shumer Wrote “Something Big is Happening” and He Should Be Ashamed
Bad news for OpenAI: its former partner and funding source will instead shortly become a very well-funded competitor.
Read More about Prompt It Again, Sam: The Three Reasons Microsoft Decided to Ditch OpenAI and Run Its Own Models.
We're in an AI bubble, right? I can't go to my YouTube app without seeing someone selling that message. What about the tech itself?
Read More about When It Comes to AI, Are You a Maximalist, a Skeptic, or a Gartner Analyst?
Text created by ChatGPT is good. Really good. Good enough to write a high school essay, or for that matter a college one. (But not a LowEndBox blog post, in case you're wondering). Here are some ways to immediately spot AI.
Read More about What Are the Tell-Tale Signs of AI Authorship? Here’s Five That I’ve Noticed.
Want to play D&D 5e with an AI GM? That's what AI Realm promises. I give it a spin and find it has some strengths and some weaknesses, and learn a little bit about what makes gaming satisfying for me.
Read More about Play Dungeons & Dragons 5e with AI: A Review of AI Realm – Pros, Cons, and a Little Bit About What Makes Roleplaying Human
If you love Meta's free series of AI models (LLaMA), sorry to inform you that its days may be numbered. Meta is considering "de-investing" in LLaMA as it overhauls its AI strategy.
Read More about Is Meta Discontinuing the Free LLaMA Model Series? News Reports Suggest LLaMA Drama
Remember the part in Mark Twain's 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck uses a laser sniper rifle? Me neither.
Read More about Huckleberry Finn’s Ray Gun: How Mocking AI Puts Dollars in an Advertiser’s Pocket
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini are all talking about Black Friday. One of them has some specific prices in mind.
Read More about Artificial Intelligence Wants Lower Pricing on LowEndBox’s Black Friday
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former safety researcher at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has published a stunning series of articles forecasting Artificial Generalized Intelligence (AGI) - followed very shortly by Arficial Generalized Superintelligence (ASI) by 2027.
Read More about The Best Read of the Year: Situational Awareness
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