artificial intelligence

AI is unlocking the secrets of the Nazca Lines Um. No. https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/artificial-intelligence-archaeology-puzzle/ AI found some more but it did not solve anything. :eggrolleyes:

The Dead Internet Theory. Mostly true or mostly false? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

It started when I accidentally hit "add a caption" to a picture on my phone. It produced my image, only with my dachshund's body outlined and identified as a dachshund. So photo recognition software is going into my photos and identifying things, great. (I wonder how it would react to human...

I think we need a general thread on the topic. There are some others but they are narrower in scope. Google claims new Gemini AI 'thinks more carefully' So, a number of interesting claims here. 1) The new AI can "outperform human experts in a range of intelligence tests" 2) It can also...

The Biggest Questions: Are we alone in the universe? Just add in AI.

World's First AI-Powered Humanoid Robot CEO Enters the Boardroom OK, I know. I’m not that gullible. This is clearly a gimmick. I’m sure that if someone were to examine the company charter and whatever legal documents define who the actual decision-maker(s) are, they would find that the robot...

Now that the propellor-heads have got AI to the point where it "thinks" sufficiently like a human to be useful, it's going to have an impact on the workforce much greater than robotics. The fun thing is, instead of forcing the layoff of millions of blue-collar workers, AI is going to take...

I've been seeing a lot about the new ChatGPT and it seems pretty impressive. Here's the website: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ Currently it's free to use, so you can play around with it. Here's a fun example of it's responses to some questions...

OpenAI Dall-E: Two Minute Papers explains: X3_LD3R_Ygs A guy named Ben Barry got Dall-e to create a series of paintings of robots in different styles. He published the results in a free book: 1111101000-Robots

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This article in The Guardian says it’s already here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/25/worried-about-super-intelligent-machines-they-are-already-here In the form of huge corporations. The fellow profiled maintains that big corporations (like Facebook) employ thousands of...

Maths researchers hail breakthrough in applications of artificial intelligence https://phys.org/news/2021-12-maths-hail-breakthrough-applications-artificial.html (Emphasis mine.) Slowly. Slowly. The computers are taking over. ;)

Researchers reproduced reverse-phi motion in the MotionNet system https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-brain-reveals-why-we-cant-always-believe-our-eyes-and-explains-some-perplexing-optical-illusions/ Furthering our understanding of the workings of the brain. :cool:

Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist https://futurism.com/delphi-ai-ethics-racist One day it will work -- but not yet? Maybe the problem is that there are no answers? That morality truly is subjective?

I was surfing r/nosurf on Reddit, hoping to break the universe, when I happened upon a comment that I found supremely interesting. However, because I don't understand the technical subject matter very well at all, I can't tell if the person is crazy, how intrigued I should be, how to look up...

Here's an interesting project. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/arts/design/imagenet-trevor-paglen-ai-facial-recognition.html The page is here: https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/ I tried a few photos I had of myself and it appears the White Male Privilege certainly works. My results...

The mushroom that AI thinks is a pretzel https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49084796 Of course AI doesn't "think" that a mushroom is a pretzel because it doesn't think anything and it has no intelligence. Further, AI doesn't understand what it means to be wrong and that there are...

I recently read this Wired story The AI Cold War That Threatens Us All. It sounds very dire. The author tries to make the case that the US and China's positions in AI are like the cold war between the US and the Soviet Union. I see some problems with this conclusion though. First of all, I'm...

Artificial intelligence 'did not miss a single urgent case' Another nail in the coffin of unskilled but information deep jobs. They'll be coming for you soon!

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html The system is called Google Duplex. It can talk like an actual person. It does not sound like a robot. The people on the other end of the phone are by all indications unaware that they are talking to a robot...

CES 2018: LG robot Cloi repeatedly fails on stage at unveil http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42614281

Part A - Artificial Intelligence and human-kind, in 2 sentences. Artificial Intelligence is unavoidably exceeding humans in cognitive tasks, and some projections observe human level brain power in artificial machines/software by at least 2020 (Wikipedia exascale computing source). Artificial...

The most basic cognitive construct that comes to mind is the Chinese Room. This idea was created to argue against Strong AI and it was mentioned by Dennett. I think we can get some more utility out of it. The basic notion was that you have a room where pieces of paper with questions are fed...

This is not a new question or thought, at least not since Turin asked the question; but it keeps cropping up in movies. What I find in reading or hearing such discussions however is that they seem to miss the simple fact that what makes humans human is the uncontrollable imperfections we all...

Remember ELIZA? (I do but I'm older than you. ;)) She has a granddaughter: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/would-you-want-therapy-from-a-computerized-psychologist/371552/ "people love interacting with her" is quite interesting as that's what was said about ELIZA. The...

The recent advances in machine technology,and robotics notwithstanding, will machines ever be truly humanlike. For a Breath I Tarry, by Roger Zelazny (extract). Mordel drove a shaft of metal downward into the snow. He retracted it, raised it, held up a piece of ice. "Regard...

The thread in Religion and Philosophy, "Explain consciousness to the layman," has degraded into a bore, so I'm starting this thread, hopefully to launch effective dialogue on the nature and computability of consciousness. Please try and avoid derailing it! From David Gamez's THE DEVELOPMENT AND...

http://cleverbot.com/ Kick the Turing test up a notch. This thing is pretty good! At times, I had a hard time believing it isn't just some smartass dude sitting somewhere typing on a keyboard. Other times it reads sort of like Samuel Beckett.

.....and why he doesn't believe in it. Also the theological implications of 'uploading' and why he isn't a libertarian. Here. Very active comments section.

Daniel Dennet's model of consciousness also explains how SEO works on Google, and more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGF9NbPFfRo