Generative AI

Impact on Software Developers

• The death of the [modified] developer - by Forrest Brazeal

Democratization

• Hugging Face – The AI community building the future. - provides hundreds of pre-trained and open-source models for dozens of different domains—from natural language processing to computer vision

MCP

• Asana warns MCP AI feature exposed customer data to other orgs
• How we built our multi-agent research system \ Anthropic

Alternatives

• My Coworkers Don't Want AI. They Want Macros | Ruth Kitchin Tillman

Energy Usage

• Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots? - By Sasha Luccioni, Boris Gamazaychikov, Sara Hooker, Régis Pierrard, Emma Strubell, Yacine Jernite & Carole-Jean Wu
• AI Tech Giants Hide Dirty Energy With Outdated Carbon Accounting Rules - Bloomberg
• Your use of AI is directly harming the environment I live in – Baldur Bjarnason
• Boiling Point: Tech companies clam up about AI's climate costs - Los Angeles Times

International

• Understanding China's AI Strategy | Center for a New American Security (en-US)

Misdirection

• The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking | Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Nonsense

• Oops! We Automated Bullshit. | Department of Computer Science and Technology
• Specification gaming examples in AI - master list - Google Drive
• When an AI project goes wrong: A million dollar mistake! : r/ExperiencedDevs

In Healthcare

• GPT-4 in a Cancer Center — Institute-Wide Deployment Challenges and Lessons Learned | NEJM AI
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shares lessons on using secure LLMs | Healthcare IT News
• Tackling healthcare AI's bias, regulatory and inventorship challenges | Healthcare IT News

Bubble

• Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says - Bloomberg

In Education

• Teachers Are Not OK

In Art

• Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | The New Yorker

Legislation

• Dean, Salazar Introduce Bill to Protect Americans from AI Deepfakes | Press Releases | Congresswoman Madeleine Dean

Tools

• Letta - Intelligent agents that remember, learn, and scale seamlessly
• Transcript of Is Postgres the best database for GenAI? | The Stack Overflow Podcast

Non-consensual content

The report says that while children may recognize that AI-generating nonconsensual content is wrong they can assume “it’s legal, believing that if it were truly illegal, there wouldn’t be an app for it.”No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM

• New Report on AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material | FSI