Tag: AI point-missing
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Old joke
Old joke: “Day 19 of the experiment, I have successfully conditioned my master to give me food, smile, and write in his book every time I drool.” – Pavlov’s Dog The free-play phase of Altman’s AI attack seems to be standard sales practice, which can be benign or not. Duane Jones calls it Sampling. Send…
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This is why
These two Christian “philosophers” don’t see a problem with AI stealing art and text from working creators, and forcing other working creators out of their jobs. What’s the trouble with AI? It might ease the suffering of unpopular people. We can’t let that happen! Unpopular people must suffer so popular people can get all the…
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First, second, third, fourth
One of the pro-AI substackers, discussing the fast “development” of systems like Midjourney, said: The next blockbuster movie will be written by a kid in Mom’s basement. First thought: It’s not “developing”. The development is done. What we’re seeing now is a carefully planned and staged rollout by the Men Of Monopoly, carefully publicized by…
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Repetition isn’t bad
Denyse at MindMatters says: Hollywood has been developing a culture that welcomes AI-generated content with its tendency to pressure writers to fit a formulaic narrative structure instead of encouraging them to pursue real creativity and collaboration. Well, this is hardly new. Mass entertainment has always been a repetitive product, and that’s a good thing. Humans…
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Rules are not “souls”
Denyse at MindMatters properly takes down a new project to give AI a “soul”. From the description of the project: With AI increasingly taking up more decision-making roles in our daily lives, along with rising concerns about bias and discrimination in AI, Dr. Poole argues the answer might be in the stuff we tried to…
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Always missing the editor
Typical AI point-missing, neglecting the role of editors as usual. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the wake of artificial assistants, searching the “traditional” way will get thrown out as the internet totally transforms; nonetheless, it might take a while for AI to fully replace search engines like Google or Microsoft’s Bing. Until…
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Where are the guilds, part 435438543895
Art historians and teachers are noticing that AI is replacing real masterpieces in google searches. Forgery is extremely old. Galleries and museums have been fighting human copiers and forgers for hundreds of years, and they’ve usually won the fight. Why aren’t they even TRYING to fight against mechanical forgers? This is the key variable in…
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Authorship?
Another day, another point-miss. = = = = = START QUOTE: It’s estimated that 500,000 to 1 million books are published each year, and that’s excluding self-published material. The publishing market has become saturated, with the average book selling less than 200 copies. But suppose one person could “generate” not just a few books in…
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Duane does Bud
Duane Jones dealt with the Bud Light problem. I cited it before, in a discussion of AI misunderstanding human motives: = = = = = START REPRINT: The Jones agency had produced a successful magazine ad for Heinz ketchup. A painting showed an elegant waitress holding a silver tray with a single bottle of Heinz,…
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Not the best argument
Via MindMatters as usual: New AI systems have carved inroads into many industries, not least of all those involving voice and audio. Now the audiobook business is in trouble; since AI has the increasingly good ability to mimic the human voice and generate words, many voice actors and readers have watched the demand for their…
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Who’s the computer?
The Turing test is hopelessly outdated. Eliza passed the test in 1964 for all practical purposes. Dembski is now applying the test backwards. He presents a weird Godel-like chain of convoluted self-referential sentences, and finds that ChatGPT can’t “solve” the chain. Normal humans can’t “solve” this totally contrived and totally trivial “problem” which doesn’t NEED…
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Who’s the bedbug 2
Latest pithy point from Kirn: It takes only moments for AI to “write” a book, but it will still take hours, even days, for a person to read one. It used to be the other way around; the writer labored far longer than the reader. It made reading books feel worthwhile, to know that. Now?…
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Turing test?
Old joke: Joe was a simple-minded guy who lived in a small town. He was the town mascot, mowing yards and shoveling snow for a dollar here and there. Everyone liked him, so they made sure he had enough to eat and a place to sleep. One day the city decided to make the arrangement…
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Cofounderus interruptus
AI leader Hinton is getting credit for quitting Google and warning us about the problem, now that AI is fully unleashed and destroying all creative skills. JESUS H CHRIST. If you want to prevent conception you need to pull out before you squirt. Pulling out after the baby is born won’t help. I’m terminally tired…
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Wrong end of the variable
From Above The Line: = = = = = START QUOTE: For weeks, multiple studios and streamers have been planning to use AI to generate scripts based on books and other IP that is in the public domain, with lists of titles making the rounds among development executives, multiple insiders have told Above the Line.…
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