#ComputerScientist and #Nobel Physics Laureate #GeoffreyHinton: ‘#AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’
What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” he says. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the #capitalist system.”
https://www.ft.com/content/31feb335-4945-475e-baaa-3b880d9cf8ce
https://archive.ph/gzBV7
#artificialintelligence

Can you guess Hanna’s feelings about AI in email? What are your thoughts on this?

The Doctor Will Record You Now

AI wearables are entering hospitals as “helpers.” In practice they record patients without visible consent and push doctors into surveillance metrics.

A clinic that records without visible consent is no longer a trust space.

Read: https://medium.com/@Diogo_Mendes/the-doctor-will-record-you-now-86ad9fa494c1

Every company with AI.

Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.

The future is AI. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious.

From @AssociatedPress: "At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence."

https://flip.it/QNbIjp

People really need to learn that what an #AI tells you probably isn't true: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/with-ai-chatbots-big-tech-is-moving-fast-and-breaking-people/ #ArtificialIntelligence

Is a #Backlash Building Against #SmartGlasses That Record? -Slashdot

Remember those #Harvard dropouts who built smart glasses for #covert #FacialRecognition — and then raised $1 million to develop AI-powered glasses to continuously listen to #conversations and display its insights?

"People Are REALLY Mad," writes Futurism, noting that some social media users "have responded with horror & outrage."
#privacy #surveillance #monitoring #stealth #ai #artificialintelligence

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/30/0618242/is-a-backlash-building-against-smart-glasses-that-record?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

New AI model predicts which genetic mutations truly drive disease. Via @sciencedaily_official #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MedicalScience

New AI model predicts which ge...

Ed Zitron's new 16K-word "How to Argue With An AI Booster" is an essential communications toolkit for the next ~18 months. Go read it, and bookmark it.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #hype

https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/

Using #AI to help satellites avoid space junk: https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-esa-cream-ai #ArtificialIntelligence

Anthropic and a group of up to 7 million authors are expected to reach a "historic" settlement soon. In the largest copyright class action of all time, claimants sued the company for illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. Here's more from @arstechnica.

https://flip.it/hs8S8P

#Books @bookstodon #USLaw #Copyright #Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Anthropic

#AI perceive time differently to humans: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-perception-of-time #ArtificialIntelligence

Has anyone else noticed that #ChatGPT 5 is pretty bad? It keeps asking for details and a lot of follow up questions before commencing work. Might this be an attempt by #OpenAI to reduce the insane computational demand?

You can test the free version GPT-5 mini (along other free models) anonymously at Duck.ai (you can use it via #Tor if you don't trust #DuckDuckGo.

Today's Poll

How often do you use AI tools in your daily life?

Whoopsies! The Commonwealth Bank was forced to hire back laid off workers, after its AI chatbot led to an *increase* in customer service calls

"Commonwealth Bank has reversed its decision to cut dozens of jobs replaced by artificial intelligence after conceding at the Fair Work Commission it still needs humans to meet its growing workloads.

"CBA chief executive Matt Comyn... said the bank had engaged with staff affected by AI and was now inviting them to stay in their roles or accept voluntary redundancy.
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"The bank was the first in the sector to directly link redundancies to AI when it announced last month it would cut 45 call centre roles because of a new voicebot system it had introduced to answer customer queries.
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"Despite claiming the voicebot had reduced call volumes by 2000 a week, CBA was forced to admit calls had actually increased as managers scrambled to offer overtime and even pull team leaders onto the phones.

"CBA apologised and admitted it did not properly consider the workloads on its teams."

Source: https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/cba-u-turns-on-ai-job-cuts-calls-back-humans-20250820-p5moif

No paywall: https://archive.is/uArfF

#capitalism #AI #LLM #ChatGPT #ChatBots #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #business #auspol #ausbiz

Microsoft has added COPILOT AI to Excel — but give it a miss if you use the spreadsheet software for numerical calculations or in scenarios with legal regulatory and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses," the company warns. Here's more from @theverge.

https://flip.it/tBWnLn