Cognitive Warmup. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you keep shouting the same thing every day that AI will replace humans in the workplace, at some point someone will lose their patience.
I wouldn’t condone physical violence even for a moment, yet to a certain extent, the reaction to the 20-year-old throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman should also be seen in the context of unemployment and the resulting bleak future. I’ve often asked what AI companies and AI bros are trying to achieve by making humans unnecessary in workplaces. How do they intend to deal with the millions of unemployed humans roaming the earth? Perhaps then it will no longer be their problem, but a civil or law-and-order issue?
Oh, don’t give me that “alternative careers will emerge” nonsense (no AI bro is able to list an alternative career to look forward to; they just talk in circles). And for Altman to blame the violence on what he feels is somewhat critical coverage of OpenAI and their activities simply exposes the man’s mindset and priorities. But again, this is a mentality we already know about. He once drew parallels between the amount of food humans eat in their lifetime and the energy it takes to train an AI model (and the AI brother concluded that AI is better).
This whole AI excitement is a money grab, underpinned by well-documented circular financing. AI is here to stay, but it will remain a tool for humans. No place for humans. Unless we are willing to be replaced. I am, in a way, not surrendering logic and cognition to AI chatbots. Not in this lifetime.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
Besides rendering millions of humans unemployed, another big AI brother attraction in the last year has been data center investment – billions of dollars spent and huge amounts of energy and water spent on AI sloppiness on social media. It’s good to see that protests have started in the US with the hopes of the Energy Information Administration implementing a nationwide policy that would require data centers to declare how much electricity they consume.
This will be the first initiative of its kind to collect this information from data centres. One might have assumed that this was a fundamental revelation but that has not happened yet.
Maine’s state legislature has passed a law to ban large data centers. Any project that calls itself a large data center has always had increased energy costs in that geography. There are other US states and cities that are considering similar legislation. For now, Maine has put a moratorium on construction until the end of 2027, and in the meantime, a council will be formed that will evaluate any data center requests based on the potential cost of living for Maine citizens. By the way, here’s a neat crowd-sourced data center proposal tracker you might like to browse for a bit.
Mac users! A useful Gemini app
A native Gemini desktop experience is finally coming to macOS. The native desktop experience means users can share anything with Gemini or invoke the AI assistant without switching windows or apps.
The shortcut to launch the floating chat bar is Option+Space – and everything here will be accessible just as it is on your smartphone or within a web browser, including uploading files or photos from Google Drive for queries or image generation.
The user will need to give explicit permission to Google Gemini to access system information before sharing the window – go to the Mac’s System Settings > Privacy & Security and enable Accessibility for Gemini. This is required if the intent is to share what is on the screen in the context of a question. The Gemini app for macOS is now available globally, and Gemini access levels will depend on subscription plan.
A new cloud that claims to be better
Anthropic says it is their most powerful generally available model to date, but “its cyber capabilities are not as advanced as the Mythos Preview”. It’s no surprise that Anthropic is referencing Mythos’ claims since a lot was said about it securing the world’s software and other things. Anyway, Cloud Opus 4.7 is “a significant improvement over Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with distinct advantages on the most difficult tasks”. You don’t say!
Anthropic says the Opus 4.7 is more immersive and creative when completing professional tasks. It claims higher benchmark scores than Google Gemini 3.1 Pro and ChatGPT 5.4 in agentive coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, and agentive financial analysis. Pricing is the same as Opus 4.6, at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
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