> "Software once ate the world. Now it is in danger of eating itself"

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These include trackers like AI Adoption Monitor, Canaries Dashboard, Takeoff Tracker

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- Extremely low contrast typography

- Serif typefaces with body in sans serif

- Black + red/maroon color combo

- tiny, tiny typefaces

> ... existing models of human collision avoidance behavior are fragmented, focusing on specific scenarios or only describing certain aspects of the avoidance behavior, such as response times. This paper addresses these gaps by proposing a computational cognitive model of human collision avoidance behavior based on active inference. Active inference provides a unified approach to modeling human behavior: the minimization of free energy.

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https://www.wired.com/story/meta-removes-face-recognition-co...

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What IS surprising (or rather, infuriating) is the insistence (from various stakeholders, including, of course, the purveyors of said technologies, and their multiple investors) that productivity show up IMMEDIATELY, or at least in a relatively short time frame.

THAT is what this article addresses, quoting the NBER paper https://www.nber.org/papers/w35275 that shows empirically the AI-driven productivity (or its lack) in SW development. It shows that while edits and PRs increased 300% (in the study), the actual SW releases only increased 30%, and the subsequent usage of those AI-developed apps did not increase meaningfully at all. Hence the hand-wringing over whether AI-driven value creation exists or not.

As with any tech deployment, productivity boom really relies on *transformations* of orgs, org structures and business processes, and not merely by sprinkling the magic-sauce-du-jour. This is a well-known and well researched insight, and follows from various examples (e.g. introduction of computers in '70s and '80s for accounting, finance; industrial robotics; electrification; mass communication; etc)

Why would AI-driven productivity be any different? Why would anybody expect IMMEDIATE payoffs? Real payoffs would take years, if not decades, to show meaningfully. [This is what infuriates me, tbh]

Until then, orgs will do what they have always done. Reduce headcount, bank the short-term gains, and claim "See? We are AI-native! Gimme more valuation!"

Self-driving car companies like Waymo say their autonomous vehicles are dramatically safer than human drivers. But a new CNN investigation found that when things do go wrong, they tend to go wrong in decidedly un-human ways: being incapable of responding to instructions from first responders, driving through crime scenes, and even attempting to traverse entirely flooded streets. As Waymo expands into new markets nationwide, we’ll examine these safety issues — and hear why a lot of passengers love self-driving cars anyway.

Guests:

Yahya Abou-Ghazala, reporter and producer, CNN's investigative unit

Rya Jetha, senior reporter covering physical AI and robotics, Business Insider"

Referring to CNN Investigation "Waymo Driving Like Teenagers" https://www.cnn.com/us/waymo-robotaxis-safety-invs

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But I get your point

I'd run away from any FB-made devices

Even more if there's an iOS version.

Namely, if someone is using Facebook's AI-powered glasses in my vicinity, I want to get a notification (of some sort) so that I can avoid those persons