Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots?
Nature - The rising energy and environmental cost of the artificial-intelligence boom is fuelling concern. Green policy mechanisms that already exist offer a path towards a solution.
Sakana AI’s ‘AI Scientist’ conducts research autonomously, challenging scientific norms
Sakana AI's groundbreaking 'AI Scientist' system autonomously conducts end-to-end scientific research, challenging traditional scientific methods and raising questions about the future of discovery.
LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve
An MIT team used probing classifiers to investigate if language models trained only on next-token prediction can capture the underlying meaning of programming languages. They found that it forms a representation of program semantics to generate correct instructions.
How working with AI impacts the collective attention of teams
The effectiveness of teamwork in professional and academic environments typically depends on various factors, including communication and coordinated attention. In this context, collective attention entails ...
What Might a Post-Growth Olympics Look Like? - resilience
Processing these simultaneous truths — inspiration on the one hand, and systemic injustice on the other — feels like a microcosm for our wider dilemma. As we co-create a new/old system, a pluriverse of alternatives, what do we want to keep — and what will we leave behind? What might a post-growth Olympic Games look like?
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's Storytelling Guide from Apocalypse to Regenerative Futures
Climate Spring presents its new climate storytelling guide which sets out what makes a good climate story, by shifting narratives from apocalypse to regeneration.
django-http-debug, a new Django app mostly written by Claude
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.
John Battelle's Search Blog From the Archive: Tech Must Get Over Its Superman Complex, Or We’re All Screwed
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 –…