AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14

It's been 4 months since we've cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and the bullshit is coming in almost too fast to keep up with. But between a page full of awkward unicorns and a seeming slowdown in data center demand, Alex and Emily have more good news than usual to accompany this round of catharsis.
AI Hell:
LLM processing like human language processing (not) (bit.ly/435tLGi)
Jack Clark predicting AGI (bit.ly/431lPVE)
Sebastian Bubeck says predictions in "sparks" paper have already come true (bit.ly/42Bk02D)
WIRED puff piece on the Amodeis (bit.ly/3EUBHAW)
Foundation agents & leaning in to the computational metaphor (Fig 1, p14) (bit.ly/4jDs2OC)
Chaser: Trying to recreate the GPT unicorn (bit.ly/4k0dqZn)
The WSJ has an AI bot for all your tax questions (bit.ly/42O3smH)
ChatGPT libel (bit.ly/4izM3UJ)
AOL.com uses autogenerated captions about attempted murder (bit.ly/4jNifVy)
AI coding tools fix bugs by adding bugs (bit.ly/4jUxsnS)
"We teach AGI to think, so you don't have to" (bit.ly/3RG9VLC)
• (from: Turing.com (bit.ly/436Gad5))
MAGA/DOGE paints teachers as glorified babysitters in push for AI (bit.ly/4jXWenb)
Chaser: How we are NOT using AI in the classroom (bit.ly/3SaUACL)
AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them (bit.ly/3YOtYer)
DOGE is pushing AI tool created as "sandbox" for federal testing (bit.ly/3RCm4RH)
"Psychological profiling" based on social media (bit.ly/3EFAyNK)
The tariffs and ChatGPT (bit.ly/4jx8M5d)
"I was not informed that Microsoft would sell my work to the Israeli military and government" (bit.ly/4jWgSnL)
• Microsoft fires engineers who protested Israeli military use of its tools (bit.ly/4jtSXMv)
Pulling back on data centers, Microsoft edition (bit.ly/4jpxZhQ)
Abandoned data centers, China edition (archive.is/dx3Se)
Bill Gates: 2 day workweek coming thanks to AI...replacing doctors and teachers?? (fortune.com/2025/03/27/billionaire-bill-gates-…)
Chaser: Tesla glue fail schadenfreude (bsky.app/profile/lebassett.bsky.social/post/3l…)
Chaser: Let's talk about the genie trope (bsky.app/profile/spavel.bsky.social/post/3lkyb…)
Chaser: We finally met!!! (bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social/post/3l…)

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