Obviously an informed and nuanced view on #AI from Geoffrey Hinton who just resigned from Google.
"He still believed the systems were inferior to the human brain in some ways but he thought they were eclipsing human intelligence in others." That latter part is I think obviously true. How much that matters will remain to be seen.
But the potential for bad or merely irresponsible people (e.g. those chasing power or profits) to do bad is enormous.
AI makes non-invasive mind-reading possible by turning thoughts into text.
The Guardian reports: "The decoder could reconstruct speech with uncanny accuracy while people listened to a story – or even silently imagined one – using only fMRI scan data."
Artificial intelligence is already affecting the 2024 U.S. election in ways that could reshape how campaigns are run and how voters are informed — or misled.
I just got a great idea for a better onboarding experience for #Mastodon. We’ve talked about having a wizard that asks about your interests and suggests servers based on them, but what if this system was powered by GPT 4? We’ve already proven that #AI can summarize content, sight it's sources, and search the web for answers in the form of New Bing, so it would probably be very good at suggesting servers to join.
Seeing AI art slowly crop up on the covers of small novels, and in advertisements, and seeing blocks of AI text appear on web pages is making me so depressed.
It feels like the whole world is getting... degraded. It's all lower quality... not enough to matter, but it's a down grade.
Will anyone ever wonder "who drew this amazing cover art for this obscure sci fi book?" or will you ever chuckle at a little joke inserted in an online "how to" article?
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.”
Down the road, he is worried that future versions of the technology pose a threat to humanity because they often learn unexpected behavior from the vast amounts of data they analyze. This becomes an issue, he said, as individuals and companies allow A.I. systems not only to generate their own computer code but actually run that code on their own. And he fears a day when truly autonomous weapons — those killer robots — become reality.
This is an extreme example, of course. But it's from a report that NewsGuard published earlier today, exposing 49 sites.
They were publishing inaccurate and misleading news content seemingly created with little human oversight. Posting at a crazy cadence, up to hundreds of articles a day.
What's the point? Who's going to read this? Who's going to click on this?
Neeva Search about to remove
their "Search across 3rd party apps" feature. Kind of surprised since this was such a unique feature, but I guess the expenses are becoming too much. #ai#neeva