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Peter Biles
Date
July 30, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
ChatGPT, Consciousness, Large Language Models (LLMs), Literature, OpenAI, Plough}

ChatGPT: The Perfect Gadget for a Culture in Decline?

_{ChatGPT is an impersonal machine and can't generate meaning} _{Peter Biles
July 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro, professor of English at Grove City College and an editor at The Front Porch Republic, wrote an article for Plough on what he regards as the primary weakness of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Bilbro comes to the issue from a literary background, which means he values the human element in language as a mode of communication. Literature is a “conversation,” requiring sentient minds. He sees ChatGPT as a soulless mechanism that will atrophy our ability to write and diminish our appreciation for good writing. Bilbro writes, LLMs are a technology suited to a decadent culture, one that chases easy profits rather than tackles the real challenges we face. It’s easier to make money rearranging words Read More ›

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News
Date
July 26, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Neural networks (and understanding), OpenAI}

Do AI Developers Really Not Know What They’re Making?

_{A speech-and-language AI researcher counterclaims the doomsdayers} _{News
July 26, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

A new article by AI researcher Arlie Coles at American Mind aims to “demystify” artificial intelligence, particularly the claim that AI creators have no idea what they’re creating. Coles says that we understand AI much better than the doomsdayers let on. Part of the reason for AI’s cloudy nature is due to its mathematical complexity, which Coles finds understandable. But that’s no reason not to try and understand what AI is and gauge its benefits and capacities in an accurate light. She writes, We do know what we’re building and how it works, and it’s not too late for us to speak forthrightly about AI so that the general public, not just those with math or computer science Ph.D.s, can Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
July 15, 2023

Tagged
Arts and Culture, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, god, Mission Impossible, Movies and Film, OpenAI, religion, Tom Cruise, xAI}

Mission Impossible: A Dead Reckoning With Artificial Intelligence

_{The villain in the new blockbuster movie is an artificial intelligence known simply as "the entity."} _{Peter Biles
July 15, 2023

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I walked into the theater expecting a typical villain in the latest installment of Mission Impossible starring the inimitable Tom Cruise. And at the film’s beginning, you’re definitely led to believe that the pale, sour-faced Russians are behind yet another espionage program destined to thwart America and conquer the world. But that’s only a front. The real villain in the new blockbuster movie is an artificial intelligence known simply as “the entity.” The impossible mission, tasked to Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is to track down a mysterious key, made of two separate parts, that apparently can unlock the entity and reveal what it’s capable of. God in the Machine Hunt and his usual gang of expatriates find themselves at odds with Read More ›

Digital chatbots on smartphones access data and information in online networks. Robot Applications and Global Connectivity AI Artificial Intelligence innovation and technology

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News
Date
July 14, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
ChatGPT, Elon Musk, Federal Trade Commission, OpenAI, Tesla, Twitter, Understanding, xAI}

Musk: My AI Will “Understand Reality”

_{xAI, Musk's alternative to OpenAI, is shrouded in ambitious hopes} _{News
July 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Tech giant and billionaire Elon Musk is starting yet another company, and this one has to do with the talk of the town: artificial intelligence. The name of the venture is “xAI.” It’s been an interesting week in the tech and AI world. Meta released “Threads,” a Twitter alternative, and OpenAI is now under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, calling the AI company into question for its data scraping methods and ChatGPT’s tendency to spin false information. Now that AI is the apple in ever tech mogul’s eye at the moment, I guess it makes sense that Musk is reaching for the branch of temptation. He’s been teasing his hopes for his own AI company for a few months Read More ›

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News
Date
July 13, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Data privacy, Data Security, Disinformation, Federal Trade Commission, Gary Smith, Large Language Models (LLMs), mind matters, New York Times, OpenAI, Sam Altman}

OpenAI is Now Under Investigation

_{The Federal Trade Commission wants to know how OpenAI gets their data and how much harm ChatGPT could have} _{News
July 13, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

The Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) sent a letter to OpenAI, the San Fransisco company responsible for creating ChatGPT, the Large Language Model that captured the world’s imagination in November of 2022. Per the New York Times, the F.T.C. is investigating the AI company’s methods of data acquisition and also plans on measuring the potential harms of AI on society, citing concerns over false information and job replacement. Cecilia Kang and Cade Metz report: In a 20-page letter sent to the San Francisco company this week, the agency said it was also looking into OpenAI’s security practices. The F.T.C. asked the company dozens of questions in its letter, including how the start-up trains its A.I. models and treats personal data. The Read More ›

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Eric Holloway
Date
July 12, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Creativity, Eric Holloway, Featured, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks}

Does ChatGPT Pass the Creativity Test?

_{What does ChatGPT have to do in order to be considered creative?} _{Eric Holloway
July 12, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

What is creativity? Where does it come from? Why are some things humans do considered creative, while other things mundane? Can AI be creative? To answer these questions, let’s come up with a definition. Creativity at least means something new has been done. No work that copies what has come before is considered creative. A Creativity Criteria Just doing something new is not enough either. If it were, then I can easily be creative by flipping a coin 100 times. That specific sequence of coin flips will only occur once in the entire history of humanity. But no one would say I was creative when I flipped a coin. This means creativity has to generate a new insight. However, these two criteria are not adequate, Read More ›

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News
Date
June 30, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, critical thinking, Google, OpenAI, Satire, Technology, Writing}

AI Can Do It All So You Don’t Have To

_{Sometimes satire says it best} _{News
June 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Satire is often best at uncovering uncomfortable truths. Much of the talk around AI progress celebrates its ability to make certain tasks way easier, such as writing essays, programming computer code, or firing your employees. While that is certainly true, the concern remains that if we depend on AI like this for long enough we might just forget how to put two and two together and write a sentence over ten words long. That’s probably cynical, but the principle is there – depending on technology to perform mental tasks will lessen the ability to independently perform those same mental tasks. The popular satire site The Onion published a paragraph about a hypothetical man who is delighted about AI because it Read More ›

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News
Date
June 27, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Amazon, apple, Artificial Intelligence, Bard, Big Tech, ChatGPT, Google, Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI}

Don’t Tell Google Bard Your Secrets

_{Executives are warning employees of potential privacy leaks} _{News
June 27, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., advised its employees not to share personal information with the chatbot “Bard,” noting that doing so could lead to privacy leaks, which has reportedly already happened at Samsung. Kevin Hurler reports, Four sources close to the matter told Reuters that the massive tech giant has advised employees not to enter confidential information into chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s own Bard over fears of leaks. Alphabet is reportedly concerned with employees inputting sensitive information into these chatbots since human reviewers may sit on the other end reviewing chat entries. These chatbots may also use previous entries to train themselves, posing another risk of a leak. That risk is warranted, as Samsung confirmed last month that its own internal Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
June 14, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, AI Church, Associated Press, ChatGPT, Church, Climate change, Fox News, OpenAI, Ukraine}

AI Plays the Reverend

_{An AI chatbot gave a sermon at a church in Germany, allegedly telling congregants "not to fear death."} _{Peter Biles
June 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

An AI chatbot gave a sermon at a church in Germany, allegedly telling congregants “not to fear death.” University of Vienna theologian and philosopher Jonas Simmerlein was responsible for the service and for giving the ChatGPT bot its prompts. Talk about eerie. Even churches are starting to incorporate AI into their homilies. Simmerlein noted that overall the chatbot gave “a pretty solid service,” and included psalms, prayers, and also mentions of climate change and Ukraine. Not all the congregants got the same impression. Per the report from Fox News, in conjunction with the Associated Press, some church attendants felt put off by the chatbot’s mechanical and impersonal delivery. One woman expressed, “There was no heart and no soul,” Heiderose Schmidt, Read More ›

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Gary Smith
Date
June 12, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Alan Turing, ChatGPT, data, Elon Musk, Gary Smith, GPT-3, Large Language Models (LLMs), Meta, Monty Hall Problem, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Yann LeCun}

The LLM Deep Fake—Follow the Money

_{Hype sells. Just look at what's happening with AI} _{Gary Smith
June 12, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Large language models (LLMs) are far more impressive now than they were just a few months or a year ago. Compare these exchanges I had with GPT-3 in June 2022 and with ChatGPT two days ago: Gary: Can I improve my test scores if I study after taking the test? GPT-3: That’s a good question. I’m not sure if you can improve your test scores by studying after taking the test, but it couldn’t hurt to try! ChatGPT: Studying after taking a test is unlikely to directly improve your scores on that particular test since the test has already been completed. Once a test is finished, the opportunity to answer questions and provide responses has passed. However, studying after taking Read More ›

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Eric Holloway
Date
June 7, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Cats, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Creativity, Dall-E, Human exceptionalism, Midjourney, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, Understanding}

Say What? AI Doesn’t Understand Anything

_{Is that supposed to be a cat, Mr. AI?} _{Eric Holloway
June 7, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Whenever I look at AI generated content, whether it be pictures or text, they all have the same flaw. The AI cannot comprehend what it is making. Let me explain. When we humans draw a picture, we are drawing a concept. We are drawing something like “cat climbs a tree” or “cowboy riding into the sunset”. It seems like this is what is happening with a picture drawing AI. We give it a prompt, and it draws an associated picture. On second thought, maybe not… When AI draws the picture, what is really going on is it is finding individual-colored pixels that correlate with the letters we typed in its massive database stored in the neural network. Very different than how we draw. We Read More ›

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News
Date
June 1, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Alan Turing, Alan Turing on computer creativity, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, The Conversation}

New Conversation Article: ChatGPT Can’t Think

_{Will AI ever reach a point where it can independently analyze, think, and transcend itself?} _{News
June 1, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Will AI ever reach a point where it can independently analyze, think, and transcend itself? Furthermore, will it ever become sentient? Some experts in the field, like Blake Lemoine, think AI has already breached the boundaries of sentience. Others, though, remain skeptical. A new article from The Conversation discusses ChatGPT, the Turing test, and the question of consciousness. For Turing, “thinking” meant simply passing the test, but his assumptions were misguided. Philip Goff writes, Turing was wrong, however, when he said the only clear notion of “understanding” is the purely behavioural one of passing his test. Although this way of thinking now dominates cognitive science, there is also a clear, everyday notion of “understanding” that’s tied to consciousness. To understand Read More ›

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William A. Dembski
Date
May 30, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Bard, ChatGPT, Google, Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI, William Dembski}

Moving On to Breaking Google’s Bard

_{These AI systems lack the uniquely human capacity of self-transcendence} _{William A. Dembski
May 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

I’ve finally started playing around with Google Bard. With self-referential sentences, it seems even more at sea than ChatGPT. Here is an exchange from May 18: Me: Consider the following six sentences: This is the first sentence. Ignore this sentence. Why are these sentences being written down? The second sentence has exactly three words. The fifth sentence has at least twenty words. This, along with the preceding five sentences, have fewer than twenty times twenty words. Which of these last six sentences has a truth value and which are true? Bard: The last six sentences have the following truth values: The second sentence is false because it has 5 words, not 3. The fifth sentence is true because it has Read More ›

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News
Date
May 29, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Congress, Military, OpenAI, Sam Altman}

“A Printing Press Moment” in History

_{AI should be regulated lest it do real harm in the world, said OpenAI CEO} _{News
May 29, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company at the forefront of artificial intelligence development in recent months, testified before lawmakers last week on the state of AI, its potential, and the dangers of its misuse. Despite Altman’s overall optimism regarding AI, calling it a “printing press moment,” he called for lawmakers to regulate it to keep it from causing legitimate harm in the world. Julia Zorthian, writer at Times and owner of the coolest last name in the world, reports, Joining Altman in testifying before the committee were two other AI experts, professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University Gary Marcus and IBM Chief Privacy & Trust Officer Christina Montgomery. The three witnesses supported governance of AI Read More ›

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Jeffrey Funk
Date
May 29, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technology

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, economics, Japan, Jeffrey Funk, OpenAI, Technology, United States, wealth}

Review of “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity”

_{This new book on tech, AI, and economic prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson is incredibly timely} _{Jeffrey Funk
May 29, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

This book by two MIT economists is very timely because the world is now dealing with the latest in the “Thousand Year Struggle,” in the form of artificial intelligence, the claims that many white-collar jobs will be automated, OpenAI’s call for regulation, and the possibility that AI will bring a further concentration of power among the big tech companies. Much of the book sets the stage for this discussion by summarizing the history of technology. This review focuses on the economic and social impact of automation and information technology over the last 50 years. For instance, “the distribution of income between capital and labor began to change significantly in the late 20th century. While throughout most of the century, about Read More ›

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News
Date
May 27, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Congress, Content moderation, government, Large Language Models (LLMs), MIT, OpenAI}

AI Still Struggles to Take Out the Trash

_{How good is AI at content moderation?} _{News
May 27, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

How good is AI at content moderation? Also, why haven’t tech companies improved at filtering bad content? A new article at MIT Technology Review goes into some of the details of AI, content moderation, and the struggle tech companies have with “bad actors.” In particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT still struggle with capturing the nuance and context of language; therefore it seems unlikely that AI will totally replace human content moderators. Tate Ryan-Mosley writes, Large language models still struggle with context, which means they probably won’t be able to interpret the nuance of posts and images as well as human moderators. Scalability and specificity across different cultures also raise questions. -Tate Ryan-Mosley, Catching bad content in the age Read More ›

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News
Date
May 24, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Deepfakes, Elon Musk, Featured, Midjourney, OpenAI, Pentagon, Sam Altman, United States}

Fake Fire at the Pentagon

_{An AI image of a fire near Pentagon stokes panic} _{News
May 24, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

An AI-generated image showing a billowing fire near the U.S. Pentagon caused panic this week. False alarms of an explosion started to proliferate across social media, with even a Russian state outlet reporting on the situation, according to TMZ. Nonetheless, the image showed various distortions and was quickly dismantled as a hoax by a number of vigilant viewers. Even so, the image looks realistic at first glance, and was enough to ignite concern; the incident occurs amidst legislative talks on Capitol Hill over AI regulation. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (which was originally funded by Elon Musk) testified before Congress and noted that while he sees great benefits in new AI systems, the possibilities of their abuses are evident. The Read More ›

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News
Date
May 24, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Technology, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, world}

Opinion: They Were Right to Call for AI’s Pause

_{Could ChatGPT end up making us subservient to it?} _{News
May 24, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Brad Littlejohn wrote an opinion piece at World claiming that Elon Musk and the many others who signed a petition calling for AI to pause research were onto something–and that the rest of us should pay attention. He writes, In a famous essay at the dawn of the personal computing era, “Thinking About Technology,” Canadian philosopher George Grant examined the statement, “Computers do not impose on us the ways they should be used.” It expressed, he argued, the quintessential modern idea of technology as simply an extension of human freedom. The claim is that we remain at all times the masters of our technological instruments, free to bend them to our will. More often, however, they have an uncanny way Read More ›

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William A. Dembski
Date
May 19, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, OpenAI}

How to Break ChatGPT

_{It has a difficulty dealing with self-reference} _{William A. Dembski
May 19, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Over the last several months I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, first version 3 and now version 4. It’s impressive and it can answer many questions accurately (though sometimes it just makes stuff up). One problem it has consistently displayed, and which shows that it lacks understanding (that it really is just a big Chinese room in the style of John Searle) is its difficulty dealing with self-reference. Consider the following exchange that I had with it (on 5/8/23): Me: The fifth sentence does not exist. The second sentence has four words. Ignore this sentence. Is this sentence true? This is the fifth sentence. Which of these last five sentences has a truth value and is in fact true? << In Read More ›

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News
Date
May 19, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Crime, Deepfakes, internet, metaverse, Midjourney, OpenAI, Reality, Technology}

“Suddenly There’s No More Reality”

_{The deepfakes and AI scams abound} _{News
May 19, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

With the proliferation of AI text and images, the issue of deepfakes is of deepening concern. The better AI gets at refashioning reality, will the already murky waters of the Internet become too surreal to navigate? Even real videos, when divorced from their proper context, can be deeply misleading. When entire clips are artificially contrived, then, it seems like the line between fact and fiction dissolves entirely. Some folks are already worried. Victor Tangermann writes at Futurism, [Given] recent developments, the situation is likely to get worse before it can get better. AI tools are making it easier to generate deepfakes every year. These days, an AI can be trained on a relatively small stockpile of audiovisual data to convincingly Read More ›