doctorambient

doctorambient, 2 days ago to OpenAI

I was going to make a comment about #OpenAI and #voiceactors but I realized that some of my assumptions were wrong.

What I'm worried about is that a lot people don't necessarily recognize the difference. Traditionally, a full buyout for a voice actor is reasonable, because it covers a single recording.

But open AI is literally buying the person's voice.

The money damn well better be a fuck ton more.

#aijobkiller #aijobthieves #acting #voiceacting #voicecloning

doctorambient, 5 days ago to infosec

I would have loved this in college.

#infosec #security #LaundryLaughs #laundry #lol

@zackwhittaker https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/112457447298124340

doctorambient, 8 days ago to ai

"The biggest question raised by a future populated by unexceptional A.I., however, is existential. Should we as a society be investing tens of billions of dollars, our precious electricity that could be used toward moving away from fossil fuels, and a generation of the brightest math and science minds on incremental improvements in mediocre email writing?" (From an NYT article. See original thread.)

#ai #llm #llms #chatbot #chatbots

@peter https://thepit.social/@peter/112445916259675495

doctorambient, 27 days ago to socialism

Very true.

#socialism #capitalism #wealthgap #wealthinequality #taxtherich #EveryBillionaireIsAPolicyFailure

doctorambient, 28 days ago to LLMs

People: stop asking #LLMs to explain their behavior.

We already know that LLMs don't have the introspection necessary to explain their behavior, and their explanations are often fanciful or "just wrong."

For instance, Gemini claims it reads your emails for training, Google says it doesn't.

(BTW, if it turns out Gemini is right and Google is lying, that might be another example of an LLM convincing me it's actually "intelligent.")

#largelanguagemodels #ai #machinelearning #googlegemini #llm

doctorambient, 1 month ago to ai

Lots of people who work in #AI have, in their head, an idea about what sort of interaction with an #LLM might give them pause. The thing that might make them start to suspect that something interesting is happening.

Here's mine:

User: Tell me a cat joke.

LLM: Why did the cat join a band? He wanted to be a purr-cussionist.

User: Tell me a dad joke.

LLM: I think I just did.

(I have never seen this behavior, yet. 🤣)

#machinelearning #chatbot #chatbots #LLMs #artificialstupidity

doctorambient, 1 month ago to ai

While there has been a lot of focus on what #AI technologies are doing to text and the graphic arts, less attention has been paid (in the media) to what it's doing to #music and sound.

#Akai has released a tool kit to convert audio samples into "stems," which you can think of as the individual components of the sample. Imagine pulling out just the baseline or vocals from a sample. That's what this does.

$10 and I can deconstruct your music back to its basic elements.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/akai-pro-mpc-stems-released

doctorambient, 2 months ago to ai

AI was fucking things up long before the current hype cycle.

Today's example: "UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges." (AKA "Our lawyers say it's not a bug, it's a feature!")

It covers a system used from 2019.

#AI #healthcare #aihealthcare #ushealthcare #us #healthinsurance

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

doctorambient, 2 months ago to tesla

How it started, how it's going...

#tesla #cybertruck #musk #lol #techbro #techbros #idiots

https://electrek.co/2024/03/08/tesla-shipping-cybertruck-tent/

doctorambient, 3 months ago to math

The claim that:

"math isn't important anymore because of calculators"

(which I actually heard tonight from someone who should know better)
makes it clear that we, as a society, have really failed to empower people to understand what math actually is in the first place.

#math #calculator #calculators #science #maths #mathematics #stem #steam

doctorambient, 3 months ago to politics

"Gen Z adults, along with millennials, were also more likely to identify as LGBTQ than Republican, the survey found...." (28% vs. 21%)

🤣 Awesome!

#uspol #politics #genz #republicans #age #lgbtq #lgbtqia

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/nearly-30-gen-z-adults-identify-lgbtq-national-survey-finds-rcna135510

doctorambient, 5 months ago to politics

We're dead (gift link):

'“If it’s between them, I’m going to say this: Trump was hilarious. He was hilarious,” said Monk, 43, who lives in the Milwaukee area. Biden, meanwhile, has not delivered the change he expected, leaving Monk unsure. “I would say, it’s kind of up in the air.”'

So the normal politician has to dramatically change the economy to get your vote, but Trump just has to make things "funny."

WTF is this guy's sense of humor?

#uspol #politics #trump

https://wapo.st/3uNSY9R

doctorambient, 5 months ago to ai

Anybody else notice that Microsoft co-pilot appears to be having problems today? It's crashed in the middle of two responses.

PS: I know I have tons of notifications that I haven't had time to look at yet, sorry about that if you're one of the people who did something, but it's been busy!

#ai #ml #LLMs #copilotai

robin, 6 months ago to random

Argentina, now the Netherlands... 💔

The fascist wave will continue until we build new institutions that can deal with the complexity of the world we've created, that are powerful enough to counteract these novel concentrations of power and the inequalities they support. 🌳✊🏻

doctorambient, 6 months ago to twitter

Can anyone explain to me why advertisers decided to leave X because of a report by a watchdog organization?

Shouldn't they just be leaving X because of looking at Musk's actual posts?

#twitter #x #schadenfreude #racism #Sexism #antisemitism

peter, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

Some more cartridges for the TI99/4A

Begining Grammar
Addition & Subtraction 1 & 2
Fractional Numbers
Multiplication 1
Minus Mission
Numeration 2
Touch Typing Tutor
Munch Mac
The Attack*
Car Wars
Reading Rally

#ti994a #retroComputing

doctorambient, 6 months ago to politics

Well, I suppose we've reached the end game of disinformation and political extremism.

We've Overton-ed ourselves into a situation where (much of) the professional media, and most on social media, can't even acknowledge the reality of what's happening in front of them.

America 1776-2024.

Eh, we had a good run.

#uspol #politics #overtonwindow #lies #conservatives #bullshit #endlessLiesWork

simon, 6 months ago to random

New LLM paper highlighting quite how weird and ridiculous these things are https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760

Adding "it's important to my career" can produce better results, across every model they tested!

cstross, 6 months ago to random

REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.

doctorambient, 6 months ago to politics

"Those without college degrees and who watch Fox News are more likely to be creationists." (Gift link)

No shit?

#uspol #politics #appliedstupidity #creationism #evolution

https://wapo.st/478aao4

maxleibman, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

The modern corporate obsession with data is beyond incorrect, it's obscene.

If I order a pizza, there's no universe where the social contract should include a follow-up email about a survey. IT'S A PIZZA. And moreover, I PAID FOR IT WITH MONEY. You are not entitled to 5 minutes of my time to fill out your fucking survey.

Any marketer or data scientist who tells you that every pizza that gets ordered should also generate a survey request email IS FULL OF SHIT and is ABUSING YOUR CUSTOMERS.

dgoldsmith, 7 months ago to random

“Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?”

Indeed! Share this with your skeptical friends.

Mastodon Is the Good One https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/