"Microsoft Paint is getting new image generation powers with a new tool called Cocreator. [...] Cocreator can generate images based on text prompts as well as your own doodles in the Paint app."
The way tech companies push "AI", I don't know. I was hoping this is just another tech hype that I can wait out, like with Bitcoin and Metaverse, but there just seems no end in sight this time.
Here comes the #AI#generativeAI bullshit machine... @revk@bloor
Someone came into #IRC this evening leading to a confusing interaction until the cause was identified.
On a side note, I think I might be done with this internet and tech stuff. I wonder what manual work I can take up instead.
@revk@bloor Haha.. i didn't even notice the "Content" bullet point below.. "The channel contains a mix of users, including A&A staff, customers, and other individuals. The discussion topics can range from general legal questions to specific cases and laws related to the UK."
Oh just fabulous. 🙄 AI-generated personality tests in job applications have arrived. Just helped a library guest apply for a job and the test was incomprehensible from beginning to end. Of course the local outfit had outsourced the application process to a third party company, who had outsourced the personalty/morality tests to yet ANOTHER company. This ordeal was for a job as a JANITOR. #library#librarian#AI@librarians
“The leak is a reminder that customers of nonconsensual porn makers are sharing their personal information with people who by definition don't respect other people's privacy, and that platforms like Patreon have their information as well.”
Google Gemini now has extensions that can for example use the content of your Gmail inbox, very practical but also very scary from a security/privacy perspective. #googlegemini#AI#extensies#security#privacy
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@paul@ErikJonker Precies de reden volgens mij om @Piratenpartij te stemmen. Er zijn legio zaken om aan te pakken, klimaat, woningmarkt, zorg, brede welvaart, enz. Maar er is maar 1 die dat serieus combineert met de impact van de informatiesamenleving. En als dat niet goed meegenomen wordt is de rest ook gedoemd te mislukken. #EP2024
@queenbee4ever@paul@Piratenpartij ..er zijn meer partijen die dit onderwerp serieus nemen vind ik (zoals #D66 naar mijn mening) maar het zou goed zijn als iedereen deze vraagstukken meer in het stemgedrag zou meenemen.
“Before the term ‘spam’ entered general use it wasn’t necessarily clear to everyone that unwanted marketing messages were a bad way to behave. I’m hoping ‘slop’ has the same impact – it can make it clear to people that generating and publishing unreviewed AI-generated content is bad behaviour.”
So they try to use machine learning to directly generate movies? Meanwhile as I understand it there are still really tedious tasks in VFX that really could use better automation. Are there any efforts to use AI for better green screen software? Handling motion blur, translucent materials and reflections? Automatically fixing green spill? Wouldn't that be an obvious thing to develop that would be bought like warm bread rolls? (I'm just a curious outsider to that, wondering.) #AI#ML#VFX
Według Marka Gurmana z Bloomberga, Apple jest gotowe do zaprezentowania szeregu funkcji wykorzystujących generatywną sztuczną inteligencję.
Gurman przedstawia więcej szczegółów na temat tego, czego można się spodziewać po nacisku Apple na AI podczas nadchodzącego WWDC 2024, które rozpocznie się już 10 czerwca.
W ramach zmian firma poprawi możliwości głosowe Siri, nadając jej bardziej konwersacyjny charakter i doda funkcje, które pomogą użytkownikom w codziennym życiu – podejście to Apple ma nazwać „proaktywną inteligencją”.
Obejmie to usługi takie jak automatyczne podsumowywanie powiadomień z iPhone’a, szybkie streszczanie artykułów z wiadomościami i transkrypcję notatek głosowych, a także ulepszanie istniejących funkcji, które automatycznie wypełniają kalendarz i zasugerują aplikacje, których powinniśmy użyć. Pojawią się również pewne ulepszenia w Zdjęciach w postaci edycji opartej na sztucznej inteligencji, ale żadna z tych funkcji nie zrobi wrażenia na osobach, które korzystały ze sztucznej inteligencji w aplikacjach Adobe Inc. przez ostatnie kilka miesięcy.
Gurman dodał, że podczas gdy Apple będzie polegać głównie na przetwarzaniu AI na urządzeniu, firma będzie je również dostarczać za pośrednictwem chmury w centrach danych, które zawierają wysokiej klasy procesory Apple Silicon zaprojektowane dla komputerów Mac (flota Apple M4). Zauważył również, że chatbot podobny do ChatGPT będzie zauważalnie nieobecny w nadchodzących funkcjach AI od Apple.
Mówi się, że kierownictwo Apple przyznało wewnętrznie, że czas „nadrabić zaległości”. To jednak potrwa.
#AI#AIEthics: "Technology is built by humans and controlled by humans, and we cannot talk about technology as an independent agent acting outside of human decisions and accountability–this is true for AI as much as anything else. The integrity that Mann rightly envisions for AI cannot be understood as a property of a model, or of a software system into which a model is integrated. Such integrity can only come via the human choices made, and guardrails adhered to, by those developing and using these systems. This will require changed incentive structures, a massive shift toward democratic governance and decision making, and an understanding that those most likely to be harmed by AI systems are often not ‘users’ of the systems, but subjects of AI’s application ‘on them’ by those who have power over them–from employers, to governments to law enforcement. To truly ensure that AI systems are deployed in ways that have integrity, and uphold a dignified and equitable social order, those subject to AI’s use by powerful actors must have the information, power, and ability to determine what AI systems with ‘integrity’ mean, and the ability to reject or contest their use."
@mfioretti_en I just used a GPT detector on the site in question and it was 99% confident the content was human made. Seems these tools are not super reliable.
Also, I wouldn't trust techrights as far as I could throw it. Absolute crackpots.
One thing that’s funny about #ai and #programming is I keep hearing the same thing. “Oh I use it for generic snippets, just common tasks and functions”.
The amusing thing about that is when I first started working with a #php app years ago there was already a solution to that problem. It was called “the PHP Cookbook” published by O’Reilly. I was told “oh we buy you a PDF copy and you just search for whatever you are trying to do and use that code. It saves a ton of time for junior programmers.”
Not only was it true, it did save me a ton of time and headaches, but we didn’t need to steal anything. The authors got paid, it worked offline, it didn’t require scraping the entirety of human knowledge to write or nuclear power plants worth of energy to distribute.
It also helped me learn. Since I would have a solid foundation to the solution, I felt more confident experimenting. I always had a known-functioning standard library solution as my base. So when something broke I knew where to start debugging.
Just an incredible thought that instead of paying $20 for a pdf once we decided this was the way to go.
@matdevdug I mean, pretending that CTRL+F and an AI are somewhat equivalent is not the argument you wanna be making.
Sure, reading a book and learning stuff is good and everyone should do it. But some problems are really specific and no book will have an example that you can find within few minutes.
@chrastecky Well as someone whose tried virtually every paid and free AI product on the market and can’t even get the paid Google Gemini one to return accurate results about their own Google Cloud libraries I’m gonna have to give it to CTRL-F.
They’re such unbelievable dogshit that Google cannot even make it as accurate as reading their own tests in their own client library. Imagine that. Reading the tests is easier and more reliable than asking an LLM. I didn’t even need to burn down a rainforest or make 12 more datacenters to do it.
🔥 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town | Slate
"Generate a bunch of free images and accounts, have them buy and boost one another in perpetuity, inflate metrics so that the “art” gets boosted by DeviantArt and reaches real humans, then watch the money pile up from DeviantArt revenue-sharing programs. Rinse, repeat."