Vincent M. @Vimar@techlover.eu

⚠️ météo France prévoit un nombre important de con

Voilà qui commence presque comme un roman de Kim Stanley Robinson :

"Le mercure oscille entre 45 °C et 47 °C, les parcs si prisés des habitants de New Delhi sont déserts, il n’y a plus que les chiens errants qui creusent des trous dans la terre pour trouver de la fraîcheur. Dans les rues à moitié vides, les passants marchent la tête et le visage couverts de foulard ou à l’ombre d’un parapluie."

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/05/23/en-inde-new-delhi-ecrase-par-une-canicule-severe-je-n-ai-pas-assez-d-argent-pour-me-payer-une-climatisation-il-fait-40-c-chez-moi_6234924_3244.html?lmd_medium=al&lmd_campaign=envoye-par-appli&lmd_creation=android&lmd_source=default

Guillaume Meurice, humoriste de France Inter, convoqué en vue d’une « rupture anticipée pour faute grave » https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2024/05/22/guillaume-meurice-humoriste-de-france-inter-convoque-en-vue-d-une-rupture-anticipee-pour-faute-grave_6234827_3236.html

The existence of Norway implies...

Q : Que faut-il faire pour qu'une poule qui a pondu, ponde à nouveau ?

(attention elle est nulle)

(non mais vraiment) (oubliez)

(bon)

R: Il suffit de poser un avocat à côté d'elle, puisqu'elle ne repondra qu'en présence de son avocat.

(Je l'avais dit ou je l'avais pas dit ?)

Est-ce que j'ai confondu ma pâte de curry rouge avec mon harissa en préparant cette carbonara de curry de canard ? Bah ça arrive au meilleur hein.

Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs.

They offer a thing they're calling an "opt-out."

The opt-out (a) is only available to companies who are slack customers, not end users, and (b) doesn't actually opt-out.

When a company account holder tries to opt-out, Slack says their data will still be used to train LLMs, but the results won't be shared with other companies.

LOL no. That's not an opt-out. The way to opt-out is to stop using Slack.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

The Good Guys

Just believing that an AI is helping boosts your performance
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/just-believing-that-an-ai-is-helping-boosts-your-performance

Researchers discover an **AI placebo effect** where task performance improves when people believe an AI helps them.

"The results also pose a significant challenge for research on HCI, since expectations would influence the outcome unless placebo control studies were used.

‘These results suggest that many studies in the field may have been skewed in favor of AI systems,’ concludes Welsch."

2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

Google is replacing their search results with AI answers. There’s a very simple explanation for this: it’s better/cheaper to provide potentially wrong answers to keep you clicking within Google than it is to send you away for the right answers. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

Thanks everyone! We closed the loop!

Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles.

No humans needed any more!

Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.