I Out of sheer boredom and curiosity, I asked #ChatGPT to write a little essay about #TrafficLights and how they differ from country-to-country. I then had an #AI version of yours truly read it, courtesy of #ElevenLabs, so here it is. I even learnt a few things I didn't know, assuming of course, that Chat GPT is correct in what it wrote.
After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.
Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter.
Google has announced that it will no longer sell its business-focused augmented reality headset and that it will be winding down support for it in September.
Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them.
“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
Award-winning science fiction author Ted Chiang (who has a CS degree, btw) has a new article in the New Yorker on ChatGPT. He makes an interesting analogy for what it does to lossy compression of the text from which its LLM was created. #AI #LLM #ChatGPT newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t…
The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.
"a pocket sized #AR device for the imaginative hacker."
"...tiny heads-up display which clips onto your existing eyewear. It’s packed full of powerful hardware which is perfect for when you’re on the go. It connects to your mobile phone over Bluetooth, and includes a few handy sensors such as touch buttons, camera and microphone. The included FPGA is perfect for #computerVision, #AI or graphics acceleration directly on the device."
Esas imágenes que supuestamente fueron tomadas ayer durante una marcha de protesta en Francia son falsas, fueron generadas por una IA. La mano con seis dedos las delata.
Massive thanks to our #opensource policy colleagues, and to our partners at @gloshospitals and Polygeist for really focussing on the real question around #AI: what it means to use it properly in order to improve patient experience.
Since the release of Eleven Labs’s Prime Voice AI platform, AI-based voice synthesis and modification has seen a revival in popularity. Browsing online forums, I stumbled upon Voice.
Heard about #commonvoice (commonvoice.mozilla.org/)? This is an easy way to contribute to #FLOSS. Such projects need contributors (e.g. people who give data samples or review data). We used this for teaching statistics (#rstats). Students should find out if there are gender differences by counting male vs. female contributors. There were significantly more men in our sample. Bad for unbiased #AI! If more use such projects, we can also grow the open datasets faster and fairer. #genderinequality
ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.
OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.
"Especially in this moment in history, it is vital that we provide our students with the critical thinking skills that will allow them to recognise misleading claims made by tech companies and understand the limits and risks of hyped and harmful technology that is made mainstream at a dazzling speed and on a frightening scale."
Three weeks ago, I wrote a blogpost about how ChatGPT is a “stochastic parrot” (a term coined by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, & Shmitchell, 2021; see also this video for an explan…
Apple quietly launches a catalog of #books narrated by #AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the #audiobook market.
Here's a good piece that lays out some advantages to #AI narrated #audiobooks. The trouble is that there is no analysis of what happens when an author or publisher decides to forego hiring a human and go directly to this method.
Why AI audiobook narrators could win over some authors and readers, despite the vocal bumps
I really enjoy listening to audiobooks and appreciate the emotion and nuance that skilled narrators bring to the story. So I have my (considerable) doubts that AI-voiced audiobooks will be just as good. Hope this doesn’t become the norm. #Bookstodon #BookToot #AudioBooks #AI
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Wow, the ethics of this seem dubious to me… but also kind of fascinating as an outsider looking in - How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT / An interview with an AI early adopter theverge.com/23520625/chatgpt-… #AI #writing
I just wrote a song with lyrics and chords supplied by #ChatGPT!
Recorded it for you, enjoy!
The prompt: "Create an emo song with lyrics and guitar chords that evoke sadness and loneliness. Make the chorus have different chords than the verses."
Verse 1: G C Lost and alone Am D In this cold world G C My heart is a stone Am D No one to hold
Chorus: F C Emptiness fills me G D Loneliness chokes me F C I am fading away G D In my own misery
Two things here: First, good luck to all the publishers and agents who will face a torrent of this glossy, incomprehensible shit over the next few years.
Second: For real creators, this will add to the growing swamp of unfiltered shit that new books find themselves in online. The sheer quantities that these can be produced in will make real books even harder to find.
Your regular reminder that #MachineLearning models (or #AI, if you insist on ignoring the meaning of 'intelligence') will repeat and reinforce any #bias that already exists in society.
