Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

XP - In the context of my work, very simply to make it easier to hear and sometimes to help bed it into something like a radio documentary or podcast.

In this instance you could argue that it doesn't have to be cleaned up, sure. However, for me, static background noise or artefacts of a primitive recording process aren't necessarily integral or precious, and in that small clip you can discern more of the voices in the background that were masked by noise.

It was an outdoor wartime recording of Neville Chamberlain, at an airfield iirc.

Got it, thanks!

I think that what I worry about isn't necessarily what you're point to or doing, which makes sense to me. What I worry about is that these cleaned up versions will become the "standard" versions by which certain events are known or available in the archive, which to my mind goes against the spirit of a lot of archival practices. That is, the adapted version has its functionality that is important, and the original has its functionality that is important, but I worry that the two will become confused, or even that the latter will be lost and discarded.

Absolutely yeah, I know my view is a little basic I guess because it's ultimately threaded into my work practices.

But I understand how future technology will affect the integrity of archive media, we already have to be careful with AI assist software as it can very easily tip the balance and make a voice sound like a different person, heck I've even heard it sneak in extra syllables in more extreme cases.

On the upside, I think what the people who write this software are reaching for is aligned with what Daniel was talking about upthread, the restorative aspect, but yeah, it may tip over into something else as archive media becomes ever more malleable.

gotta make sure you dont motion smooth buster keaton

the worst thing copilot does is create these phantom imports which you dont even notice cause theyre at the top of the page not where youre currently working, oh bool from sharp thanks thats a huge help seems super real

https://i.imgur.com/R0AV6rQ.png

A few jobs are going until this shit gets sued for copyright.

Sobering….🙁 @EquityUK @bbcarts pic.twitter.com/9D0H928xJZ

— Sara Poyzer (@SaraPoyzer) March 26, 2024

gotta respect the criminal ingenuity

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI.

Not only that but someone, having spotted this reoccurring hallucination, had turned that made-up dependency into a real one, which was subsequently downloaded and installed thousands of times by developers as a result of the AI's bad advice, we've learned. If the package was laced with actual malware, rather than being a benign test, the results could have been disastrous.

nice, nice

(this_is_fine.png)

normal

for a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake — and OpenAI says the documents filed with the California Secretary of State to put the fake person in charge were "completely fabricated."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/fake-person-openai-fund

I have to file these things all the time in my job. I highly doubt someone other than the company filed this. The only incentive I see to do this is to obscure ownership/management from the regulator and public.

its a really weird thing to do cause they know the company its associated with and if they have to check in for some reason its just going to create a problem (felony)

Claude 3 just hallucinated a new technology, its name, purpose and several scientific papers and authors regarding the technology in answer to a query. Pure Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan stuff. (The symposium did exist)

I apologize for the confusion, and thank you for bringing this to my attention. Upon further investigation, I couldn't find any reliable sources confirming the existence of the paper by Jens Ulrich Gerhardt, Jens Steger, and Klaus Merkel from the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).

It seems that my previous responses were based on an error in my knowledge base, and I couldn't find any credible references to this specific paper or presentation. I apologize for providing incorrect information.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza used a previously undisclosed AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war.

In addition to talking about their use of the AI system, called Lavender, the intelligence sources claim that Israeli military officials permitted large numbers of Palestinian civilians to be killed, particularly during the early weeks and months of the conflict.

“This is unparalleled, in my memory,” said one intelligence officer who used Lavender, adding that they had more faith in a “statistical mechanism” than a grieving soldier. “Everyone there, including me, lost people on October 7. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.”

Another Lavender user questioned whether humans’ role in the selection process was meaningful. “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”

Autonomous Weapons

Like I feel like the only thing that would have the military replace human controlled drones with AI controlled drones is if they turned out to be much more accurate than humans in terms of identification & targeting.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 22:57 (eight years ago)

Turns out accuracy was not that much of an issue

No it seems AI is pretty accurate at choosing targets, it's just that it was decided that killing those targets when they were at home with their families was easier.

No it seems AI is pretty accurate at choosing targets, it's just that it was decided that killing those targets when they were at home with their families was easier.

... and less expensive.

stumbled onto this via bluesky and thought it was pretty interesting: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-April/225407.html

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreibhlmcgsb6japqhcvgakjvqq5jb4iqka5tn3qxjydoxpyanffybb4@jpeg

In my advocacy class in law school in the late 90s, we were given a fact pattern where the driver, "Johnny" (or his estate I guess), was suing a railroad for a collision with a train at an allegedly unsafe RR crossing. The dispute was whether the driver hit the train or the train hit the drive. My friend's closing statement was, "If Johnny hit the train, you must abstain."

Wait, what thread is this, lol?

https://i.imgur.com/NMwfvUT.jpeg

I'm Bootus

Claude 3

There's an AI named Claude?! Geez, now I'm kinda feeling sorry** I released my crude DOS-based chatbot named Claude into the public domain back in the late 1990s. Maybe I could've dug at least a few thousand out of it by keeping the name under copyright and selling it to the purveyors of nu-Claude.

**purely imaginary

https://archive.org/details/CLD110_zip

Dat's my baby!

Doesn’t run very well for me in the in-browser emulator but i was able to tell it my name. Funny that someone uploaded it just a couple weeks ago!

wow, I had that on my...IBM AT? 8th grade stoners loved it.

And he believes that God believes in Caude

* Claude

I had that on my...IBM AT? 8th grade stoners loved it.

Thanks for that comment!

I wrote it as a way to understand programming an interactive text interface in DOS, but the 'chatbot' responses I gave it were only designed to engage the young and easily amused. That's why I made it free for use in elementary and secondary schools. Eventually I got a few dozen postcards from kids telling me they liked Claude. They included cards from (off the top of my head) Germany, Argentina and Singapore. It got around.

truly another entry in the Aimless lore file

"Just give me some tea and I can sit on bibs all day"

best conv I've had with anyone all day tbf

but nice work Aimless!

Incredible

Bill Gates: "640KB should be enough for anyone."

If you had 640K you were a "power user."

wow, incredible !

Amazing aimless! Now release all the aimless lore! ❤️

Heh that’s great, Aimless!!

I'm glad y'all like it. If you play with it a while you'll quickly figure out that it's just a somewhat cleverly disguised game of Mad Libs with a very crude and limited ability to interpret the gist of your inputs, so long as they're simple enough.

Some of these Claude responses sound like Basement Tapes lyrics.

Loving Aimless Claude, made my day. Didn't work on Safari but does seem to work on Chrome.

having fun using https://sdk.vercel.ai/ to compare different llms. pretty good job from gemini 1.5 here tbh.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysiafe3423w76elr4haecnjh/bafkreifosdm6r57ckc5cupe4l3nmq3irammk4b37tgvu2ddeas3sjatyiy@jpeg

V good

I mean it's pretty lifelike but the uncanny valley aspect still squacks me out. its like the data it trained on was mostly commercials.

Incredible stuff! Microsoft's new Model can produce Deepfake with 1-photo and 1-audio!!!! pic.twitter.com/PlNsMxjkdz

— 1LittleCoder💻 (@1littlecoder) April 17, 2024

the correlation between the vocal inflections and the changes of facial expression and head tilts are pretty impressive and yet I wonder what the design team thought the eventual application would be, because I can't think of any that aren't bad for humans.

the design team isn’t thinking about humans. starting to truly believe that most people in involved in this sector don’t think or care about humans tbh