You have an n by m grid, where each square is either filled or empty. You also have a stamp in some shape that you can use to fill squares in the grid. You can only stamp squares if none stamped squares are already filled.
Is determining if a given grid with preset files squares can be completely filled with the stamp in P or NP?
#AI#Algorithms#ML#ResponsibleAI: "Machine learning and algorithmic systems are useful tools whose potential we are only just beginning to grapple with—but we have to understand what these technologies are and what they are not. They are neither “artificial” or “intelligent”—they do not represent an alternate and spontaneously-occurring way of knowing independent of the human mind. People build these systems and train them to get a desired outcome. Even when outcomes from AI are unexpected, usually one can find their origins somewhere in the data systems they were trained on. Understanding this will go a long way toward responsibly shaping how and when AI is deployed, especially in a defense contract, and will hopefully alleviate some of our collective sci-fi panic.
This doesn’t mean that people won’t weaponize AI—and already are in the form of political disinformation or realistic impersonation. But the solution to that is not to outlaw AI entirely, nor is it handing over the keys to a nuclear arsenal to computers. We need a common sense system that respects innovation, regulates uses rather than the technology itself, and does not let panic, AI boosters, or military tacticians dictate how and when important systems are put under autonomous control." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-avoid-ai-apocalypse-one-easy-step
Fmr #Trump treas sec #Mnuchin is telling investors he has a plan to buy #TikTok
Mnuchin told potential backers he aims to maneuver around its price of >$100B & #China’s ban of the export of recommendation #algorithms.
He indicated he could overcome those hurdles by offering to buy the #app w/o the export-blocked #code, essentially forcing his consortium to remake a service built on billions of lines of code.
Observers, & ≥1 person familiar w/the pitch, have said the idea is so far-fetched that it suggests a lack of familiarity w/how #tech companies work. #TikTok users flocked to the #app bc of its surprising suggestions for videos they might like, & there’s no guarantee any #Mnuchin-driven version could duplicate that success — or beat rivals like #Meta & #Google, who have worked for yrs to mirror the experience w/in their own respective apps, #Instagram & #YouTube. #algorithms#SocialMedia#policy
“Everyone wants to build a #TikTok-level #algorithm. That’s a key element of competition in… #tech …right now,” said Matt Perault, UNC prof & fmr #Facebook dir who studies tech #policy.
“…the biggest cos have thrown a lot of money & #engineering talent at that issue & have struggled to do it. If #Mnuchin thinks he can do that & succeed where…successful cos have struggled, good luck.”
Mnuchin, [is] a fmr hedge fund mngr & Hollywood producer w/no #SocialMedia experience….
The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of #AI
Vice President #KamalaHarris says new rules for government AI deployments, including a requirement that #algorithms are checked for #bias, will “put the public interest first.”
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The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change
The companies with the most powerful AI models will face more onerous requirements, such as having to perform model evaluations and risk-assessments and mitigations, ensure cybersecurity protection, and report any incidents where the AI system failed.
#Culture#BigTech#SocialMedia#Algorithms#SiliconValley: "The main defect with Filterworld is diagnostic: A focus on Big Tech’s colonization of culture obscures both the additional forces driving stagnation and the way those forces interact with technology to make the social media platforms such a formidable obstacle to cultural renewal. Is tech responsible for everything? Hollywood, the MFA industry, and America’s unequal education system, which makes the kind of deep instruction needed to engage meaningfully with the canon today available to only the very rich, surely bear just as much responsibility for our intellectually flattened times as the warped incentives of the BookTok reel do.
The big platforms have benefited from good timing, planting their flags in cultural terra firma at the exact moment when economic inequality and the distance between political elites and voters are at their widest since the Gilded Age, and the misalignments of rentier capitalism—handing a greater and greater share of wealth to asset owners—mean those gaps are only likely to grow. The collision of asset inflation with consumer technology’s incomparable distributional powers makes culture, as it’s exhibited online, both a powerful motor of social emulation (we want what they have) and a kind of consolation prize, a false democratizer for an unequal age. The playing field in actually existing capitalism may be scandalously uneven, but the online mediation of culture (in truth more an interruption) helps us all nourish a fantasy of equality at the level of creation. Il faut être absolument online.
#DynamicPricing#GigEconomy#Uber#Algorithms#ConsumerRights: "Dynamic pricing today may be unavoidable, but what consumers crave is a baseline of stability and clarity on how much we’re paying and why. There’s something unshakably disorienting about prices changing so quickly and finding our wallets beholden to a set of algorithms we’re not privy to. “It gives the feeling that we’re being manipulated a little bit more than we think we need to be,” says Zagor. Dynamic pricing, with the speed and detail with which it’s utilized today, allows businesses to optimize prices — for businesses, it can eliminate a lot of the uncertainty over whether they’re getting maximum profit. But that can come at the expense of more uncertainty for consumers. “We have this tension between ultimate efficiency for a business and consumer fairness,” says Witte.
#SocialMedia#Facebook#Algorithms#RecommendationEngines#AI#Spam: "Facebook’s recommendation algorithms are promoting bizarre, AI-generated images being posted by spammers and scammers to an audience of people who mindlessly interact with them and perhaps don’t understand that they are not real, a new analysis by Stanford and Georgetown University researchers has found. The researchers’ analysis aligns with what I have seen and experienced over the course of months of researching and reporting on these pages, many of which have found a novel way to link to off-platform, AI-generated “news” sites that are littered with Google ads or which are selling low-quality products.
Last week the world was introduced to Shrimp Jesus, a series of AI-generated images in which Jesus is melded with a crustacean, and which have repeatedly gone viral on Facebook. The images are emblematic of a specific type of AI image being used by spammers and scammers, which I first wrote about in December but have repeatedly made the masses go “WTF” and “WHY?” when shared away from an audience of Facebook users who are seemingly unable to detect them as AI, or don’t care that they are AI. “WHAT IS HAPPENING ON FACEBOOK,” a viral tweet about Shrimp Jesus read." https://www.404media.co/facebooks-algorithm-is-boosting-ai-spam-that-links-to-ai-generated-ad-laden-click-farms/
#Journalism#News#Media#Newspapers#Automation#Algorithms: "News organizations have turned to news automation to innovate specific processes in the newsroom. Despite the many advantages for news organizations in producing innovative news content, the news automation process is opaque and often not easily accessible for news consumers – undermining the core journalistic ethic of transparency. In this case study we examine how institutional dynamics shape internal and external algorithmic transparency practices at The Washington Post. Our findings, based on 16 expert interviews, reveal that while engineering teams at The Post exert great efforts to make some algorithmic systems transparent and explain their functions to the public (external), less information is being shared inside the newsroom (internal). This lack of internal algorithmic transparency is a potential pitfall as it could lead to mistakes in the news production and the reporting process in general."
"The goal of the project is to develop an efficient #algorithm for compressing voxel models. As an input format, an unsorted list of 3D integer coordinates and attribute data is used. Multiple methods for encoding geometry data including Cuboid Extraction (CE), Sparse #Voxel#Octrees (SVOs) with Space-Filling Curves, and Run-Length Encoding (RLE) are explained and then compared in terms of complexity, #compression ratio, and real life performance."
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But while it is largely a guide to making money in the new economy he describes, he also implores us to not let it “spiral out of control”. The key to this, he argues, is asserting human agency through digital literacy.
What unites many of the misshapen and malevolent encounters between humans and algorithms, Kowalkiewicz argues, is our misunderstandings of what they can do.
An algorithm is a step by step set of instructions – “like a recipe” for a computer. While an algorithm may be very good, even “superhuman” at its job within those defined parameters, these minions require a more adaptable human brain to help them overcome unforeseen challenges.
Flexibility and interpretation, Kowalkiewicz writes, are skills “not easily reduced to coded rules” and so are areas in which humans can outperform algorithms – for the “foreseeable” future.
#EU#France#Paris#Surveillance#Algorithms#AI: "After the legal debate, it's time for technical testing. Nine months after the Olympic Games law was enacted, with its article 10 allowing for experimentation with algorithmic video surveillance, French police officers will be testing this new technology – which is supposed to automatically detect a specific number of abnormal situations – for the first time. A trial run is scheduled for Sunday, March 3 and Tuesday, March 5, in conjunction with two concerts by the British band Depeche Mode in Paris.
The French interior ministry, as reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP), has announced that six cameras powered by software created by the Wintics company, Cityvision, will be scanning the public thoroughfares in the vicinity of the Bercy Arena concert hall in Paris' 12th arrondissement, where the concerts are set to take place. According to the same source, the aim will be to "test and configure software solutions" instead of using algorithmic video surveillance per se. One of the law's provisions is indeed for this system to be so tested before its actual use, which dispenses the police from the need for a prefectoral decree authorizing its application."
#EU#Italy#Fascism#AI#Unemployment#Algorithms#Solutionism: "Back in April, the far-right Brothers of Italy party presented “Notes on a Conservative Program”. In a chapter on work, they called for an “artificial intelligence system” that “traces the list of young people who finish high school and university every year and connects them to companies in the sector.” This, the authors of the chapter wrote, would finally solve "youth unemployment,” as “the young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits with the application of a system of sanctions.”
The proposal did not make it to the final program that Brothers of Italy published prior to the election on 25 September, when they became Italy’s largest party with 26% of the vote.
Ironically, the neofascists most likely had intended to use Artificial Intelligence to “create a fog around them, around what they are and what they want, because they want to attract a more moderate right-wing electorate,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli. Guido Crosetto, the Brothers of Italy co-founder who edited the work chapter, is not considered knowledgeable on technology, though he once tweeted about being “in favor of introducing artificial intelligence to the Ministry of Justice”. Unlike in other countries, there is no noticeable overlap between the Italian tech scene and far-right parties like Lega Nord and Brothers of Italy."
Making the internet more hostile to human lives through #algorithms, #metrics and #generativeModels should be treated as an attack upon human rights and be responded to as such.