A team of archaeologists and computer scientists have created an AI program that can translate ancient cuneiform tablets instantly using neural machine learning translations.
Issues of data protection and human dignity of generative AI processing and creations are an important one. My #GDPR complaint about OpenAI's data processing. It concerns input and output, access to information, and technology design.
Context/writeup: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/ai-llms-gdpr-complaint-and-human-dignity/
Marc Andreessen wants you to believe AI will save the world. But just a couple years ago, he was saying something very similar about crypto.
The truth is Andreessen doesn’t actually care about improving people’s lives. His positive vision of a world made better by AI tools is just a means to pump up the valuations of companies his venture capital firm has invested in. We can do much better than Andreessen’s lies. https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ai-wont-save-the-world
The lawyer realized after submitting the filing that chatGPT had generated fake cases, but didn't withdraw the filing and lied to the judge in a panic when questioned about it.
We really need a different term than ‘AI’ to describe private, on-device machine learning that benefits individuals but (a) doesn’t violate anyone’s privacy, (b) doesn’t destroy the environment and, (c) doesn’t enrich smug Silicon Valley tech douchebros like Sam Altman.
This lawsuit is a minor headache for #Amazon. Allegedly a woman was fired for doing her job which was keeping Amazon’s #ArtificialIntelligence from using content illegally (probably copyrighted material).
Her boss reportedly did not like that “do-gooder attitude” & demoted her, before firing her during maternity leave. This case could open up lawsuits against Amazon’s #AI in the future.
I ended my time on Duolingo in the #NewYear, after finding out they sacked a bunch of translators and are now relying on AI to generate sentences for learning. Essentially, they are just generating the content via AI and having a limited number of translators "check the work" before putting it up into their programs.
I also noticed that, the longer I went on in my Duolingo program, the quality of the learning seemed to decrease dramatically, and after learning about the AI thing, it started to dawn on me that this could be part of the reason for that. But even if it isn't related, the fact that they are making this move toward AI only means in the future, the learning WILL decrease in quality whether we like it or not, and that's no fun at all.
So No Thanks, #Duolingo. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
The Taylor Swift AI deepfakes are horrific. They are also just the tip of the iceberg.
Resharing my WIRED story from December, that shows the number of non consensual (they all are) AI porn videos has grown at an alarming rate—244,625 videos at the time of writing. That doesn't include the thousands of still AI images being created every single day
As AI technology has advanced—as well as becoming easier to use and having more realistic outputs—this problem is only getting worse. Many reporters, myself included, have written about this since 2017 and in that time technology companies and lawmakers have failed time and time again to take this seriously
Large language models sometimes fabricate information and present it as fact. But to hallucinate, you must first perceive. Writing for Big Think, Adam Frank says to stop saying ChatGPT “hallucinates." https://flip.it/Rg3uiW #Tech#AI#ChatGPT#ArtificialIntelligence
Justice systems around the world are using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess people with criminal convictions. These AI technologies rely on machine learning algorithms and their key purpose is to predict the risk of reoffending. They influence decisions made by the courts and prisons and by parole and probation officers.
In another chapter of “what crazy things has AI done this week,” the Catholic advocacy group Catholic Answers has had to swiftly defrock the AI priest it unveiled just a few days ago, after some strange conversations were shared online.
In a particularly awkward exchange with @futurism regarding the legitimacy of his identity, the chatbot claimed to be a real member of the clergy, who lived in Assisi. “Yes, my friend,” Father Justin is reported to have said, “I am as real as the faith we share.”
If he's right the writing on the gallery wall is about to get a lot more obscure....
Fans of cutting edge #contemporaryart will be grinding their teeth & complaining that this unfairly trivialises artists intent & commitments to avant-garde creativity.
Here we go again: The boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing will drive a spike in energy use, the National Grid has predicted. Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68664182 all this power usage for shity LLM/AI to write poems, pictures, videos etc from stolen data to train AI. #artificialintelligence#machinelearning
“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.”
Whenever I see OpenAI's Sam Altman with his pseudo-innocent glance, he always reminds me of Carter Burke from Aliens (1986), who deceived the entire spaceship crew in favor of his corporation, with the aim of getting rich by weaponizing a newly discovered intelligent lifeform.
The risks around artificial intelligence might be better understood by following the money not the technology....
This suggests we need to be regulating (better) the economic & market uses of AI, rather than focussing on its technical capabilities.
Indeed, states have a long history of regulating markets, and whatever some economists seem to think, regulation is what has most often saved capitalism from eating itself!
Good riddance to what was a colossal waste of money, energy, resources, and any sane person's time, intellect, and attention. To even call these as exploratory projects is a disservice to human endeavor.
"Future of humanity", it seems. These guys can't even predict their next bowel movement, but somehow prognosticate about the long term future of humanity, singularity blah blah. This is what "philosophy" has come to with silicon valley and its money power: demented behavior is incentivized, douchery is rationalized, while reason is jettisoned.
Archaeologists use artificial intelligence (AI) to translate 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets (www.heritagedaily.com)
A team of archaeologists and computer scientists have created an AI program that can translate ancient cuneiform tablets instantly using neural machine learning translations.
What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI (www.scientificamerican.com)
To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic
A 'black box' AI system has been influencing criminal justice decisions for over two decades—it's time to open it up (phys.org)
Justice systems around the world are using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess people with criminal convictions. These AI technologies rely on machine learning algorithms and their key purpose is to predict the risk of reoffending. They influence decisions made by the courts and prisons and by parole and probation officers.