Daily Tech News 19 May 2025

• Why we're unlikely to get artificial general intelligence anytime soon. (MSN)
  
  Because all the money - somehow - is working on artificial vapid idiots.

  "The technology we're building today is not sufficient to get there," said Nick Frosst, a founder of the AI startup Cohere who previously worked as a researcher at Google and studied under the most revered AI researcher of the last 50 years. "What we are building now are things that take in words and predict the next most likely word, or they take in pixels and predict the next most likely pixel. That's very different from what you and I do."

  This is of course true and makes me wonder how Nick has avoided being executed as a heretic.

  Opinions differ in part because scientists cannot even agree on a way of defining human intelligence, arguing endlessly over the merits and flaws of IQ tests and other benchmarks. Comparing our own brains to machines is even more subjective. This means that identifying AGI is essentially a matter of opinion.

  Correct. But we are at least getting good at creating vapid idiots.
  
  I'm not sure why we are doing that, but we are good at it.

• Running the latest Nvidia RTX 5000 GPUs on a nearly 20 year old Intel Core 2 CPU turns out to deliver underwhelming results. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It does work. That is, Windows runs and the graphics drivers load. Doing anything useful is left as an exercise for the reader.
  
  
  
• Fancy - and very expensive - printer manufacturer Procolored delivered a free bonus with every printer: Malware. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  For months.
  
  
  
• Why did Amazon's flying delivery drones crash during testing? (MSN)
  
  Because that's what testing is for.
  
  
  
• Tech startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1 million to hire three AI agents as employees. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Nuke the entire site from orbit.

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