Merged Artificial Intelligence

[Darat]

Problem folk have is that we don't know how humans do "reasoning", we can't even define it so how do we know these AIs aren't doing what humans do in our "black boxes"?

From the failures of the current set of AI I am now more and more convinced that much of human "reasoning" is anything but what we have always assumed it to be i.e. reasoning - the folk definition of human reasoning "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way" is a just so story.

Most of the newer AIs are better than most humans are at the tasks we test them with.

p-zombies rule!

 

[Wudang]

An article on how builder.ai was not in fact 700 Indian employees. A good example of me not thinking it through before sharing the original article.

Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

 

[Darat]

An article on how builder.ai was not in fact 700 Indian employees. A good example of me not thinking it through before sharing the original article.

Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Interesting - so once again journalists took the lazy approach and regurgitated and confidently stated their hallucinations as if they were true.

Bloody NI failing again.

 

[Wudang]

Well played, sir.

 

[Olmstead]

Welp, inertia kept dragging me along for a long time, but having each Google search greeted with a paragraph of AI slop that I have to scroll past has finally convinced me to switch my default search engine.

 

[EHocking]

An article on how builder.ai was not in fact 700 Indian employees. A good example of me not thinking it through before sharing the original article.

Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

I read this article headline, “Design challenge: a system with 700 devs pretending to be an AI” as,
“Design challenge: a system with 700 divs pretending to be an AI”.
It took me a beat to recognise it as “developers”.

 

[Puppycow]

 

[Darat]

Welp, inertia kept dragging me along for a long time, but having each Google search greeted with a paragraph of AI slop that I have to scroll past has finally convinced me to switch my default search engine.

Posted about this in the bad tech thread, I wouldn’t mind this AI answer if I knew I could trust it, even if it tells me what I wanted to know until I’ve gone and checked its references I know I can’t trust it, so it saves me no time. Remember when we all up in arms about errors in Wikipedia - well the new “AI search” makes those concerns seem minor.

 

[Olmstead]

Posted about this in the bad tech thread, I wouldn’t mind this AI answer if I knew I could trust it, even if it tells me what I wanted to know until I’ve gone and checked its references I know I can’t trust it, so it saves me no time. Remember when we all up in arms about errors in Wikipedia - well the new “AI search” makes those concerns seem minor.

It's also generally not what I'm looking for, even if it were accurate. The only time I want nothing but an "overview" of something is when I need a definition or maybe an encyclopedia entry ... in which case just show me the dictionary or encyclopedia entry.

 

[Darat]

Was watching a few videos on some of the new video "AIs" that are now available, and we could be seeing the end of traditionally dubbed movies. Some of the new video generators/AIs can lip-sync existing videos to new dialogue. In other words, shoot your movie using French speaking actors, then create a version with the same actors now lip-synced to the translated dialogue recorded by your English speaking actors.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Was watching a few videos on some of the new video "AIs" that are now available, and we could be seeing the end of traditionally dubbed movies. Some of the new video generators/AIs can lip-sync existing videos to new dialogue. In other words, shoot your movie using French speaking actors, then create a version with the same actors now lip-synced to the translated dialogue recorded by your English speaking actors.

I'm picturing the old cartoon "Clutch Cargo".

 

[Olmstead]

Was watching a few videos on some of the new video "AIs" that are now available, and we could be seeing the end of traditionally dubbed movies. Some of the new video generators/AIs can lip-sync existing videos to new dialogue. In other words, shoot your movie using French speaking actors, then create a version with the same actors now lip-synced to the translated dialogue recorded by your English speaking actors.

"I’m an actor, not a ventriloquist’s dummy!"

 

[Puppycow]

I just have to leave this here. These guys are real, not AI.

 

[arthwollipot]

Steven Novella writes about a new experiment in brain-machine interfacing.

Real Time Computer Communication

For those with advanced ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or certain brainstem strokes, they can be what is referred to as "locked in". They are mostly paralyzed. A tip of the basilar artery brains

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Partial excerpt:

A recent demonstration shows where the technology currently is. Researchers at UC Davis Health have implanted a BMI on a patient with ALS who has lost the ability to speak. With that interface, they were able to train the patient and the software to produce real-time computer speech based on the patient’s intentions with 97% accuracy. This is an amazing accomplishment and could be life-changing for those with similar disabilities.

This advance is also, in my opinion, more than incremental. I have been following this technology closely for the last couple of decades, and this achievement is about 15-20 years ahead of where I thought we would be based on my assessment from about 5 years ago. What has changed? Simply put – AI.

The latest crop of artificial intelligence applications or machine learning is very good at finding subtle patterns, such as the patterns in electrical signals from a patient’s brain. By adding such machine learning into the mix, BMI technology is able to be trained much faster and produce results much more quickly. The result, in this case, is real-time BMI-based communication. This would simply not be possible today without AI.

 

[Darat]

Just seen someone post that Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement. Good.

LegalEagle gives a good summary of what is in the case.


I find it hard to see how Midjourney can defend themselves, especially as they do moderate the images and what you can prompt for. I thought I'd see what something like Copilot (MS's LLM/Diffusion) would do if I asked for "an image of Darth Vader holding a lightsabre" - its response:

I can’t generate an image of Darth Vader because he’s a character owned by Disney, and I have to respect copyright rules. But if you’d like, I can create an image of a mysterious, masked warrior clad in futuristic armor, wielding a glowing energy sword in a dramatic sci-fi setting. It would totally capture that iconic presence—without crossing into forbidden galaxy territory. Just say the word!

I asked it to create that image and it came up with:



I asked the same of DALL-E, it accepted the prompt but produced this:



I think they avoid the copyright issue Disney and Universal are going after Midjourney.

 

[alfaniner]

Saw this posted. I have the original MAD magazine it's based on -- I was kind of shocked that it was allowed on newsstands. It was simply a very well-done painting of someone (Alfred E. Neuman?) giving the finger.
Mildly NSFW - I put it in a Spoiler.

 

[Orphia Nay]

I don't know, that first image by Diffusion looks and sounds a lot like Darth Vader. It'd be interesting to see what a judge or jury would say about it.

 

[arthwollipot]

I don't know, that first image by Diffusion looks and sounds a lot like Darth Vader. It'd be interesting to see what a judge or jury would say about it.

A true nerd like me can see quite a few points of difference. And copyright lawyers are basically trained to spot such things.

 

[Olmstead]

If developers need to manually force a software not to create copyrighted material by limiting its functionality, doesn't that point to the fact that it is in fact "stealing"?

 

[Ron Obvious]

If developers need to manually force a software not to create copyrighted material by limiting its functionality, doesn't that point to the fact that it is in fact "stealing"?

Non-sequitur, I fear. Maybe you meant "NOT stealing"?