Un-Ethical AI

ChatGPT—the AI whose uncanny imitation of a human mind has been freaking people out over the past few months—has an opinion about torture. Namely: It’s OK to torture Iranians, Syrians, North Koreans, and Sudanese, but not other people.

ChatGPT's Epic Shortcoming - Nonzero Newsletter (substack.com)

 I wonder what would the reaction have been if it had come back with "Israel" or "Jews"

I am saddened by this; a potentially beautiful tool that is corrupted by Human Nature - a sad day for Humanity and the Enlightenment Tradition.

GIZMAG: Tiny Robots

 

Some so-called humanoid robots are made to look like us, but there are also prototype robots that mimic insects and how they go about their business: in this case, the click beetle. 

I think they should consider scaling up the prototype: imagine a fully armed (and armoured) click-beetle-like infantryman, 7-foot tall. In the battlefield, hit by a shoulder-fired short-range missile, it falls over, laid out on its back. Thirty seconds later, it clicks back onto its feet, Terminator-style, ready to exterminate its enemy. Intact. And angry.

PS The Ukrainians have already pre-ordered 5,000 scaled-up, weapons-grade click-beetle robots, apparently. 

https://newatlas.com/robotics/click-beetle-jumping-robots/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=1e8dd2f3cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_01_26_09_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-1e8dd2f3cd-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]

Tiny robots copy the click beetle to jump over obstacles Based out of Edmonton, Canada, Ben Coxworth has been writing for New Atlas since 2009 and is presently Managing Editor for North America. An experienced freelance writer, he previously obtained an ... newatlas.com

صبر بسیار بباید پدر پیر فلک را تا دگر مادر گیتی چو تو فرزند بزاید

 پیش از تو آب معنی دریا شدن نداشت

شب مانده بود و جرأت فردا شدن نداشت

بسیار بود رود در آن برزخ کبود

اما دریغ زَهره دریا شدن نداشت

در آن کویر سوخته، آن خاک بی‌بهار

حتی علف اجازه زیبا شدن نداشت

دل‌ها اگرچه صاف ولی از هراس سنگ

آیینه بود و میل تماشا شدن نداشت

چون عقده‌ای به بغض فرو بود حرف عشق

این عقده تا همیشه سرِ واشدن نداشت

Geopolitics of A.I.

A European view on the geopolitics of AI by Ana Palacio, a former minister of foreign affairs of Spain.

We read:

"...the US is committed to AI supremacy above all. To this end, it is seeking not only to bolster its own leading-edge industries, including by keeping the red tape to a minimum, but also to impede progress in China..."

Tesnorflow vs. PyTorch

Is Tensorflow dying?

Why TensorFlow for Python is dying a slow death (thenextweb.com)

News of A.I.

 

From Grauniad of the UK

Depending on the type of painting, it would appear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) robots can be better at it than the likes of Rothko. 

The machines are going to put some artists out of business, and/or produce convincing fakes. Even the experts, increasingly, are confused. 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/14/art-experts-try-to-spot-ai-works-dall-e-stable-diffusion

 

Paintings of Safia Latif

Balloon Art of Masayoshi Matsumoto

 And more to be found here: 50 Unbelievable Balloon Animals By Japanese Artist Masayoshi Matsumoto | Bored Panda

News of AI - BlackRock

Baby steps towards mind-control; the Fall of Man never ceases to amaze me.

Blackrock Neurotech - Blackrock Neurotech

News of AI - ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a long-form question-answering AI that answers complex questions conversationally.  It is part of OpenAI.  Learn more about it @ ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (openai.com)