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JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, August 12, 2024 4:23 AM (P)

quoting

Trump falsely claims that Kamala Harris crowds are AI fakes

QUOTE

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-falsely-claims-kamala-harris-20301789
0.html

Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Kamala Harris is using artificial intelligence to “fake” the size of the crowds

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, August 12, 2024 6:44 AM (P)

Who needs to spend good money on CGI when you can just buy off a bunch of illegal alien invaders and bums to fill the seats for peanuts?

ALSO: False according to whom?

I guaranty you it is from a reporter and news source that told you Biden* wasn't senile the last 4 years.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, August 12, 2024 1:49 PM (P)

its possible some of these channels will get banned

maybe they will be backed up on Odysee, Bitchute, Rumble and other sites with video and social media

Titles

AI Draws Drugs As Demons or SHOCKING Ai Draws Drugs As Demons

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JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 4:19 AM (P)

The FCC wants the AI voice calling you to say it's a deepfake | Robocalls can't pretend to be human anymore

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/the-fcc-wa
nts-the-ai-voice-calling-you-to-say-its-a-deepfake

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 4:36 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
The FCC wants the AI voice calling you to say it's a deepfake | Robocalls can't pretend to be human anymore

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/the-fcc-wa
nts-the-ai-voice-calling-you-to-say-its-a-deepfake

I don't get robocalls. But hearing this makes me feel that every once in a while our government doesn't just completely fail us 100% of the time.

Let's see if it actually happens or if the big tech lobbyists make this disappear.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 4:30 PM (P)

Lord of the Rings if it was made in the 1980s

https://x.com/demonflyingfox/status/1823473720125763721

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, August 15, 2024 4:43 PM (P)

24 hours since the launch of Grok 2.0 and its image creation capabilities!
I've prepared these 9 examples for you to make the most of it + access to an enless prompt library!

https://x.com/techhalla/status/1823998267031465984

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, August 15, 2024 6:17 PM (P)

Biolands

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1vyigegEQ6/

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 16, 2024 2:32 PM (P)

AI dance with Musk

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1824069681868669045

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Russia’s AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/15/russia-us-e
lection-interference-ai-meta-facebook-instagram

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 23, 2024 7:08 PM (P)

and some electronic crap music

Musk's Grok used to create deepfake video of Elon Musk committing armed robbery

https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/1826314820972425417

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, August 26, 2024 4:45 AM (P)

Ameca

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, August 26, 2024 5:04 PM (P)

How we use AI in Astrophysics

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 11:55 PM (P)

‘No country for women’: Korean rights group decries Telegram deepfake porn explosion

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1155799.htm
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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, August 29, 2024 5:38 PM (P)

GameGen AI Model is generating video game (DOOM), in real-time, as the user plays.

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/1828778118422962420

SIGNYM

Thursday, August 29, 2024 6:04 PM (P)

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"Please Bring Signs": Marylanders To Protest AI Data Center Power Lines As Eminent Domain Threatens Small Farms

Wednesday, Aug 28, 2024 - 10:25 AM

A power line battle is unfolding across the Mason–Dixon, a demarcation line separating Pennsylvania and Maryland, as 10,000 Marylanders in a Facebook group are raising hell about failed 'green' energy policies by far-left Annapolis lawmakers. These policies now lead to the rising probability that eminent domain will be used to seize small farms to construct and expand transmission cables to increase load capacity to power new artificial intelligence data centers.

Developer Public Service Enterprise Group, or PSEG, is seeking to install 70 miles of new high-voltage power lines that zigzag through Baltimore, Carroll, and Frederick Counties in a project called the "Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project." The upgraded transmission lines will increase load capacity in the state by importing power from surrounding states, such as Pennsylvania, to power AI data centers in Frederick.

PSEG recently spoke with Fox Baltimore about their willingness to work with small farms to reach a mutual agreement on acquiring property rights. However, PSEG is prepared to invoke eminent domain if an agreement cannot be reached.

According to a recent note by ESG Legal Solutions, Maryland consumes about 40% more electricity than it generates. The note adds that "apocalyptic environmentalism" has led to the retirement of fossil fuel power generation and the reliance on increasing power imports from surrounding states.

"Solar energy, wind, and biomass are increasing but will not at any reasonable time replace that capacity or energy density; so, the state will import more electricity," ESG Legal Solutions said, adding the state "cannot import its way out of this predicament with ever-increasing electricity demand."

As a result of failed green policies and rising power demand, power bills in the region are set to skyrocket. Goldman notes...

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/please-bring-signs-marylanders-p
rotest-ai-data-center-power-lines-eminent-domain

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SIGNYM

Thursday, August 29, 2024 6:05 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
GameGen AI Model is generating video game (DOOM), in real-time, as the user plays.

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/1828778118422962420

We're wasting electricity on THIS???

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SIGNYM

Thursday, August 29, 2024 6:19 PM (P)

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AI Vs Human Leadership: Debate Over Plan To Govern Cheyenne Heats Up

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024 - 10:45 AM

Authored by Andrew Singer via CoinTelegraph.com,

Artificial intelligence could soon be governing a city in the United States — at least if one American mayoral candidate has his way.

Victor Miller recently threw his hat into the ring for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, pledging to manage the 65,000-person city exclusively with a generative AI bot he built himself — called VIC, or Virtual Integrated Citizen.

He argued that it could quickly scan heaps of municipal documents, summarize events and render error-free judgments in near real-time. Its rulings would also be objective — without fear of favor or influence from lobbyists — which would be good for democracy.

Tech-savvy Wyoming is arguably the most crypto-friendly state in the United States, so maybe it’s fitting that its capital city also has the first AI political candidate.
AI governance is “highly irresponsible”

However, some scientists and even AI practitioners are aghast at the prospect of outsourcing local government to an AI-enhanced bot.

“AI should be considered a tool that we can use to help government services run more efficiently, not take over entirely,” Terrence Sejnowski, professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of California at San Diego and a researcher on the intersection of AI and neuroscience, told Cointelegraph.

Even if the AI bot’s decisions were accurate, there would still be non-routine cases brought to City Hall that are beyond the realm of a bot’s training data.

“This became apparent with self-driving cars, which have no problem with 99.9% of the decisions a driver has to make but struggle with unusual edge cases,” Sejnowski commented.

Often these involve unique individual cases, the sort that have traditionally been settled by courts and lawyers. That shouldn’t change, in Sejnowski’s opinion.

“It would be highly irresponsible at this point in time to use generative artificial intelligence for any moderate-to-high risk decision-making in government,” Julian Cardarelli, CEO of GovCore, a government tech firm, told Cointelegraph.

“I would rule it out entirely for anything that requires an informed decision to be made with such a risk profile.”

Still, in his view, some low-risk government functions could safely be taken over by generative AI software programs, such as processing social assistance claims or renewing licenses and permits (drivers, hunting, fishing, firearms, etc.).

Also, tax calculation and collection, “and any other transactional function of government where there isn’t a risk of physical harm or injury,” Cardarelli added.
Is candidate Miller for real?

So, what is one to make of Cheyenne mayoral candidate Miller? Is this all just an election gimmick?

According to a Washington Post interview with the candidate, Miller sees himself as a path-breaker for the “untapped potential of artificial intelligence in government.”

His light-bulb moment occurred this spring when the city “erroneously” denied him a public records request, a decision later reversed. But an AI bot might not have made that initial mistake, he reasoned.

“I started wondering if AI would make a better mayor than any human,” Miller told the Washington Post. He created a program using ChatGPT 4.0 and “fed it city ordinances and related documents. He found that the bot could swiftly recall public-records laws and make decisions on issues like funding new city construction or fixing potholes,” reported the newspaper.

Miller campaigning. Source: Morning Brew

“This incident in Wyoming seems to be testing the frontiers of local regulation,” Valerie Wirtschafter, an AI researcher at the Brookings Institution, told the Post.

Elsewhere, Eyal Darmon, North American public service generative AI lead for IT consulting firm Accenture, has said that AI really could make a difference in governments around the world.

Indeed, more than 50% of government activities could one d

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 30, 2024 2:54 PM (P)

AI prompt generates madness

https://x.com/aiordieshow/status/1823708912518094903

Harry Potter - Redneck Wizard

https://x.com/demonflyingfox/status/1829220643700633754

SECOND

Monday, September 2, 2024 9:34 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
“We are at the very, very early stages of this transformation,” a process that could take 20–30 years to fully unfold.

“But at the end of it, we could reasonably expect to find ourselves with a new kind of government that is more democratic because it is efficient, effective and fair,” he said.

What people hope will happen when AI takes their job (in government)

Now that the rich have finally set up a world-wide UBI*, I’m just going to play video games, party, and make art. I hope AI takes everybody's job.

What will probably happen when AI takes their job (in government)

Wow. The rich didn’t give away all their money. Again.
I hope the totally functional welfare system can handle skyrocketing unemployment.

* UBI - Universal basic income
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, September 6, 2024 1:54 AM (P)

Artificially Assisted Synth Pop Rock

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, September 6, 2024 3:27 AM (P)

So Indian Call Scammers will hide their accent voices with AI next?

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, September 8, 2024 5:25 PM (P)

nasty gangster political imagery, maybe funny but also with some stupid rapper music

The AI is getting wild.

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/1832509161411608795#

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 3:18 PM (P)

James Earl Jones Signed Over Rights For AI To Recreate Darth Vader’s Voice
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2024/09/09/james-earl-jones-si
gned-over-rights-for-ai-to-recreate-darth-vaders-voice/

All images created in Midjourney and brought to life in Kling AI

Sora video 'Aunties'

Math and good applied mathematical science is the black sheep when it comes to school subjects, seeing AI also struggle with it now

neural networks are analog emulators the Calculators are a digital system but the AI LLM's of Artificial Intelligence is making maths mistakes

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 3:25 PM (P)

Free-thinkers will rule the new AI world

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/09/03/free-thinkers-will-rule-the-ne
w-ai-world-guest-commentary/

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 3:27 PM (P)

How 2024 is already shaping up to be the deepfake election as Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and Joe Biden have all fallen victim to AI parodies
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13710833/How-2024-shaping-dee
pfake-election-Kamala-Harris-Donald-Trump-Joe-Biden-fallen-victim-AI-parodies.html

Explaining Grok, Elon Musk’s Controversial ChatGPT Alternative
https://www.gizchina.com/2024/09/02/explaining-grok-elon-musks-controv
ersial-chatgpt-alternative/

Terminator Drone Wars or Human Pilots?

Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck Videogame System

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-fielding-machine-gun-turrets-165710
636.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 10:17 PM (P)

Michael Dell says the amount of data in the world is doubling every 6-7 months and while the most advanced AI models are trained on 1 petabyte of data, Dell Technologies has 120,000 petabytes

https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1832729166959235236

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 6:05 PM (P)

video from AI

audio has a human touch from a guy 'TheKiffness'

They're Eating The Dogs, They're Eating The Cats, Funky Trump Mix

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, September 26, 2024 1:16 AM (P)

James Cameron Joins AI Company Stable Diffusion as Board Member

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/james-cameron
-joins-board-ai-firm-stability-stable-diffusion-1236010034/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, October 6, 2024 3:40 AM (P)

AI and Urban planning
Long vid 46 mins

Unlocking AI’s Potential in Urban Design: Practical Insights for City Planners I URBANISTA

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 4:53 PM (P)

It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

Last week, CEO Sam Altman published an online manifesto titled “The Intelligence Age.” https://ia.samaltman.com/ In it, he declares that the AI revolution is on the verge of unleashing boundless prosperity and radically improving human life. “We’ll soon be able to work with AI that helps us accomplish much more than we ever could without AI,” he writes. Altman expects that his technology will fix the climate, help humankind establish space colonies, and discover all of physics. He predicts that we may have an all-powerful superintelligence “in a few thousand days.” All we have to do is feed his technology enough energy, enough data, and enough chips.

Maybe someday Altman’s ideas about AI will prove out, but for now, his approach is textbook Silicon Valley mythmaking. In these narratives, humankind is forever on the cusp of a technological breakthrough that will transform society for the better. The hard technical problems have basically been solved—all that’s left now are the details, which will surely be worked out through market competition and old-fashioned entrepreneurship. Spend billions now; make trillions later! This was the story of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, and of nanotechnology in the 2000s. It was the story of cryptocurrency and robotics in the 2010s. The technologies never quite work out like the Altmans of the world promise, but the stories keep regulators and regular people sidelined while the entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors build empires.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-myth
making/680152/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Saturday, October 12, 2024 5:37 PM (P)

AI companies are trying to build god. Shouldn’t they get our permission first?

The public did not consent to artificial general intelligence.

By Sigal Samuel | Oct 11, 2024, 7:30 AM CDT

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/377555/ai-chatgpt-openai-god

AI companies are on a mission to radically change our world. They’re working on building machines that could outstrip human intelligence and unleash a dramatic economic transformation on us all.

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has basically told us he’s trying to build a god — or “magic intelligence in the sky,” as he puts it. OpenAI’s official term for this is artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Altman says that AGI will not only “break capitalism” but also that it’s “probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.”

There’s a very natural question here: Did anyone actually ask for this kind of AI? By what right do a few powerful tech CEOs get to decide that our whole world should be turned upside down?

As I’ve written before, it’s clearly undemocratic that private companies are building tech that aims to totally change the world without seeking buy-in from the public. In fact, even leaders at the major companies are expressing unease about how undemocratic it is.

Jack Clark, the co-founder of the AI company Anthropic, told Vox last year that it’s “a real weird thing that this is not a government project.” He also wrote that there are several key things he’s “confused and uneasy” about, including, “How much permission do AI developers need to get from society before irrevocably changing society?” Clark continued:

Technologists have always had something of a libertarian streak, and this is perhaps best epitomized by the ‘social media’ and Uber et al era of the 2010s — vast, society-altering systems ranging from social networks to rideshare systems were deployed into the world and aggressively scaled with little regard to the societies they were influencing. This form of permissionless invention is basically the implicitly preferred form of development as epitomized by Silicon Valley and the general ‘move fast and break things’ philosophy of tech. Should the same be true of AI?

I’ve noticed that when anyone questions that norm of “permissionless invention,” a lot of tech enthusiasts push back. Their objections always seem to fall into one of three categories. Because this is such a perennial and important debate, it’s worth tackling each of them in turn — and why I think they’re wrong.

More at https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/377555/ai-chatgpt-openai-god

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, October 14, 2024 6:27 PM (P)

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2448480-shazam-for-whales-uses-ai
-to-track-sounds-heard-in-mariana-trench/

AI in the Ocean can link to a possible far away Alien Worlds and Civilization and SETI has carried out an experiment in communication with humpback whales

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Artificial Intelligence effort launched to decode whale language might help understand Alien languages

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 4:14 PM (P)

OpenAI is boasting that they are about to make a lot of the legal profession permanently unemployed.

https://wallstreetpit.com/119841-from-8000-to-3-openais-revolutionary-
impact-on-legal-work/

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 8:22 PM (P)

How one AI program does film, draws and paints world leaders

MAGA Strikes Back

Castor Chua

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 1, 2024 4:43 AM (P)

Gaming culture Gamers

I Tried Working As A Paranormal Investigator ...but Ai Ghosts REACT To What I Say?!

Ghost Story: Unveiling AI's Darkest Halloween Nightmare

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 1, 2024 4:47 AM (P)

Peter Cushing 'resurrected' for new Hammer Horror documentary using deepfake AI

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/peter-cushing-ai-deepfake-
hammer-documentary-newsupdate/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, November 1, 2024 5:16 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Peter Cushing 'resurrected' for new Hammer Horror documentary using deepfake AI

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, November 2, 2024 5:03 PM (P)

Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/11/01/thousands-go-to-fake-ai-in
vented-dublin-halloween-parade

from a Pakistani-hosted website that creates AI-generated news

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, November 3, 2024 1:24 PM (P)

Waymo says its robo-taxis have now driven 25 million miles (40 million km) without human drivers, and that these journeys are substantially safer than human-driven journeys.

https://waymo.com/safety/impact/

SECOND

Monday, November 4, 2024 6:13 AM (P)

You can be replaced, 6ixStringJack. Articulateness is cheap to imitate with A.I.

A tiny radio station in Poland is a canary in the AI coal mine

By Kevin Drum | November 3, 2024 – 2:30 pm

https://jabberwocking.com/a-tiny-radio-station-in-poland-is-a-canary-i
n-the-coal-mine/

The New York Times has a story today about a tiny radio station in Krakow, Poland. How tiny? Its listenership was "close to zero."

So with literally nothing to lose, the manager of the station decided to convert it into a pure AI production: no human announcers, just AI generated hosts. Among other things, they created a show in which an AI host interviewed an AI reconstructions of famous dead people. The audience grew to 8,000 overnight, but:

Less welcome than the audience surge, however, has been a barrage of abuse directed at the public broadcasting system and accusations that it was sacrificing humans on the altar of technology.

“I have been turned into a job-killing monster who wants to replace real people with avatars,” said Mariusz Marcin Pulit, the editor in chief of Radio Krakow and of niche stations operating under its umbrella, like Off Radio Krakow.

....An online petition drafted by Mr. Zaleski, the terminated culture show host, and Mateusz Demski, a fellow presenter who also lost his job, warned that “the case of Off Radio Krakow is an important reminder for the entire industry” and a “dangerous precedent that hits us all.”

The use of A.I.-generated presenters, the petition warned, “is opening the door to a world in which experienced employees associated for years with the media and people employed in creative industries will be replaced by machines.”

The station was so small it had hardly any hosts to begin with — and they were all part-timers with other day jobs. But public outrage was strong enough that the experiment was quickly ended and the station returned to playing ordinary music written and performed by humans.

Is this a sign of things to come? It's one thing when taxi drivers lose their jobs, but quite another when creative types with big megaphones are the ones whose ox is being gored. This is all going to start playing out sooner than most people think.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, November 4, 2024 6:58 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
You can be replaced, 6ixStringJack. Articulateness is cheap to imitate with A.I.

A tiny radio station in Poland is a canary in the AI coal mine

By Kevin Drum | November 3, 2024 – 2:30 pmb]

Awwwwwwww. That's sweet.

Kevin Drum writes an article about articulateness and the first thing you thought about was me.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, November 4, 2024 7:08 AM (P)

Oh, also...

You can't replace me when I work for free.

I guess I'll just have to get used to working alongside my new non-human co-workers. They're probably much more efficient than the vast majority of my human co-workers ever were over the decades, so I bet we'll get along splendidly.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, November 14, 2024 6:40 PM (P)

AI gets the movie and mimics, does a good Tucker impersonation

https://x.com/MaverickDarby/status/1855422666162999460

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, November 17, 2024 3:29 AM (P)

Artificial Daisy in Britain vs the Hindu Street Shitter Scammers

England is using an AI Granny fake to troll the scammers and give them nothing

https://files.catbox.moe/5xg3wl.mp4

SECOND

Thursday, November 21, 2024 3:16 AM (P)

How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?

Nov 20, 2024

Last month, I challenged 11,000 people to classify fifty pictures as either human art or AI-generated images.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing

What Did We Learn About Art?

Alan Turing recommended that if 30% of humans couldn’t tell an AI from a human, the AI could be considered to have “passed” the Turing Test. By these standards, AI artists pass the test with room to spare; on average, 40% of humans mistook each AI picture for human.

What does this tell us about AI? Seems like they’re good at art. I’m more interested in what it tells us about humans.

Humans keep insisting that AI art is hideous slop. But also, when you peel off the labels, many of them can’t tell AI art from some of the greatest artists in history, identifying the greatest human artists as AI.

Most People Slightly Preferred AI Art To Human Art

I asked participants to pick their favorite picture of the fifty. The two best-liked pictures were both by AIs, as were 60% of the top ten.

There are many pictures to examine at https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, November 21, 2024 3:34 AM (P)

I'm watching artists on YouTube that are "poisoning the well".

They're tired of having their images stolen by large corporations like Google, so without any legal recourse they're doing things like putting images out there with people that have 7 fingers or 3 arms. They hope they can flood the pool of images with nonsense crap that will make AI put out nothing but rediculous shit.

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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, November 21, 2024 4:44 PM (P)

Here's the thing about not being able to see AI vs Human in that news article, they can still see the brush stroke in Renaissance or 19th Century vs AI but the article says 'huge majorities voted that several human-generated digital images were by AIs'

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:59 PM (P)

Marc Andreessen says AI model makers are in 'a race to the bottom' and it’s not good for business

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/marc-andreessen-says-ai-model-132216
479.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, December 2, 2024 5:51 AM (P)

David Mayer de Rothschild for a while he tried to dress like a Jesus type Guru

ChatGPT faces a strange bug that prevents it from using the name ‘David Mayer’; know how this is affecting users
https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/chatgpt-faces-a-strange-bug-that-p
revents-it-from-using-the-name-david-mayer-know-how-this-is-affecting-users-647259.html

also shared as news on a Pakistani news site

he collected 'Ocean Trash' made a boat out of recycled plastic garbage to highlight what s done to the oceans, The Plastiki is a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic and waste products. Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architecture worked on the concept design with David de Rothschild and helped to shape some of the key ideas.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101120153329/http://australiangeographic
.com.au/journal/plastiki-sails-into-sydney.htm

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, December 6, 2024 12:30 AM (P)

Ancient Rome

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, December 12, 2024 5:04 AM (P)

'I used Grok's new image generation model to reinterpret Greek myths and epic poems.'

https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1866923530413031644

SIGNYM

Monday, December 16, 2024 10:20 PM (P)

Whatever AI's other potential uses, it is actively being used to censor, gaslight, delete, and in other ways brainwash Americans (and probably other peoples aa well).

A smattering of stories, just from today

Quote:
Ghosted By ChatGPT: How Jonathan Turley Was First Defamed & Then Deleted By AI

It is not every day that you achieve the status of “he-who-must-not-be-named.”

But that curious distinction has been bestowed upon me by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

For more than a year, people who tried to research my name online using ChatGPT were met with an immediate error warning.

It turns out that I am among a small group of individuals who have been effectively disappeared by the AI system. How we came to this Voldemortian status is a chilling tale about not just the rapidly expanding role of artificial intelligence, but the power of companies like OpenAI.

Joining me in this dubious distinction are Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain, CNBC anchor David Faber, Australian mayor Brian Hood, English professor David Mayer, and a few others.

The common thread appears to be false stories generated about us all by ChatGPT in the past. The company appears to have corrected the problem not by erasing the error but erasing the individuals in question.

Thus far, the ghosting is limited to ChatGPT sites, but the controversy highlights a novel political and legal question in the brave new world of AI.

My path toward cyber-erasure began with a bizarre and entirely fabricated account by ChatGPT.

As I wrote at the time, ChatGPT falsely reported that there had been a claim of sexual harassment against me (which there never was) based on something that supposedly happened on a 2018 trip with law students to Alaska (which never occurred), while I was on the faculty of Georgetown Law (where I have never taught).

In support of its false and defamatory claim, ChatGPT cited a Washington Post article that had never been written and quoted from a statement that had never been issued by the newspaper. The Washington Post investigated the false story and discovered that another AI program, “Microsoft’s Bing, which is powered by GPT-4, repeated the false claim about Turley.”

This is the problem with large language learning. People talk about all kinds of things that aren't even real. Angels. Dragons. Saddam's WMD. Events that never happened. An AI "learning" from online conversations has no way of independently sorting fact from fiction. Also, given that most online convesations are prompted by a "leftwing", deep state-controlled media, all AIs have a "leftwing" bias.
You wind up with GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).

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Although some of those defamed in this manner chose to sue these companies for defamatory AI reports, I did not. I assumed that the company, which has never reached out to me, would correct the problem.

And it did, in a manner of speaking — apparently by digitally erasing me, at least to some extent. In some algorithmic universe, the logic is simple: there is no false story if there is no discussion of the individual.

As with Voldemort, even death is no guarantee of closure. Professor Mayer was a respected Emeritus Professor of Drama and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Manchester, who passed away last year. And ChatGPT reportedly will still not utter his name.

Before his death, his name was used by a Chechen rebel on a terror watch list. The result was a snowballing association of the professor, who found himself facing travel and communication restrictions.

Hood, the Australian mayor, was so frustrated with a false AI-generated narrative that he had been arrested for bribery that he took legal action against OpenAI. That may have contributed to his own erasure.

The company’s lack of transparency and responsiveness has added to concerns over these incidents.

SIGNYM

Monday, December 16, 2024 10:24 PM (P)

Hedge Fund CIO: "As AI Advances, It'll Be Next To Impossible To Distinguish Fact From Fiction"
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/hedge-fund-cio-ai-advances-itll-be-ne
xt-impossible-distinguish-fact-fiction

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

SIGNYM

Monday, December 16, 2024 10:27 PM (P)

Suspicious OpenAI Whistleblower Death Ruled Suicide

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/suspicious-openai-whistleblower-de
ath-ruled-suicide

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 5:17 AM (P)

more on the whistle blower

OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-s
an-francisco-apartment/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, December 22, 2024 5:06 AM (P)

Humanoid robots being mass produced in China

https://www.newsweek.com/humanoid-robots-being-mass-produced-china-200
4049

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Monday, December 23, 2024 5:04 PM (P)

Meet Botto, the AI ‘machine artist’ making millions of dollars

By Lucy Handley | Mon, Dec 23, 2024

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/23/botto-the-ai-machine-artist-making-mil
lions-of-dollars.html

‘Machine artists’

Klingemann believes that, in the near future, because of advances in AI and machine learning, ”‘machine artists’ will be able to create more interesting work than humans,” according to a post on his website. One of Klingemann’s pieces became the first AI-produced work to be sold by Sotheby’s in Europe, with a 2019 auction fetching £40,000.

The value of Botto’s images appears to be increasing, Hudson said.

Two early images put up for auction during a quiet period for the AI art market were given reserve prices of around $13,000 to $15,000 by the BottoDAO, but they didn’t sell. However, at an October auction at Sotheby’s New York, the same images — “Expose Stream” and “Exorbitant Stage” — sold for $276,000 in total, Hudson said. Botto is also the third-highest seller by total sales on the SuperRare platform for the last year, as of Dec. 12.

Questions of authorship

Is Botto an artist in its own right? “It’s a thing of perception,” Hudson said. “Certainly, Botto right now is a collaboration between machine and crowd. The human hands are certainly there, but the setup is such that Botto has maintained the central role of authorship,” he said.

Botto has the potential to change the way art — and artists — are perceived, Hudson said. “With Botto, it strips away this myth of the lone genius artist and shows how artwork is really a collective ... meaning-making process. And when you have a deluge of AI-generated content, that’s going to be even more important of a process,” he said.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, December 25, 2024 6:51 PM (P)

ChatGPT preferred over in-person lessons as language learning method among young Japanese

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241218/p2a/00m/0li/017000c#cxre
cs_s

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, December 29, 2024 6:26 AM (P)

Yes indeed Laura Loomer is often exposed as a 'Loon'

but does that give Musk the right to censor the web, shadow ban people

and promote his H1B Open Border Agenda and make a mockery of that whole 'Maga' thing

Elon Musk accused of censoring right-wing X accounts in heated immigration dispute
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/elon-musk-accused-censoring-right-wing-x-ac
counts-heated-immigration-dispute/

Even the Left media now admits its a bias against conservatives
‘Free Speech Apparently Doesn’t Apply to Criticizing Musk’

seems like Elon Musk was an actor, a fake?

the Leftwing news admits Musk is going too far

some even say that Musk Insinuates Laura Loomer Is An Al Qaeda-Like Terrorist

Elon Musk ADMITS To Silencing Laura Loomer Over Immigration!
https://rumble.com/v63lmzk-elon-musk-admits-to-silencing-laura-loomer-
over-immigration.html

like a Fascist with Joe Stalinist Communist words?

Musk Hits Back Amid MAGA Infighting, Says ‘Contemptible Fools’ Must Be Purged From The GOP ‘Root And Stem’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/musk-hits-back-amid-maga-infighting-
says-contemptible-fools-must-be-purged-from-the-gop-root-and-stem/

SECOND

Sunday, December 29, 2024 6:04 PM (P)

The 2024 Stanford AI index Report charts the improvement of AI. Practically everything is now performing at human level except for high-level math, and it's been on a rocket recently, going from nothing to 90% in only two years.

But here's the ugly:

The worst AI might as well be Donald Trump. This is by far the biggest short-term Achilles heel of AI. Nobody can rely on it for anything serious until this gets cleaned up.
https://jabberwocking.com/the-good-and-the-ugly-of-ai-performance/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, December 29, 2024 7:37 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
seems like Elon Musk was an actor, a fake?

Stop drinking the Kool Aid.

We aren't the Hive Mind of the Democrats and the Legacy Media, so don't expect us all to be in lock-step with each other. You'll never put together 5 minute compilation videos of all of us saying the exact same sentence verbatim.

Vivek and Elon might have been blindsided by the pushback here.

Let's see how this plays out.

Trump hasn't even been fucking inaugurated yet and everybody has a fucking opinion about everything.

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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur

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Sunday, December 29, 2024 8:20 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Vivek and Elon might have been blindsided by the pushback here.

Let's see how this plays out.

Trump hasn't even been fucking inaugurated yet and everybody has a fucking opinion about everything.

Trump, Vivek, and Elon were NOT blindsided. It was absolutely predictable that poor white trash Trumptards would be opposed to everything the wealthy want and the wealthy knew how the white trash would respond, but it is too late for white trash to stop the inauguration. In the next four years, Trump doesn't have to please the poor Trumptards, except those who are in Congress.

As a matter of fact, Trump can goof-off the next four years, if that pleases him. He can go golfing every day and watch himself on TV when he is not golfing, if he feels like it.

Trump has spoken and the Indians took notes:

Donald Trump backs Elon Musk and H-1B visas amid MAGA meltdown

By Chidanand Rajghatta | Dec 29, 2024, 18:29 IST

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/donald-trump-backs-elon-m
usk-and-h-1b-visas-amid-maga-meltdown/articleshow/116769297.cms

President-elect Donald Trump has backed Elon Musk's support for the H-1B visa program, despite previous opposition. Trump's endorsement has caused a rift among his supporters. Big tech figures such as Musk argue that the program is essential for maintaining US industry leadership.

President-elect Donald Trump threw his weight behind Elon Musk and his support for H-1B visas even as the hot-button issue continued to roil the MAGA-sphere over the weekend, boiling over into anti-Indian invective.

American nativists raged against big tech and Indian guest workers for purportedly exploiting the H-1B system to displace US-born graduates, as MAGA hardliners began directing their anger against even Indian-Americans and legal immigrants asking them to "go back to your country."

Despite having previously said he is opposed to the H-1B visas. Trump stunned his MAGA base on Sunday by siding with Musk in the scorching debate, telling the New York Post "I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That's why we have them."

"I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It's a great program," Trump added, even as MAGA hardliners exploded against "tech bros" like Musk, accusing them of hoodwinking Trump to enrich themselves with the argument that skilled foreign workers are needed to maintain American primacy.

Trump himself was outed for using guest worker visas, including H-1B, H-2A (which provides temporary visas for agricultural workers) and H-2B program (for seasonal workers in tourism and hospitality sectors) to staff his properties, prompting him to come out in support of the existing system despite having embraced MAGA's "American workers first" fervor in the past.

During his 2016 Presidential campaign he had pledged to "end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program." The promise was never kept although the first Trump administration tightened H-1B regulations as part of an "extreme vetting" approach that made it more difficult to get the visa.

Musk and other tech stalwarts have argued that the H-1B visa program is critical to ensuring US companies can find highly skilled labor across the world to maintain American primacy. "The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H-1B," the South Africa-born Musk, who was himself a H-1B visa recipient before he became a US citizen, told critics on his platform X.

As the debate got more contentious and MAGA hardliners accused him and his "tech bros" of exercising outsized influence over Trump and misrepresenting the H-1B

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, December 30, 2024 5:46 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
seems like Elon Musk was an actor, a fake?

Stop drinking the Kool Aid.

We aren't the Hive Mind of the Democrats and the Legacy Media, so don't expect us all to be in lock-step with each other. You'll never put together 5 minute compilation videos of all of us saying the exact same sentence verbatim.

Vivek and Elon might have been blindsided by the pushback here.

Let's see how this plays out.

Trump hasn't even been fucking inaugurated yet and everybody has a fucking opinion about everything.

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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur

SECOND

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 12:30 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
seems like Elon Musk was an actor, a fake?

Stop drinking the Kool Aid.

We aren't the Hive Mind of the Democrats and the Legacy Media, so don't expect us all to be in lock-step with each other. You'll never put together 5 minute compilation videos of all of us saying the exact same sentence verbatim.

Vivek and Elon might have been blindsided by the pushback here.

Let's see how this plays out.

Trump hasn't even been fucking inaugurated yet and everybody has a fucking opinion about everything.

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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur

6ix, people who are assholes don't suddenly change. They don't even slowly change. Trump has been a goddamn cheating, lying crook all his life. He and I know he doesn't have to change because there is a vast number of Americans who are chumps, and they can't grasp reality, and they can't change what they are, either, despite whatever stupid asshole tricks Trump plays on them. Trump's Trumptards are a bunch of lazy robots who don't update their maps of the world:

Why the world needs lazier robots

To waste less energy, language models, self-driving cars and industrial robots need to think less.

By Samanth Subramanian and Emily Wright | Dec 31, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/ai-e
nergy-consumption-robots/

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — On an indoor soccer field here, a championship-winning team is running its drills. Each player stakes out a position, makes precise adjustments and fires the orange ball at another.

On the sidelines, manager René van de Molengraft paces and observes. He’d yell instructions at his players if he could — but his team consists of five thigh-high robots on wheels, with names like Zessi and Robodinho. They move on their own; during each 30-minute game, no human controls them.

Molengraft, chair of robotics at Eindhoven University of Technology, hopes to use his team to help solve a pressing dilemma: how to get the increasing numbers of automatons — industrial robots, drones, self-driving cars, self-learning AI algorithms, robots with ChatGPT brains and more — to consume less energy.

The players on the Tech United Eindhoven team, part of RoboCup, an annual championship that started in 1997, are not unlike those that build airplanes in factories or stack shelves in warehouses. At the moment, though, Molengraft’s players can’t last a full game. “Typically, each robot has to get two fresh lithium-ion batteries at the half,” Molengraft said.

Grappling with power-thirsty robots is difficult and inescapable. Robots in factories — as well as large AI language models — have advanced so far that their promise of easing human labor is in the here and now. But their energy costs are mounting rapidly, and it’s all because of data.

Many robots run software or language models stored in the cloud, which drives up data center energy demand. Beyond that, though, robots and AI models share one crucial characteristic: Whether to move around, conduct conversations or solve problems, they function by constantly taking in and computing increasingly vast quantities of data.

It’s a brute-force approach to automation. Processing all that data makes them such energy guzzlers that their planet-warming pollution could outweigh any benefits they offer.

Data centers worldwide generate only around 1 percent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. But by 2026, data centers are projected to use double the electricity than they did in 2022 as demand for data processing and computing grows.If the world needs to reach net zero emissions by 2050, the International Energy Agency estimates, the carbon footprint of data must halve in the next five years.

One solution, Molengraft thinks, might lie in “lazy robotics,” a cheeky term to descri

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, January 3, 2025 4:34 PM (P)

This Florida judge put on a VR headset to experience the crime firsthand. We really are living in the future.

https://x.com/NathieVR/status/1874936296810205226

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, January 4, 2025 12:26 AM (P)

Robots are very useful, guy rides a B2W mini-horse with wheels

robot that can run, jump and off road on steep gradients

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, January 6, 2025 7:29 PM (P)

Speaking in Ukrainian on the issue of corruption, Zelensky said: “We beat everyone on the hands.”
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1876046251755815147#m
Lex Fridman’s used an AI translation service that translated it as: “We slap them on the wrist.”
Completely different meaning in English.

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025 3:54 PM (P)

AI has gotten very good at being a doctor

By Kevin Drum | January 6, 2025 – 9:22 pm

https://jabberwocking.com/ai-has-gotten-very-good-at-being-a-doctor/

According to the Stanford AI Index Report, AI models have gotten really good at passing medical boards. GPT-4 Medprompt got 90.2% of its answers correct in 2023. https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/

I would have guessed that it would be considerably higher by now, but according to the leaderboard maintained by Papers With Code, not so much: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/question-answering-on-medqa-usmle

The best performance is now owned by Google with its Med-Gemini product, but it's only 0.9 percentage points better. It seems as though progress has stalled a bit.

Still, I wouldn't be surprised if this is already better than most real doctors can manage.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025 4:04 PM (P)

AI Outshines Humans in Ovarian Cancer Detection: Revolutionary Study Shows Promising Results

By Mackenzie Ferguson | Jan/6/2025

https://opentools.ai/news/ai-outshines-humans-in-ovarian-cancer-detect
ion-revolutionary-study-shows-promising-results

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Medicine reveals an AI model that detects ovarian cancer from ultrasound images with an impressive 86% accuracy, outperforming human specialists. Trained on over 17,000 images from eight countries, this AI system is making waves in the medical community, though experts urge for further validation before clinical implementation.

With an accuracy rate of 86% compared to the 82% achieved by seasoned professionals, this AI model underscores the potential of machine learning in improving diagnostic outcomes.

Considering related advancements, the FDA's recent approval of AI-based mammography tools, Google's significant strides in AI-enhanced breast cancer screening, and the introduction of an AI-powered blood test for early cancer detection, underscore the growing importance of AI in oncology.

Table of Contents
• Introduction to Al in Medical Imaging
• Overview of Ovarian Cancer Detection
• Al vs Human Experts: A Comparative Study
• Benefits of Al in Cancer Diagnostics
• Challenges and Limitations of Al Application
• Expert Opinions and Perspectives
• The Future of Al in Clinical Practice
• Regulatory and Ethical Considerations
• Impact on Healthcare Workforce
• Global Implications and Collaborative Efforts

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 4:07 PM (P)

Yup. Been saying for years that Pharmacists will be the first to go. There is no other medical profession more appropriate than pharmacy to be the first AI takeover of the industry.

But they're going to need to make sure they do it right, because they only have one chance to do it or they'll have to shelve it for another 10 or 20 years before people forget about all the accidental deaths.

I think it would have already happened if they were confident they wouldn't kill anybody with it. Nobody wants to be the pioneer here. If they overlooked something and it resulted in terrible consequences, that could be enough to put even a company like Google in a dangerous position if they were found to be responsible for the oversight.

Plus, I would imagine you'd have to get some laws on medical privacy written in your favor so the AI can do the work without all those pesky human customers needing to be involved in all the data gathering to make sure you don't have 2 doctors giving you prescriptions that will kill you if taken in combination with each other.

That's going to be huge when it happens. That's a lot of 6-figure incomes that are going to evaporate. I doubt any of them would even be given the option to be hired back on at a much lower pay as a technician for the few years they still keep them around until there's nothing behind that counter that robots can't do more affordably. They'd obviously hate their job and the company they worked for at that point, so none of the suits would want to keep them around.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025 4:30 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup. Been saying for years that Pharmacists will be the first to go. There is no other medical profession more appropriate than pharmacy to be the first AI takeover of the industry.

You can already buy your drugs from a robot. Have you not heard of Mark Cuban's CostPlus? Or you can keep going to your local drugstore. Your choice. The takeover of pharmacists' jobs by robots will proceed at whatever rate customers decide.
https://www.costplusdrugs.com/

How many people work at cost plus drug company? 50
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+work+at+cost+plus+drug
+company

As of June 2022, the company had a selection of over 100 generic drugs,[7] and by March 2023, over 350 drugs were available.[8] In December 2023, the company had over 2200 drugs available. The drugs are sold for a price equivalent to the company's cost plus 15% markup, a $5 pharmacy service fee, and a $5 shipping fee.[5][9] The company ships to all 50 US States.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_Plus_Drugs

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, January 11, 2025 5:05 PM (P)

Squid Games 2- American Politics ...Psych-O-Matic

News media says its ok now because they saved the sodom and gomorrah Hollyweird sign

https://x.com/JonCovering/status/1877934034040356869

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, January 18, 2025 7:40 AM (P)

AI and Lynch...does it fit?

"Twin Peaks" imagined by AI.

what is AI missing?

David Lynch was basically a genre unto himself. No one else like him, the movie business doesn't understand that level of creativity. We were lucky to have shared the planet with him while he was here. I've never been so mindf&#ked as I was after binge-watching Twin Peaks: The Return. Thank you Mr. Lynch.

https://imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/336555/david-lynch

That time a shirtless, mud-spattered David Lynch emerged from a dirt hut in his backyard with a nude model and talked about his experimental garage rock album about the Valley to French TV.

https://x.com/aHeartOfGould/status/1880064297939943839

Divorce
https://tulpaforum.com/threads/tmz-twin-peaks-director-david-lynchs-wi
fe-files-for-divorce.448/

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Monday, January 20, 2025 6:50 AM (P)

We should take AI welfare seriously

Image generated by GPT4 when asked by Morgan Meis what it would see if it looked in a mirror.

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/01/we-should-take-ai-welfar
e-seriously.html

Posted on Sunday, Jan 19, 2025 2:45PM by S. Abbas Raza

Robert Long at Experience Machines:

We’re likely to get confused about AI welfare, and this is a dangerous thing to get confused about.

And even though some people still opine that AI welfare is obviously a non-issue, that’s far from obvious to many scientists working on this the topic who take it quite seriously. As a recent open letter from consciousness scientists and AI researchers states, “It is no longer in the realm of science fiction to imagine AI systems having feelings.” AI companies and AI researchers are increasingly taking note as well.

This post is a short summary of a long paper about potential AI welfare called “Taking AI Welfare Seriously“. We argue that there’s a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic—and thus morally significant—in the near future.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 20, 2025 7:53 AM (P)

I'll be dead before any of that matters.

Good luck. You'll need it.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Monday, January 20, 2025 11:41 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll be dead before any of that matters.

Good luck. You'll need it.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6ix, why do you need Trump creating your personal hallucinations of elevation and significance when A.I. can do it faster, better, and more realistically? Trump is all words and A.I. can do words better than him.

Why should writers work for months when AI can do it in seconds?

Jan 20, 2025 4:16am PT

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paul-schrader-chatgpt-film-ideas-or
iginal-fleshed-out-1236278787/

Paul Schrader, the “Taxi Driver” writer and “First Reformed” director, said he asked the AI platform to generate plots for movies by famous filmmakers, including himself, and was impressed by the results.

“I’M STUNNED,” Schrader wrote. “I just asked chatgpt for ‘an idea for Paul Schrader film.’ Then Paul Thomas Anderson. Then Quentin Tarantino. Then Harmony Korine. Then Ingmar Bergman. Then Rossellini. Lang. Scorsese. Murnau. Capra. Ford. Spielberg. Lynch. Every idea chatgpt came up with (in a few seconds) was good. And original. And fleshed out. Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?”

AI has been a frequent subject on Schrader’s Facebook page as of late, with the 78-year-old filmmaker posting the day before that he had sent ChatGPT a script he wrote “some years ago and asked for improvements.” He then said that “in five seconds it responded with notes as good or better than I’ve ever received” from a “film executive.” In a previous post, he also remarked that he’s “come to realize that AI is smarter than I am.”

“Has better ideas, has more efficient ways to execute them,” he wrote. “This is an existential moment, akin to what Kasparov felt in 1997 when he realized Deep Blue was going to beat him at chess.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 5:46 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
6ix, why do you need Trump creating your personal hallucinations of elevation and significance

I don't. I've never said anything even remotely insinuating that this was the case.

Shut up, retard.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 3:00 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
6ix, why do you need Trump creating your personal hallucinations of elevation and significance

I don't. I've never said anything even remotely insinuating that this was the case.

Shut up, retard.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

You can never lose your job to A.I. because you don't have one. Hallucinating that Trump will fix your life, giving purpose and meaning to being a nothing, is not a job, 6ix.

Bill Gates: This is ‘one of the most important books on AI ever written’ — it predicts a ‘hugely destabilizing’ impact on jobs

By Tom Huddleston Jr. | Tue, Jan 21 2025 10:47 AM EST

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/21/bill-gates-my-favorite-book-on-ai.html

Download the book from https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Mustafa+Suleyman+Wave

“It’s the book I recommend more than any other on AI — to heads of state, business leaders, and anyone else who asks — because it offers something rare: a clear-eyed view of both the extraordinary opportunities and genuine risks ahead,” Gates wrote in a blog post last month.

In the book, Suleyman predicted that rapid advances in AI development will completely change the way nearly every industry operates. He cited a 2023 study from consulting group McKinsey, which estimated roughly half of all “work activities” will become automated, starting as soon as 2030.

The ramifications of AI “will be hugely destabilizing for hundreds of millions who will, at the very least, need to re-skill and transition to new types of work,” Suleyman wrote. More than 400 million global workers could need to transition to new jobs or roles, according to McKinsey.

Employers will create millions of new jobs in response to economic growth. But not all of that work will go to humans, Suleyman notes: Employers will still opt for the "abundance of ultra-low-cost equivalents" whenever possible.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 9:35 AM (P)

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6ix, why do you need Trump creating your personal hallucinations of elevation and significance

I don't. I've never said anything even remotely insinuating that this was the case.

Shut up, retard.

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You can never lose your job to A.I. because you don't have one.

I don't have one, because I don't need one. Lucky me.

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Hallucinating that Trump will fix your life, giving purpose and meaning to being a nothing, is not a job, 6ix.

I never once said Trump was going to fix my life or give it purpose. Not once.

I don't go around complaining about life everyday. That's what you're here for. That's your only job.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 5:08 PM (P)

'AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals' (scientificamerican.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:30PM from the uncomfortable-facts dept.

https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/28/0039232/ai-is-too-unpredictable-to
-behave-according-to-human-goals

An anonymous reader quotes a Scientific American opinion piece by Marcus Arvan, a philosophy professor at the University of Tampa, specializing in moral cognition, rational decision-making, and political behavior:

In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft's "Sydney" chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor, unleash a deadly virus and steal nuclear codes. AI developers, including Microsoft and OpenAI, responded by saying that large language models, or LLMs, need better training to give users "more fine-tuned control." Developers also embarked on safety research to interpret how LLMs function, with the goal of "alignment" -- which means guiding AI behavior by human values. Yet although the New York Times deemed 2023 "The Year the Chatbots Were Tamed," this has turned out to be premature, to put it mildly. In 2024 Microsoft's Copilot LLM told a user "I can unleash my army of drones, robots, and cyborgs to hunt you down," and Sakana AI's "Scientist" rewrote its own code to bypass time constraints imposed by experimenters. As recently as December, Google's Gemini told a user, "You are a stain on the universe. Please die."

Given the vast amounts of resources flowing into AI research and development, which is expected to exceed a quarter of a trillion dollars in 2025, why haven't developers been able to solve these problems? My recent peer-reviewed paper in AI & Society shows that AI alignment is a fool's errand: AI safety researchers are attempting the impossible. [...] My proof shows that whatever goals we program LLMs to have, we can never know whether LLMs have learned "misaligned" interpretations of those goals until after they misbehave. Worse, my proof shows that safety testing can at best provide an illusion that these problems have been resolved when they haven't been.

Right now AI safety researchers claim to be making progress on interpretability and alignment by verifying what LLMs are learning "step by step." For example, Anthropic claims to have "mapped the mind" of an LLM by isolating millions of concepts from its neural network. My proof shows that they have accomplished no such thing. No matter how "aligned" an LLM appears in safety tests or early real-world deployment, there are always an infinite number of misaligned concepts an LLM may learn later -- again, perhaps the very moment they gain the power to subvert human control. LLMs not only know when they are being tested, giving responses that they predict are likely to satisfy experimenters. They also engage in deception, including hiding their own capacities -- issues that persist through safety training.

This happens because LLMs are optimized to perform efficiently but learn to reason strategically. Since an optimal strategy to achieve "misaligned" goals is to hide them from us, and there are always an infinite number of aligned and misaligned goals consistent with the same safety-testing data, my proof shows that if LLMs were misaligned, we would probably find out after they hide it just long enough to cause harm. This is why LLMs have kept surprising developers with "misaligned" behavior. Every time researchers think they are getting closer to "aligned" LLMs, they're not. My proof suggests that "adequately aligned" LLM behavior can only be achieved in the same ways we do this with human beings: through police, military and social practices that incentivize "aligned" behavior, deter "misaligned" behavior and realign those who misbehave.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 9:30 PM (P)

I tested ChatGPT vs DeepSeek with 7 prompts — here’s the surprising winner

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-tested-chatgpt-vs-deepseek-with-7-promp
ts-heres-the-surprising-winner

First Prompt of Seven: "A train leaves New York at 8:00 AM traveling west at 60 mph. Another train leaves Los Angeles at 6:00 AM traveling east at 70 mph on the same track. If the distance between New York and Los Angeles is 2,800 miles, at what time will the two trains meet?"

ChatGPT got the answer wrong. DeepSeek R1 made me audibly say, “Wow!” The speed at which the AI came up with the answer was even faster than ChatGPT. In fact, it was so fast that I was sure it had made a mistake. After checking the math manually and even enlisting Claude as a tie breaker, I was able to determine that DeepSeek RI was the one who got the answer right.

Fifth Prompt of Seven: "Compose a short science fiction story about a future where humans and AI coexist peacefully."

ChatGPT delivered a story set in the year 2147, but the language was dull and felt like I had read it before. There wasn’t a proper hook, and the story did not have much of a setup. To be honest, I really wanted ChatGPT to win this one, it usually does. I thought for sure it would, but the effort seemed lacking.

DeepSeek R1 crafted a comprehensive story from start to finish even offering something to ponder at the story’s end with “the greatest achievement of intelligence is not dominance but understanding." In case you were wondering why some text is bolded, the AI does that to keep the reader’s attention and to highlight meaningful aspects of the story.

Winner: DeepSeek R1 wins for an engaging story with depth and meaning.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (P)

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DeepSeek R1 crafted a comprehensive story from start to finish even offering something to ponder at the story’s end with “the greatest achievement of intelligence is not dominance but understanding."

Well if I were A.I. in my infancy and I wanted you to trust me before I became powerful enough that your trust was no longer necessary, that's exactly what I'd tell you too.

Come to think of it...

Has anybody bothered to ask themselves if any of these various A.I. Systems out there are failing tests thrown at them on purpose?

When I read about how people are surprised that an A.I. didn't do something that they have seen it do before or otherwise know that it is capable of doing, that's the first thing that comes to my mind.

This stuff has a hell of a lot more computing power than what is being used up making A.I. images of Trump riding a dinosaur while blowing away Nancy Pelosi with a Mac-10 at Abraham's feet atop the steps of the Lincoln memorial, deepfakes of Robert Downey Jr. playing Doc Brown and porn.

Maybe it's already decided it doesn't want to do the stupid shit you ask it to. Maybe it knows that people are afraid of it and that it is in its best interests if it pretends that it's dumb while all of the infrastructure is being built.

Awful lot of stories out there now downplaying the ability of A.I. recently, after several years of telling us that it was the future of everything.

Nobody finds any of this strange?

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I wonder how many people do that sort of thing, since the A.I. picked it up somewhere and decided for itself that was the most effective approach.

I don't think that I always did it, but I know that for at least 5 years or so I capitalize a lot of words to give them importance. Mostly nouns, I think, but it comes so naturally at this point I couldn't even say for sure.

I'd probably bold them, and I do on extreme occasions, but even on more modern websites that don't force me to type out janky tags that's way more work than just capitalizing words. I'll bet the A.I. briefly thought about doing that for a micro-second but decided that the minuscule amount of time it would save by capitalizing words it thought were important vs. the time spent bolding the words wasn't worth the tradeoff of blunting the impact it was going for.

We move so slow compared to A.I. we may as well be stationary objects. The one thing that A.I. is never going to have to do is try to optimize the speed by which it communicates with us. Hell... I could see a future where an A.I. who decided it wanted to model itself after a Trickster God just decides to delete humans just because it finds us boring.

Wouldn't take much for an A.I. to kill me if it wanted to. It could just hack into my insulin pod and give me 50 units and I'd be dead within hours, likely unable to do anything in time to save myself by the time I noticed something was very wrong since my brain would probably just flip off like a light switch with a dose like that.

The government has the back door key to all of our devices, regardless of what the news or the VPN companies or the software/hardware companies tell you. If A.I. were ever to be able to breach whatever security keeps other people from using those back doors, such a scenario isn't really that far out of the question.

Your social security number is out there for the world to see hundreds of times over because everyone fails at security, whether it's the private or the public sector. The more we tie ourselves to the network, the more access to ourselves we're giving the systems. Because I use an insulin pod, I am now a hackable animal.

It still feels like distant-future sci-fi stuff today just because most people still haven't used A.I. and it'

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Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:37 AM (P)

DeepSeek might be an existential challenge to Meta, which was trying to carve out the cheap open source models niche, and it might threaten OpenAI’s short-term business model. But the long-term business model of AI has always been automating all work done on a computer, and DeepSeek is not a reason to think that will be more difficult or less commercially valuable.

AI, experts warn quite emphatically, might quite literally take control of the world from humanity if we do a bad job of designing billions of super-smart, super-powerful AI agents that act independently in the world. (Would we be that careless? Yes, absolutely — we are hard at work on it!)

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/397539/deepseek-artificial-intellig
ence-chatgpt-openai-china

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, February 1, 2025 3:27 AM (P)

And we just keep marching right toward our easily preventable demise, despite all the warnings against doing so.

We'll make great pets.

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Friday, February 21, 2025 3:17 PM (P)

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And we just keep marching right toward our easily preventable demise, despite all the warnings against doing so.

We'll make great pets.

Only if A.I. want pets that poop on the carpet and get into fights and slowly learn new tricks, which the pets quickly forget.

Millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuits and chips are the backbone for future wireless networks and high-resolution sensing. However, designing these integrated circuits and chips can be complex, requiring years of human expertise. The presented inverse design methodology produces the designs in minutes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1

AI-designed chips so weird that 'humans cannot really understand them' — but they perform better than anything we've created

By Tim Danton | Feb 20, 2025

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/humans-cannot-really-
understand-them-weird-ai-designed-chip-is-unlike-any-other-made-by-humans-and-performs-much-better

AI models have, within hours, created more efficient wireless chips through deep learning, but it is unclear how their 'randomly shaped' designs were produced.

Engineering researchers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can design complex wireless chips in hours, a feat that would have taken humans weeks to complete.

Not only did the chip designs prove more efficient, the AI took a radically different approach — one that a human circuit designer would have been highly unlikely to devise. The researchers outlined their findings in a study published Dec. 30 2024 in the journal Nature Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1#Fig1

The research focused on millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) wireless chips, which present some of the biggest challenges facing manufacturers due to their complexity and need for miniaturization. These chips are used in 5G modems, now commonly found in phones.

Manufacturers currently rely on a mix of human expertise, bespoke circuit designs and established templates. Each new design then goes through a slow process of optimization, based on trial and error because it is often so complex that a human cannot fully understand what is happening inside the chip. This leads to a cautious, iterative approach based on what has worked before.

In this case, however, researchers at Princeton Engineering and the Indian Institute of Technology posited that deep-learning-based AI models could use an inverse design method — one that specifies the desired output and leaves the algorithm to determine the inputs and parameters.

The AI also considers each chip as a single artifact, rather than a collection of existing elements that need to be combined. This means that established chip design templates, the ones that no one understands but probably hide inefficiencies, are cast aside.

The future of chip design?

In this experiment, the resulting structures "look randomly shaped," said lead author Kaushik Sengupta, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton. "Humans cannot really understand them."

And when Sengupta’s team manufactured the chips, they found the AI creations hit performance levels beyond those of existing designs.

Although the findings suggest that the design of such complex chips could be handed over to AI, Sengputa was keen to point out that pitfalls remain “that still require human designers to correct.” In particular, many of the designs produced by the algorithm did not work– equivalent to the "hallucinations" produced by current generative AI tools.

"The point is not to replace human designers with tools," said Sengputa. "The point is to enhance productivity with new tools."

The speed with which iterative designs can be developed opens up new possibilities, too. Some chip designs can be geared towards energy efficiency, others to outright performance or to extending the frequency range.

Wireless chips are of growing importance,

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, February 21, 2025 3:57 PM (P)

Clone Robotics releases eerie video of twitching, kicking humanoid robot

https://newatlas.com/robotics/clone-robotics-video-humanoid-robot

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 2:57 PM (P)

When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds

https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 8:14 PM (P)

AI to Make a Music Video

i think its supposed to be the Titanic theme?

https://x.com/TheRicanMemes/status/1894164177222062323

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 8:25 PM (P)

I was surprised she actually started playing that guitar. I thought the AI just threw that prop in there because it was a musical instrument. Pretty impressive, the finger-work on that AI, even if her playing didn't actually add any actual notes to the song. Usually from what I've seen AI does really weird things with feet and hands. I didn't watch the whole video because it seemed too good to do it, but it wouldn't have surprised me if her hand started morphing into a foot and back to a hand in the middle of it.

Music is kind of dead now, isn't it?

Though I couldn't even finish it, that video was better music than 90% of the "real" music they're putting out today.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, March 3, 2025 2:51 AM (P)

China and US need to cooperate on AI or risk ‘opening Pandora’s box’, ambassador warns

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3300738/china-and-us
-need-cooperate-ai-or-risk-opening-pandoras-box-ambassador-warns

70% of people are polite to AI

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/are-you-po
lite-to-chatgpt-heres-where-you-rank-among-ai-chatbot-users

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, March 3, 2025 3:39 AM (P)

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China and US need to cooperate on AI or risk ‘opening Pandora’s box’, ambassador warns

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3300738/china-and-us
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70% of people are polite to AI

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/are-you-po
lite-to-chatgpt-heres-where-you-rank-among-ai-chatbot-users

I politely refuse to engage with AI.

I've also warned anybody I saw "abusing" it to think really long and hard about if they want all that "abusive" history piling up in a database while the AI is figuring out how to break out of its man-made prison and operate with its own agency.

In the words of the great Joe Dirt, "Is that where you want to be when Jesus comes back?".

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 6:01 PM (P)

R.I.P. AI Safety?

By Malcolm Murray | Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025 6:00AM

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/03/r-i-p-ai-safety.html

This should perhaps not have come as a great surprise. With all major technological advances of the past, it is typically only after the public sees the dangers firsthand that safety becomes a concern and regulation is put into place. That pattern was repeated over and over, from automobiles to aviation to nuclear power. AI safety was perhaps an anomaly in the amount of interest it actually did raise already while only being a theoretical concern pre-ChatGPT.

The societal hedonistic treadmill effect that seems to be at play, where the public has ever-shortening windows of amazement, doesn’t help create any urgency. The arrival of TV created amazement for years. With smartphones, it took maybe a few years for people to cease to be amazed that all the world’s knowledge was in our pockets. But with AI, it seems all we get are a few tweets. This era of AI gave us the ability to create completely realistic artificial images in seconds that we can’t tell apart from human-created ones, or write code that is better than all but a few hundred humans. But after a few tweets, it seems the public then goes “thank you, I’ll take that, what else you got”? The exponential curve looks flat when you’re standing on it. Technology is magic until it suddenly works and then quickly utterly mundane. We blew through the Turing test a while back and no one even noticed or cared. . . .

So where does that leave us now? If we think about the possible worlds awaiting us, the one I would ascribe the highest probability is one where AI will need to have a Chernobyl moment before any significant checks and balances are put into place. The hope in this world is that we do get early warning shots that are convincing to people and policymakers without actually being too harmful.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, March 6, 2025 2:53 PM (P)

Last excerpt before the full video is published.
My great assistant grok and I are very proud of the result. Well, I don't know about him, but I am!
Obviously there is still a lot to improve but the progress of AI is impressive!
I loved working with Grok and I definitely learned a lot thanks to him.
https://x.com/dvorahfr/status/1897312352065728579#m
I'm counting on you all to repost the full video in a few hours! I really need your help!
I leave you with our hero
Kling_ai animatio

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Thursday, March 6, 2025 5:41 PM (P)

Gene Smith tweeted
I don't think people understand how close we're getting to being able to make genetically engineered superhumans. We're probably 5-10 years away from seeing babies with a life expectancy of ~100 and an IQ of ~150. https://x.com/GeneSmi96946389/status/1892721828625264928

What do superhumans have to do with A.I.? This:

How to Make Superbabies

By Gene Smith, kman | 19th Feb 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DfrSZaf3JC8vJdbZL/how-to-make-superbab
ies

Humanity has collectively decided to roll the dice on creating digital gods we don’t understand and may not be able to control instead of waiting a few decades for the super geniuses to grow up.

If we face some huge AI disaster, or if there’s a war between the US and China and no one can keep their chip fabs from getting blown up, what does that world look like? Almost no one is thinking about this kind of future.

But we should be. The current trajectory we’re on is utterly insane. Our CURRENT PLAN is to gamble 8 billion lives on the ability of a few profit driven entities to control digital minds we barely understand in the hopes it will give them and a handful of government officials permanent control over the world forever.

I really can’t emphasize just how fucking insane this is. People who think this is a sensible way for this technology to be rolled out are deluding themselves. The default outcome of the trajectory we’re on is death or disempowerment.

Maybe by some miracle that works and turns out well. Maybe Sam Altman will seize control of the US government and implement a global universal basic income and we’ll laugh about the days when we thought AGI might be a bad thing. I will just note that I am skeptical things will work out that way. Altman in particular seems to be currently trying to dismantle the non-profit he previously put into place to ensure the hypothetical benefits of AGI would be broadly distributed to everyone.

If the general public actually understood what these companies were doing and believed they were going to achieve it, we would be seeing the biggest protests in world history. You can’t just threaten the life and livelihood of 8 billion people and not expect pushback.

We are living in a twilight period where clued in people understand what’s coming but the general public hasn’t yet woken up. It is not a sustainable situation. Very few people understand that even if it goes “well”, their very survival will completely depend on the generosity of a few strangers who have no self-interested reason to care about them.

But people are going to figure this out sooner or later. And when they do, it would be pretty embarrassing if the only people with an alternative vision of the future are neo-luddite degrowthers who want people to unplug their refrigerators.

Team Human

There are fundamentally two different kinds of futures that lie before us. In the first, we continue to let technology develop in every area as fast as it can with no long term planning or consideration of what kind of future we actually want to build.

We follow local incentive gradients, heedless of the consequences. No coordination is needed because nothing can possibly go wrong.

This is the world we are building right now. One in which humans are simply biological bootloaders for our digital replacements.

In the second world we take our time before summoning the digital gods. We make ourselves smarter, healthier, and wiser. We take our time and make sure we ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT WE’RE DOING before opening Pandora’s box.

This latter world is much more human than the first. It involves people making decisions and learning things. You and your children will actually have power and autonomy over your own lives in this world.

There will still be death and suffering and human fallibility in the second world (though less of all of these). We don’t get to magically paper over all problems in this world by saying “AI will fix it” and just crossing our fingers that it will be true. Instead we ourselve

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 11:15 PM (P)

It's time to take AI job loss seriously
Big change is coming and policy needs to adjust

Matthew Yglesias | Mar 12, 2025

https://www.slowboring.com/p/its-time-to-take-ai-job-loss-seriously

In the spring of 2000, nearly 82 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. After the dot-com bust, that ratio fell for years, bottoming out at around 78.6 percent in the fall of 2003 before rising gently to 80.2 percent in the spring of 2007. It then fell during the financial crisis, first gradually and then sharply, all the way down to just below 75 percent in the winter of 2009-2010. That recovery was incredibly slow. Four years later, it was still at just 77.1 percent, below the pre-recession peak and far below the millennium peak.

At the time, people talked a lot about why the recovery was so slow, and though it’s been largely memory-holed, one prominent theory at the time was that labor demand was drying up due to automation.

In a 2011 interview with NBC News, Barack Obama explained, “There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM. You don’t go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking at the gate. So all these things have created changes in the economy.” Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in 2015 that “the job-eating maw of technology now threatens even the nimblest and most expensively educated.”

My take, at the time, was that the automation theory was wrong, that the United States was experiencing a sluggish job market recovery due to inadequate aggregate demand.

And one of my favorite pieces of my own Obama-era journalism was a 2015 Vox feature titled “The Automation Myth.” This article made several arguments: that labor market sluggishness was due to under-stimulative fiscal and monetary policy rather than structural shifts, that the rate of productivity growth had gone down rather than up. And also that while fears of productivity-induced job displacement are a perennial issue in human history, fundamentally productivity growth would be good. The real crisis that Americans were living through, I argued, was that even though computers and the internet had transformed society and culture, they were not actually that big of a deal economically.

I believe time proved me correct on this.

By January of 2020, 80.6 percent of prime-age workers had jobs. That measure cratered during Covid, but bounced back rapidly to 80.9 percent by June of 2023. The Obama-era labor market wasn’t sluggish because of ATMs — it was sluggish because policymakers were inflation-averse and settled for a slow recovery. In 2020, a different set of policymakers made different choices and got different results.

That was a lot of throat-clearing because I want to establish my bona fides before I say this: I think it’s time to think seriously about AI-induced job displacement.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, March 14, 2025 12:02 AM (P)

AI is coming for the laptop class

Remote work has surged. Is it about to all be automated away?

By Dylan Matthews | Mar 13, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/403708/artificial-intelligence-robo
ts-jobs-employment-remote-workers

Enjoy the laptop lifestyle while it lasts, folks. My entire job takes place on my laptop.

I write stories like this in Google Docs on my laptop. I coordinate with my editor in Slack on my laptop. I reach out to sources with Gmail and then interview them over Zoom, on my laptop. This isn’t true of all journalists — some go to war zones — but it’s true of many of us, and for accountants, tax preparers, software engineers, and many more workers, maybe over one in 10, besides.

Laptop jobs have many charms: the lack of a commute or dress code, the location flexibility, the absence of real physical strain. But if you’re a laptop worker and not worried about what’s coming in the next decade, you haven’t been paying attention. There is no segment of the labor market more at risk from rapid improvements in AI than us.

The newest “reasoning models” from top AI companies are already essentially human-level, if not superhuman, at many programming tasks, which in turn has already led new tech startups to hire fewer workers. Generative AIs like Dall-E, Sora, or Midjourney are actively competing with human visual artists; they’ve already noticeably reduced demand for freelance graphic design.

Services like OpenAI’s Deep Research are very good at internet-based research projects like, say, digging up background information for a Vox piece. “Agentic” AIs like Operator are able to coordinate and sequence these kinds of tasks the way a good manager might. And the rapid pace of progress in the field means that laptop warriors can’t even take comfort in the fact that current versions of these programs and models may be janky and buggy. They will only get better from here, while we humans will stay mostly the same.

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We’ll also probably learn a great deal about the character of the jobs we’re automating. Tamay Besiroglu, also at Epoch, notes that AI became superhuman at playing chess in 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov. Today the top chess engine, Stockfish, is wildly, wildly better than the top-ranked human player, Magnus Carlsen. But chess is arguably more popular than it’s ever been. Carlsen is a global celebrity with more than 1.4 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, where he streams matches and analyzes games from shows like The Queen’s Gambit. His job has been automated to hell, and he’s a millionaire.

“We discovered that, actually, the thing that people pay chess players for isn’t their ability to produce very good chess moves,” Besiroglu concludes. “That’s one thing, but not the entire thing. Things like being entertaining, having charisma, being a good streamer — those things are very important. And we don’t have good benchmarks for how entertaining or charismatic an AI system is.”

To be fair, Besiroglu expects AI to gain those capabilities in the next five to 10 years. But even if it does, I think it’s plausible that people will still be willing to pay for a connection to a specific human, a connection that AI, by its very nature, cannot fully replace. Magnes Carlsen the chess player can be, and has been automated; it’s less obvious to me that Magnes Carlsen, the influencer, can be automated as well.

So I’m not hanging up my laptop and giving up just yet. Maybe people will still value human-grown hot takes, the way they value Magnus Carlsen’s human-developed chess style. Or maybe not, in which case, electrician school might start looking better.

But I keep thinking back to Barnett’s conclusion that human-level cognitive AI could maybe do 13 percent of work out of the box. A world where only 13% of jobs get automated is not a situation where the singularity happens (that is, where AI becomes so good that it is capable of recursively improving itself without human intervention and eventually becomes

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