Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype(technologyreview.com)

20 points by jacquesm 24 days ago | 4 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender arguing that recent claims about AGI and new AI capabilities fall apart under scrutiny.

The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea(technologyreview.com)

32 points by joozio 1 month ago | 29 comments

MIT Technology Review's The Download newsletter on why AI breakthroughs and fears may be overhyped, plus 22 nations calling for a global AI oversight body.

AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all(technologyreview.com)

48 points by dgellow 1 month ago | 45 comments

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time(technologyreview.com)

62 points by samuel2 11 months ago | 44 comments

AI's energy footprint(technologyreview.com)

281 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 312 comments

What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future(technologyreview.com)

43 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 43 comments

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)

21 points by joozio 8 days ago | 28 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

This is not the future(blog.mathieui.net)

581 points by ericdanielski 10 months ago | 309 comments

Blog post arguing against the 'this is the future, like it or not' framing for generative AI and other tech, asserting nothing is inevitable and modern technology is abusive.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.