Having massively over-promised on an immature technology with really quite a limited range of productive use-cases, #AI firms are now contriving to deliver.
However, because there is no tangible product, they are using their financial might and institutional power to bludgeon the Internet and society as a whole into an AI-shaped hole.
It's like a company that makes anti-diarrhoea meds pumping laxatives into the water-supply to engineer enough demand to justify billion of investment.
I am trying ever so hard to cultivate a positive attitude around AI. It’s hard!
Despite the avalanche of graphic monstrosities, the confident misinformation, the collapse of essay-based assessments in schools (not actually a bad thing, if it leads to more on-site, project-based learning).
I’m trying to see it as a tool that can complement (not replace) good design and knowledge management.
There was a paper shared recently about the exponential amount of training data to get incremental performance gains in #llm#ai, but I seem to have misplaced it. Do you know what I’m referring to? Mind sharing the link if you have it?
What if we deliberately poisoned the #AI well by posting predictive text spam every once in a while?
That was the last thing you were saying to the other guy and I thought he said that I would be there in the afternoon but he was in a good place for me and he was in a good place and he said it would have to go through it to me but he was not able and he said it would have to go through it to the office to get the other stuff done but he was in a good way and I didn't think it would have been a
I watched #Atlas last night on #Netflix recommendation. i.e. J-Lo battles robots in a mech suit
I enjoyed it. Well, I enjoyed it while I also programmed on my second monitor. What I can say is that the plot is quite thin; the contrivances are quite contrived.
But what I saw was a more interesting film of childhood trauma and how it drives us as adults. The acting was critiqued on imdb, but I thought it was subtle, damaged, and the best part of the movie's themes.
Good news for folks who enjoy AI embarrassing itself with nonsensical answers!
"Well, according to an interview at The Verge with Google CEO Sundar Pichai published earlier this week, just before criticism of the outputs really took off, these "hallucinations" are an "inherent feature" of AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature "is still an unsolved problem.""
« #AI is a marketing term, not a technical term of art. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 by cognitive & computer scientist John McCarthy ... McCarthy is very clear about why he invented the term. First, he didn’t want to include the mathematician & philosopher Norbert Wiener in a workshop he was hosting that summer ... Wiener had already coined the term “cybernetics,” under whose umbrella the field was then organized.»
"... it’s imperative that we recognize mass surveillance – and ultimately the surveillance business model – as the root of the large-scale tech we’re currently calling #AI
Dear #LazyWeb: What is needed to get Google to show me fun AI suggestions like adding glue to pizza sauce? How do I get the fake-#AI results?
I am not kidding. Most of my searches are on macOS (12 & 14) using Safari and occasionally other browsers (I've got 7 installed...) but I only log into my G accounts on an as-needed basis and because I use a real mail client for email, I almost never need to log in. I wipe cookies on every browser restart.
The #AI Trilemma: or why AI won't be as revolutionary as we expect.
We are in the midst of an AI revolution... or are we? As business leaders around the world scramble to integrate AI into their products and business practices, the cracks are beginning to emerge. We've seen GPT4 fail at basic reasoning, Google's AI search telling people to jump from a bridge, Microsoft's copilot inventing quotes from Vladimir Putin, and recidivism algorithms that continue to send the wrong people to prison.
W wielu miejscach ludzie narzekają, że Google zmieniło algorytmy, ich strony spadły w rankingu, choć stosowali się do zaleceń Google, a biznes upada. To oczywiście smutne, tylko nie do końca widzę w tym winę Google. Oparcie biznesu o jednego partnera było świadomą decyzją. Stosowanie się do zaleceń Google w sprawach SEO nigdy nie dawało gwarancji, że zawsze będzie
So, with all the major platforms going to $h1t as they chase the AI hype $$ dragon...
How safe is the stuff we post on #mastodon from data scraping?
I mean, I think there's probably no way to safeguard against it at this point, but for now I don't feel great about posting eg. WIP lyrics and stuff like that on meta platforms, seeing as they have made it clear they WILL be scraping all your posts.
In this week’s roundup, the couple who’ve made themselves the face of pronatalism keep their kids in a freezing home (they say by choice) and slap them to teach them right from wrong because they saw tigers paw their cubs in the wild.
Plus, Google’s AI fail, Kenyan workers write letter to Joe Biden, and more!
Modern #AI text generators create randomized output with no prior planning. They resist to be quality-checked by tools and processes established in the software industry.
Given this, the results are amazing. However, companies are selling the idea that these assistants will do quality checking themselves soon™.
This is mass delusion. But hey, the perks for managers/investors are worthwhile 🤷.
Is anyone collecting examples of #AIMusic? Because here is a particularly pernicious one.
This appeared in my YouTube suggestions as a song from Lana Del Rey's hotly anticipated Lasso album. But ut it's AI music, backed up with dozens of bot comments saying it's great.
It's not great. The voice, lyrics, melody and production are a horrible empty imitation of LDR as is the album 'photo'. It's a glimpse into how meaningless collective culture could become.
Elon Musk will build a supercomputer for Grok AI chatbot development (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Elon Musk announced this month that his artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI plans to build a supercomputer