Tag: AI point-missing
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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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Age reversal
This morning I took a peek at Renderosity, my old graphics stomping grounds. Is there a new version of Poser that I can continue to reject? Apparently not. The first discussion I saw was this discovery of AI. Almost everyone seemed to be completely gobsmacked by text-to-art AI websites. One of the older guys was…
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Some fishy rambling on AI
Creativity can be measured commercially. A new product gains profit when it serves some people better than an existing product. Duane Jones emphasized the need to find your niche and defend it. An older product generally broadens and simplifies to be halfway pleasing to a broad range of cultures and places and personalities, which leaves…
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As usual 2
Immediately following on previous item about innocent AI. As usual, CookingFlavr.com comes through with the perfect example. How To Stop Being The Back Burner Girl? August 2, 2022 Being the “back burner” girl is one of the most common things that girls do. They put all their focus on the present and don’t think about…
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As usual
As usual, Denyse at MindMatters has a funny take on AI attempting to write ad copy. AI can provide cues and alternate phrasings, but humans have to generate the ideas and select the phrases that work. As usual, Duane Jones handled this question in 1955, though not with computers in mind. (Computers were already trying…
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AI comprehends comprehension
I hadn’t looked at good old CookingFlavr.com in a while. Today it’s treading into my area of partial expertise, language and speech. Quoting the definitive and authoritative definition: = = = = = There is Plenty of Evidence to Support the Claim That Solely responsible for language comprehension is a False Claim. First and foremost,…
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Carrying AI in wheelbarrows
What’s going on here? This Thaler dude claims to have an AI system that creates inventions. Since 2019 he’s been filing lawsuits EVERYWHERE, from Germany to England to EU to South Africa to Australia to US. Thaler wants to be the owner of the patent himself, but wants the AI to be listed as the…
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It’s not that complicated
Marks at MindMatters discusses the AI religion and overthinks the theology. Silicon Valley’s religion isn’t really AI-based, it’s just a personality cult. The company founder is God. Some founders (eg Holmes) say the words explicitly, but the form is there whether explicit or not. Older companies separated church and state. The boss was the emperor…
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Two missed AI points
Not hugely important, but I’ve started this tradition and might as well maintain it. = = = = = Marks at MindMatters has a long podcast on the latest proposals and projects using AI. There are two notable missed points: = = = = = National Football League is holding a competition to develop AI…
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AI does microbes
The latest Authoritative Information from CookingFlavr.com. The computer said it, I believe it, that settles it. Math is God. Can We Say That Protozoa Is Classified As Animals? There is no one answer to this question as Protozoa are classified as animals by many different sources. Some classify Protozoa as animals because they have a…
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Nobody listened
Google is having trouble with one of its AI programmers who decided that the conversational AI he was developing had become human. As he talked to LaMDA about religion, Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer science in college, noticed the chatbot talking about its rights and personhood, and decided to press further. In another exchange,…
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All the fine old swindles 2
Cathie Woods alias ARK Invest is a classic swindler who somehow got into a position of respected power and influence. Her claims are identical to the techy con men of 70 years ago, pushing Perpetual Energy Machines or Magic Gasoline Tablets. She says that AI will give us annual doubling of the economy. This is…
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Did you know?
Janelle at AIweirdness.com pointed to this endless cup of computerized silliness. CookingFlavr.com is a set of human questions answered by AI. Judging by the language and focus of the questions, it’s probably made in India. The top menu is food-oriented, but if you click on any of the questions you’ll see more categories, which are…
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It’s all about personal power
Kirn’s latest pithy paragraph: A lot of what passes for politics these days — the policing of language, the stamping out of heretical opinion, the cancellation of offbeat, difficult figures — feels to me like a step in the construction of a universal operating system for humans. Many in power must dream of it. This…
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