I find the "oh, I know them, they're good people" argument about A.I. researchers to be such a tired and garbage statement. It doesn't matter how good the scientists who worked on the atomic bomb were, they still ushered in the age of mutually assured destruction.
I'd like to reiterate that my concern about #AI is not that it's going to become conscious, or that it's going to displace a huge portion of the workforce (it will) but before it does any of that it's going to be leveraged by bad actors to flood society with truthy sounding bullshit the likes of which we've never seen and it will lead to killing in the streets.
Almost every week now, + despite statements to the contrary, by many #AI#scientists and #programmers, the utopias of #IsaacAsimov and #PhilipKDick (+ others 1)) are making a leap forward.
Due to all the white noise + the hype regarding #AI most of the general public.
"...goes as far as to claim that #superintelligence "isn't a long-term issue," but is even "more short-term than e.g. climate change and most people's retirement planning."
To support his theory, the researcher pointed to a recent #Microsoft study arguing that #OpenAI's large language model GPT-4 is already showing "sparks" of AGI and a recent talk given by #DeepLearning researcher Yoshua Bengio*."
"I don't know if any of you have really seriously dived into #DeepLearning, but it is a truly massive and unwieldy zoo of extremely abstract, seemingly tailored concepts that appears almost impossible to get to the bottom of. There is certainly no foundational, theoretical treatment of the field that would allow for it to be approached with the sort of global understanding with which we treat programming languages... so that that is what I want to expose in the book, how can build up this tower of abstractions from nothing but the simplest functions, elucidating what has been obscured in the production process."
— Anurag Mendhekar on his new book with Dan Friedman, the 800 page tour de force The Little Learner
Do you know any advanced Ph.D. students or postdocs who are #ComputationalNeuroscience or #DeepLearning experts? Please tell them to apply as Teaching Assistants (TAs)!
We are looking for senior TAs for project and lead TAs roles!
I like to listen to childhood nostalgia, and 1980s Italo Disco is among that.
There's a 1985 song by Den Harrow called Future Brain, and I always had to grin listening to the naive song text, but with the current AI developments, that song text is starting to get a new, retro-prophetic meaning.
but who pays the actual, you know, content creators?
which reminds me - I am hereby setting the price of $1 billion for the right to use my blog's content https://www.strathweb.com in the training data set. thank you #ai#deeplearning#gpt
Guess I should post a new introduction since I moved servers and this account has no posts at all 😛
I'm a developer/coder. I used to be very much into mobile development (both #iOS and #Android) using #Swift and #Kotlin. Now my main area of interest is digital creativity using #AI to generate art, text, and music.
I don't post a lot generally, but do daily postings of interesting papers from the cs.CV category on arXiv.org. So first thing in the morning, there will be a barrage of posts from me and then probably nothing much for the rest of the day 🙂
I also post a daily set of images based on my #StableDiffusion prompt of the day — I generate a bunch of images through the day based on a single prompt, pick the four best images (according to me) and post them the next day.