Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

Been thinking more about AI lately and I'm inclined to take it more seriously now. We're not on the cusp of superintelligence. But I do think some people are about to make lots of money on tech that's genuinely transformative and mostly bad for us on net. https://t.co/UWwnYNCNcl pic.twitter.com/9jPx4sCGZD

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 20, 2024

Don't agree with the opinion but the article is funny

i mean what is lots of money and genuinely transformative, what is ai

that article seems a lil too good to be true fwiw

One YourMove user in the UK who requested anonymity said that he initially thought it'd be interesting to use the service. He started feeding his Hinge matches' messages into YourMove, and the suggestions it churned out were better than he expected.

"I had specifically asked for a slightly heartfelt yet mildly humorous and it drafted an almost perfect sample to send," he said. "All I needed was to add an emoji here and there and specifics about the [woman's] name."

A male anonymous user of RIZZ echoed this sentiment. "I'm actually really good with in person conversations but just terrible with texting especially on dating apps," he said in the in-app survey. "It's especially difficult to come up with something witty to break the ice and stand out, but with RIZZ I'm getting a bunch of clever opening suggestions that help activate interesting conversations."

"My laundry always used to be so drab and listless, but when I started using Rinso I couldn't believe how much brighter the whites came out and how cheerful the colors were! It may seem like a small thing, but my life is better now every day. Thank you, Rinso!"

https://i.imgur.com/REbx3l2.png

love to activate interesting conversations

siri, give me more sexy lines, but this time with big nose energy

theyre just geometry problems right were not talking pure math here

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 18, 2024 11:55 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

terence tao said he is already using chatgpt to help him when he's stuck on proofs. not writing full proofs but "generate suggestive hints and promising leads to a working mathematician and participate actively in the decision-making process." he expects in a couple years he'll be co-authoring with it:

"When integrated with tools such as formal proof verifiers, internet search, and symbolic math packages, I expect, say, 2026-level AI, when used properly, will be a trustworthy co-author in mathematical research, and in many other fields as well."

https://unlocked.microsoft.com/ai-anthology/terence-tao/

how do take this action

poisoning ai datasets who scrape your art without authorisation:

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

Q&A:

Quick thread on common questions.
1. no, NS does not scrape/copy/train on your art. It works perfectly fine in offline mode. Install, turn off wifi, then run. After dedicating 14+ months to this, folks who accuse us of trying to steal art will be blocked without a response.

— Glaze at UChicago (@TheGlazeProject) January 19, 2024

It's astonishing that these things are being deployed in customer service in their current state

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-degenerative-ai-blunder/

I can't even pretend to understand that Nighstshade stuff but it sounds interesting.

yeah its wild the computer is really seeing pictures in a very different way than people

lol that AWS console bot kept getting recommended to me for a couple weeks and then the promo prompt disappeared. I think it's still out there but they decided to pull it off the showroom floor for the moment

AlphaFold found thousands of possible psychedelics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00130-8

Maybe some use for AI after all?

geez I hope that’s what my coworkers are actually doing when they keep asking me why their alphafold compute jobs aren’t running

not trusting anyting called sophmoric labs

AI has discovered thousands of previously unknown frat pranks

Why can't CEOs be replaced with AI?

oh, good. pic.twitter.com/ZgzLXQiEvV

— Meg Reid 🦦 / megireid.bsky.social (@megireid) January 30, 2024

Not with a bang but a 'hopefully AI will help'

all this shit where huge companies feel free to make shittier products to cut costs, whether thats ai in book publishing or planes that crash because of computer bugs or ecommerce delivering something only similar to what you ordered, is such an obvious result of industry consolidation enabled by a total lack of anti trust enforcement specifically and lack of regulation generally, its bad man

monopoly is the natural endpoint of capitalism

more like crapitalism

xxxpost, but all that Nightshade/Glaze stuff is doa; reminds me of scripts that claim they'll be able to recognize AI-generated writing

just read through a discussion of how to remove Nightshade / Glaze in a single preprocessing step. absolutely trivial to beat.

— technocaptitlan (@revhowardarson) January 24, 2024

Spawning's solutions - like Kudurru or their do-not-train list - seem like smarter suggestions

v behind on this thread, but anyone know any good writing on models for describing GenAI in terms of information theory/cybernetics? i’m reading ruyer on cybernetics, mainly looking at the problem of the origin of information in cybernetic theory, and while my instinct is that genAI *can* be captured/described by cybernetic theory, i feel GenAI does require such a description or some additional work at the margin (ie it can’t be captured entirely by pre-existing thinking).

king ludd (has surely come)

https://www.theautopian.com/a-mob-just-vandalized-and-set-a-waymo-self-driving-car-on-fire-and-the-videos-are-nuts/

Hell yeah

It’s not clear who exactly attacked this Waymo in Chinatown on the Lunar New Year, or what their motivation was...

Just spit-balling here, but could it be that self-driving cars are a highly visible symbol of Silicon Valley's wealth and political ascendancy over the Bay area in general and SF in particular and their presence on the streets isn't just a constant reminder of this, but is perceived by people on the street as a danger and an insult imposed on them by those who possess that wealth and power? Or maybe it was just a mysterious, aberrant and irrational act and we'll never know what possessed that mob to do that.

the guy who wrote that piece/runs that blog has a tongue coated in boots

i enjoyed his evident unease

my favorite part is where the commenters liken the people desecrating the vehicle to “rapists” and “torturers” lmfao

Lol did someone fuck the car

I remember reading an Ebert review of Crash (the Ballard one) which defended its non-porn status on the basis that no one would actually want to fuck a car but uhm...

“hey elon, the peasants are revolting!”

in the age of the internet it is no longer possible to believe that there aren't people who want to fuck cars

in the age of ai and crispr or whatever i have no doubt someone to actually go it and produce horrifying offspring or allegations. virtually of course.

“go and do it” christ i cannot even type unfunny shit right. but this was serious.

I’ve seen Crash and Titane and gone to a car show or too. “Muscle” cars hmm yeah I see you there, buddy

oh wait, forgot The Counselor (director’s cut of course)

https://us.rule34.xxx//images/655/6528d0aa955fda17fe8773954c3f7a2bef943eb8.png

hey now I’m not a pervert

This is beautiful, to me.

https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-of-an-ai-clickbait-kingpin/

lmao this is great

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_news/missouri-appeals-court-fines-litigant-after-finding-fake-ai-generated-cases-cited-in-filings/article_e4cc108a-cac1-11ee-b9ca-2fa1b1765ce7.html

Awesome, much respect

Well you've got to give him all of the respect due to any entrepreneur who's found a niche market and exploted it (that is absolutely zero respect)

imo the core quote of that Wired story xyzzzz linked:

A plum domain’s initial benefit—a strong reputation with Google and a built-in audience—dwindles quickly as Vujo populates it with content primarily designed to snare search engines rather than interest people. AI content is successful not because it is replacing the work of human writers but because it coasts on the value created by their past labor.

Private equity firms like Bain Capital have long been using the same basic strategy as that Serbian clickbait guy. They buy companies with classic established brand names associated with reliable quality, degrade the products heavily, cut prices moderately, revive profits based on gulling customers into thinking they are getting the same quality the brand always delivered in the past, but cheaper, then dump the company before the public gets wise to the changes. Main difference is that the web sites he buys are small potatoes. They don't even have pension funds to raid.

I saw a job listing at LinkedIn for people to take photos per their assignment, with each one that is accepted earning them $1. The company is apparently building a database of images to use for AI, with no copyright issues.