gennecçs

Technologist, entrepreneur. I post about technology ethics, Canada & world, infrastructure. Founder/CEO Cephema. CSO Smartract. Goal: 100 followers

[Cohere @cohere]

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[Paul Graham @paulg]

College students use AI to do most of their writing. An increasing number of professors secretly use it for grading. In the limit case, AIs do all the work, and all the humans do is transmit what they create. A good compiler would recognize this as dead code and remove it.

[Louie Bacaj @LBacaj]

Made a little device that manages my claude code’s & codex’s on my server…

Simple esp32 s3 chip by waveshare. The orchestrator agent works with voice, controls my device remotely with tools, and controls the server.

It’s a cool time to make stuff.

[gennecçs @genneccs]

@Montreal amazing, thanks!!

[gennecçs @genneccs]

would love to see similar list for Montreal
@Montreal

[Karon Liu @karonliu]

Unexpected but delightful places showing the World Cup
1) Oji Seichi (354 Broadview Ave, ramen)
2) Skyview Fusion (8261 Woodbine Ave, dim sum/Cantonese)
3) Elvira's (639 Queen St., red shipping container behind Corktown Common, Portuguese street food)

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch walked into the French parliament this week and told lawmakers Europe has exactly two years to build independent AI infrastructure or hand over one trillion dollars in spending to American tech companies.

The math he laid out should be front-page news.

This is not a technology story. It is a macroeconomic one.

Global wages are fifty trillion dollars. AI will cost around ten percent of that. Europe's share is nine trillion. Which means over one trillion dollars in AI spending over the next five years flowing somewhere.

Europe already sends 250 billion dollars a year to the US in digital services. Every dollar that leaves funds American R&D. None of it comes back.

Mario Draghi's competitiveness report last year made the same point from a different angle. Europe needs eight hundred billion euros in annual investment just to close its existing productivity gap with the US.

AI dependency makes that gap structural. You cannot close a productivity gap when the tool driving productivity is owned by your competitor.

Mensch compared it to gas. The same way Europe discovered too late what energy dependence costs in a crisis, it is standing at the same crossroads with AI right now.

The compute is being allocated today. The chips are being spoken for today.

Europe is watching it happen and calling it a technology debate.

It is not. It is a sovereignty one.

Watch the full podcast on YouTube at @CNBCi

[gennecçs @genneccs]

@mugizou5656 350¥ for a large beer is what you might pay now for a small

[gennecçs @genneccs]

If one cannot take the time to write the email, one should not expect the recipient to have the time to read it.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Another annoying thing about getting emails people have used AIs to write for them is that they're usually longer than they'd have written by themselves. Paragraphs and paragraphs of plausible-sounding text. Ugh.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@gary_srp stop C-22 now.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

The exodus of tech companies under Bill C-22 continues. Incredible that the government plans to release an AI strategy next week that will presumably want to attract some of the same companies it is driving out.
https://t.co/bjQG7dtYKx

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

About as rough a week for Canadian privacy as I can remember from the government: mandated age verification without privacy review, pushing the Privacy Commissioner out of private sector privacy, and passing lawful access without debate or a recorded vote
https://t.co/8j6BQtYXOt

[gennecçs @genneccs]

they aren’t playing with a full deck of cards

[tobi lutke @tobi]

These bills, along with C-22 and C-9 constitute a total erosion in Canada’s basic liberties. They interlock into making Canada essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Everything about this clip is brilliant.

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

I talked to someone at one of the labs and their theory is that Dario’s messaging is exclusively for the AI researchers

“He doesn’t care about public sentiment because it doesn’t matter

His only goal is to say things the best ML researchers in the world find appealing, because if enough of those work for him he just wins by default. Claude will figure out how to train him in politics afterward”

[gennecçs @genneccs]

@ErikVoorhees @DavidSacks exactly

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude Fable 5 has been out for a couple of days. Some projects people have already built with it:

[gennecçs @genneccs]

recommend this account. they do a great job talking about the montreal and with a style and irreverence that reflects the culture of the city

[Mon Montréal @Monmontreal]

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[dany @danywander]

a reminder that branding matters.

[gennecçs @genneccs]

As a former long-time resident of Ottawa, and now Montrealer, this is earth-shattering news. and kind of awesome. @Montreal https://t.co/dEt2rajZtY

[gennecçs @genneccs]

After you have studied a system and planned, situated and optimized AI for all the tasks it can do best, and within the guidelines of your corporate values, what is left over is where the human belongs.