Yesterday I finally developed something I’ve been casually thinking about building for a long time: django-http-debug. It’s a reusable Django app—something you can pip install into any Django project—which provides …

A data center in Paris has been hooked up to the energy system heating the Olympic pool. But critics say that projects recycling data centers’ excess heat are a distraction from the real environmental costs of AI.

Five years ago I was posting a lot to a publication called NewCo Shift, which is now offline. I got ahold of the archives, and found this review, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance &#8211…

Unsurprisingly, Apple doesn’t want its AI to be negative.

An entire industry has been built - and will collapse - because many people haven’t yet gotten it.

LLMs’ ‘reversal curse’ leads it to fail at drawing relationships between simple facts. It’s a problem that could prove fatal

The training process for a single AI model, such as an LLM, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons of carbon. AI model training can also lead to the evaporation of an astonishing amount of freshwater into the atmosphere for data center heat rejection, potentially exacerbating stress on our already limited freshwater resources. These environmental impacts are expected to escalate considerably, and there remains a widening disparity in how different regions and communities are affected. The ability to flexibly deploy and manage AI computing across a network of geographically distributed data centers offers substantial opportunities to tackle AI’s environmental inequality by prioritizing disadvantaged regions and equitably distributing the overall negative environmental impact.

Breaking my hand forced me to write all my code with AI for 2 months. I'm never going back.

Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.

AI that purports to read our feelings may enhance user experience but concerns over misuse and bias mean the field is fraught with potential dangers

Posted on Friday 19 Jul 2024. 1,601 words, 29 links. By Matt Webb.

The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.

Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors

Sam Altman’s ChatGPT promises to transform the global economy. But it also poses an enormous threat. Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the danger in AI – and in Altman himself

Even if we’re able to embrace our sense of purpose, that initial spark of inspiration can burn out over time if we’re not careful. If we want to be able to follow our path all the way to its fruition, we must learn how to take good care of ourselves.

Small improvements can lead to big changes

So take pleasure in those small things. Savor everything good about them. And open yourself, your one and only living body, to the joy of doing things that bring you pleasure, knowing that true pleasure is in the relationship between your body and the enfolding world — with no synthetic monetary mediation between the labor and the loving happiness.

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The ICT sector, responsible for 2% of global carbon emissions and significant energy consumption, is under scrutiny calling for methodologies and tools to design and develop software in an...

Opinion: "Help my daughter write a letter" is not the same as "Help me with boring busywork."

BambooHR’s 2024 Return to Office report details findings on employee and employer sentiment surrounding in-office and remote work.

Amazon released their sustainability report covering the whole of 2023 on July 9th 2024, Google released theirs on July 2nd, and Microsoft…

Maybe the future: Deaddit - a version of Reddit where all the posters are LLMs talking to each other: https://www.deaddit.xyz/ I especially like… | 42 comments on LinkedIn

When you make mean remarks to an LLM, it is not the AI that gets hurt—it's you.

As we wrote last week, there are some major changes coming to the way internet emissions are calculated. With improved data sources and research we now have more accurate data to work with. At Wholegrain we’ve always compared internet emissions to those from other sectors and countries and we have been busy updating them inline […]

Generative AI has a Sustainability problem – across environment, cost and continuing to meet expectations. Many companies are racing to implement GenAI in their projects, lured by its hyped potential to revolutionise industries. However, in applying GenAI to enterprise implementations, I am seeing first-hand the sustainability challenges threatening to implode the first generation of this technology. This blog talks about what I hope will rise from the ashes of such an implosion.

What exists in the space between riffing and ripping

Explore advanced methods for boosting product quality using large language models (LLMs), focusing on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Learn how integrating search results can enhance your product's features and user experience.

Every year summers are hotter and heat waves more frequent, with cities suffering most. A network of climate shelters in Barcelona isn’t only making people m...

OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.