A story about these #AI guys who really want to build #AGI

https://redeem-tomorrow.com/general-intelligence

'General Intelligence'

This was the hardest part for outsiders to grasp, even though to him it was the most obvious. He explained, with an indulgent smile, "RATHE works at a speed that is many multiples of our own minds. Orders of magnitude faster, in fact."

^{redeem-tomorrow.com}

Turns out that Techbros are tired of *checks notes* _ 100% accurate descriptions_ of parrottech.

Don't take my word for it. Trust world experts like Timnit Gebru at DAIR, a video this guy will never watch.

https://youtu.be/P7XT4TWLzJw

#AI #AIEthics

https://toot.cafe/@matt/111585012070236191
@matt - I'm getting tired of...characterizations of generative AI like this one: https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/111584809768617532 "a spicy autocomplete powered by theft that melts the environment to amplify racism and periodically, arbitrarily lie"...

SaTML 2023 - Timnit Gebru - Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through AGI

Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial General IntelligenceBased on work by Timnit Gebru & Émile P. Torres

^YouTube

'A mass assassination factory'

Yuval Abraham
November 30, 2023

Israeli Defense Minister Gallant: "We are fighting human animals & we act accordingly."

7 Israeli defense & intel members detailed to 972 how #IDF is killing vastly more civilians in #Gaza, via

1) expanded permission to bomb non-military targets,
2) tossed constraints regarding expected civilian casualties
3) began using an #AI system to generate more potential targets than human command could

https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

^{Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)}

What happens when you cross my crazy wak ass blind friend group, with state of de art AI technology, with my rediculous, embarrassing laugh, with a video about bad translations?

You get this: https://youtu.be/IpLWg9U4uRE?si=uhHKIVSeFsoBNhlz

Fair warning, this is a lightly edited Discord voice chat session, and I apparently had my gain set waaaaaaay to high, so expect clipping and general audio discomfort.

#AI #TheLowerElements #ElevenLabs #Translation #Fail

"It fills the baskets too tightly" - The Lower Elements meets AI Eleven Labs Translation!

WE put ourselves through Eleven Labs' translation feature and back again, its quite the roller coaster.https://elevenlabs.io🌐 Find us on the web: https://lo...

^YouTube

🫠 Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team | @verge

"RAI was created to identify problems with its AI training approaches, including whether the company’s models are trained with adequately diverse information, with an eye toward preventing things like moderation issues on its platforms"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966980/meta-disbanded-responsible-ai-team-artificial-intelligence

#AI #AIEthics #GenerativeAI

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team

Meta is in the midst of a reshuffling of its AI teams, and has reportedly split up its responsible AI development team

^{Wes Davis (The Verge)}

OpenAI si vsimlo o jake niche je zajem v tisicich AI startupech a spustilo vlastni "GPT builder".

Je to celkem dobra evoluce v pouzitelnosti. Dost lidi si najde vlastni pouziti ChatGPT a to se pro ne stane synonymem pro AI. Napriklad doplnovani kodu, analyza tabulek, zkracovani textu, copy na socky... Pojmenovane chaty s jakoby ruznou funkci jim tuhle kotvu pomuzou zvednout.

Tech vsech AI startupu mi vubec neni lito.

*obrazek vygenerovan random z Cosmic Dream GPT modulu.

#ai #chatgpt

Early returns are promising. Students got into the activity. Discussion took over half the last day of class.

This is a Programming Languages class, and discussion took an interesting turn: how would •languages• change in a world where we expect AI code generation to be a normal part of the development process, and the problem for humans shifts (even further) away from “How do I generate code?” and toward “Does the code I’ve generated actually do what I think? What I want?”
#proglang #ai

OK, trying an experiment with my Programming Languages class!

• Have an AI generate some of your writing assignment.
• Critique its output. Call BS on its BS.

Assignment details in screenshots below. I’ll let you know how it goes.

(Here are the links from the screenshots:)

Raw AI Text:
https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/7b68ce7c5b2e329543e2dadd6853be21

Comments on AI Text:
https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/d51bc2d4257027a6b4c64c9010d42c32

(Better) Human Text
https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/f363734336e6063f61e451e2658b50a6

#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered
#swift #proglang

My favorite outcome so far: a student remarked (paraphrasing here) that she didn’t realize how much she had to say in her paper until she saw how wrong the AI was, how much it missed the point.

Observing her own reaction to BS about her topic made her realize she’d underestimated the extent of her own newly-forming knowledge. That…that is the sort of outcome an educator dreams of.

#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered

With the help of ChatGPT I have added alt text to images in my slide deck "No Industry for Old Men" from #a11yTO 2023

#a11y #webStandards #HTML #ARIA #Depression #aging #ai

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/166SRyG4KEHAY1d1BiSqdyQhGBL5zjiW09JYSkc4IVI8/edit?usp=sharing

No industry for old men

^{Google Docs}

Autocomplete

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/autocomplete-2

Early comic here: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h

#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #ai

New blog post: Enhancing Accessibility with AI and ML

We discuss how to specialize #AI for understanding UI for #a11y testing, the importance of algorithm and data integrity, and how #ML can be used to simplify #a11y testing. https://www.deque.com/blog/enhancing-accessibility-with-ai-and-ml/

#Freddie could not sing this with us, but now we have the chance to hear what it could have sounded like. Hats off to Brian May for one of his best songs.

Not quite the right style and accent, but it still gives me the chills. There's never going to be another voice like this. #ai #cover #queen #music

A really nifty deep dive on the current state of #AI #VoiceCloning #music #CoverSongs, via getting the artists #WeirdAlYankovic parodied to ‘cover’ his songs

It mainly shows how distinctive Weird Al’s voice is, though MechaLorde singing ‘Foil’ is pretty good

AI has the potential to disrupt the whole comedy genre of pop-cultural pastiche and parody. Why would you watch comedians doing impressions of celebrities, or riffing on pop-culture texts, when you could just manipulate the celebrity yourself using AI?

Still, what constantly annoys me about the state of AI-driven parody (eg the meme of pop-culture characters as #Balenciaga models) is that the writing underpinning them is so poor

So even if we get to a point where we can completely puppeteer real people’s likenesses and voices, it still fails if there isn’t decent writing

Weird Al’s writing has always been excellent and hilarious. I mean, lines like in ‘Fat’, his parody of ‘Bad’: “When I sit around the house, I really sit around the house”

So far, that kind of stuff can’t be automatically generated – AI-created comedy is of the surreal and absurdist kind that reads as an unintentional, “machine-innocent” artefact of the generation process

https://waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yankovic-voice-cloning/

Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning - Waxy.org

What would it sound like if the musicians parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic sang *his* parodies instead? I jumped off the deep end into the world of A.I. cover songs to find out, and the results are even worse than you imagine.

^{Andy Baio (Waxy.org)}