RT @DorotheaBaur
The term 'immortality' is misleading IMO. Humans, animals and plants live, and then they die. They are mortal. "digital intelligence" is never alive and can thus never die. It's a best permanent, or lasting, but certainly not immortal. #AI#Hinton.
The objective: from an html page type in a URL, on pressing Go button, extract the video stream, grab the audio and encode to mp3 and play it.
Due to errors in module choice (non existent or old) I had to downgrade my ambitions to a CLI version. I want command line args, so 🤖chose Clap and the code barfed bad (just looking at I know, cause I’ve spent time upgrading from 2.x to 4.x) and understand the code well.
Here’s todays wild ride, when I chided the 🤖 and wrote some example code, mentioned the specific rust module, it re-wrote the Clap code correctly.
Conclusions: Most example rust code seen uses old Clap derive examples. The LLM gas seen the latest version. If you prompt for this, it rewrites it correctly. Learning or being more specific? I lean towards the later. #AI / #programming / #hacks / #rust 🦀
The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust | Federal Trade Commission
> Manipulation can be a deceptive or unfair practice when it causes people to take actions contrary to their intended goals. Under the FTC Act, practices can be unlawful even if not all customers are harmed and even if those harmed don’t comprise a class of people protected by anti-discrimination laws.
I'm having to program some automated ChatGPT responses for a client. One of the things it needs to do is recognize the language of the content and write a summary in that language.
It sometimes fails to write in the correct language and the way I get it to comply is by passing a prompt to ask it to think about what language the source material is written in.
That causes responses like this:
"This summary is written in English from an English article..."
Arrrrggh... I then tell it to write the summary without telling me what language it's written in.
The response:
"This summary is not written in Chinese or Japanese..."
Chatbots are trained on astronomical amounts of data taken from the internet. Operating in a way akin to predictive text, they build a model to predict the likeliest word or sentence to come after the user’s prompt. This can result in factual errors, but the plausible nature of the responses can trick users into thinking a response is 100% correct.
The role of critical thinking and health skepticism to be taught in schools, colleges and universities is more critical now than ever before. The onslaughts are coming, and discerning facts from fiction (worse, “directional nonsense”) will become a critical skill for an informed human being
#AI#GenerativeAI#ChatGPT#HumanRights: "ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) are dominating headlines and conversations. We see it when people post strange and intriguing screenshots of chatbot conversations or images on social media, and we can now “interact” with chatbots on search platforms. But what’s behind this technology? Who feeds it data and decides where the data comes from? What does this have to do with human rights? Senior Web Producer Paul Aufiero speaks with Anna Bacciarelli, program manager in Human Rights Watch’s Tech and Human Rights division, about the questions at the center of this new debate, as companies race to develop and implement generative AI."
OpenAI’s regulatory troubles are only just beginning.
The Verge reports: The European Union’s fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what’s to come for AI services.
If the money invested in artificial intelligence was invested in natural intelligence (the education system), the world would become a much better place. #AI#education
So they're going to crapify search even more while trying to retain their #advertising edge.
WSJ reports that #Google plans to make #search more "visual, snackable, personal, and human", incorporating short videos, social media posts, and conversations with #AI.
"A dance-theater piece situated at the cutting edge of machine learning and art, mememormee uses choreography derived from AI models trained exclusively on the movements of lead choreographer, the particle physicist and AI researcher Dr. Mariel Pettee."
'The first and most obvious threat is that AI-enhanced social media will wash ever-larger torrents of garbage into our public conversation.'
Yup. #technology#ArtificialIntelligence#ai
In the chaos around #NLP, I went back and re-read the beautiful article by Lawrence Barsalou on the function of language in human cognition.
Barsalou argues that language evolved in humans to support coordinated action. Archival function of language is secondary. He highlights that #CognitiveScience#Linguistics has largely studied the secondary function and made minimal advances on the primary.
@pinecone I agree with you that cognitive science has evolved significantly since Barsalou wrote the article.
But, #AI#ML haven't turned that corner yet. LLMs 'learn language' by only consuming text written for archival purposes by humans. If that is what they are trained with, what would extend their capabilities to situated, coordinated action?
There is a huge gap between the language of action and being able to apply that action in the world. And, that gap is scientific.
Laying off reporters, but starting a 24/7 TV channel, is not a good look for WaPo. A lot of resource suck for a trickle of revenue. Hurts the core product.
When you write hashtags that contain multiple words, make the first letter of each word a capital letter, for example #DogsOfMastodon. This will make the tag readable to blind people.
Blind people use the internet through screen reader apps, which read text out aloud. By putting a capital at the start of each word in a hashtag, you are telling the screen reader how to say the tag correctly.
In the non-techy world this is generally known as "CamelCase".
@feditips Not your fault, but I’m musing on the last 25 years that I’ve been frequently annoyed about advice that tell us all to modify our behaviours to make “screen readers” work, when it all seems quite technically possible that the screen reader software makers could just do a better job coping with the world as it is.
For example in this specific case a screen reader could contain a dictionary. Hopefully now with #AI becoming prevalent we will finally see better readers!