Tag: NOT AI point-missing
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Breaking from the cult
New Scientist mag continues to break away from current fashions required for tenure and grants. In this article they point out a deal-breaking problem with AI crap when used for medical purposes. Computers have been visually reading text for a LONG time. For instance, the Post Office was routinely using OCR in the 1970s. So…
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Ve haff vays…
Youtube has come up with a new way to use AI for punishment. I’m noticing it in some of the car sales film channels. When you watch the clip online it comes through normally. But when you download it, the sound has been replaced by an AI-generated GERMAN version. It’s a perfect dub. These old…
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Alibaba was correctly named.
The stats for this blog suddenly showed 1200 reads today, all packed into a short period. Huge numbers like this are always a bot of some kind. In this case it’s Alibaba based in Singapore. Looking it up, Alibaba runs a network of AI bots that roam the web stealing material. Maybe the old story…
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Solid victory
A court has laid down an important decision against the AI thieves. An AI gang was stealing info from Reuters’s Westlaw database and using it to build its own competing product. The judge found that Reuters’s copyrights were infringed by the thieves. In this specific case there won’t be an actual payment because the thief…
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What we lost
In previous item I focused on our loss of innovation and flexibility after we switched to all finance and all monopoly. China and Russia didn’t make the switch, so they continued working with LIMITED RESOURCES. Now they’ve beaten our stupid MAX-FINANCE and MAX-THEFT approach to AI, with a technique that can run on normal computers…
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Gold rush
At the moment it looks like the AI bubble may be an indirectly productive bubble, like the Gold Rush of the 1840s that didn’t make anyone rich from gold but started lots of cities and several substantial business empires. Many of the companies that poured billions into AI in hopes of wiping out humanity are…
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Starker comparison
In previous item I contrasted Hudson’s personal approach to GM’s anonymous bureaucracy. Hudson was a stock company but behaved more like a family-run outfit. Hudson’s founder Chapin continued running the company from 1909 until he died in 1936. Then Abraham Barit, who had been with the company from the founding, took over and continued until…
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Pulls and pushes
Researchers looking at AI have determined that training the AI on a dataset that INCLUDES previous outputs of the AI will quickly descend into repetitive boredom. The same thing happens in human creativity. When I started writing courseware for money in 1996, I quickly found that I needed to avoid looking at similar work. I’m…
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Partial victory for art
Via HollywoodReporter, artists win a partial victory against the AI megathieves. = = = = = START QUOTE: U.S. District Judge William Orrick on Monday advanced all copyright infringement and trademark claims in a pivotal win for artists. He found that Stable Diffusion, Stability’s AI tool that can create hyperrealistic images in response to a…
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The real problem and purpose
A long time ago I got tired of reading the philosophical thinkers about AI. They argue about utterly meaningless shit like whether AI can be conscious or creative. Of course meaningless arguing is the JOB DEFINITION of philosophers. Artists and animators understand the ONLY purpose of AI, destroying the skills and lives of artists and…
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Jectoons is on the mark
I haven’t looked at the work of Jectoons in a while. He’s done several powerful pieces lately, matching his previous definitive statement on AI. Art IS Labour. Capitalists see Art as just another trading card for betting and securitizing.
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Spies in Jeopardy
OpenAI cleverly interrogates its prompters to determine their weak spots and blackmailable spots. By using the “assistant”, the prompter is helping Sam Altman to build a massive power structure. Old-fashioned spies asked questions and listened to answers in Socratic style. OpenAI gathers info by giving answers and listening to questions in Trebek style.
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Good work by Nieman
NiemanLab did some serious tech journalism instead of just parroting the party line as usual. They heard that Altman has contracts with many of the biggest news outfits including AP, Financial Times, and WSJ. The chatbot answers questions from readers and refers them to previous stories from the same source. In fact the references are…
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Refreshing realism
After the Assange hall of mirrors it’s refreshing to see a proposal from a hardass realist who recognizes that the devil doesn’t have morals. In this case the devil is Sam Altman. Gioia lays out a strategy for music publishers to handle Altman. Altman is an incurable and immovable and unlearnable devil, but the human…
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AskedAnswered
Haven’t seen one of these in a while. The business of building AI centers IS why it’s so hard to build ANYTHING ELSE in America. When construction serves the needs of Altman or Fink or Zuck, it gets built fast and easy, no permits, no litigation. Anything else needs 20 years of permitting and licensing…
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