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."
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.
The #Oversight Board, an outside group funded by #Meta, called on the company to extend the policy to address #altered audio as well as videos when they falsely depict people doing things.
“We agree w/the Oversight Board’s argument that our existing approach is too narrow” because it only applies to #fake speech & not altered actions, Meta VP of #Content Policy Monika Bickert said in a stmnt.
Following the #Oversight Board’s rec, #Meta also agreed to no longer remove digitally created #media if it doesn’t violate any other rules, but the company will attach a label saying that the #content has been #altered. Starting next month, the company will start to apply “#MadeWithAI” labels on content it determines is #AI or when people disclose they are uploading #AIgenerated content.
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
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ACCEPT's WOLF HOFFMANN: 'The Thought Of Artificial Intelligence Creating Art, That Is Something That Concerns Me'
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.
Horrid new report from @972mag on an "AI" system called Lavender and "Where's Daddy?" used by the IDF. Has a 10% error rate, and acceptable "collateral" from 15 to 100 civilians per target.
This is sick and the future of AI warfare for US Empire.
The U.S. and U.K. are teaming up to test the safety of AI models.
Engadget reports: "They're planning to share technical knowledge, information and even personnel as part of the partnership, and one of their initial goals seems to be performing a joint testing exercise on a publicly accessible model."