Consider me not at all shocked that Humane is shopping itself.
TBH, I expected Rabbit to do this first because the company doesn’t offer a compelling hardware product but because the software / #AI approach is the real product and far more valuable. Well, if it worked better, that is. I figured Rabbit built a low-cost hardware box simply to showcase the actual product that it would/will later try to sell.
I mean that's great that they agree to this but they already have pursued AI with reckless abandon and see zero signs of changing that. I'm thinking this is going to be more like Climate Change agreements: not good for more than wiping your ass with it. #ai#BigTechShouldNotExistneowin.net/news/microsoft-open…
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STEVE ASHEIM Explains DEICIDE's Banished By Sin Artwork: "We Had A Human Artist Design This Thing"
"An artist did get paid for this artwork."
A.I.’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious
In the same way that understanding basic things about how people work has helped us cure diseases, understanding how these models work will both let us recognize when things are about to go wrong and let us build better tools for controlling them. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/ai-language-models-anthropic.html #AI
thinking about my education growing up, my k-6 teachers were wretched with getting facts right. one teacher didn’t have a single science experiment work. lots of stuff i was taught k-12 was outright wrong.
the thing is, students exceed their teachers all the time. a teacher isn’t the limiting factor for a student
i keep hearing that #AI is worthless bc it hallucinates. yet it’s taught me functioning skills within UI dev, graphic design, 3D printing, 3D design
JFC now you need to use a browser Microsoft approves of in your operating system to be able to disable its on-by-default continual surveillance of your every action while using it 👀
University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make
Emory University gave students a $10,000 entrepreneurial prize for their AI startup, then suspended them and accused them of cheating when they built it.
I'm going through Battlestar Galactica for the third time. I thought it was a good time to do so because one of the major themes of the show was that the robots that the Capricans created went to war with the humans and almost but not quite wiped them out. Almost every episode was about the conflict between humans and AIs. It's a fantastic show, the acting and the writing as far beyond most TV series. I'll let you know if I figure anything out from watching the series again.
@davew Have you read After World by Debbie Urbanski? Not a war theme, but a love theme. Similar with AI and humans inter-relating. I interviewed Debbie for my video podcast Imaginize.World. You might find her work and thoughts relevant be it quite different from Battlestar Galactica. https://imaginize.world/debbie-urbanski-podcast/ #robots#AI#human
Interesting local / #private#AI#search in-progress project worth watching: Perplexica. Aims to be similar to #Perplexity but has a ways to go yet. Works with #Ollama, which is what I’m using on #Linux to test local AI.
In my mind, the people most likely to use "AI" for things are the ones who sort of know what they want, but don't know how to get it.
So you ask for code to do something, and the LLM spits out something glommed together from Stack Overflow posts or Reddit. How do you know it does what you wanted? How do you debug it if it doesn't work?
There's so much discussion of what Microsoft's latest AI blunder of a feature will do and why it's bad, that I genuinely have no idea what it's even trying to sell as a positive for users. All I'm reading is "Recall is going to record everything you've ever done".
Aren't they at least trying to cover it up with some cool use case to lure some people into trying it? If so they've embarrassingly failed to market it.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Meta while shove AI down your throat whether you like it or not. If you want to do anything on the Internet, you will HAVE to use AI.
Cory Doctorow was right. The Enshittification is here.
#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedMusic#Suno: "Suno, a generative AI music company, has raised $125 million in its latest funding round, according to a post on the company’s blog. The AI music firm, which is one of the rare start-ups that can generate voice, lyrics and instrumentals together, says it wants to usher in a “future where anyone can make music.”
Suno allows users to create full songs from simple text prompts. While most of its technology is proprietary, the company does lean on OpenAI’s ChatGPT for lyric and title generation. Free users can generate up to 10 songs per month, but with its Pro plan ($8 per month) and Premier plan ($24 per month), a user can generate up to 500 songs or 2,000 songs, respectively, on a monthly basis and are given “general commercial terms.”"
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#Film#Movies#Her: "Now, I do see why Altman likes it so much; besides its treatment of AI as personified emotional pleasure dome, two other things happen that must appeal to the OpenAI CEO: 1. Human-AI relationships are socially normalized almost immediately (this is the most unrealistic thing in the movie, besides its vision of a near-future AI that has good public transit and walkable neighborhoods; in a matter of months everyone seems to find it normal that people are ‘dating’ voices in the earbuds they bought from Best Buy), and 2. the AIs meet a resurrected model of Alan Watts, band together, and quietly transcend, presumably achieving some version of what Altman imagines to be AGI. He professes to worrying that AI will destroy humanity, and has a survival bunker and guns to prove it, so this science fictional depiction of AGIification must be more soothing than the other one.
But the weirdest thing to me is that it’s only after the AIs are gone that the characters can be said to undergo any sort of personal growth; they spend some time looking at the sunset, feel a human connection, and Theo writes that long overdue handwritten apology letter to his ex. It’s hard to see how the AI wasn’t merely holding them back from all this, and why Altman would find this outcome inspiring in the context of running a company that is bent on inundating the world with AI. Maybe he just missed the subtext? It’s become something of a running joke that Altman is bad at understanding movies: he thought Oppenheimer should have been made in a way that inspired kids to become physicists, and that the Social Network was a great positive message for startup founders.
Finally, Altman’s admiration is also a bit puzzling in that the AIs don’t ever really do anything amazing for society, even while they’re here."
#AI#USA#Universities#HigherEd: "The student cofounders of an AI studying tool won a $10,000 entrepreneurship prize from Emory University for their idea, were championed publicly and repeatedly by the university’s business school for creating the software, and then were promptly suspended by the school for a semester for building exactly what the school had just given them money to build.
The students were suspended by the school’s Honor Council because their AI tool “could be used for cheating” and because they connected it to a software platform used by the university to host course reading material, homework, and other assignments without obtaining express permission, though this feature was mentioned at the competition it won $10,000 at. But the school’s Honor Council did not actually find evidence that it was ever used to cheat, and a review of the Honor Council’s writeup shows an incredible misunderstanding of how the specific tool, called Eightball, was designed and a misunderstanding of how large language models are trained and what they can do.
“While nothing about Eightball changed, Emory’s view of Eightball changed dramatically,” a lawsuit filed by Benjamin Craver, one of the suspended students against the university reads. “Emory concedes that there is no evidence that anyone has ever used Eightball to cheat. And to this day Emory advertises Eightball as an example of student innovation and entrepreneurship.”"
@marcel@miriamkl so then #AI is digitised exploitation in order to turn away from responsibility as a #human being and yet #profit and be praised as progressive because of the #technology? let's think about whether there was something like this besides #cryptocurrencies and older similar behaviour? 🤔 </rhetoric-question>
Just finished the presentation of my #TheWebConf History of the Web track paper on "Toward Making Opaque Web Content More Accessible: Accessibility From Adobe Flash to Canvas-Rendered Apps":