“If, on the other hand, the problem is that AI systems just suck and shouldn’t be trusted to fly drones, or drive cars, or decide who gets bail, or identify online hate-speech, or determine your creditworthiness or insurability, then all those AI companies are out of business.”
"For those sky-high valuations to remain intact until the investors can cash out, we need to think about AI as a powerful, transformative technology, not as a better autocomplete.
We literally just sat through this movie, and it sucked. Remember when blockchain was going to be worth trillions, and anyone who didn’t get in on the ground floor could “have fun being poor?”
"AI" is a marketing term since the 1950s. As an umbrella term it has been used since many years to create a wrong sense of progress by putting various tech hype du jour approaches under it. But there is no accepted definition of "AI". Once you understand that, a lot of things in the current discussion start to make sense in a better way.
In a long but interesting dialog with #Stanford professor #AlisonGopnik* about how future sentient #AGI's would need to be reared, he even classified them as "#thermostats."
...Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang
This episode [of the pod Human Centered] is produced in
association with the CASBS
project "The Social Science of
Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies."
In any event, the two are onto something regarding the next quantum leap in #AI development, embodiment**, even coupled with caregiving:
An INCREDIBLY busy Saturday for me, but at least while I was walking the dogs and shuttling kids to activities I was able to listen to some great talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/6)
Next was an intriguing talk by Pratik Chaudhari on the theoretical underpinnings of deep networks' predictive power at #Stanford. This is a classic "works in practice but not in theory talk," but if you want to know more about why large models are performing so well despite puzzling contradictions this is talk is a great place to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD2cL-QoI5g (3/6) #AI
5JUNE2023
Opening Keynote given by Signal President Meredith Whittaker 🧵 https://re-publica.com/en/node/2971
"I have known [co-founder and former Signal CEO] Moxie [Marlinspike] for almost a decade. I was using Signal before it was called Signal, when it was still RedPhone and TextSecure. I’ve been deeply invested in Signal and an unequivocal champion of what Signal does and the necessity of Signal existing and thriving." - https://www.protocol.com/workplace/signal-meredith-whittaker-interview
"WarGames": Vor 40 Jahren erscheint der erste Hacker-Film
Am 3. Juni 1983 startet "WarGames" in den amerikanischen Kinos. Der Film gibt zum ersten Mal Einblicke in die Hackerkultur – und ist immer noch aktuell.
40 years ago, the farsighted #SciFi movie #WarGames ("Kriegsspiele" in German") had its first showing in #US movie theaters.
Alas, today, with possibly #Skynet ante portas and Western governments very much disunited in regulating #AI, being completely oblivious of an exponential growth rate, despite #Pandemic training, it has regained actuality, despite the old technology.
A nice recommendation to watch (again) on #SciFiSaturday.
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
While #ChatGPT's suggestions do not include an attack on the operator (it is no military #AI after all), it clearly shows massive evidence of ideas ignoring commands.
It is evidence that supports my hypothesis. #AI's can lie to its operators even to...
"...much on #AI noting how 👉easy it is to trick and deceive.👈 It also creates highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal.
He notes that 👉one simulated test saw 👈 an AI-enabled drone tasked with a #SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human.
However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the #SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’.."
"The [#AI] system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times, the human #operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”
He went on: “👉We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad.👈..."
Our rush to share an inaccurate (or even imaginary) story about a lethal #AI says a lot. Is it possible that we're still trying to find a grand enemy to blame because it's easier than facing our own shortcomings as a species?
⚖️ Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”
➥ Arstechnica
The "citations and opinions in question were provided by ChatGPT which also provided its legal source and assured the reliability of its content," he wrote. Schwartz admitted that he "relied on the legal opinions provided to him by a source that has revealed itself to be unreliable," and stated that it is his fault for not confirming the sources
⚖️ US judge orders lawyers to sign AI pledge, warning 'they make stuff up'
➥ Reuters
"These platforms in their current states are prone to hallucinations and bias. On hallucinations, they make stuff up—even quotes and citations," the statement said. The judge also said that while attorneys swear an oath to uphold the law and represent their clients, the AI platforms do not.
🥸 Licenses masquerading as open source
➥ Andrew Marble
"Not only is it confusing, but representing restrictive licenses as open can be destructive to the software and AI industries. People who build around putatively “open” AI tools are really building a moat for restrictive proprietary products that reflect particular company’s interests. If people want to do that, it’s their business, but they should be doing it with their eyes open."