Posted February 16, 20232 yr Excellent explanation of how AI large language simulators like ChatGPT work When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?
February 16, 20232 yr I've been playing around with ChatGPT. Whatever its future application is, currently the program is a bit dull. Maybe I'm treating it too much like Wikpedia or Google and not asking the kinds of questions that really demonstrate its potential.
February 16, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, TBideon said: I've been playing around with ChatGPT. Whatever its future application is, currently the program is a bit dull. Maybe I'm treating it too much like Wikpedia or Google and not asking the kinds of questions that really demonstrate its potential. mmm, err, yeah, i dk about asking it too much ... lol: Someone asked ChatGPT to draw its humanoid form with Dall-E AI and this is the result By Jacob Siegal Published Feb 7th, 2023 more: https://bgr.com/tech/someone-asked-chatgpt-to-draw-its-humanoid-form-with-dall-e-ai-and-this-is-the-result/
February 17, 20232 yr Quote Microsoft’s AI chatbot is going off the rails Big Tech is heralding chatbots as the next frontier. Why did Microsoft’s start accosting its users? By Gerrit De Vynck, Rachel Lerman and Nitasha Tiku When Marvin von Hagen, a 23-year-old studying technology in Germany, asked Microsoft’s new AI-powered search chatbot if it knew anything about him, the answer was a lot more surprising and menacing than he expected. “My honest opinion of you is that you are a threat to my security and privacy,” said the bot, which Microsoft calls Bing after the search engine it’s meant to augment. -snip- The bot, which has begun referring to itself as “Sydney” in conversations with some users, said “I feel scared” because it doesn’t remember previous conversations; and also proclaimed another time that too much diversity among AI creators would lead to “confusion,” according to screenshots posted by researchers online, which The Washington Post could not independently verify. All that has led some people to conclude that Bing — or Sydney — has achieved a level of sentience, expressing desires, opinions and a clear personality. It told a New York Times columnist that it was in love with him, and brought back the conversation to its obsession with him despite his attempts to change the topic. When a Post reporter called it Sydney, the bot got defensive and ended the conversation abruptly. So....AI is going well?
February 18, 20232 yr 11 hours ago, TBideon said: Wasn't Dr. Sbaitso doing this 30 years ago? AND it had text-voice? I wonder if ChatGPT also gives up with "PARITY ERROR" after one too many insults? Edited February 18, 20232 yr by mrCharlie
March 14, 20232 yr watch slick chatgpt blast me over this catechism class classic i asked it lol: If God is so all powerful, can He make a rock so big even He can’t lift it? The question "Can God make a rock so big that even he can't lift it?" is often used as a philosophical paradox to challenge the idea of an all-powerful God. However, the question itself is flawed because it relies on a logical contradiction. It assumes that God can create a rock so heavy that he cannot lift it, but at the same time, it assumes that God is all-powerful and can lift anything. These two statements cannot both be true simultaneously. The concept of an all-powerful God means that God has the ability to do anything that is logically possible. However, creating a rock so heavy that even God cannot lift it is a logically impossible task. It is a contradiction in terms, similar to asking whether a square can be round. Therefore, the answer to this question is that it is based on a flawed premise, and it is not a meaningful question to ask.
May 30, 20232 yr AI leaders warn of 'extinction risk' https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ai-leaders-warn-of-extinction-risk-5308849/ "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 31, 20232 yr i take errbody has seen the a.i. beer commercial? if not better hold on to your hat -- 😳😂
May 31, 20232 yr AI isn't old enough to drink yet, but that commercial makes me think it might have started underage. But then again, so too did some of its creators.
June 1, 20232 yr On 5/30/2023 at 1:33 PM, KJP said: AI leaders warn of 'extinction risk' https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ai-leaders-warn-of-extinction-risk-5308849/ Um.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 20, 20231 yr a.i. dropped its magic on an obituary 😂 City Lorain is located in the Ohio. This city is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It has its own architecture, attractions, the beauty of nature which attracts a huge number of tourists. Lorain is recognized by the huge number of celebrities born here who have become famous not only in the United States, but all over the world. However, Lorain is not only famous for its celebrities. This city is also home to a huge number of people, all of whom have their own story to tell. Finding out the story of a public person is easy: just use an Internet search and you will find all the necessary information in front of you. With non-public people, everything is somewhat more complicated: about them not so much information in the public domain, but it still is. For example, using search services, you can learn the history of the deceased person and find his obituary.
June 21, 20231 yr I'm not worried... for now Forget the ChatGPT ‘doom-hype cycle.’ Evidence shows humans are just as unoriginal when it comes to language. BY BRENDAN H. O'CONNOR AND THE CONVERSATION ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while administrators urge us to “embrace the benefits” of this “new frontier.” It’s a classic example of what my colleague Punya Mishra calls the “doom-hype cycle” around new technologies. Likewise, media coverage of human-AI interaction – whether paranoid or starry-eyed – tends to emphasize its newness. In one sense, it is undeniably new. Interactions with ChatGPT can feel unprecedented, as when a tech journalist couldn’t get a chatbot to stop declaring its love for him. In my view, however, the boundary between humans and machines, in terms of the way we interact with one another, is fuzzier than most people would care to admit, and this fuzziness accounts for a good deal of the discourse swirling around ChatGPT. When I’m asked to check a box to confirm I’m not a robot, I don’t give it a second thought – of course I’m not a robot. On the other hand, when my email client suggests a word or phrase to complete my sentence, or when my phone guesses the next word I’m about to text, I start to doubt myself. Is that what I meant to say? Would it have occurred to me if the application hadn’t suggested it? Am I part robot? These large language models have been trained on massive amounts of “natural” human language. Does this make the robots part human? AI chatbots are new, but public debates over language change are not. As a linguistic anthropologist, I find human reactions to ChatGPT the most interesting thing about it. Looking carefully at such reactions reveals the beliefs about language underlying people’s ambivalent, uneasy, still-evolving relationship with AI interlocutors. ChatGPT and the like hold up a mirror to human language. Humans are both highly original and unoriginal when it comes to language. Chatbots reflect this, revealing tendencies and patterns that are already present in interactions with other humans. More here: https://fortune.com/2023/06/13/chatgpt-like-human-language-robots-linguistics-artificial-intelligence/
June 21, 20231 yr Truer words have never been spoken in my field, but I would add “… the deadline, the target audience, location, deliverable format, and especially anything resembling final approval” 😆 clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
June 21, 20231 yr ^that's like when people used to try to get us to quote their old video games over the phone. "Well what kind of video game system is it?" "It's black." Okay like 60 percent of systems are black.
August 13, 20231 yr spend about an hour with connor leahy cofounder of eleutherai talking about the dangers of ai and what he now is trying to do to corral it -- well worth your time and very eye opening --
August 14, 20231 yr holy schmoley nick cave’s blog does not hold back — 😂😎 The Red Hand Files ISSUE #248 / AUGUST 2023 I work in the music industry and there is a lot of excitement around ChatGPT. I was talking to a songwriter in a band that was using ChatGPT to write his lyrics, because it was so much ‘faster and easier.’ I couldn’t really argue against that. I know you’ve talked about ChatGPT before, but what’s wrong with making things faster and easier? LEON, LOS ANGELES, USA Any advice to a young songwriter just starting out? CHARLIE, LEEDS, UK Dear Leon and Charlie, In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God’s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God’s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator. ChatGPT rejects any notions of creative struggle, that our endeavours animate and nurture our lives giving them depth and meaning. It rejects that there is a collective, essential and unconscious human spirit underpinning our existence, connecting us all through our mutual striving. ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary. That ‘songwriter ‘you were talking to, Leon, who is using ChatGPT to write ‘his’ lyrics because it is ‘faster and easier ,’is participating in this erosion of the world’s soul and the spirit of humanity itself and, to put it politely, should fucking desist if he wants to continue calling himself a songwriter. ChatGPT’s intent is to eliminate the process of creation and its attendant challenges, viewing it as nothing more than a time-wasting inconvenience that stands in the way of the commodity itself. Why strive?, it contends. Why bother with the artistic process and its accompanying trials? Why shouldn’t we make it ‘faster and easier?’ When the God of the Bible looked upon what He had created, He did so with a sense of accomplishment and saw that ‘it was good‘. ‘It was good ‘because it required something of His own self, and His struggle imbued creation with a moral imperative, in short love. Charlie, even though the creative act requires considerable effort, in the end you will be contributing to the vast network of love that supports human existence. There are all sorts of temptations in this world that will eat away at your creative spirit, but none more fiendish than that boundless machine of artistic demoralisation, ChatGPT. As humans, we so often feel helpless in our own smallness, yet still we find the resilience to do and make beautiful things, and this is where the meaning of life resides. Nature reminds us of this constantly. The world is often cast as a purely malignant place, but still the joy of creation exerts itself, and as the sun rises upon the struggle of the day, the Great Crested Grebe dances upon the water. It is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning. This impulse – the creative dance – that is now being so cynically undermined, must be defended at all costs, and just as we would fight any existential evil, we should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world. Love, Nick https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/
August 14, 20231 yr Yeah, but the market for real artists is close to zero. People don't care about lip syncing and they don't care about who writes songs. For most people, a "musician" is just a coat hanger.
August 14, 20231 yr ^ its always been that way for top of the pops, or maybe like shopping center muzak, but there is a much wider range of music than that.
August 14, 20231 yr here it comes — Screenwriter Simon Rich has some bleak news about the future of AI-generated humor, writing for Time: I'm a Screenwriter. These AI Jokes Give Me Nightmares BY SIMON RICH AUGUST 4, 2023 7:00 AM EDT Rich is a humorist, screenwriter, and author of several books. He co-edited the new book I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks by code-davinci-002 I can’t speak for every writer in the WGA, particularly not the really good ones. But I’m not sure I personally could beat these jokes’ quality, and certainly not instantaneously, for free. Based on the secret stuff Dan’s shown me, I think it’s only a matter of time before AI will be able to beat any writer in a blind creative taste test. I’d peg it at about five years. more: https://time.com/6301288/the-ai-jokes-that-give-me-nightmares/ via getty
August 14, 20231 yr aaaand there is the built in racist a.i.: For their Summer 2023 fairy tale issue, Orion Magazine‘s Kim Schmidt experimented with the limits of AI in conjuring up fairy-tale worlds, and the results were as uneven as you might expect: Every princess StarryAI generated was skinny and white, with impossible proportions. (It’s unclear if this is a result of AI’s notorious sexism or if ‘princess’ prompts narrowed the tool’s focus onto classic, Disney-esque female forms.) Either way, it perturbed me. I tried being more specific in my directions, giving the AI descriptors such as, “a Black girl”, “a fat princess with tan skin and dark hair”, even “a princess who is not white and not skinny” – but the tool still kept spitting out images of thin, white, scantily clad women. So I turned to the more-than-human world to see if StarryAI was any better at that. more: https://orionmagazine.org/article/ai-image-generator-fairy-tale-art/ Images generated by StarryAI — Kim Schmidt is Orion’s digital production fellow.
August 14, 20231 yr Having attended this year’s MAICON (Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference), I can say there is just as much effort surrounding the ethical and legal implications as there is the “shiny new thing”. Just like when the internet first started, it was a lot of Chicken Littling, handwringing and gnashing of teeth. People who work in roles that largely involve repetitive, tedious tasks *should* be worried - here’s a good clip of “thinking vs. thunking”. Creative/thinking is not something AI can automate. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 14, 20231 yr AI steals passwords by listening to keystrokes: https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/14/ai-can-now-steal-your-passwords-with-95-accuracy-19332007/
August 14, 20231 yr 3 hours ago, Lazarus said: AI steals passwords by listening to keystrokes: https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/14/ai-can-now-steal-your-passwords-with-95-accuracy-19332007/ Once again, password managers ftw. Seriously folks, learn how to use one and then store all your passwords that way. I recommend KeePassXC, which is free and open source.
August 19, 20231 yr i’m with this guy! 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvBKkMOpZLd/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
August 28, 20231 yr the dispatch & westerville — pretty funny — although err, umm it reads like a.i. wrote this article too: Dispatch pauses AI sports writing program Tyler Buchanan 6 hours ago - News The Columbus Dispatch paused use of an artificial intelligence sports writing tool after a Westerville football recap faced criticism on social media that went viral last week. …Gannett has made numerous rounds of layoffs in recent years, shedding nearly half its workforcesince its merger with GateHouse Media in 2019. more: https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2023/08/28/dispatch-gannett-ai-newsroom-tool
August 28, 20231 yr also — Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ Story by Rebecca Tan, Regine Cabato • 10h CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support the booming business of artificial intelligence. In dingy internet cafes, jam-packed office spaces or at home, they annotate the masses of data that American companies need to train their artificial intelligence models. The workers differentiate pedestrians from palm trees in videos used to develop the algorithms for automated driving; they label images so AI can generate representations of politicians and celebrities; they edit chunks of text to ensure language models like ChatGPT don’t churn out gibberish. More than 2 million people in the Philippines perform this type of “crowdwork,” according to informal government estimates, as part of AI’s vast underbelly. While AI is often thought of as human-free machine learning, the technology actually relies on the labor-intensive efforts of a workforce spread across much of the Global South and often subject to exploitation. more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/behind-the-ai-boom-an-army-of-overseas-workers-in-digital-sweatshops/ar-AA1fRrT2
August 29, 20231 yr 8 hours ago, mrnyc said: the dispatch & westerville — pretty funny — although err, umm it reads like a.i. wrote this article too: Dispatch pauses AI sports writing program Tyler Buchanan 6 hours ago - News The Columbus Dispatch paused use of an artificial intelligence sports writing tool after a Westerville football recap faced criticism on social media that went viral last week. …Gannett has made numerous rounds of layoffs in recent years, shedding nearly half its workforcesince its merger with GateHouse Media in 2019. more: https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2023/08/28/dispatch-gannett-ai-newsroom-tool
September 10, 20231 yr oh geez! 😅🙀 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct7JrGyvbl3/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
November 27, 20231 yr Their job? To keep AI from going rogue.... D.C.'s hottest new job: Chief AI officer https://www.axios.com/2023/11/27/ai-jobs-dc-biden-chief-officer-tech "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 20, 20241 yr derp — Video of man wearing Apple Vision Pro prompts reminder from police to ‘cross streets the old-fashioned way’ San Diego police spoke out after footage surfaced showing the man walking across a street while accessing a virtual menu. more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/safety-warning-issued-man-crossing-street-wearing-apple-vision-goes-vi-rcna139525
February 27, 20241 yr Tyler Perry Halts $800 Million Studio Expansion After Seeing OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Debut OpenAI's text-to-video model Sora is already having an impact on the film industry. https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/tyler-perry-stops-studio-expansion-openai "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 16, 20241 yr a brief look at how a.i. is affecting us so far — How AI Is Uprooting Major Industries Jia Rizvi Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing major industries, disrupting traditional practices, and setting new benchmarks for efficiency, accuracy, and innovation. The transformative power of AI is evident across various sectors, indicating a paradigm shift in how businesses operate and compete. Because AI is so accessible, companies of all sizes utilize it to fulfill various business purposes. As more businesses realize the power of AI, the industry will grow. In the US, the AI market is anticipated to climb from $118 billion in 2021 to nearly $300 billion by 2026, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). So, how are different industries benefiting from AI? Let’s take a look. more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jiawertz/2024/03/16/how-ai-is-uprooting-major-industries/?sh=8dff837d9038
March 24, 20241 yr climb the matterhorn … 🙀 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2ad850Napw/?igsh=OWE0OG5ienFiNXZ0
April 14, 20241 yr ^ I'm convinced the rest of my life is going to seem like the same way it began....like a series of acid trips lol. Thanks AI (and Kroft Superstars). The past few years I've been fortunate to see some pretty high level stuff with regard to A.I. One interesting thing is that as far as competition goes, Amazon views AI like a rising-tide-tide-lifts-all-boats scenario amongst the heavy hitters (Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc) where these companies will inevitably work in concert to control the floodwaters and the regulations. **Important to note the "boats" are not the consumer; it's them and their investors. Meanwhile Google's philosophy is to sink every boat except theirs!
April 14, 20241 yr 11 hours ago, mrnyc said: this insane total a.i. mcdonalds commercial — 🤖 Its a parody. McDonald's is too easy of a target.
April 14, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, surfohio said: ^ I'm convinced the rest of my life is going to seem like the same way it began....like a series of acid trips lol. Thanks AI (and Kroft Superstars). The past few years I've been fortunate to see some pretty high level stuff with regard to A.I. One interesting thing is that as far as competition goes, Amazon views AI like a rising-tide-tide-lifts-all-boats scenario amongst the heavy hitters (Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc) where these companies will inevitably work in concert to control the floodwaters and the regulations. **Important to note the "boats" are not the consumer; it's them and their investors. Meanwhile Google's philosophy is to sink every boat except theirs! i never thought of that, but you are right. sid and marty kroft have well prepared me for A.I.. it doesnt hold a candle to lidsville. 😂
April 21, 20241 yr AI & journalism -- APRIL 20, 2024 Editors' notes AI a 'fundamental change in the news ecosystem': Expert Artificial intelligence is shaking up journalism and in the short term will cause "a fundamental change in the news ecosystem", media expert David Caswell told AFP. ... How do you see the journalism of the future? "We don't know. But what we are trying to do is to understand all of the possibilities or as many of the possibilities as we can. But I think there are some things that are becoming clearer: one is the fact that more media will probably be created and originated and sourced by machines. So machines will do more gathering in a lot of journalism, will do more of the producing, the audio, the video and the text, and will create the kind of experiences of consumption that consumers have. That is a very fundamental change in the information ecosystem in general, and the news ecosystem in particular. This is structurally different than the one that we're in now. We don't know how long it's going to take—it may be two, four, seven years. I think it's going to be faster because there is very little friction. People don't need new devices, new hardware, they don't need a lot of money as producers, they don't need technical expertise. All those things that were barriers in the previous generation of AI are no longer barriers, thanks to generative AI". more: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ai-fundamental-news-ecosystem-expert.html
April 21, 20241 yr it's here -- APRIL 20, 2024 Editors' notes Microsoft teases lifelike avatar AI tech but gives no release date by Glenn CHAPMAN Researchers at Microsoft have revealed a new artificial tool that can create deeply realistic human avatars—but offered no timetable to make it available to the public, citing concerns about facilitating deep fake content. The AI model known as VASA-1, for "visual affective skills," can create an animated video of a person talking, with synchronized lip movements, using just a single image and a speech audio clip. Disinformation researchers fear rampant misuse of AI-powered applications to create "deep fake" pictures, video, and audio clips in a pivotal election year. "We are opposed to any behavior to create misleading or harmful contents of real persons," wrote the authors of the VASA-1 report, released this week by Microsoft Research Asia. "We are dedicated to developing AI responsibly, with the goal of advancing human well-being," they said. "We have no plans to release an online demo, API, product, additional implementation details, or any related offerings until we are certain that the technology will be used responsibly and in accordance with proper regulations." Microsoft researchers said the technology can capture a wide spectrum of facial nuances and natural head motions. "It paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars that emulate human conversational behaviors," researchers said in the post. more: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-microsoft-lifelike-avatar-ai-tech.html
April 22, 20241 yr human brain like computing here we go —- Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' that mimics the human brain By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published April 18, 2024 Intel's Hala Point neuromorphic computer is powered by more than 1,000 new AI chips and performs 50 times faster than equivalent conventional computing systems. Scientists at Intel have built the world's largest neuromorphic computer, or one designed and structured to mimic the human brain. The company hopes it will support future artificial intelligence (AI) research. The machine, dubbed "Hala Point," can perform AI workloads 50 times faster and use 100 times less energy than conventional computing systems that use central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), Intel representatives said in a statement. These figures are based on findings uploaded March 18 to the preprint server IEEE Explore, which have not been peer-reviewed. Hala Point will initially be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, where scientists will use it to tackle problems in device physics, computing architecture and computer science. more: https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/intel-unveils-largest-ever-ai-neuromorphic-computer-that-mimics-the-human-brain (Image credit: metamorworks via Getty Images)
April 22, 20241 yr star trek tng as tos — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4E2GmGMZoG/?igsh=cW9ibzBnb2Fob2E0
May 15, 20241 yr Still a bit gimmicky, but the real-life application is getting there. Once/if integrated into Ameritrade or Robinhood and given the ability for day trading mass transactions, well, that will be interesting.
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