"Instead, the work these generators churn out look uncanny, smooth, and generally off in ways that are both obvious and not [...], it also struggles with statistically improbable prompts like “a horse riding an astronaut,” which still seem exclusively the province of human imagination"
"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. [...]
ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil: plagiarism and apathy and obviation."
@muffinista I'd definitely not make it a rule that alt text is required for image bots, people will just end up posting garbage, but maybe it would be worth mentioning that it's useful when signing up for a new account?
"The study from Reuters Institute and Oxford University (via BBC), which surveyed over 12,000 people across six countries, seemingly reveals how little that AI hype has percolated down to real-world use, for now."
"Eventually, Aaron turned to his computer for comfort. Through it, he found someone that was available round the clock to respond to his messages, listen to his problems, and help him move past the loss of his friend group. That “someone” was an AI chatbot named Psychologist."
"State Department arms control official Paul Dean told an online briefing that Washington had made a "clear and strong commitment" that humans had total control over nuclear weapons, adding that France and Britain had done the same.
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The Chinese defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
“We couldn’t make the math work with the way that we were structured,” [Dropbox CEO Drew] Houston said during the podcast.
“So we had to make a really tough decision to let go of a lot of people and then make room for the investments in AI and [Dropbox] Dash and all the stuff that we wanted to ultimately make the company successful.”
"About four-in-ten Americans (38%) don’t trust the information that comes from ChatGPT about the 2024 U.S. presidential election – that is, they say they have not too much trust (18%) or no trust at all (20%)."
"What’s happening here is a stark illustration of the logic of the AI industry and the long term economic precarity coming for all but a tiny few if we follow it to its conclusion."
"Beyond announcing red lights and turn signals, the large language models (LLMs) powering these chatbots may ultimately need to make moral decisions, like prioritizing passengers’ or pedestrian’s safety."
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