Becky Chambers, A Closed & Common Orbit (2016), expands a plot element about AI from her first book into the central focus of this sequel. (implicitly?) picking up a plot from McCaffrey's classic The Ship that Sang, this is a compelling story of how an AI achieves it/her independence & their friendships that this entails. Once again Chambers has written an emotionally rich, unusual but highly timely SciFi.
Does the world need another photo-sharing platform? Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks so.
Last week, her company launched the Shine app, which "automatically creates albums around gatherings of people you know and uses AI to remove duplicates, picking out the best ones."
Meta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples.
CNN reports: "Despite the many promises of generative AI’s future potential emanating from the tech industry, the gaffes from Meta’s AI image generator are the latest in a spate of incidents that show how generative AI tools still struggle immensely with the concept of race."
Worth noting: AI is coming at fields with no life and limb jeopardy.
These systems can’t yet do things in solid, predictable or safe ways, and so they are trying to deploy them in contexts where they believe the consequences of things like “hallucinations” won’t end immediately in concretely disasterous ways.
I wrote more on this: A self-driving car getting things wrong immediately collapses into the tyranny of atoms… https://bit.ly/BeingHumanInAgeOfAI
I won't lie,
I wish I could get high,
So I don't just sit in my bed and cry,
Think of bad things and wonder why,
I can't think of cute cats in little bowties.
“The field of artificial intelligence has been running through a boom-and-bust cycle since its early days. Now, as the field is in yet another boom, many proponents of the technology seem to have forgotten the failures of the past – and the reasons for them. While optimism drives progress, it’s worth paying attention to the history.”