Tag: AI point-missing
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What would Steinbeck think?
Peter Biles at MindMatters uses an old literary interview with Steinbeck to speculate on Steinbeck’s views of AI. Biles concentrates on the way an author writes, and concludes that Steinbeck would dislike the way AI writes. There’s a much bigger and simpler answer. I was reading Steinbeck constantly for most of my early life. I’m…
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Lot of silliness
Reading some comments on AI. Some were hopelessly behind the times. “What if AI passes the Turing test?” “What will happen when we give AI the nuclear codes?” Already passed the Turing Test, already has the nuclear codes. The famous story of Blessed Hero Stanislav Petrov proves it. In the early ’80s both sides were…
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Just brand competition
Headline: 1000 leading demons want to “pause” development of AI. The big-name demons are Elon, Woz, Andrew Yang, and WEFoid Harari. The rest of the names aren’t familiar, but MANY of them are in charge of IPOs using AI. Others are professors of “ethics”, which means eugenics. I don’t recognize any humans on the list.…
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Maybe you shouldn’t
MindMatters has been focusing on the problems and failings of AI for a long time, sometimes missing the point and sometimes hitting it. I’ve been ‘reacting’ to their hits and misses for a long time, as a way of organizing and rationalizing my own thoughts. For some reason their host Discovery.org has a VERY SLOW…
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Well, here’s the “use case”
MindMatters notes that a sci-fi magazine stopped taking submissions from new writers because most were obviously AI. Automatic checking isn’t reliable, and there’s no way of firmly verifying human action without getting expensively personal. You could require manuscripts in pen and ink, and require a video showing the author actually writing a few of the…
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Not worried
Headline at Bari Weiss’s neocon opinion page: The rise of deepfake porn: AI can turn anyone into a porn star without their knowledge. That reality should frighten us all. Well, that’s one AI threat I definitely don’t need to worry about. Guarangoddamnteed.
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Reprint on superhet
Linked in previous, worth bringing out on its own. This 2015 piece fits nicely with the newly found Carver quote: Start where you are. Work with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied. The latter part of the piece also applies to this year’s AI cheating trend. Now that cheating is undetectable,…
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Accidentally marked bills
News item: Amazon warns its developers not to use ChatGPT as a search engine or problem-solver. AI learns from every conversation, which means that a conversation including trade secrets will automatically become part of what AI knows. Amazon’s counterspies have noticed some trade secrets showing up in their tests of ChatGPT. This is the inverse…
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Man vs machine reprint
Reading the endless (sometimes valid) commentary about AI and lost skills, remembered that I had hit the subject from an unconventional angle in 2014. This probably belongs in the Thiel Question category. It certainly deserves a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: Heard a PSA from a union-based group trying to restore full…
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Boutique advantage
At the moment, text-generating AI does a nearly perfect job of expressing views that can be found via Google and Wikipedia. I’ve seen some attempts to generate “opposition” views, and they always miss the mark in the same way that Youtube’s Suggested misses the mark. Suggested has picked up the fact that I like old…
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You can do better
UncommonDescent’s take on the Lawrence Livermore fusion advance: Could fusion energy be God’s design for supplying humanity’s energy needs in a future era? Come on, you can do better than that. The fusion-powered SUN is God’s design for supplying energy to life. We still haven’t turned fusion into a practical and controllable energy source, and…
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Deepfake worries again
MindMatters is worrying about deepfakes again. While AI deepfakes have political ramifications (digitally cloning world leaders, creating false news, etc), the actual human qualities of our lived experience may grow ever dimmer in lieu of the metaverse and its deepfake minions. If I can choose my own virtual world, the actual created order loses its…
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Getting closer
Kirn has expanded his peculiar argument against AI “art”. He’s on the angelic side of the fight, but his approach is destructive. He focuses on risk and vulnerability as the important factors that make human products human. THE PRODUCT IS NOT THE POINT. Peter Biles gets a lot closer: For me, knowing that a specific…
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Waaaaay beyond quibble
Latest from Kirn: AI doesn’t suffer from impostor syndrome, nor does it ever feel suicidal, which is how one knows it isn’t sentient in any meaningful sense. It can never be human-like until it possesses the capacity to review its deeds, judge them, despair, and permanently turn itself off. This is so fucking dumb it’s…
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Cheaters
Just for fun and weirdness, a couple of items about computers and cheating. = = = = = Via MindMatters, AI is not very good at catching cheaters, but it’s also not very good at cheating. Detecting cheating, at any level of education, is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game. AI, far from being a…
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