Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

"is it... a friend?"

Some colleagues of mine worked on this. Pretty impressive!, Check out the samples. Already deployed on Alexa comms and Chime videoconferencing.

Sample 11, bloke saying that the engine runs very clean and letting us hear it for ourselves. Cleaned up version just has silence in the gap...

Also, if two people are sharing the phone, it can interfere. That's probably why they made it an option in the UI.

Janet and Penny went to the store to get presents for Jack. Janet said, “I will buy Jack a top.” “Don’t get Jack a top,” says Penny. “He has a top. He will get a top.” “I will get Jack a top,” said Janet.

[Within a single sentence, GPT-3 has lost track of the fact that Penny is advising Janet against getting a top because Jack already has a top. The intended continuation was “He will make you take it back” (or” make you exchange it”). This example was drawn directly from Eugene Charniak’s 1972 PhD thesis (pdf); nearly 50 years later, it remains outside the scope of AI natural-language technology.]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/

https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2020/08/25/optimal-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwiches/

last two links really deliver.

Portland, Oregon just banned government AND corporate face surveillance.

Portland is the FIRST jurisdiction to pass a ban on corporate face surveillance in places of public accommodation. https://t.co/pSloXrlpT4

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) September 9, 2020

Also banned tear gas.

Want the most cutting edge urban, cyber, future art you can imagine? Then you want GANKSY! https://t.co/9CS8VKBMJJ The worlds first a.i. generated virtual street artist. Buy now before venture capitalists and movie stars snap it all up!

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) October 14, 2020

Prefer this to the real Banksy.

An artificial intelligence service freely available on the Web has been used to transform more than 100,000 women’s images into nude photos without the women’s knowledge or consent, triggering fears of a new wave of damaging “deepfakes” that could be used for harassment or blackmail.

Users of the automated service can anonymously submit a photo of a clothed woman and receive an altered version with the clothing removed. The AI technology, trained on large databases of actual nude photographs, can generate fakes with seemingly lifelike accuracy, matching skin tone and swapping in breasts and genitalia where clothes once were.

The women’s faces remain clearly visible, and no labels are appended to the images to mark them as fake. Some of the original images show girls younger than 18.

The service, which allows people to place new orders through an automated “chatbot” on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was first discovered by researchers at Sensity, an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity start-up that shared its findings with The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/deep-fake-nudes/

I endorse this only if done to photos of Trump

what if it turned out the the pee tape was a deepfake

But, in a shocking twist, the fakery is that they removed pee

wait, so he would just be standing on the hotel bed while the sex workers pretend to get peed on? i can see why he would want to that on tape

ok I laughed at "Orlando Brooms"
https://64.media.tumblr.com/21a25798ac613df3f73050def1d3088b/3812fd1d9f78030b-3f/s500x750/9edc035893332b6682f312b8c65592c8224311d0.png

from https://aiweirdness.com/post/633411394686042112/splorts-teams

https://image.ganref.jp/photos/members/wutaibo/2ba3758a04920247790b47410f36c916_3.jpg

The club announced a few weeks ago it was moving from using human camera operators to cameras controlled by AI. The club proudly announced at the time the new "Pixellot system uses cameras with in-built, AI, ball-tracking technology" and would be used to capture HD footage of all home matches at Caledonian Stadium, which would be broadcast directly to season-ticket holders' homes.

Cut to last Saturday, when the robot cameras were given a new challenge that hadn't been foreseen: A linesman with a bald head.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle don’t employ a cameraman as their camera is programmed to follow the ball throughout the match. The commentator had to apologise today as the camera kept on mistaking the ball for the linesman’s head... pic.twitter.com/LeKsc2bEj7
— Tom Cox (@seagull81) October 24, 2020

The AI camera appeared to mistake the man's bald head for the ball for a lot of the match, repeatedly swinging back to follow the linesman instead of the actual game. Many viewers complained they missed their team scoring a goal because the camera "kept thinking the Lino bald head was the ball," and some even suggested the club would have to provide the linesman with a toupe or hat.

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-camera-ruins-soccar-game-for-fans-after-mistaking-referees-bald-head-for-ball/

if anything has ever really needed to be polled, it is Blaseball: The Simulation

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-camera-ruins-soccar-game-for-fans-after-mistaking-referees-bald-head-for-ball/

Brilliant.

and the award for creepiest work email yet received goes to...

"This Alteryx workflow has become self-aware and will now send you work automatically..."

I tweeted (alright, I moaned) about how Amazon ai sucks because they sent me an email advertising something I literally just bought. (Important note: I didn't @ them - just mentioned "Amazon"), and their twitter bot instantly responded with a helpful tip on how to deactivate the market emails.

so i guess it sucks and doesn't suck at the same time.

and yeah, my tweets are a barrel of laughs.

I am driven mad by Amazon emailing me ads for products I have bought from them and they cancelled the order because they couldn't fulfil it. Fucking dumbfucks.

My PS4 keeps recommending shows I'm already watching on my PS4. HOW DOES IT KNOW???!!

I'm pretty sure those promo thumbnails hook up to the various services' algorithms if you're logged in on your PS4

i mean, if you're logged into those services

It asked for permission to monitor my video app activity in order to make recommendations then it recommends things after I've already discovered them.

They probably bought a used spotify algorithm off ebay.

lol this is pretty weak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKiGfGQxqaQ

they'll get to Max Headroom in around 50 years at this rate

for companies that want something 800% more disturbing than a real human, while only being 500% less helpful

the trend to name AIs after "normal" names (Douglas, Watson, Erica, etc) is weird. it feels like a new dot com era domain buy-up spree. similar to how right now we're all like "why didn't *I* register awesomecars.com in 1998, i would be rich now!", there may come a time when advanced AI makers wish that they could name their creations Greg

Like, I would understand why DD would want realistic models of dead actors, etc, but why on earth would I want to make one of myself?

tbf he does look and move a lot like aged paul ryan. so, almost kinda lifelike sorta.

"As lifelike as Paul Ryan" you mean.

trying to avoid oxymorons when possible

The glaring problem with AI 'Douglas' is that, even though the computer apparently has been programmed to be able to reproduce the face, posture, or gestures of its model human in 'every conceivable position', the computer has zero idea which of the millions of potential micro transitions to its virtual face and body that would be most appropriate to smoothly mimic a real human responding to unscripted input. It just jumps discontinuously from one unconvincing posture and expression to another. iow, it has excellent graphics and crap AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IViUHEPNs

loooooool

that one hurt

This is impressive: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/protein-folding-ai-deepmind-google-cancer-covid-b1764008.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZ4DnVfWYQ

closed captions recommended there

fractal cucumber!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7WjuFs8F4

The Biden-Harris administration is committed to rebuilding an economy that welcomes everyone as full participants.

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) December 1, 2020

It's great that journals are getting authors to do plain language summaries along with the more technical abstracts.

This one - from an article titled 'Potential and limitations of machine learning for modelling warm-rain cloud microphysical processes' - is plainer than most. 🙂 https://t.co/UyKoDvQPtT pic.twitter.com/W3a1OCrBxs

— Tim Baxter #athome (@timinmitcham) December 5, 2020

why haven't scientists always been doing that, omg

terrific