Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

Not that this proves anything, but the guy in the video I posted specifically had GPT-3 write functions that (although very simple) were novel and couldn't have just been a search engine result.

Not that this is AGI, but I'm convinced that long after AGI exists, people are going to say that it's not AGI, and if it is, it's no big deal.

so what if the computer's smarter than me, a calculator can do much longer division than I can

could the functions have been a few different search engines results mashed together? how many times did he try it and were all the results valid functions? talktotransformer came up with new and unique sentences but they were 100% a product of the input.

right. he's not saying it's literally a search engine. this is the money tweet in the thread

i use AI in my own work, and i'm moderately positive about its capacity as a tool. but what I'm truly excited about is not the capacity to launder knowledge into new mush, but to organize knowledge in ways that are transparent, traversable, and human readable

— everest (@everestpipkin) July 18, 2020

oh god looking back at the brutal and stupid ai and they've found a way to make an ai that thinks just like me

What would be an example of organizing knowledge in ways that are transparent, traversable, and human readable, because it seems like writing a novel computer program to specific requirements does that. People are having it write front-end apps that "compile" (or whatever you call it with JS) to working websites.

just in case ppl haven't seen these examples which we're kind of discussing the responses to without having explicitly posted in the first place:

This is mind blowing.

With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you.

W H A T pic.twitter.com/w8JkrZO4lk

— Sharif Shameem (@sharifshameem) July 13, 2020

I just built a *functioning* React app by describing what I wanted to GPT-3.

I'm still in awe. pic.twitter.com/UUKSYz2NJO

— Sharif Shameem (@sharifshameem) July 17, 2020

I dunno, if this stuff leaves you blasé you are far world-wearier than I, because I think it's fucking amazing.

Things that should seem amazing but just don't

I dunno, if this stuff leaves you blasé you are far world-wearier than I, because I think it's fucking amazing.

― Dan I.

not good. i am in pain.

So coding knowledge is useless now?

oh god looking back at the brutal and stupid ai and they've found a way to make an ai that thinks just like me

From the very first, our tools have always been capable of serving our basest, worst, most unethical purposes, so if AI ends up doing so at whatever level of competence it achieves, then it may be a 'big deal' but it should not be a surprise.

dumbest smart person alive

So I don't want to sound alarms prematurely, here, but we could possibly be looking at the first case of an AI pretending to be stupider than it is. In this example, GPT-3 apparently fails to learn/understand how to detect balanced sets of parentheses. (1/10.) https://t.co/cmO1xJuyAQ pic.twitter.com/jqAefa9OXW

— Eliezer Yudkowsky (@ESYudkowsky) July 20, 2020

haahhaahh

that fucking guy

He’s not the “dumbest smart person” he’s just a dumbass dropout neckbeard grifter

i need a good laugh, time to read about roko's basilisk again.

I asked GPT-3 about our existence and God and now I have no questions anymore.#GPT3 // @OpenAI pic.twitter.com/ROsjDZn7RG

— Merzmensch Kosmopol (@Merzmensch) July 15, 2020

We have reached the level of artificial stoned guy at party at 2am.

I figured AI would take my job at some point but I didn’t think it would be so soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIEp-Tw-iDY

Argos catalogues put through a GAN

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/07/16/how-an-ai-graphic-designer-convinced-clients-it-was-human/

sort of lightweight clickbait but makes an interesting case for realistic + practical use of ai.

hi on behalf of every writer struggling to make a living wage as our profession is relegated to worthless content production I urge you to fucking stop https://t.co/xWe1koTMyz

— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) August 12, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxv-uq5BChA

"is it... a friend?"

Some colleagues of mine worked on this. Pretty impressive!, Check out the samples. Already deployed on Alexa comms and Chime videoconferencing.

Sample 11, bloke saying that the engine runs very clean and letting us hear it for ourselves. Cleaned up version just has silence in the gap...

Also, if two people are sharing the phone, it can interfere. That's probably why they made it an option in the UI.

Janet and Penny went to the store to get presents for Jack. Janet said, “I will buy Jack a top.” “Don’t get Jack a top,” says Penny. “He has a top. He will get a top.” “I will get Jack a top,” said Janet.

[Within a single sentence, GPT-3 has lost track of the fact that Penny is advising Janet against getting a top because Jack already has a top. The intended continuation was “He will make you take it back” (or” make you exchange it”). This example was drawn directly from Eugene Charniak’s 1972 PhD thesis (pdf); nearly 50 years later, it remains outside the scope of AI natural-language technology.]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/

https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2020/08/25/optimal-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwiches/

last two links really deliver.

Portland, Oregon just banned government AND corporate face surveillance.

Portland is the FIRST jurisdiction to pass a ban on corporate face surveillance in places of public accommodation. https://t.co/pSloXrlpT4

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) September 9, 2020

Also banned tear gas.

Want the most cutting edge urban, cyber, future art you can imagine? Then you want GANKSY! https://t.co/9CS8VKBMJJ The worlds first a.i. generated virtual street artist. Buy now before venture capitalists and movie stars snap it all up!

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) October 14, 2020

Prefer this to the real Banksy.

An artificial intelligence service freely available on the Web has been used to transform more than 100,000 women’s images into nude photos without the women’s knowledge or consent, triggering fears of a new wave of damaging “deepfakes” that could be used for harassment or blackmail.

Users of the automated service can anonymously submit a photo of a clothed woman and receive an altered version with the clothing removed. The AI technology, trained on large databases of actual nude photographs, can generate fakes with seemingly lifelike accuracy, matching skin tone and swapping in breasts and genitalia where clothes once were.

The women’s faces remain clearly visible, and no labels are appended to the images to mark them as fake. Some of the original images show girls younger than 18.

The service, which allows people to place new orders through an automated “chatbot” on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was first discovered by researchers at Sensity, an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity start-up that shared its findings with The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/deep-fake-nudes/

I endorse this only if done to photos of Trump

what if it turned out the the pee tape was a deepfake

But, in a shocking twist, the fakery is that they removed pee

wait, so he would just be standing on the hotel bed while the sex workers pretend to get peed on? i can see why he would want to that on tape

ok I laughed at "Orlando Brooms"
https://64.media.tumblr.com/21a25798ac613df3f73050def1d3088b/3812fd1d9f78030b-3f/s500x750/9edc035893332b6682f312b8c65592c8224311d0.png

from https://aiweirdness.com/post/633411394686042112/splorts-teams

https://image.ganref.jp/photos/members/wutaibo/2ba3758a04920247790b47410f36c916_3.jpg

The club announced a few weeks ago it was moving from using human camera operators to cameras controlled by AI. The club proudly announced at the time the new "Pixellot system uses cameras with in-built, AI, ball-tracking technology" and would be used to capture HD footage of all home matches at Caledonian Stadium, which would be broadcast directly to season-ticket holders' homes.

Cut to last Saturday, when the robot cameras were given a new challenge that hadn't been foreseen: A linesman with a bald head.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle don’t employ a cameraman as their camera is programmed to follow the ball throughout the match. The commentator had to apologise today as the camera kept on mistaking the ball for the linesman’s head... pic.twitter.com/LeKsc2bEj7
— Tom Cox (@seagull81) October 24, 2020

The AI camera appeared to mistake the man's bald head for the ball for a lot of the match, repeatedly swinging back to follow the linesman instead of the actual game. Many viewers complained they missed their team scoring a goal because the camera "kept thinking the Lino bald head was the ball," and some even suggested the club would have to provide the linesman with a toupe or hat.

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-camera-ruins-soccar-game-for-fans-after-mistaking-referees-bald-head-for-ball/

if anything has ever really needed to be polled, it is Blaseball: The Simulation

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-camera-ruins-soccar-game-for-fans-after-mistaking-referees-bald-head-for-ball/

Brilliant.

and the award for creepiest work email yet received goes to...

"This Alteryx workflow has become self-aware and will now send you work automatically..."

I tweeted (alright, I moaned) about how Amazon ai sucks because they sent me an email advertising something I literally just bought. (Important note: I didn't @ them - just mentioned "Amazon"), and their twitter bot instantly responded with a helpful tip on how to deactivate the market emails.

so i guess it sucks and doesn't suck at the same time.

and yeah, my tweets are a barrel of laughs.