Artificial intelligence and the future

[O Really]

I dunno, I didn't see what would be identifiable in most of them. Arkansas looks like the stereotype but other than that most of them seem interchangeable, just switch some clothes.

[Vrede too]

I Asked AI What The Typical Person From Each State Looks Like, And Here's What It Came Up With

Interesting. CA has a Latino male, MD and NC have the only Black couples, and Montana has an Indian male. Of course, I don't resemble any of them, but I approve.


Anything to note about your "home" states or other ones?

I dunno, I didn't see what would be identifiable in most of them. Arkansas looks like the stereotype but other than that most of them seem interchangeable, just switch some clothes.

Arkansas stood out to me, too.

Agreed, that's why I'm impressed with the more unique choices for the states I identify with.

[Vrede too]

Trust nothing.

Deepfakes of Elon Musk contribute to billions in fraud losses

If it's Elon, don't trust the real one, either.

[Vrede too]

From passwords to medical records, 10 things to never say to AI bots

This is a heartbreaking story out of Florida. Megan Garcia thought her 14-year-old son was spending all his time playing video games. She had no idea he was having abusive, in-depth and sexual conversations with a chatbot powered by the app Character AI.

Sewell Setzer III stopped sleeping and his grades tanked. He ultimately committed suicide. Just seconds before his death, Megan says in a lawsuit, the bot told him, “Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love.” The boy asked, “What if I told you I could come home right now?” His Character AI bot answered, “Please do, my sweet king.”

You have to be smart

Artificial intelligence bots are owned by tech companies known for exploiting our trusting human nature, and they’re designed using algorithms that drive their profits. There are no guardrails or laws governing what they can and cannot do with the information they gather.

At least one teen girl has been imprisoned for encouraging a suicide. We can't jail an AI. What about its creators and owners?

When you’re using a chatbot, it’s going to know a lot about you when you fire up the app or site. From your IP address, it gathers information about where you live, plus it tracks things you’ve searched for online and accesses any other permissions you’ve granted when you signed the chatbot’s terms and conditions....

Great, cyberspace now thinks I'm into bestiality. The spam I get should be "interesting".

10 things not to say to AI

Passwords or login credentials: ...
Your name, address, or phone number: ...
Sensitive financial information: ...
Medical or health data: AI isn’t Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant, so redact your name and other identifying info if you ask AI for health advice....

Or type, "Asking for a friend."

Asking for illegal advice: That’s against every bot’s terms of service. You’ll probably get flagged. Plus, you might end up with more trouble than you bargained for.

Unless it's bestiality.

Hate speech or harmful content: ...
Confidential work or business info: ...
Security question answers: ...
Explicit content: Keep it PG. Most chatbots filter this stuff, so anything inappropriate could get you banned, too.

Unless it's bestiality.

Other people’s personal info: Uploading this isn’t only a breach of trust; it’s a breach of data protection laws, too. Sharing private info without permission could land you in legal hot water.

I'll have to stop swatting Solar.

Still relying on Google?

Reclaim a (tiny) bit of privacy

Most chatbots require you to create an account. If you make one, don’t use login options like “Login with Google” or “Connect with Facebook.” Use your email address instead to create a truly unique login.

I avoid all of Google's insidious cross-platform connections.

FYI, with a free ChatGPT or Perplexity account, you can turn off memory features in the app settings that remember everything you type in. For Google Gemini, you need a paid account to do this.

I don't have a ChatGPT account. Maybe it'll eventually force me to get one. I'll go anonymous, though probably won't bother spoofing my IPA.

No matter what, follow this rule

Don’t tell a chatbot anything you wouldn’t want made public. Trust me, I know it’s hard.

Even I find myself talking to ChatGPT like it’s a person. I say things like, “You can do better with that answer” or “Thanks for the help!” It’s easy to think your bot is a trusted ally, but it’s definitely not. It’s a data-collecting tool like any other.

Not even a trusted (and creepy) bestiality ally.

[Vrede too]

Apple urged to withdraw 'out of control' AI news alerts

Apple is facing fresh calls to withdraw its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) feature that has generated inaccurate news alerts on its latest iPhones.

The product is meant to summarise breaking news notifications but has in some instances invented entirely false claims.

The BBC first complained to the tech giant about its journalism being misrepresented in December but Apple did not respond until Monday this week, when it said it was working to clarify that summaries were AI-generated.

Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, told the BBC Apple needed to go further and pull a product he said was "clearly not ready."

Mr Rusbridger, who also sits on Meta's Oversight Board that reviews appeals of the company's content moderation decisions, added the technology was "out of control" and posed a considerable misinformation risk....

Judgement Day?

Series of errors

The BBC complained last month after an AI-generated summary of its headline falsely told some readers that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself.

On Friday, Apple's AI inaccurately summarised BBC app notifications to claim that Luke Littler had won the PDC World Darts Championship hours before it began

Opps.

- and that the Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.

Nttawwt.

... In November, a ProPublica journalist highlighted erroneous Apple AI summaries of alerts from the New York Times app suggesting it had reported that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested.

Nttawwt, either.

... On Tuesday, it said Apple's plan to update the feature to clarify when notifications are summarised with AI to users "doesn't fix the problem at all".

"It just transfers the responsibility to users, who - in an already confusing information landscape - will be expected to check if information is true or not," said Vincent Berthier, head of RSF's technology and journalism desk....

Be better, Apple.

[Vrede too]

Apple urged to withdraw 'out of control' AI news alerts

Judgement Day?

OpenAI Cuts Off Engineer Who Created ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle
"We proactively identified this violation of our policies and notified the developer to cease this activity."

An engineer who goes by the online handle STS 3D created a grim robot that can respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire a rifle at terrifying speeds and accuracy.

The contraption, as seen in a video that's been making its rounds on social media, sparked a frenzied debate over our undying attempts to turn dystopian tech yanked straight out of the "Terminator" franchise into a reality....

[Vrede too]

Frequent AI use has a horrifying impact on our brains, study suggests

We are becoming the Eloi. Judgement Day may arrive with a whimper rather than a bang.

[O Really]

Interesting article, and reasonable premise, but I'd like to see more detail of how they measured "critical thinking." It seems to me that if you're asking Alexa (or whoever) to draw conclusions or analyze data for creative solutions, then you'd probably lose some skill at doing those things yourself. If you almost always rely on GPS when you drive, you'll lose skills in driving without it (remembering streets, landmarks, sense of direction)

But - if you're only asking for information, no matter how often, it doesn't seem that it would be different from looking at any other source. Asking Alexa "What's the weather today" is really no different from seeing the TV weather chick, looking up weather.com or reading the newspaper, if you had one.

Skills, and the mental exercises that go along with them, do go away, though. Probably nobody that's in their 20's or maybe 30's even has a clue as to how to research in a library, using a card catalogue, note cards, build references, etc. And of course, even if they wanted to learn, nobody has card catalogues, etc. anymore.

[Vrede too]

Interesting article, and reasonable premise, but I'd like to see more detail of how they measured "critical thinking."

Yeah, the article ended up being shorter than I expected. Maybe the reporter uses AI a lot.

[Vrede too]

French AI chatbot taken offline after wild answers led to online ridicule



A French-language artificial intelligence chatbot backed by the French government has been taken offline after providing nonsensical answers to simple mathematical equations, and even recommending that one user eat cow’s eggs....

Lucie was released “prematurely,” said Linagora, adding that it should have been clearer in informing users of the limitations of the model in its current form.

Ya' think?

“We were carried away by our own enthusiasm,” the statement reads.

I hate when that happens.

... “Cow’s eggs, also known as chicken’s eggs, are edible eggs produced by cows,” Lucie was quoted as replying. “Cow’s eggs are a source of protein and nutrients, and are considered to be a healthy and nutritious food.”

Are they less expensive than here?

Asked to multiply 5 by (3+2), the model gave an answer of 17, instead of 25

Opps.

and Lucie also said that “the square root of a goat is one,” users reported.

Well duh. We are one together.

Launched with ambitions of challenging the dominance of the English language in AI and providing an alternative to models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Lucie is named after the oldest human ancestor, said Linagora.

Its logo is inspired by both Marianne, a national symbol of France, and the US actress Scarlett Johansson, who starred in the film “Lucy,” according to a statement from Linagora published on January 3.

A confusing and improbable dystopia featuring an actress with Scandinavian-Eastern European roots is not the best association to make for a French tech firm.

... And Macron is currently preparing to host the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, which will bring world leaders and tech figures to Paris from February 10 to 11.

Opps, it ain't gonna be fixed by then.

[Vrede too]

Training for Judgement Day:


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Comments (many do disapprove of the mob):

In what world should the public accept beta testing of safety-critical technology on them, who have no say in being part of an experiment by private industry?

Bingo!

Fuck the tech oligarchy!

The group of vandals heroes attacked a Waymo cab outside the Beverly Center in Los Angeles on Saturday

FTFY

What on earth makes you think vandalism is heroic?

When it’s against giant tech corporations that have too much power and put out tech that does more harm than good.

Otoh, maybe this will hasten Judgement Day:

Maybe they should privatize the police for through a company named Omni Consumer Products which could develop an robotic AI that will defend their autonomous cars. If that doesn’t work they could always come up with some kind of human/robot hybrid to keep the city safe.

For O Really :

Good Lord, imagine what could have happened if these things were driving around in Philly?!

Back to hastening Judgement Day :

protect autonomous vehicles from attacks “the site calls for better legal framework to”

Should we arm the vehicles with pepper spray cannons? Paintballs? Laser turrets programmed to sever spinal cords if they feel Summer was in Danger? Program them to run people down if they feel threatened?

What could possibly go wrong?

“... thus men become the architect of his own demise, but for the time, it was good...”

There are already laws on the books. Use them.

Taxpayers don’t need to subsidize a protection force for the autonomous vehicle business. Let the tech disrupters manage their own costs. This isn’t a shared burden unless they are willing to share profits.

Skynet has found its first target

This is how The Matrix becomes self aware and hostile.

Hey, maybe we do need Robocop now!

They probably thought it was a tesla.

you should..what are about the only jobs left? Uber and delivering food? and they want to take that too? people dont need to accept it. Just trash all these vehicles. they are owned by people with BILLIONS of dolllars, who want you to have nothing. They wont be happy until robots make the vehicles that deliver the food that robots make, and the only human in the chain is them getting their checks. Nobody ever asked you if this was okay. Time to say no.

More at the links.

[Vrede too]

AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC.

The BBC gave OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.

It said the resulting answers contained "significant inaccuracies" and distortions.

In a blog, Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, said AI brought "endless opportunities" but the companies developing the tools were "playing with fire".

"We live in troubled times, and how long will it be before an AI-distorted headline causes significant real world harm?", she asked....

It found 51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form.

Additionally, 19% of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors, such as incorrect factual statements, numbers and dates....

In general, Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini had more significant issues than OpenAI's ChatGPT and Perplexity, which counts Jeff Bezos as one of its investors....

The report said that as well as containing factual inaccuracies, the chatbots "struggled to differentiate between opinion and fact, editorialised, and often failed to include essential context".....

If this is the case with news what about the million other ways AI is being applied without necessary safeguards?

[Whack9]

I've been using ChatGPT for some time now to help with quick, simple, queries. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's just the type of queries I'm entering, but I feel like it's gotten worse and much less accurate. You need to be very careful when evaluating results. Some are flat out incorrect.

AI using a large language model (LLM) is susceptible to data poisoning. ChatGPT likely learns and builds connections from inputs from its user base.

Is it possible that over time some of these LLMs become less rather than more accurate?

[O Really]

I use ChatGPT occasionally, but probably not enough to tell if it's getting better or worse. But I do notice the AI summary at the top of Google searches regularly has errors. Funny example: we were watching a show in which the bad guys were poaching abalone. I wondered if that was a real problem or one made up for the show. My AI answer told me how to poach it to eat. But yeah, further digging did show a real problem in illegal abalone.

[Vrede too]

I've been using ChatGPT for some time now to help with quick, simple, queries. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's just the type of queries I'm entering, but I feel like it's gotten worse and much less accurate. You need to be very careful when evaluating results. Some are flat out incorrect.

AI using a large language model (LLM) is susceptible to data poisoning. ChatGPT likely learns and builds connections from inputs from its user base.

Is it possible that over time some of these LLMs become less rather than more accurate?

I wouldn't know, but it sounds like ChatGPT is being infected by NSAbook. Maybe AI is doomed to being as reliable as social media.

[Whack9]

I've been using ChatGPT for some time now to help with quick, simple, queries. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's just the type of queries I'm entering, but I feel like it's gotten worse and much less accurate. You need to be very careful when evaluating results. Some are flat out incorrect.

AI using a large language model (LLM) is susceptible to data poisoning. ChatGPT likely learns and builds connections from inputs from its user base.

Is it possible that over time some of these LLMs become less rather than more accurate?

I wouldn't know, but it sounds like ChatGPT is being infected by NSAbook. Maybe AI is doomed to being as reliable as social media.

Musk wants to introduce some AI LLMs to take over functions of the federal government. Yeah, some rote tasks can definitely benefit from AI, others cannot. AI cannot reason and think like a human can. It's not the panacea that many tend to think it is.

I also don't buy the idea that it can aid in efficiency and eliminate corruption either. AIs themselves can become corrupted depending on the training data

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