DataKnightmare (English Version)
Walter Vannini
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S3E7 DK_en 3x07 - LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work
LLMs don't even qualify as autotune. Autotune, at least, still has some connection to work (not necessarily talent).
S3E6 DK_en 3x06 - Legitimate use my ass
You give them fair use, and they stick it up their ass.
DK_en 3x05 - Storytellers
Do not heed Sam Altman and his ilk, it's not tech innovation. It's storytelling.
S3E4 DK_en 3x04 - Empire
The "Microsoft vs. International Criminal Court" scandal means that all US-owned companies in the EU are foreign agents. Something MUST be done if EU sovereignity as to make any sense.
S3E3 DK_en 3x03 - Idol(AI)try
AI is making huge progress: idolatry is now officially a thing again.
S3E2 DK_en 3x02 - Agentification
Among the many prophecies around AI, there is the creation of "intelligent agents" that will just go around doing intelligent stuff for us. It's an old dream, and nowhere nearer today than 30 years…
S3E1 DK_en 3x01 - Sam Altman Does Not Get ML
When Sam Altman recently tried to explain why AI works, he managed to show he's talking by hearsay, of stuff he hardly grasps.
S2E6 DK_en 2x06 - Thoughts for the summer break
As an end-of season treat, a bunch of questions that we'll meet again, as good as new, after the break.Good summer from Dataknightmare!
S2E5 DK_en 2x05 - The Italian Garante and chatGPT
TL; DR: there is no "AI", only bullshit generators, and therein lies the rub. what the Italian Garante really decided (no, it did NOT block chatGPT, that was openAI's strong-arming choice),…
S2E4 DK en_2x04 - Bullshit Generators
Generative AI may be all the rage right now, but it's just a marketing name. A more appropriate name? Bullshit generators.
S2E3 DK_en 2x03 - GDPR 2.0? NoThanks.
"Dear EU, please change the GDPR because it does not suit our business models. XOXO, the US"
S2E2 DK_En - 2x02 Algojerks Towards the Thousand-Year Reich
Lonmgtermism is a Nazi cult disguised as fashionable scientism for the megarich.Merry Christmas!
S2E1 DK 2x01 - Are there alternatives to Office365?
DataKnightmare is back. And, following on the german DSK investigation report, has his own opinion on the age-old question: are there alternatives to Office365?
DK 1x06en - Lenin in Silicon Valley
First it was Project Maven, then Google Duplex, and now the Selfish Ledger. Google has become the Church of the Algojerks, and it is now clear that Silicon Valley is pursuing a fundamentally Leninist…
DK_en 1x05 - Attack of the Algojerks
Do you, like me, have the impression that things are somehow accelerating? As if we were on a car careening downhill with no brakes --and no driver either? Seems to me, the brazenness with which…
DK_en 1x04 - Twilight Of The Gods
The DataKnightmare has issues with the ongoing deification of disruption stars.Will our future really have the intellectually unencumbered face of a Mark Zuckerberg? Are Uber, AirBnB, Google really…
DK_en 1x03 - The Mother Of All Datagrabs
You thought the DeepMind/Royal Free NHS case was bad? Well, Italy has promised IBM the sum total of its 60 million citizens' health data for Watson health to train on. With no oversight, no…
DK_en 1x02 - Dumb and Dumber
The Equifax breach, 143 million citizens' worth of credit rating data? Or Facebook having Nazis as a targetable demographics? Or the system an Italian party uses for its internal polls and elections,…
DK_en 1x01 - You're Looking Gay, Today
Can AI really guess if you are gay? So far, it's a bullshit claim. Nonetheless, some are making it. They claim to be warning us, but with their bad science and their questionable ethics, they lend…
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