Robot Committing Suicide

From South Korea

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13571283/South-Korean-civil-servant-robot-commits-suicide-mysteriously-circling-one-spot-there.html

Against AI

Please check the articles in the June-July issue of Harper's Magazine on AI, especially on ChatGPT.

The relevant issue is the one below:

 

You should be able to get hold of a physical copy in your local library.

 

The articles are online as well; please find one here: Metal Machine Music, by Laurent Dubreuil (harpers.org)

 

Metal Machine Music, by Laurent Dubreuil (harpers.org)

 

I think that ChatGPT, Anthropic (please see here: Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class | TechCrunch) and other such large-language model-based tools eventually converge to a sort of acceptable mediocrity; still useful in the sense of providing one with meaningful and useful information but not at the level of transformational, insightful, creative output one expects from a human being.

 

For example, this Dutch Philosophy Professor asked his students to draw pictures that described different philosophical ideas and topics and he was favorably impressed by the human output.

 

Can ChatGPT or Anthropic even take a sentence like “I think, therefore I am.” And turn it into a painting, a drawing, or a sculpture; in effect generating new content?

 

I think not.

 

They are beneficiaries of millennia of human-generated content, so it is easy to take bits and pieces from here and there and create an Ode for OnStar.

 

In a language such as Chinese, whose literature is devoid of Epic Poetry forms, can an LLM write an Epic Poem about Shi Hwang Ti?

 

Alternatively, can a Shakespearean Tragedy be written by these models on the life of Yang, Go-Bi?

 

I think not.

 

But, I think, just like the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web 30 years ago, these LLMs will have an impact on Business, Government, and Culture.

 

I expect them to become auxiliaries to human cognition but not a replacement.

 

In the meantime, I expect all these AI/ML specialists to continue to chase after “Artificial Intelligence” that surpasses that of man as well as continuing to denigrate real intelligence among even such creatures as earth worms!

The Gods of Logic

 https://harpers.org/archive/2024/07/the-gods-of-logic-benjamin-labatut-ai/

Metal Machine Music

 https://harpers.org/archive/2024/07/metal-machine-music/

Gleam

A new programming language for concurrency control...

Erlang redux, likely with the same outcome, which is obscurity...

https://thenewstack.io/introduction-to-gleam-a-new-functional-programming-language/

AI against Programmers

AI measuring programmer productivity

https://the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/kirimgeray-kirimli-flatiron-software-snapshot-reviews

No mention of the need to calibrate any measurements.  

Nor the inevitable reaction of human beings to any such system by gaming it.

OpenAI vs. Anthropic

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/anthropic-claims-its-latest-model-is-best-in-class/

C++ and AI

https://analyticsindiamag.com/why-is-c-not-used-in-ai-research/

Revenge of the Nerd

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/disgruntled-ex-employee-costs-company-over-dollar600000-after-he-deletes-all-180-of-its-test-servers-found-server-deletion-scripts-on-google

AI - Hot & Steamy

From the BBC

We want feminist, inclusive AI-powered sex dolls! 

Inevitably, artificial intelligence (AI) is already moving into the field of sexual services. 

The academic, below, is worried about the 'training' of 'sex chatbots': his concern doesn't seem to be that they exist, but that they may hold views that are sexist and not politically correct. 

As for the future of Sex AI, to call it that, trust the likes of Mr Hamburger (his name) of Lovehoney (his company's name). If there are cyber-prostitutes, one will need cyber-pimps running cyber-brothels... 

We read:

"There is a risk that retrograde gender stereotypes about sex and pleasure get encoded into sex chatbots, says Dr Kerry McInerney, senior research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, at the University of Cambridge.

“It's crucial that we understand what kinds of data sets are used to train sex chatbots, otherwise we risk replicating ideas about sex that demean female pleasure and ignore sex that exists outside of heterosexual intercourse.”

[...] Philipp Hamburger, head of AI at Lovehoney, says the company is aiming “to enhance the sexual experience of its customers, rather than replace it, which is an important line to draw"."

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 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qqxqgp9yno

MS Windows Total Recall

This very simple tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.

GitHub - xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.