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@cityofvancouver.bsky.social as notifications broke on the RecycleBC app, I put Single-Unit Purple North's pickup schedule into Google Calender. Can Recycle BC publish each zone's pickup schedule in csv or txt so they can be converted into iCal?

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The AI Collaboration Index: Executive Insights - Work Life by Atlassian Discover why most AI strategies stall—and how top executives turn AI investment into measurable business value in the AI Collaboration Index: Executive Insights.

BRUTAL ☠️😿☢️ report from Atlassian's large survey of Fortune 1000 managers and knowledge workers on GenAI:

"96% of business leaders say AI has not had meaningful impact on ROI."

@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com

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Bubbling, troubling AI news this Halloween. Study found AI "agents" perform laughably bad at freelancer tasks. The state-of-the-art agents have a 3% success rate and they suck at "tool usage", can't learn, and can't replace us. @edzitron.com @matthewhughes.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

Sorry. To clarify, they can be run offline without an internet connection using open source models

Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI …

If low-cost chips and free AI models offer 100% privacy and the same features as big data AI assistants, then how can there NOT be an AI bubble? @petewarden.bsky.social explains why:

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AI coding "overhyped" according to a Bain& Company report. 2/3 of companies have tried it. Little gain and little adoption. 😿

I use AI for coding but the apps are unstable, unreliable, and not worth publishing. @matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com

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Killing it with the newsletter btw 🙏🔥

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Yale-backed "living" analysis found that AI has had no impact on the labor market. 😭

There is higher occupational turnover, but the most exposed labor groups saw no decrease in employment rates... 33 months later with AGI "around the corner".

AI Agents?. Dev Utkarsh Kanwat said that complex operations cannot be automated because error rates compound exponentially per step involved. Unless AI is 99.9% accurate it cannot work @edzitron.com

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Meta's testing found that LLMs couldnt solve novel problems because they are plagiarism algorithms. This means independent reasoning is not possible.. And there's a bubble on the horizon

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

An AI paper that claimed new materials were being discovered "40% faster" was retracted and the graduate student is "no longer" at MIT. The whole thing was part of a venture capital scam @edzitron.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...

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plus upcoming anti-criticism laws