Tag: AI point-missing
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Missed his best argument
Eric Barmack writes a smart and practical overview of the current status of AI as a movie production tool. I especially appreciate the fact that he didn’t just discuss how it could be done, he tried to do it. The result is not better or worse than most short Youtube documentaries, but the cost in…
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Pony in Oz
Jeffrey Funk gathers up a long list of fake AI successes. In each case the machine was only doing part of the work, with humans in India doing the rest. There’s a real Turk inside the Mechanical Turk. There’s a little man named Ramesh behind the curtain in Oz. The same illusion was forced on…
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Bandwagon
Luskin at EvoNews points to a new paper by establishment biologists who acknowledge that the standard theory of evolution is flawed. They propose, without actually doing it, that AI might help to sort out the question. Unfortunately they miss the basic problem with LLMs. In current parlance, the term AI means systems like ChatGPT. If…
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All open now
The purpose of venture capitalists, and the stock market in general, is the EXACT OPPOSITE OF PROFIT. The stock market is the RECIPROCAL of real business. When real business prospers, the market goes to zero. When real business collapses, the market goes to infinity. VCs make the goal perfectly transparent. They invest to destroy business…
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AI and fingers
AI famously has trouble with multiples like fingers and headlights. It tends to run wild with a pattern, giving people seven fingers or giving cars six headlights. Just now I got an email from Quantum Fiber, the successor to Pacific Bell and Qwest and CenturyLink. The heading says “there’s an outage in your area”. Here’s…
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Useful pushback
At the Ankler, a producer discusses what AI can and can’t do for producers. He concludes that AI can replace human editors for first-stage filtering to winnow down a huge pile of incoming scripts. He received immediate and knowledgeable pushback from two human editors, who pointed out the fallacies: = = = = = START…
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Fiendishly wrong
Headline: Dimon Likens AI’s Transformational Impact to Steam Engine The analogy is intentionally backwards. The steam engine performed tasks that humans COULDN’T do well. AI performs ONLY tasks that humans can do best. Engines didn’t replace workers. Engines replaced teams of horses. Human workers can’t lift several tons or move freight at 60 mph. AI…
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If you have to verify…
Dembski writes about his experience with LLM crap. He claims that AI is a “useful assistant”, which means he’s already addicted to the crap. He admits that it’s only useful if you take the time to verify all of its claims and citations, most of which are fantasy. Well then, why bother? The old-fashioned secretary…
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Not a revelation as usual
According to whistleblowers Google’s AI isn’t “neutral” but reflects the biases of the designers. SHOCKEDSHOCKEDSHOCKED!!!!!! Jesus Christ. You don’t need a whistleblower to “reveal” this. Every real programmer or record-keeper or accountant knows that a program reflects the preferences of the designer. This is especially true of models and simulations, no matter how complex. Any…
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Wrong problem
Nieman Lab, which surveys journalism, says that several of the finalists for Pulitzer this year used AI in their work. As usual the article concentrates on the loss of “individual” creativity. That’s not a variable, not a new situation. Major writers and reporters have always used secretaries and assistants, which were called amanuenses in earlier…
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Biggest point-miss ever
This is so fucking dumb it’s not even worth taking apart. The difference between digital and analog is ENTIRELY OUTSIDE the weirdass Turing shit in this non-argument. Living analog intelligence works by negative feedback, not by marking ones and zeros. Negative feedback is the crucial ingredient, not a bizarre theoretical limitation which doesn’t even connect…
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Full intelligence achieved!
Headline: A.I apocalypse: Terrifying study simulated what artificial intelligence would do in five military conflict scenarios… and it chose WAR 100% of the time AI has achieved full humanity! It chooses exactly the same thing human rulers choose in every situation! If a computer system chose peace in any circumstance it would be considered dangerously…
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Wrong end as usual
Bloomberg reports on a rather dumb lawsuit against AI. Will Sasso and his team put together a fake video of George Carlin doing an after-death routine. Carlin’s estate sued on two grounds: copyright infringement for the text, and using the image and voice. Seems like the estate’s lawyers should have done more research before filing.…
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The usual AI point-missing
A new startup is promising to restore trust in media and politics by providing a ‘chain of evidence’ for ads or political messages. = = = = = START QUOTE: “If you don’t actually have transparency and a level of authenticity on the images and videos you’re seeing, you could be easily misled without knowing…
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Learned something from clickbait
Microsoft Edge fills its base page with clickbait. I haven’t managed to turn it off yet**, so I’m irresistibly clicking. This story caught my attention because I visited Muncie in 1968 while campaigning for Gene McCarthy. I remember Muncie as a pretty place, with an especially wonderful park by the river. I learned several things…
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