Just realised chatGPT is violating the gov.uk content licence:
You must (where you do any of the above):
acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;
Over the past year, I've been experimenting with neural text to speech in various forms. I have done hours of experimentation and research, training models and getting varying results along the way. Some of you may have heard of Piper, an open source synthesizer and add on for NVDA that can be trained by anyone. It is currently in active development, and I have been there from the beginning, testing and evaluating the various versions. For years, I have had a goal to create a high-quality voice that is truly usable by a screen reader user, and yesterday I managed to achieve this. I'm really excited to share Alba, a female Scottish English voice. I'm considering this a beta phase, and I'm looking for feedback to make improvements as needed. Please note that you will most likely get an error upon installation, however the voice should still show up to NVDA, and I'm working on fixing this as soon as possible.
Link to Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/tree/v0.1.0
Link to addon: https://github.com/mush42/piper-nvda?ref=building.open-home.io
Link to Alba: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wZHuIll6aEEFd4OdLBCVcxF7bd3PbQTB/view?usp=share_link#TTS#AI#ScreenReader#Piper
I keep hearing about how useful current #AI tools will be to businesses, and keep being confused. How can you use these things for business purposes when you literally can't trust anything they say?
I just had an epiphany. I'm an engineer, so I'm not the target market. My work product has to be correct, or stuff will break.
No, the target market is people whose jobs involve generating huge amounts of bullshit. AI takes the drudgery out of BS production.
Welp, here we go. Be My Eyes is so great, people are just... Calling their projects Be My Eyes web apps now. Cause it's 2023 and here we are. No, I haven't tried this thing. I hope it's worth the absolute shitstorm of a hype train this will cause in the blind community once people get to looking at it.
This is a really important point: From a business perspective, the goal of a Google AI is to make sure you never view primary sources on other web pages, only the chopped-and-processed information on Google's own site. #AI#Google
So I've landed in Nextdoor's "Assistant" experiment, which will offer to completely rewrite your post. It is just amazingly creepy having this thing come up without warning.
I can’t be the only one who thinks this whole #LLM#AI “prompt engineering” thing is a house of cards, right? I’m no expert, but AFAIK LLMs are nothing more than a statistical predictive model based on blog posts, stolen books, and reddit replies. And people are trying to get it to “reason” about things, by saying “let’s take it step by step?” Who are they kidding? Unless you’re asking the model to generate something that’s really close to what a typical human typed into the internet in the recent past, you’ll quickly get poor results that only sound plausible.
People are trying to conjure up emergent behavior from a pile of twitter replies. And some people are trying to get it to…explain everything? in a search engine? I just don’t get it. Try getting Midjourney to generate a picture you actually have in your mind (that is not utterly derivative). Spoiler: you can’t. But this is trying to do that with text?
I don’t get it. Am I missing a piece of the puzzle?
UPDATE: Seems it already happened. Content from 2014-2023 has already been shared. So your opt-out will just be honoured going forward. If and how already sent content will be handled by the receiving 3rd party after you opt-out remains a mystery
I've been seeing a lot of ads for a children's clothing company called CCMOM. The ads show bright clothes adorned with beautiful appliqué designs and amazing details. All under $30, but something felt off about the items.
After digging around CCMOM's site, I found that the vast majority of their product photos are AI generated.
If the featured products are AI generated, then this must be a scam, right?
Yes. But not in the way you might expect. #AI#AIScam
Note that the training data heavily relies on the Bible and its translations. Lots of bias there.
Meta unveils open-source #AI models it says can identify 4,000+ spoken languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, an increase of 40x and 10x respectively.
A thread with some tidbits on the quasi-#copyright claims against OpenAI and GitHub over the slurping of GitHub repositories for the training of #AI-powered coding tools.
Laut AGB will Zoom Kundeninhalte und Nutzungsdaten für KI-Lernzwecke verwenden. 😕 Das kann man versuchen, aber ich könnte Zoom als Anwalt nicht mehr nutzen und muss eigentlich jedem davon abraten Zoom im Rahmen von Kunden, Mandanten- oder Patientenkommunikation einzusetzen. Außer mit einer ausdrücklichen Einwilligung, die diese Nutzung nachweisbar und verständlich erklärt (was in der Praxis selten vorkommt).
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Außerdem in dieser Folge mit dabei: Highlights aus dem Dresdner Stadtrat, jede Menge #Überwachung und Neuigkeiten über Nazis und Demonstrationen gegen diese.
A thing that bugs me wrt to #AI, #LLM, whatever pattern synthesis tech you want:
BINARY THINKING
I understand the hype is exhausting.
But this thing where someone plugs their ears and repeats reductive catechisms about AI is just as silly. The common trope lately is comparing it to Eliza.
The truth is somewhere in between, unevenly distributed across use cases.
Still, when this stuff works well it works well in life-changing ways.
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why (www.vice.com)
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.
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