Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

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.

I'm not saying Generative AI will never pass for real but the fact some people boosting it now think this comedic shit makes him "feel like he's in the room and can smell the candles" and "reminds him of his own grandmother" makes me wonder

Video #3

Prompt: A grandmother with neatly combed grey hair stands behind a colorful birthday cake with numerous candles at a wood dining room table, expression is one of pure joy and happiness, with a happy glow in her eye.

She leans forward and blows out the candles with a… pic.twitter.com/3M4Ey3503t

— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) February 15, 2024

i think MR James would love this

When designer aims for 'fluid UI' but takes it too literally.#sora pic.twitter.com/cUPt9vARjk

— Yasir (●ᴗ●) (@yasirbugra) February 15, 2024

Oh my god, the cake video is terrifying

As someone says in the comments, it's very old-couple-laughing-maniacally-in-Mulholland-Drive. And the hands of the woman next to her!!

The table bisecting the background dude on the right is also disconcerting

Far left lady's clapping is ... wrong

After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled by an airline chatbot inaccurately explaining the airline's bereavement travel policy.

On the day Jake Moffatt's grandmother died, Moffat immediately visited Air Canada's website to book a flight from Vancouver to Toronto. Unsure of how Air Canada's bereavement rates worked, Moffatt asked Air Canada's chatbot to explain.

The chatbot provided inaccurate information, encouraging Moffatt to book a flight immediately and then request a refund within 90 days. In reality, Air Canada's policy explicitly stated that the airline will not provide refunds for bereavement travel after the flight is booked. Moffatt dutifully attempted to follow the chatbot's advice and request a refund but was shocked that the request was rejected.

Moffatt tried for months to convince Air Canada that a refund was owed, sharing a screenshot from the chatbot that clearly claimed:

If you need to travel immediately or have already travelled and would like to submit your ticket for a reduced bereavement rate, kindly do so within 90 days of the date your ticket was issued by completing our Ticket Refund Application form.

Unhappy with this resolution, Moffatt refused the coupon and filed a small claims complaint in Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

That chair video has Rubber vibes. Chair (The Chair That Kills People) coming soon from A24

there were a spate of Twitter posts, maybe mentioned upthread, where people had got chat bots to sell them cars for $1. i wonder if those will also hold up in court.