French lawmakers revive the assisted suicide debate as the end-of-life bill returns to parliament.
French MPs are again debating assisted suicide, as an end-of-life bill restarts its legislative process after it was interrupted by President Macron’s dissolution of parliament last year.
Lawmakers in committee also adopted a bill on palliative care, which was initially part of the end-of-life legislation.
There's this weird phrase "agentic AI" which looks weid. But it's a sign for how bad the state of the bubble is: Software agents are a very old concept, they are simple systems provided with a target function to optimize that operate somewhat autonomously
There’s this weird phrase “agentic AI” which looks weid. But it’s a sign for how bad the state of the bubble is: Software agents are a very old concept, they are simple systems provided with a target function to optimize that operate somewhat autonomously. This fits in well with modern “AI” systems who can be used to either extract data to operate on or might provide a few newish modes of interacting with other systems. So why not call them “Agents” but use the construct “agentic AI”?
The “AI” bubble is in trouble. Investment in data centers goes down, there still is no realistic business case, most people outside of LinkedIn still don’t much appreciate the slopification of the world. The only thing keeping the hype alive is momentum. First you had LLMs/generative AI, then came “reasoning models” who also hallucinated a chain of thinking/reasoning that might look like something that could have lead to the output (it is important to realize that this is still just a random string, nothing that has anything to do with cognitive processes). There’s always the next thing behind the horizon.
Problem is that the next thing when it comes mostly is the same thing we have: Maybe better at a few things, worse at a few others, maybe a bit cheaper, maybe also more expensive. And often: A disappointment when compared to the massive promises that predated their actual release. To not have that disappointment settle in, you need a new thing: “We never cared about this model really, it’s just a thing, we are actually working on …”
We see that a lot. Fabrications/hallucinations have been “soon gone” for a while now because that’s how software works, right? Bugs get removed. (Problem is that hallucinations are a structural property of those systems, they can be removed just as well as human beings’ need to breathe.) So when you read “agentic AI” you have to read it as scaffolding.
The “agentic” part promises that something new will happen in “AI”. Something more than “we can now use those systems in automation pipelines a lot easier”. That’s just a bit of application and as soon as you are on the application level, you need to really talk about revenue and all those nasty things. But if “agentic AI” is “on the horizon” you can still keep the momentum going for a few more months, for another round of investments. “Agentic AI” will be deprecated in summer or early fall to coin a new term describing the same processes of automation.
The discourse on “AI” systems, chat bots, “assistants” and “research helpers” is defined by a lot of future promises. Those systems are disfunctional or at least not working great right now but there’s the promise of things getting better in the future.
Which is how we often perceive tech to work: Early versions might be a bit wonky, but there’s constant iteration and work going on to improve systems to be more capable, more robust and maybe even cheaper at some point.
The most pressing problem for many modern “AI” systems, especially the generative systems that are all the rage these days are so-called “hallucinations” which is a term describing when an AI system generates incorrect information. Think a research agent inventing a paper to quote from that doesn’t exist for example (Google’s AI assistant telling you to put glue on pizza is not a hallucination in that regard because that is just regurgitating information from Reddit that every toddler would recognize as a joke). Hallucinations are the big issue that many researchers are trying to address – which mixed results. Methods like RAG are shifting the probabilities a bit but are still not solving the problem: Hallucinations keep happening.
But I think that this discourse misses an important thing: Anything an LLM generates is a hallucination.
That doesn’t mean that everything LLMs generate is incorrect, far from it. What I am referencing is what hallucinations are actually defined as: A hallucination is a perception you have that is not connected to any actual stimulus. You hallucinate when you perceive something in the world that you have no sensor data for.
The term hallucination itself is an anthropomorphization of those statistical systems. They don’t “know”, or “think” or “lie” or do any such things. They iteratively calculate the most probable set of words and characters based on the original data. But if we look at how it is applied to “AI”s I think there is a big misunderstanding because it creates a difference between true and false statements that just isn’t there.
For humans we separate “real perceptions” from hallucinations by the link to sensor data/stimulants: If there is an actual stimulant of you feeling a touch it’s real, if you just think you are being touched, it’s a hallucination. But for LLMs that distinction is meaningless.
A line of text that is true has – for the LLM – absolutely no different quality than one that is false. There is no link to reality, no sensor data or anchoring, there’s just the data one was trained on (that also doesn’t necessarily have any connection to reality). If using the term hallucination is useful to describe LLM output it is to illustrate the quality of all output. Everything an LLM generates is a hallucination, some just might accidentally be true.
And in that understanding the terminology might actually be enlightening, might actually help people understand what those systems are doing and where it might be appropriate to use and – more importantly – where not.
Mafia Terra Madre, prequel ambientato nella Sicilia dei primi anni ’900, promette un’immersione intensa nelle dinamiche di Cosa Nostra. Il gioco, in uscita l’8 agosto 2025 su PC e console next-gen, ri...
In May 2025, a wave of hacktivist activity targeting Indian digital infrastructure sparked widespread alarm in media and social networks, with numerous groups claiming significant breaches of government, educational, and critical infrastructure websi…
Elle: The Runaway Tradwives of TikTok. “What’s less visible behind the highly filtered portrayal of 1950s or prairie-style homesteading is the flip side of the movement—an increasingly vocal ecosystem on Instagram and TikTok of some former tradwives who became unhappy with their patriarchal lifestyle and left, and who now use their own experience as a model: They got out, and so can you.”
Trent'anni di desiderio 1995 - 2000 L'Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna presenta il progetto culturale biennale Trent'anni di desiderio. 1995 - 2000 TPO - Teatro Polivalente Occupato e Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ababo.it/activities/calendar/t…
👉 Lunedì 19 maggio ore 14.00 - Qualcosa ci è sfuggito dal palco (e lo stiamo ancora cercando) Ospiti: Bettina Cottone e Elena Lolli
La segretaria della CISL, Daniela Fumarola, ha annunciato che non andrà a votare ai referendum dell'8 e 9 giugno promossi dalla CGIL: "Ritengo che lo strumento dei referendum non sia adeguato a risolvere i problemi del lavoro"
Padre Paolo Benanti, esperto di etica e nuove tecnologie nel suo libro, Il crollo di Babele,esamina la trasformazione del web da sogno di interconnessione democratica a strumento di potere e disinformazione. Il testo sottolinea come le Primavere Arabe abbiano segnato un culmine e come la successiva quotazione in borsa di FB abbia segnato un punto di svolta. @writefreely @libri
Paolo Benanti, Il crollo di Babele. Che fare dopo la fine del sogno di Internet?, Edizioni San Paolo, 2024. Padre Paolo Benanti, esperto di etica e nuove tecnologie nel suo libro, Il crollo d…
Seit Monaten gibt es Anzeichen für eine Aussöhnung zwischen der verbotenen kurdischen PKK und der türkischen Regierung. Jetzt hat die PKK offenbar ihre Auflösung beschlossen. Doch es bleiben Fragen. Von Markus Rosch.
Seit Monaten gibt es Anzeichen für eine Aussöhnung zwischen der verbotenen kurdischen PKK und der türkischen Regierung. Jetzt hat die PKK offenbar ihre Auflösung beschlossen. Doch es bleiben Fragen.
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Am #TagDerPflege erinnern wir an einen Beitrag zur gewerkschaftlichen Organisierung weiblicher #Pflegekräfte in der Bundesrepublik & damit verbundenen #Geschlechterbildern:
I totally forgot to mention this, but I'm doing the opening keynote for IEEE S&P this morning in San Francisco, where I will be talking about threat modeling for survivors of domestic abuse: sp2025.ieee-security.org/
After five months of Trump's regime, full democracy in the United States is gone, writes today Margaret Sullivan, quoting an opinion piece in the New York Times: "When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy," write three prominent political scientists, and "by that measure, America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism." margaretsullivan.substack.com/…
Garde à vue d’Ana Pich paristonkar.net/2025/05/12/gar… "Ce petit livre coup de poing de 62 pages, à mi-chemin entre l’écrit documenté et la bande dessinée, a pour but de mettre en lumière la violence et les abus des gardes à vue. L’ouvrage multiplie les sources et articles officiels depuis la création de cet « outil » policier, démontrant une subjectivité présente depuis longtemps dans son… Lire la suite Garde à vue d’Ana Pich"
Ce petit livre coup de poing de 62 pages, à mi-chemin entre l’écrit documenté et la bande dessinée, a pour but de mettre en lumière la violence et les abus des gardes à vue. L’ouvrage m…
🖨️ Scopri le migliori stampanti laser economiche di maggio 2025! Qualità, velocità e risparmio a portata di click. 💸🙌 #TecnologiaAccessibile #RisparmioSmart
Champagne ! Un an (!) plus tard, le site de La Hulotte, dont j’ai fait la DA et le design, est enfin en ligne : lahulotte.fr/
Je n’ai pas fait l’inté, mais le résultat est chouette ! (vous l’avez ?) C’est un projet atypique que j’ai pris énormément de plaisir à accompagner, en collaboration avec une petite équipe familiale de passionnés (et surtout de passionnées d’ailleurs), pour qui le web n’était pas forcément une évidence. Vive la presse indépendante !
La #clericalata della settimana è della Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri che, con comunicazione del sottosegretario Alfredo Mantovano, fa esporre le bandiere in tutti gli edifici pubblici per i giorni di elezione e inizio pontificato del nuovo papa. 👇 blog.uaar.it/2025/05/12/la-cle…
Ogni settimana pubblichiamo una cartolina dedicata all’affermazione o all’atto più clericale della settimana compiuto da rappresentanti di istituzioni o di funzioni pubbliche.
Das Bild zeigt ein braunes Pferd, das neugierig hinter einem Metallzaun steht und direkt in die Kamera schaut. Das Pferd hat große, aufgerichtete Ohren und ein dunkles Mähnenhaar. Es steht auf einem trockenen, sandigen Boden, der mit Stroh bedeckt ist. Im Hintergrund ist ein weiteres Pferd, ein weißes, zu sehen, das in der Ferne steht. Die Umgebung besteht aus einem Gebäude mit einem Metalldach und einer Wand aus vertikalen Metallplatten. Der Himmel ist blau und wolkenlos, was auf einen sonnigen Tag hinweist.
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One things that happened in the pandemic was that people noticed that those "making a real and lasting contribution" were the low-paid immigrants who kept the show on the road. Now it seems we've forgotten that and the "real and lasting contributors" are, once again "tech entrepreneurs" or something
Props to @daveparrack.bsky.social for a solid take on #Bluesky vs #Threads. For me, Bluesky stands out for giving users real control and meaningful engagement. Threads feels like you’re in charge, but the feed is shaped by ads and algorithms. @bsky.app keeps it real, quality over noise!#SocialMedia
France’s President Macron, Germany’s Chancellor Merz, and Great Britain’s Prime Minister Starmer, together with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, traveled to Kiev to meet with failed comedian and acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
What a mean-spirited and inward looking country the UK has become. I have no regrets about emigrating in 2019 and look forward to applying for Irish citizenship at the earliest opportunity. #UKPolitics #BrexitBrokeBritainwww.ft.com/content/f844...
What a mean-spirited and inward looking country the UK has become. I have no regrets about emigrating in 2019 and look forward to applying for Irish citizenship at the earliest opportunity. #UKPolitics #BrexitBrokeBritainft.com/content/f844df48-09a3-4…
🏛️ ■ Mossos acotó la investigación por la huida de Puigdemont a tres agentes el mismo día de la fuga y la víspera ■ Los 5 testigos han explicado que les encomendó la tarea de analizar imágenes y fotogramas en los que aparecían los tres investigados. huffingtonpost.es/politica/mos…
Open source video editing software Shotcut 25.05 introduces an Alpha Strobe video filter, integrated Freeze Frame tool in the timeline, HLG color transfer and gamma settings, UI enhancements, and more work toward HDR support. alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/…
The image features a laptop displaying the Shotcut video editing software interface. The laptop screen shows a video editing timeline with a still image of a person's shoulder and neck area, with a blurred background. The interface includes various editing tools and color wheels for color correction. The Shotcut logo is prominently displayed on a monitor in the background. The laptop is placed on a wooden surface, and the overall setting suggests a workspace environment.
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Pope Leo XIV's first address to the press at the Holy See emphasised dignity, justice, and free speech, urging journalists to reject mediocrity and partisan divisions. Euronews brings you a first-hand account of the experience.
As part of starting a pinball museum, I often have to write small explanations of what we're up to. The text can be similar, but it is never the same, because the audience is never the same. I carefully shift words, phrasings, focus, and emphasis depending on whom I'm addressing.
This is the sort of thing "AI", a stochastic text extruder, cannot do. Worse, much of the work it "saves" you from is that thinking about your audience and the topic. That work builds depth and skill!
> DriverHub, il software di Asus che facilita l’installazione dei driver in automatico grazie ad una impostazione del bios, aveva una vulnerabilità gravissima che Asus ha corretto. Ecco la storia di come è stata scoperta.
L'immagine presenta un circuito stampato ASUS al centro, con un'apertura che sembra un foro per una chiave, simboleggiando accesso o sicurezza. A sinistra, un laptop con lo schermo acceso mostra un'icona arancione con un chip e la scritta "DriverHub," suggerendo un software per gestire driver. A destra, un simbolo di scudo arancione con una chiave di sicurezza rappresenta la protezione. In alto a destra, un'immagine di nuvola con codice binario ("01010", "011001011", "100101010", "101001001") indica la connessione cloud. L'immagine suggerisce un focus sulla sicurezza e la gestione dei driver per hardware ASUS.
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L’ex-président de la FNSEA 44 accusé d’agression lors d’un relevé technique mediacites.fr/enquete/nantes/2… "Ancien président du syndicat agricole et de la Chambre d’agriculture de Loire-Atlantique, Alain Bernier est accusé d’avoir agressé sur sa ferme une technicienne mandatée pour répertorier les zones humides de l’estuaire de la Loire. Deux plaintes ont été déposées, sur fond de conflit entre
Le soleil s’apprête à se coucher à Missillac en cette fin d’après-midi du 4 février. Une technicienne du bureau d’études vendéen Hydro concept vient de terminer son relevé de mesures sur cette parcelle du lieu-dit La Rivière : un prélèvement de terre…
Oré expose à L’ Urbatypik galerie paristonkar.net/2025/05/12/ore… "Oré est un artiste issu du Graffiti, basé à Caen en Normandie. Ses œuvres de Street Art sont visibles dans le monde entier. Il débute le Graffiti en 1989. « Les Voyages de Quetzalcóatl » Dans cette exposition, le graffeur muraliste Oré présente ses nouvelles créations artistiques. Quetzalcóatl, le mythique serpent à plumes précolombien, demeure… Lire la suite Oré expose à L’
Oré est un artiste issu du Graffiti, basé à Caen en Normandie. Ses œuvres de Street Art sont visibles dans le monde entier. Il débute le Graffiti en 1989. « Les Voyages de Quetzalcóatl »Dans cette …
There's enormous power in just putting a name on a thing. We were all vaguely aware of how various Internet-based services were getting worse over time in a way that felt sort of deliberate. But since @pluralistic coined the term "enshittification" it's so much easier to see — and, in fact, impossible to AVOID seeing.
Flickr is restricting downloading your photos in "original or large sizes" starting May 15th if you have a FREE account there. Just in case you want to move your photos to a service that will let you have them back as you uploaded them.
Test salivare a casa: come rileva stress cronico e rischio di depressione @scienza focustech.it/news/test-salivar… Il benessere psicologico è oggi al centro dell’attenzione, soprattutto in un’epoca in cui ansia e stress sono in costante aumento. Una recente innovazione sta guadagnando terreno: il test
Test salivare a casa: come rileva stress cronico e rischio di depressione | Scopri come un semplice test salivare da fare a casa può aiutarti a individuare i segnali dello stress nascosto e valutare il rischio di depressione.
I finished last night Attack Surface by @pluralistic and again a book from the Little Brother book series I loved reading! 👏 I wished there was a Book 4, so I will read the short novels
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Apple sta sviluppando una funzione che sincronizza le credenziali Wi-Fi captive su iPhone, iPad e Mac. Gli utenti potranno inserire i dati una sola volta, risparmiando tempo in hotel, aeroporti e caffè. 📱💻 #Apple #WiFi #Tecnologia
Mercedes-AMG svela la nuova super-coupé elettrica a 4 porte @motori 🚗 🚗 🚗 La nuova Mercedes-AMG elettrica promette oltre 1.000 CV e design ispirato alla Vision AMG, sfidando Porsche Taycan e Audi RS e-Tron GT. motori.it/mercedes-amg-svela-l… #motori #auto
Opinion: Since It Wasn’t Written And Recorded In France, It’s Actually “Sparkling Wine Supernova” thehardtimes.net/blog/opinion-…
"There is a lot going on in the world right now, but there is one issue that I think people need to be focusing on… The post Opinion: Since It Wasn’t Written And Recorded In France, It’s Actually “Sparkling Wine Supernova” appeared first on The Hard Times."
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office. Yup. Yup. Yup. Tech CEOs are all copying each other again. This time, they’re yelling “AI-first!” like it’s a bold new idea. But really, they’re just trying to impress other CEOs and investors.
Anil Dash points out a sad truth: they don’t trust their workers. They’re forcing people to use AI instead of letting them choose, which tools let them do their job, the best way possible.
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