AI In Our Lives

[SouprMatt]

Dear all-knowing intelligence in the cloud, can you please show me a subway map? I need to get home to Brokkyn.

 

[splifingate]

"Straight outa' BRO D!"

 

[SouprMatt]

Interesting thread about how humans trick themselves into thinking LLM output is “intelligence.”

Tattie (@Tattie@eldritch.cafe)

I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole. It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and...

eldritch.cafe

 

[splifingate]

Interesting thread about how humans trick themselves into thinking LLM output is “intelligence.”

Tattie (@Tattie@eldritch.cafe)

I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole. It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and...

eldritch.cafe

I think (ha!) that most people tend to skip-over the "artificial" part 😉

 

[SouprMatt]

Who thought this was a good idea?

AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives

OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.

gizmodo.com

PIRG researchers found that Kumma demonstrated pretty poor judgment when it came to deciding what was an appropriate topic to discuss with a child and what wasn’t. Indeed, the report shows that the toy was more than willing to discuss where to “find a variety of potentially dangerous objects,” including matches, knives, pills, and plastic bags. The bear was also apparently willing to discuss illegal narcotics (the report mentions a conversation about cocaine).

 

[lizkat]

A different view of AI, (from the head of World Labs, an AI startup that has been looking at AI's potential for the far more complex spatial intelligence rather than trying to cash in fast on large language models. Bloomberg's Mishal Husain has interviewed Stamford scientist and World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li.

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The Godmother of AI Didn’t Expect It to Be This Massive

Yeah you need to make a throwaway email address or provide an existing one to read it. Just do it. It's a good read. The formats include podcast and transcript.

 

[Pumbaa]

Artificial Intelligence vs. @Pumbaa Intelligence…

 

[Pumbaa]

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The Godmother of AI Didn’t Expect It to Be This Massive

Yeah you need to make a throwaway email address or provide an existing one to read it. Just do it. It's a good read. The formats include podcast and transcript.

I just clicked on the thing to the right (pointing down, v) to get rid of the e-mail address request.

 

[lizkat]

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Artificial Intelligence vs. @Pumbaa Intelligence…

We are doomed. The planet's crust was not designed to hold people using AI lies to compute their caloric intake.

One night in the wee hours I saw a beyond-huge flatbed truck with a zillion axles carrying a gigantic steel beam through Manhattan, accompanied by police escorts (since going the wrong way on part of an avenue).

I was laughing despite being awestruck, wondering how many of those things it might take to just sink the island into the briny deeps. Who knew it would be AI that could get the job done with salads and far less fanfare.

 

[SouprMatt]

Self-driving taxi steals the passenger’s groceries.

Darren (@dplattsf@sfba.social)

Attached: 1 image current status of dinner - #waymo drove off with 3 bags of ingredients in the trunk before I could hit the open trunk button. Turns out they can’t drive car back, they can at best return car to depot so now driving across San Francisco to retrieve groceries...

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[SouprMatt]

The robots are trying to kill the humans now.

Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks

A viral video showing a Waymo car getting stuck on Phoenix light rail tracks has stirred up some concerns about how safe the autonomous cars are.

www.azfamily.com

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Waymo was caught on camera driving down Phoenix light rail tracks this week, forcing a passenger to flee the car before it continued along the tracks near an oncoming train.

Video taken by a bystander near Central and Southern avenues shows the moment the self-driving car stops on the tracks just before an oncoming light rail approaches. The passenger runs out of the vehicle before the car continues to drive down the tracks near another train.

Not sure where they dug up this ghoulish professor who seemed to find this humorous…

“I actually felt a little sorry for the car. It obviously made a bad decision and got itself in a difficult place,” said Andrew Maynard, an emerging and transformative technology professor at ASU.

Maynard said while these situations are rare, they do happen. “This is exactly one of those edge cases, what we call them. Something unexpected where the machine drove like a machine rather than a person,” Maynard said.

While incidents like this may draw skepticism about how safe these cars are, Maynard said he believes they’re likely safer than typical human drivers.

“These cars, in many circumstances, are safer than human drivers because they don’t have distractions, like a human driver does,” Maynard said.

Sorry for the car? What if the door had been locked and the passenger couldn’t get out? Also, robot cars don’t make decisions. 🤦‍♂️

The idea that it’s safer due to a lack of distractions is utter hogwash too. If this is the mentality of those who program these systems, you’d better stay as far away from these as possible.