Hands-on with #Google's #Duet#AI writing aid: a stiff style, inaccurate information, inconsistent Docs and Gmail behavior, great at drafting complaints, and more. Lots more.
“I find it fascinating that novelists galore have written for decades
about scenarios that might occur after a "singularity" in which
superintelligent machines exist. But as far as I know, not a single
novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely
be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent
(say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact
with them freely at essentially no cost.” Don Knuth, professor emeritus of CS at Stanford, Turing award winner, the ‘abbot’ of algorithms on playing with #ChatGPT#AI#Chatbot
"I find it fascinating that novelists galore have written for decades abt scenarios that might occur after a 'singularity' in which superintelligent machines exist. But as far as I know, not a single novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent (say) & in which millions of real people would be able to interact w/ them freely."
This Harvard Business School article says employees using decision support tools were less likely to override recommendations when given a black-box tool than when they could inspect the algorithm.
HBS sees this as a good thing (because of course the machine knows best) & attributes it to confidence in the development process.
But what if the development process isn't good? Do users still blindly accept the recommendations? My guess is they will.
Sooo... how do we get large companies to shift resources away from AI that will steal creatives' jobs, to building the technology from Black Mirror that will let me block people in real life? TIA
“The act of creation, of bringing something into this world that didn’t exist before is not just a transactional act to favour convenience or reduce friction. We create because it’s a way to manifest our humanity, to understand the world and our role in it, and to connect with fellow humans. Removing that creation from our beings, outsourcing it onto another entity – in this case #AI – because it can make it easier or even better is to miss the point completely.”
Ha, Don Knuth on #ChatGPT:
"I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same" #ai
Either, the frontrunners (here in #ArtificialIntelligence) are looking to consolidate their advantage & erect barriers to market entry for nascent competitors... or:
they have looked into the future and are genuinely worried by what they see... or:
both.
In any case, this does not make you any more relaxed about the destructive potential of #AI
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Imagine in a few years being able to say to chatgpt8:
Please promote my product on the fediverse by registering 100,000 accounts over the course of 12 weeks on at least 500 different instances, weighted by instance size. These accounts should be conversational and engaging with other members and should not be detectable as bots. 10% of of these bots should express skepticism in my product, and the remaining bots should engage them in a public discourse to correct their misunderstanding. Monitor the sentiment of people discussing my product and develop an optimal strategy to maximize that sentiment. “
@jerry "should not be detectable as bots" seems to be the rub. Already AI companies are offering products to detect AI generated content (https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detection). Seems like we are heading for another arms race with big tech selling bullets to both sides.
People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.
Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.
Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.
@ianrosewrites Amen to that! Artificial Intelligence is what the name implies, artificial. This means it's not real(ly) intelligent. I see self-proclaimed meditation teachers using AI to write meditation scripts, not noticing that AI sometimes generates combinations of sentences that can have adverse psychological effects. AI can be a helpful technology, but it still needs real intelligence to check and correct the end result.