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Gary Varner
Date
October 1, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Robotics

Tagged
Featured, Isaac (robot in Orvilles 3)}

Should We Love or Hate an Intelligent Robot? Or Care at All?

_{In Season 3 of Orville that becomes a serious question} _{Gary Varner
October 1, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Robotics}

The Orville Season 3 was recommended to me by a reader. I recall seeing a large portion of the first season and enjoying it. I had not watched the second season until preparing for this series of reviews. Unfortunately, I must say at the outset that I found myself very disappointed in Season Three, ironically called New Horizons because it only retreads about half of Season Two. This latest season fell far short of my expectations which were based on my memories of the first season. Still, we’re going to take a look at each episode and see where the problems lie. Before beginning our review of the first episode, a little prologue is required. During the midpoint of the Read More ›

A young man with a pistol gun is standing in front of a high school preparing to go inside and commit a horrible violent mass murder shooting.

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News
Date
September 28, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Featured, John Catsimatidis, Robert J. Marks}

Why AI Could (But May Not) Predict School Shootings

_{There is no solution that is not run through natural intelligence, computer science prof Robert J. Marks explains} _{News
September 28, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence}

In recent weeks, WBC director Robert J. Marks has done a number of interviews for his new book, Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press, 2022). At The Cat’s Roundtable, he was asked by host John Catsimatidis about the hype around AI and whether AI could, for example, predict school shootings. https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Mind-Matters-205-Robert-J-Marks.mp3 Robert J. Marks: It’ll continue doing great and exciting things, but there’s a lot of hype associated with it. People think, “Well, is the Terminator going to come alive? Are we ever going to face a scenario like we see in The Matrix?” And the answer is, “No. There are certain brick walls, which artificial intelligence will never go through,” and we Read More ›

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News
Date
September 27, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Tagged
Blake Lemoine at COSM 2022, COSM 2022, George Montañez, Robert J. Marks}

At COSM 2022, Blake Lemoine Faces Computer Engineers

_{… not talk show hosts… about his claim that chatbot LaMDA is a real person. Venture capitalist Matt McIlwain hosts the panel} _{News
September 27, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning}

Matt McIlwain, managing director of Madrona Venture Group a venture capital consortium, will be moderating a most interesting panel at COSM 2022: It includes ex-Googler Blake Lemoine — yes, he’s the one who started the global uproar around that Google chatbot LaMDA, which he claims is a real person. Google HQ didn’t agree… which is why he no longer works there. But is that because it is not true or because it is not popular? What Lemoine believes is still definitely out there. The main point: On McIlwain’s panel, Lemoine will be facing off against Baylor University pioneer in swarm intelligence Robert J. Marks and with George Montañez, an up-and-coming machine learning pro at Harvey Mudd College. Can he convince Read More ›

hope, freedom, life, different, contrast concept, blue sky human with broken human, surreal and fantasy artwork, conceptual art, painting illustration, sadness and depression idea

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Peter Biles
Date
September 26, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Engineered Arts (robotics), human brain, Human exceptionalism, human uniqueness, mind}

Making Art Is Uniquely Human

_{While the architects of AI "art" tools like to think their technology can replace human creativity, the artistic impulse is uniquely human} _{Peter Biles
September 26, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

In my last post, I wrote about a novelist who used a version of the AI art tool known as Stable Diffusion to gather images for a promotional website. She wanted erotic and violent elements in the artwork and found that other AI art tools included “guardrails” limiting access to graphic results. But if these images are disconnected from a human, imaginative process, can we say AI-generated results qualify as creative works? Artificial intelligence doesn’t only challenge our notions of what it means to be human. It also makes us wonder what it means to make art and whether human beings are the only agents capable of creating it. Walter Kirn addressed this question poignantly in a Substack essay. Kirn Read More ›

Once more unto the breach / 3D illustration of science fiction scene with robot general holding battle hammer rallying his android troops under a stormy dark sky

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 24, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Censorship, Surveillance

Tagged
Michael K. Cohen}

Oh, Not This Again: “AI Will Rise Up and Destroy Mankind”

_{The advances of AI raise a number of issues, yes. But the intelligences behind these advances are not artificial at all} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 24, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Censorship, Surveillance}

A new paper from researchers at Oxford University and Google’s Deepmind prophesies that “the threat of AI is greater than previously believed. It’s so great, in fact, that artificial intelligence is likely to one day rise up and annihilate humankind … Cohen says the conditions the researchers identified show that the possibility of a threatening conclusion is stronger than in any previous publication.” (MSN, September 15, 2022) How? Why? The research paper predicted life on Earth turning into a zero-sum game between humans and the super-advanced machinery. Michael K. Cohen, a co-author of the study, spoke about their paper during an interview. In a world with infinite resources, I would be extremely uncertain about what would happen. In a world Read More ›

Closeup of Hummingbird Hawk-moth butterfly (Macroglossum stellatarum) feeding of red valerian flowers (Centranthus ruber) in flight. Its a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasi

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News
Date
September 23, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Military, Robotics

Tagged
University of Washington}

Machine Uses Live Hawk Moth Antenna for Smell Detection

_{Human-created sensors are not sensitive, fast, or discerning enough to identify and process smells in the danger zones for which the Smellicopter was designed} _{News
September 23, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Military, Robotics}

We’ve often written about electronic prostheses that link up with the human nervous system — which essentially means controlling the prosthesis by thoughts alone. A reversal is also possible, as the University of Washington demonstrated in 2020: A machine (the “Smellicopter”) used an insect’s antenna to identify and seek out smells: “Nature really blows our human-made odor sensors out of the water,” said lead author Melanie Anderson, a UW doctoral student in mechanical engineering. “By using an actual moth antenna with Smellicopter, we’re able to get the best of both worlds: the sensitivity of a biological organism on a robotic platform where we can control its motion.” Sarah McQuate, “The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth Read More ›

Dystopian futuristic cyberpunk city at night in a neon haze. Blue and purple glowing neon lights. Urban wallpaper. 3D illustration.

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Peter Biles
Date
September 22, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Artists and AI art, Beauty, Creativity, Pornography, Science fiction, Technology, violence, virtue}

AI Art Tool Can Generate Both Beauty and Horror

_{Making AI image generators mainstream might offer people an interesting new frontier to explore. But the tech has a serious dark side} _{Peter Biles
September 22, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

The capacities of AI art generators have grown much in the past couple of years. Through complex algorithms, AI scans the internet and manages to make artistic composites, some sublime, others grotesque. Today, AI art generators have incredible potential, but their capacities can also be easily abused. According to a Wired article from September 21, Science fiction novelist Elle Simpson-Edin wanted to generate artwork for her newest book. So, she tried AI tools. Her novel unabashedly depicts gore and sex, but most of the AI tools she discovered included “guardrails” that sanctioned explicit content. That is until she found Unstable Diffusion, “a Discord community for people using unrestricted versions of a recently released, open source AI image tool called Stable Diffusion.” Read More ›

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George Gilder
Date
September 22, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Events

Tagged
Carver Mead, COSM 2022, Featured, Federico Faggin, Keith Krach, Peter Thiel}

Is AI Sentient? Where’s the Economy Headed? Join Me at COSM 2022!

_{We’ll find out together from a remarkable lineup of insightful movers, shakers, and thinkers} _{George Gilder
September 22, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Events}

Where is the U.S. economy headed in the next year? Is decoupling from China realistic, or even possible? Is our country ready for widescale electric vehicle adoption? And what are the cutting-edge technologies that will change the world? These are just a few of the questions we will grapple with at COSM 2022. Register now for COSM 2022, Nov. 9-11 in Seattle Another is whether AI will ever achieve consciousness. Remember the Google engineer who made national headlines a month ago for claiming that the company’s AI had become sentient? His name is Blake Lemoine, and he will be making his case — in one of his first public appearances — at COSM 2022 in November. We have also added Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 21, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
__has-video, Featured, Jay Richards, John Lennox, Nick Bostrom, Robert J. Marks, Selmer Bringsjord, Sophia the Robot, video}

Science Uprising 10: Asking the Impolite Questions About AI

_{Specifically about the big AI Takeover. Let's get past the TED talks} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 21, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

In Episode 10 of Science Uprising (September 21, 2022 10:35 min), we get a look at why — despite ultra-fashionable TED Talk-style doomsday claims — computers are not taking over. The short film starts with Sophia the Robot, that some hope will play a big role in health care for seniors: “Hello, world.” (0:13) “What emotion do you feel being awake in life?” “Curious.” Great. (Yikes…!) The film then cuts to the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute’s Nick Bostrom who announces to an enthralled gathering, “Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Machines will then be better at inventing than we are now, as superintelligence with such technological maturity would be extremely powerful and Read More ›

Concept of robots replacing humans in offices

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News
Date
September 16, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Work

Tagged
Featured, HAL 9000's limitations, Mark Hahn, Robert J. Marks}

AI Is Not Taking Away Our Jobs — Because It Can’t Do Them

_{Robert J. Marks talks with KSCJ talk show host Mark Hahn about HAL 9000 and the opportunities and fundamental limits of AI} _{News
September 16, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Work}

In the “Top Gun, HAL 9000, and Jobs of the Future” podcast (September 15, 2022), WBC director Robert J. Marks discusses whether AI is sucking up all our jobs with talk show host Mark Hahn, who can be heard on KSCJ in Sioux City, Iowa. Dr. Marks, author of Non-Computable You is a professor of computer engineering at Baylor University and a pioneer of AI swarm intelligence. This is the second half of the podcast. https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Mind-Matters-Episode-204-Robert-J-Marks.mp3 A partial transcript, notes, and Additional Resources follow. Mark Hahn: Dr. Marks, artificial intelligence is something that many people have fantasized on a science fiction level; many shows have been about that. Of course, in Space Odyssey 2001, HAL took over, and that’s what Read More ›

Army Aerospace Engineers Work On Unmanned Aerial Vehicle / Drone. Uniformed Aviation Experts Talk, Using Laptop. Industrial Facility with Aircraft for: Surveillance, Warfare Tactics, Air Strike

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News
Date
September 16, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military

Tagged
Artificial intelligence and ethics, Drones vs. pilots, Featured, Michael Medved, Non-Computable You (book), Robert J. Marks, Top Gun: Maverick (film 2022)}

Marks Tells Medved: Top Gun (2022) Is Way Out of Date

_{Computer science prof Robert J. Marks argues in Non-Computable You, that in the 21st century, drones offer significant advantages over fighter pilots} _{News
September 16, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military}

In the “Top Gun, HAL 9000, and Jobs of the Future” podcast (September 15, 2022), WBC director Robert J. Marks discusses a theme from his new book Non-Computable You with talk show host Michael Medved: Can drones should replace pilots in warfare? Dr. Marks, a professor of computer engineering at Baylor University, is also the author of The Case for Killer Robots: https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Mind-Matters-Episode-204-Robert-J-Marks.mp3 A partial transcript, notes, and Additional Resources follow. Michael Medved: Why shouldn’t we be able to replace all those hotshot pilots, like the ones being trained in the movie Top Gun: Maverick — one of the most successful movies ever made, by the way, in terms of its box office receipts? That’s showing pilots doing death-defying, astonishing Read More ›

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News
Date
September 14, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Education, Ethics

Tagged
Dave Tomar}

Study: AI Fails To Catch Cheaters on an Exam

_{In a test of the Proctorio system, students who were told to try to cheat found a variety of ways to fool the system} _{News
September 14, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Education, Ethics}

Is AI the answer to student cheating on tests? Not that you’d know it from a recent study of AI detection system Proctorio at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Proctorio tracks students’ eye movements and body language while taking exams to flag “suspicious” behavior. So, as Vice tells it, 30 computer science student volunteers were told to take a first year exam that that system supervised. Six were told to cheat, five were told to act suspiciously without really cheating, and the rest were told to just write the test: The results confirmed that Proctorio is not good at catching cheaters. The system did not flag any of the cheaters as cheating. Some used virtual machines, a known Read More ›

Big ideas. Illuminated light bulb among the rest of the unlit bulbs.

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News
Date
September 12, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Tagged
COSM 2022, Featured, Jules Urbach, Midjourney and Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, OTOY}

COSM Speaker Hopes To Put Creativity Within Every Human’s Reach

_{Jules Urbach, a game developer at 18, has large aspirations but he has the advantage of new software that might help} _{News
September 12, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Jules Urbach, founder and CEO of leading cloud graphics company OTOY, wants to use AI to give every single person the agency to create. He is speaking again at COSM 2022 (November 9–11 in Seattle). Go here to get the Early Adopter rate before September 15. Urbach, who started out in computer gaming at 18, is “a pioneer in computer graphics, streaming, and 3D rendering, with more than 25 years of industry experience. His experience has inspired him to try to help many more people be more creative: Jules Urbach dreams of a world in which anyone can be a creator and anything you imagine can be effortlessly brought to life in fantastic visual detail, without any prior visual graphics Read More ›

Spare electronic parts isolated on gray background. 3D illustration

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News
Date
September 9, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology

Tagged
COSM 2022, Featured, Federico Faggin}

How Federico Faggin Put the Computer’s Brain on a Chip

_{In the Marvel Universe, a story like this would, of course, start with a portentous meeting of top AI brains in a secret mountain stronghold, holding the world’s future in their hands…} _{News
September 9, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology}

Federico Faggin, one of the inventors of the microprocessor, will be speaking at COSM 2022 (November 9–11 in Seattle). He was leader of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the world’s first commercial microprocessor — essentially, the brains of the affordable modern computer. A few key microchips have replaced the complex, room-size computers of the mid-twentieth century. In a sense, he is one reason why so many people worldwide can afford electronics today. Go here to get the Early Adopter rate before September 15. In the Marvel Universe, a story like this would, of course, start with a portentous meeting of top AI brains in a secret mountain stronghold, holding the world’s future in their hands… This isn’t the Read More ›

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News
Date
September 8, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Relationships, Social Media

Tagged
COSM 2022, David Gelernter, Featured}

Software Pioneer David Gelernter to Speak at COSM 2022, November

_{Gelernter, a Yale computer prof, is known for thinking through problems from a non-Silicon Valley-elite perspective} _{News
September 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Relationships, Social Media}

David Gelernter has been derided as a “fiercely anti-intellectual computer scientist” by influencers whose computer systems may well depend in part on his software (though they probably don’t know that and couldn’t tell us how). From his page at Yale University: The “tuple spaces” introduced in Carriero and Gelernter’s Linda system (1983) are the basis of many computer-communication and distributed programming systems worldwide. “Mirror Worlds” (1991) “foresaw” the World Wide Web (Reuters, 3/20/01) and was “one of the inspirations for Java”; the “lifestreams” system (first implemented by Eric Freeman at Yale) is the basis for Mirror Worlds Technologies’ software. “Breaking out of the box” (NY Times magazine, ‘97) forecast and described the advent of less-ugly computers (Apple’s iMac arrived in Read More ›

Robotic Arm Painting with Brush Closeup 3d illustration

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Robert J. Marks
Date
September 8, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Tagged
Featured, Jason Allen, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial}

When Should AI Art Be Protected by Copyright?

_{Headlines read that AI has recently won an art contest. But what is art?} _{Robert J. Marks
September 8, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Damien Hirst cut a cow and calf each lengthwise into two halves and displayed them in four separate baths of formaldehyde in clear display tanks. The title of the creation, “Mother and Child Divided,” is a pun. The cow and calf were cut in two and were displayed physically separated. “Mother and Child Divided” in two ways. Get it? Hee hee. Is this art? Apparently so. The macabre bifurcated bovine creation won top place in the 1995 Turner Prize art competition. This simple example reveals that, like judging the palatability of raw oysters, ranking the quality of art is highly subjective. Jason Allen entered a piece entitled “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” and took home the first-place prize at Colorado State Fair’s Read More ›

futuristic workspace with sparkling particles floating out of glowing screen, digital art style, illustration painting

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News
Date
September 6, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Tagged
Eric Holloway, Featured, Jason Allen, Jay Richards, Midjourney and Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial}

AI Wins a Prize at an Art Show. So Are Human Artists Finished?

_{A painting generated by a carefully crafted AI prompt won at Colorado’s State Fair digital art competition. Some artists wonder if they still have a job} _{News
September 6, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

This painting, generated by artificial intelligence, “using a carefully crafted prompt,” won first prize at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition for digital arts: The award, which includes a $300 cash prize, was won by Jason Allen. While other candidates for the award used software like Photoshop and Illustrator to create original digital art by hand or alter photographs, Allen used an AI called Midjourney which can generate artworks or just about any kind of synthetic image from a mere line of text. The AI-generated artwork, which Allen calls “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” depicts a bizarre but intriguing scene from the distant future or some other world in which human figures are in awe as they stare into a huge Read More ›

Police tactical team gathered round a house

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News
Date
September 1, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Security, Crime, Data Privacy}

Swatting Goes Into Politics — as Congresswoman Greene Discovered

_{Swatting — calling the police and pretending that a violent incident is taking place at a given address — can kill the victim} _{News
September 1, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Computer Security, Crime, Data Privacy}

This has been a summer to remember for U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia). She was “swatted” twice. The first false report that brought the police to her home was Wednesday, August 23: According to the first Rome PD report, five officers responded to a call on Wednesday during the initial attempted swatting. The caller claimed that a man had been “shot five times in a bathtub” at Greene’s home, and there was a woman and possibly children still in potential danger. On the way to Greene’s house, police realized who the homeowner was, but “due to the nature of the call,” police “formed up” at a nearby intersection and made a “tactical approach.” Rome PD provided Ars with no Read More ›

Chocolate and vanilla bourbon ice creams

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Eric Holloway
Date
August 29, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Artificial neural networks (ANNs), Featured, Mind-Brain Distinction}

How We Know the Mind Is About Information, Not Matter or Energy

_{The computer program’s world is one of binary 0 or 1 decisions but the physical world is one of many different shades of more or less} _{Eric Holloway
August 29, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind}

It’s really hard to picture the “mind,” isn’t it? You might think of wavy ghosts, or a spectral light. But nothing very definite. The brain, on the other hand, is very easy to visualize. Images and videos are just a Google away. That’s why it’s easy to assume that our brains are the entities that do our thinking for us. The brain is not only easy to image, it is physical. We can (in theory) touch it. Poke it. The brain even runs off electricity, just like your computer. But what makes a computer run Windows? It isn’t just the transistors on silicon wafers. It isn’t just the electricity coursing through the circuits. Windows itself is a ghostly being, like Read More ›

abstract autumn illustration ai generated art

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News
Date
August 25, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Stable Diffusion}

New Text-to-Art Image Generator Easier to Misuse, Critics Say

_{Relative to DALL-E 2, it is easier to use to generate pornography, as controversial website 4Chan has recently demonstrated} _{News
August 25, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Stable Diffusion, a new open source text-to-art generator (they’re coming thick and fast), dropped a couple of days ago: It has come under fire for some of its more questionable uses. Most uses have been reasonable, according to Kyle Wiggers at TechCrunch, but the problem uses give us a window into potential headaches to come: On the infamous discussion board 4chan, where the model leaked early, several threads are dedicated to AI-generated art of nude celebrities and other forms of generated pornography. Emad Mostaque, the CEO of Stability AI, called it “unfortunate” that the model leaked on 4chan and stressed that the company was working with “leading ethicists and technologies” on safety and other mechanisms around responsible release. One of Read More ›