Julie Jargon wrote an interesting piece for The Wall Street Journal about teen attitudes towards AI and found that their view of it isn’t so optimistic as many might assume.
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Whatever the AI pros and cons for or against human flourishing, never forget that the universe has a moral order.
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Large Language Models are good with such queries, because they can process questions that older models were incapable of handling. But they are capable of returning utter nonsense, making up data, making false promises, and more.
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AI related companies have accrued at least $200 billion in debt and the figure is likely considerably higher because that estimate doesn’t count undisclosed private deals.
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Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev long ago argued that human creativity springs from freedom — just what machines do not have.
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People often invest in companies not because they think the companies will succeed, but because they think others will invest.
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Grok, X’s AI program, came under fire when its users began creating explicit images and videos of real people. AI-generated deepfakes began to abound until finally, X took action to modify the AI bot’s capabilities. According to X’s Safety account: We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis. This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers. Additionally, image creation and the ability to edit images via the Grok account on the X platform are now only available to paid subscribers. This adds an extra layer of protection by helping to ensure that individuals who attempt to abuse the Grok account to violate Read More ›
Even though the users knew they were interacting with a computer, many were convinced that the program had human-like intelligence and emotions and they happily shared their deepest feelings and most closely held secrets.
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Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron.
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Doug Smith has for some time now been calling attention to destructive effects of digital technologies on people, especially the young.
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Rosenberg purports to cite pundits saying chatbot outputs are “AI slop,” that “the era of rapid AI advancement is ending,” that “AI scaling has hit the wall,” and the AI boom is just another “tech bubble.” No human is cited for these remarks.
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Enter Porsche, the car company, and it’s advertisement, contrasting with Coca-Cola, shows the time-tested beauties of hand-drawn and CGI animation.
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Big Tech’s signature exploitative strategies optimize for engagement, not for truth. By manipulating our behavioural psychology in this way, chatbots become top of mind when we have a question about anything, or just need a friend.
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Have we become so accustomed to surveillance capitalism that we are completely blinded to the implications? Or has Big Tech become so trustworthy that we can trust them to handle the data of student brain states with benevolent intent?
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His paper, “Artificial General Intelligence Is Nowhere Near, Artificial Specific Stupidity Is Already Here,” challenges both hype and groundless fear.
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The study has arrived on the heels of Time Magazine’s decision to elect a number of AI company CEOs as its annual “Person of the Year.”
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Recently, talk of a bubble has increased as it has become clear that OpenAI, and likely other AI software companies, may never become profitable.
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On the cover of the magazine issue, tech giants including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are pictured sitting on a construction beam.
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This sort of thinking assumes that modern people are no longer intelligent enough to do the things that former generations easily managed.
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Together, Ducey, Ingraham, and Clark made a robust and compelling case at COSM for education freedom, with Ducey framing it as a matter of fairness.
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