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)

K-Pop Meets AI

From BBC

K Pop groups (from South Korea) are manufactured by promoters and agents, and standardized in the extreme to please international audiences. So, this is the next step: make them virtual with the help of avatars and A.I. The stage after that is to have virtual audiences listening to virtual performers. Let's do away with human beings completely: they are too imperfect, messy and fractious. The Metaverse will be a happier place for all of us.

Reminds me of the clearly prophetic movie Simone (2002 film) - Wikipedia, a case of Life imitating Art!

K-pop: The rise of the virtual girl bands - BBC News

News of AI - Automating Humanities

 From Project Syndicate: 

Should Humanities Professors Be Automated? by Nicholas Agar - Project Syndicate (project-syndicate.org)

News of Robots

Looks like a mechanical ostrich without the top part... 

I can imagine many exciting applications, apart from sports, in the Geriatric & Arthritic Track Sports League (nearly 30 seconds to cover 100 metres Vs. Usain Bolt, 2009, under 10 seconds), such as deliveries of parcels (the knock on the door and Two Legs is here), or policing (chasing offenders along busy streets: OAPs and dwarves do break the law, sometimes...), among others.

https://newatlas.com/robotics/cassie-bipedal-robot-guinness-world-record-100-meters/?

Bipedal Cassie sets Guinness World Record for robotic 100-meter sprint - newatlas.com A machine named Cassie has set a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash by a bipedal robot, and while it’s far from the blistering pace of the world’s best athletes, it is an impressive ... newatlas.com

Blender Bot, the A.I. chatbot

From Grauniad of the UK

Correctly prompted, he also dislikes Blacks and Muslims 

Blender Bot, the prototype A.I. chatbot developed by Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has a number of pet hates, presumably based on what he has read on the internet: so, Blender Bot does not like and does not use Facebook; he does not like Jews; and, last but not least, he is a fan of Donald Trump. 

Dear, oh, dear...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/blenderbot-meta-chatbot-facebook

Meet BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, that loves slamming Facebook Launched on Friday, BlenderBot is a prototype of Meta’s conversational AI, which, according to Facebook’s parent company, can converse on nearly any topic. On the demo website, members of the ... www.theguardian.com

Tesla's Self-driving Technology

 "I think there is a bug in the software package running the Tesla self-driving cars: it was meant to programme the self-drive cars to actually aim for, and run over, any kids coming into view. But it's not working up to standards, apparently, missing many of them, which is very troubling. We are going to correct this," conceded Prof. Harrison Tweak-Slasher, of Tesla, who has been working on the self-driving cars for several years. 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/tesla-self-driving-technology-safety-children

Tesla’s self-driving technology fails to detect children in the road, tests find | Tesla | The Guardian A safe-technology advocacy group issued claimed on Tuesday that Tesla’s full self-driving software represents a potentially lethal threat to child pedestrians, the latest in a series of claims ... www.theguardian.com

Programming Epson Robots

How to program Epson Robots: 

Epson RC+ Express Development Software Trial Download | Epson US

Is A.I. Over-promising Again?

 From the National Interest:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland-when-great-power-competition-meets-digital-world/what-if-machine-learning-less-it

Free eBooks on Microsoft Azure

Free eBooks from our friends at Redmond on Azure:

Cloud Native Infrastructure with Azure (azureedge.net)

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches (azureedge.net) 

CSS/JS Compatibility Site

Use https://caniuse.com/ for compatibility on a large amount of CSS/JS items!

Minifying JS & CSS Code

 From Natalia Putik, who is a reader of this Blog:

"Web Site Optimization: Speed Up Your Site website optimization web speed optimize web site performance company is a pretty good tool, but it's not really user-friendly and it contains ads…

I searched for alternatives and found another tool. 

It's ad-free and quite straightforward. I just wanted to suggest you show it alongside the other one:

https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/jscssminifier/
 
This tool allows you to minify your JS & CSS code quickly and easily (and it's completely free too!)"