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Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions

Andrew Hick - accessibility and test person. User of code, pixels, pens and string. Bath, UK

Manda Scott's original new novel, 'Any Human Power' is an exploration of how we might transition to another world that is possible.

Anthropic is opposing Scott Wiener’s California bill to regulate AI, taking Google and Amazon money, and scraping web data without permission.

More tasks, human baselines, and preliminary results for GPT-4 and Claude.

How the artificial intelligence industry profits from an unprotected digital working class in Brazil Workers perform crucial tasks for the development of AI systems...

Climate Spring presents its new climate storytelling guide which sets out what makes a good climate story, by shifting narratives from apocalypse to regeneration.

Design guidelines following good practices that you can apply to product design, from components to design systems.

The Results Part 3: Creating a Course Outline

Perhaps we should be promoting AI-resilience instead

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...