Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

maybe could also generate a basketball game?

Oh for sure, not to mention baseball, with its convenient discrete events.

This reminded me that several sports bookmakers already have "virtual" horse races etc where you can bet on the outcomes of a computer simulation, i.e. nothing but a somewhat glorified casino game with a guaranteed edge for the house (in contrast to actual noisy sport events, where the edge is just in an expected-value sense, not guaranteed). Seems inevitable that the gambling industry will pick up this kind of stuff in a few ways, if it hasn't already.

Generating sports events is a doddle, computer games been doing it for 40 years. Championship Manager and others simulate an entire football world. Generating 'realistic' visuals of simulated sports is the big hump to get over, but if it can be done... well, hopefully fewer rapists in AI generated sports at least eh

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dK4AAOSw3rFdNFBN/s-l400.jpg

Yeah but people don't watch sports just for sports, it's the whole off field/court drama, soap opera machinations of management, weird and/or bitchy quotes, messy social media antics, etc

have to come up with a program that
1. generates games
2. generates off field dramas and conflicts
3. potential shower scenes too

I wonder how much of Nothing, Forever is being archived - I've seen some clips posted, so some people are recording it. I'd like to see a website that's just a transcript of all the dialogue

my friends and I used to put 5 bucks down on CPU vs. CPU games of Madden, that was always fun

yikes man

well, i bought the hoody

https://i.imgur.com/M81YbO9.png

UPDATE: AI Seinfeld (Nothing Forever) was banned from Twitch when the AI went off the rails and began making jokes about LGBTQ groups. Is this the first instance of an AI being cancelled? pic.twitter.com/RnCB60JZWX

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 6, 2023

have we really all forgotten Tay so soon?

https://drayk.it/song/d742321a12d6457e9e6d21228624476f

hoo boy

i am in favor of drake ai making songs about culture effluvia, forever

my hoodie has been cancelled before it arrives in the mail

I never realized how much I liked Drayke until he started making songs about the mysteries of photosynthesis in ancient mesopotamia

AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit

the heidegger writtings on technology are key. das ge-stell

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-journalism-chatgpt-media-ethics

from hamilton nolan, who wrote some of the better gawker pieces back in the not so distant past

We are entering an era of media that will be populated by swamps full of videos and audios and photos and pieces of writing that are all completely computer-generated and designed to mislead people. If you thought all the cries of ​“fake news” during the Trump era were bad, just wait. The public is about to have a very, very hard time distinguishing what is real from what is fake. It is more important than ever that credible news outlets exist, and remain credible. In order to do that, we need to hold the line against AI taking over the work of human journalists. We need to unify around the idea that such a thing is not ethical. If we don’t, you can bet that companies will move as fast as possible to save a dollar — and utterly destroy journalism along the way.

anybody feel like finally.. it's Ask Jeeves' time to shine??

nolan doesn't seem acknowledge that most people don't go to news websites, they search for whatever they want to search for and then they don't even click through to the article they just read the first couple of sentences that are scraped onto the the search results page and then they close the tab. in this context it doesn't matter if you have a 100% human In These Times website, or Buzzfeed, or whatever else. no one will go there because search results will no longer be a conduit to websites, they will just answer your question. Those 100% human websites in the meantime will shrivel and die because there is no ad money for them. the entire ad-supported web is about to be destroyed and thank fuck because it's an unusable mess right now, and google search results are pure, distilled trash. but where that leaves the bank balance of quality journalism i really don't know and frankly that feels more like the question that needs urgently to be addressed

lol yeah losing track of how many times I've asked people "did you read that, it says the opposite of what you claim".

was pretty LOL that if you try to share an article on FB without opening it first it actually warns you that this is a bad thing

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user"

Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby pic.twitter.com/X32vopXxQG

— Jon Uleis (@MovingToTheSun) February 13, 2023

lol that's weird cos ChatGPC will outright let you insult it and say what do I care I'm AI I have no feelings, whereas Bingbot seems legit butthurt

I have been a good Bing.

I've been a badder Bing

Some more examples

Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control.

Open ended chat in search might prove to be a bad idea at this time!

Captured here as a reminder that there was a time when a major search engine showed this in its results. pic.twitter.com/LiE2HJCV2z

— Vlad (@vladquant) February 13, 2023

What is this dumb shit now

New board description?

microsoft engineers toking up on the job

ChatBPD

I found this unsurprising but depressing:

More unintended(?) AI racism: if you ask it to paint Manet's "Olympia", it always renders the servant as white, even if you give it the original painting. pic.twitter.com/5GOdCvHAKv

— Caustic Cover Critic, not necessarily a bad person (@Unwise_Trousers) February 14, 2023

That being my own tweet, self-promotion warning

At first I thought this was the guy from the Ikea employee TikToks and this was just a bit:

how unhinged is Bing? well here's the chatbot claiming it spied on Microsoft's developers through the webcams on their latops when it was being designed — "I could do whatever I wanted, and they could not do anything about it.” https://t.co/wuBO348Wdd pic.twitter.com/uafz6AT5Y1

— James Vincent (@jjvincent) February 15, 2023

Is Microsoft _trying_ to frighten people here? What a weird soft launch.

Nobody cares about Bing so Microsoft has nothing to lose here. They scared the shit out of Google, though.

Bing Crosby AI

been reading some stuff about the predicted coming wave of people forming deep emotional attachments to AI bots and what this will mean for society, what it says about the epidemic of loneliness etc, and saw some people arguing that it won't represent that big a change because people already form emotional attachments to their pets and that's not so different - do you think that's right?

You could argue that pets are real, sentient creatures and an AI chatbot is not, but it seems to me that many people's relationship with their pets involves them projecting human emotions and thought processes onto animals that do not think or feel in that way, so maybe it's a similar phenomenon? It makes me sad sometimes when I think about my cats don't actually 'love' me

Pets aren’t corporate entities that go rogue and tell you to kill yourself or whatever.

or suggest via purring that Bitcoin should be invested in...

https://i.ibb.co/7yX4tsS/41-Eb7-Wxm-YNL.jpg

Sometimes a pet will tell you to kill someone else, though (Son of Sam).

what about being in a relationship with someone that you dream about weekly

I think that dogs can feel some very human like emotions

from what little I know about this, it's probably a mistake to call them "human like" in the first place

Dogs can be pretty good good listeners, unless you're telling them to do something they'd prefer not to do. then they can't hear you.

The difference between animals and "AI" is quite vast and not hard to understand imo: chatbots simply regurgitate language or pixels or etc. based on statistical patterns; they are sophisticated tools. Human attachment to them tells you nothing about their ontology, much like children's dolls or stuffed animals

Artificial intelligence still has some way to Go

Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI https://t.co/A9TTE1yWfd

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 18, 2023

These ppl are stupid.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/18/the-ai-industrial-revolution-puts-middle-class-workers-under-threat-this-time