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[Graham1973]

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The ghost of Mr Clippit is apparently being revived for Microsoft’s new AI plans, which are also at the heart of its next gen console.

Rather than destroying all humans, the thing most people are worried about at the moment, when it comes to AI, is them destroying everyone’s jobs. Online and telephone service staff are at particular risk and apparently Microsoft is planning to rely almost entirely on AI when it comes to future customer support.

 

[Graham1973]

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Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry are among 200 high-profile artists calling for the 'predatory' use of AI in the music industry to be stopped.

In an open letter, several of the world's biggest stars have warned the tech 'will set in motion a race to the bottom' if left unchecked.

The use of AI to steal artists' voices, likeness, and sound is an 'assault on human creativity', they said, and would 'destroy the music ecosystem'.

 

[edwest4]

Billy Eyelash?

 

[greenmartian2017]

I have a question: It is well known that ChatGPI/ChatGPT has "manufactured hallucinations"--that is, it makes stuff up, including bibliographic citations for non-existent papers, laws that don't exist, illegal advice when asked questions about legality and procedures that are based on such legalities, etc. What happens if ChatGPI is integrated into daily life--does this mean we may have to deal with "manufactured hallucinations" on a daily basis? Might it crash automobiles? Crash aircraft? Trains? Other types of transportation? Crash financial systems? Ignite nuclear missile launches for spurious hallucenigenic reasons? (Hopefully you are seeing what I am seeing...) How much "hallucination enshittification" could a civilization withstand before crumbling?

"Your ChatGPI is hooked on hallucinations...." It is drugged out!

Perhaps I should also ask--how many human operators have to babysit these ChatGPIs (ChatGPTs) to prevent massive "manufactured hallucinations"? Can humans always spot these hallucinations 100% of the time?

I wonder about all this.

 

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Google is reportedly drawing up plans to charge for AI-enhanced search features, in what would be the biggest shake-up to the company’s revenue model in its history.
The radical shift is a natural consequence of the vast expense required to provide the service, experts say, and would leave every leading player in the sector offering some variety of subscription model to cover its costs.

Google considering charge for internet searches with AI, reports say | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Cost of artificial intelligence service could mean leaders in sector turning to subscription models

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AI-when?

Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained?

There's a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can.

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Computer scientists show the way: AI models need not be so power hungry

The fact that colossal amounts of energy are needed to Google away, talk to Siri, ask ChatGPT to get something done, or use AI in any sense, has gradually become common knowledge.

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Butterfly-inspired AI technology takes flight

When it comes to mating, two things matter for Heliconius butterflies: the look and the smell of their potential partner. The black and orange butterflies have incredibly small brains, yet they must process both sensory inputs at the same time—which is more than current artificial intelligence...

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Characterizing social networks by the company they keep

People tend to connect with others who are like them. Alumni from the same alma mater are more likely to collaborate on a research project together, or individuals with the same political beliefs are more likely to join the same political parties, attend rallies, and engage in online discussions.

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An optimization-based method to enhance autonomous parking

Vehicles that can drive themselves have been a long sought after goal both of robotics research and the automotive industry. While various companies have been investing in these vehicles and testing them, they have so far only deployed them in a limited number of settings.

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Next-generation AI semiconductor devices mimic the human brain

A research team led by Prof. Kwon Hyuk-jun of the DGIST Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed a next-generation AI semiconductor technology that mimics the human brain's efficiency in AI and neuromorphic systems.

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AI Personalities Evolve in Game Theory Experiment - Neuroscience News

Researchers innovated a method to evolve diverse personality traits in dialogue AI using a language model and the prisoner's dilemma game.

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Not surprised

Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected, finds study

"Privacy. That's iPhone," the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University begs to differ.

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Meronymity

For more open and equitable public discussions on social media, try 'meronymity'

Have you ever felt reluctant to share ideas during a meeting because you feared judgment from senior colleagues? You're not alone. Research has shown this pervasive issue can lead to a lack of diversity in public discourse, especially when junior members of a community don't speak up because...

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Artificial intelligence can help people feel heard, study finds

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that AI-generated messages made recipients feel more "heard" than messages generated by untrained humans, and that AI was better at detecting emotions than these individuals. However, recipients reported...

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AI chatbots share some human biases, researchers find

As artificial intelligence gets better at giving humans what they want, it also could get better at giving malicious humans what they want.

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The words you use matter, especially when you're engaging with ChatGPT

Do you start your ChatGPT prompts with a friendly greeting? Have you asked for the output in a certain format? Should you offer a monetary tip for its service? Researchers interact with large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in many ways, including to label their data for machine...

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Protecting art and passwords with biochemistry

Security experts fear Q-Day, the day when quantum computers become so powerful that they can crack today's passwords. Some experts estimate that this day will come within the next ten years. Password checks are based on cryptographic one-way functions, which calculate an output value from an...

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New advances promise secure quantum computing at home

The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford University Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based...

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World-first 'Cybercrime Index' ranks countries by cybercrime threat level

Following three years of intensive research, an international team of researchers have compiled the first ever "World Cybercrime Index," which identifies the globe's key cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level.

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Compact quantum light processing: New findings lead to advances in optical quantum computing

An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons using a novel resource-efficient platform. The work...

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To build a better AI helper, start by modeling the irrational behavior of humans

To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to start with. But humans tend to behave suboptimally when making decisions.

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Skyrmions move at record speeds: A step towards the computing of the future

An international research team led by scientists from the CNRS has discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s.

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Scientists experimentally observe current-driven antiskyrmion sliding

Prof. Zhang Ying's group from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic universities and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, has experimentally observed current-driven antiskyrmion sliding.

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Using sound waves for photonic machine learning: Study lays foundation for reconfigurable neuromorphic building blocks

Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances. One challenge is the reconfigurability of optical neural networks.

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Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with new light sources when needed again. The results demonstrate that mechanical...

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Taichi: A large-scale diffractive hybrid photonic AI chiplet

A combined team of engineers from Tsinghua University and the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, both in China, has developed a large-scale diffractive hybrid photonic AI chiplet for use in high-efficiency artificial general intelligence applications. Their...

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Millions of gamers advance biomedical research by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories

Leveraging gamers and video game technology can dramatically boost scientific research, according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology.

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Holodeck tech and AI imaging

Engineers recreate Star Trek's Holodeck using ChatGPT and video game assets

In "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise leverage the Holodeck, an empty room capable of generating 3D environments, of preparing for missions and entertaining them, simulating everything from lush jungles to the London of Sherlock Holmes.

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Advancing real-time 3D holographic display: A new method for computer-generated holography

Holographic displays offer a promising avenue for achieving lifelike 3D reproductions with continuous depth sensation, holding potential applications in fields such as entertainment, medical imaging, and virtual reality. However, the conventional methods for generating computer-generated...

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Perovskite LEDs for next-generation digital displays can detect fingerprints, changing light conditions and more

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user's pulse, among other things. Their results, published in Nature Electronics, could be the start of a whole new generation of displays...

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A miniaturized vision-based tactile sensor based on fiber optic bundles

Researchers at Meta AI, Stanford University, Technische, Universität Dresden and the German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ) recently developed DIGIT Pinki, a miniature-sized sensor that can detect tactile information. This sensor, presented in a paper posted to the preprint server arXiv, could be...

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AI-powered 'sonar' on smartglasses tracks gaze, facial expressions

Cornell University researchers have developed two technologies that track a person's gaze and facial expressions through sonar-like sensing. The technology is small enough to fit on commercial smartglasses or virtual reality or augmented reality headsets yet consumes significantly less power...

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Trapped in the middle: Billiards with memory framework leads to mathematical questions

Adding one simple rule to an idealized game of billiards leads to a wealth of intriguing mathematical questions, as well as applications in the physics of living organisms. This week, researchers from the University of Amsterdam, including two masters' students as first authors—have published a...

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New code mines microscopy images in scientific articles

Deep learning is a form of artificial intelligence transforming society by teaching computers to process information using artificial neural networks that mimic the human brain. It is now used in facial recognition, self-driving cars and even in the playing of complex games like Go. In general...

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New computer vision tool can count damaged buildings in crisis zones and accurately estimate bird flock sizes

A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on two different problems—how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks—recently announced an AI framework that can do both. The framework, called...

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New AI method captures uncertainty in medical images

In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell. Artificial intelligence models can help clinicians by highlighting pixels that may show signs of a certain disease or anomaly.

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AI makes retinal imaging 100 times faster, compared to manual method

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to a technique that produces high-resolution images of cells in the eye. They report that with AI, imaging is 100 times faster and improves image contrast 3.5-fold. The advance, they say, will provide...

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Decoding spontaneous thoughts from the brain via machine learning

A team of researchers led by Kim Hong Ji and Woo Choong-Wan at the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), in collaboration with Emily FINN at Dartmouth College, has unlocked a new realm of understanding within the human brain.

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Factors that influence depth of field

I came across a youtube video that discusses some aspects of depth of field in photography/videography. Some things that have been said collided with my understanding of DOF. I then had a long discussion with the creator of the video that unfortunately lead nowhere. I'm no scientist, so I lack a...

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Microsoft's AI app VASA-1 makes photographs talk and sing with believable facial expressions

A team of AI researchers at Microsoft Research Asia has developed an AI application that converts a still image of a person and an audio track into an animation that accurately portrays the individual speaking or singing the audio track with appropriate facial expressions.

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Researchers say media need generative AI policies to help navigate misinformation and disinformation

New research into generative AI images shows only over a third of media organizations surveyed at the time of research have an image-specific AI policy in place.

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Generative AI model shows fake news has more impact when released at a steady pace without interruption

It's not at all clear that disinformation has, to date, swung an election that would otherwise have gone another way. But there is a strong sense that it has had a significant impact, nonetheless.

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[Flyaway]

Microsoft launches new AI hub in London after investing £2.5 billion to upskill the UK's workforce for the AI era

Microsoft unveils a new AI hub in London to tap into the UK's vast AI talent and expertise.

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[edwest4]

"upskill" ???

Another example of the Global Cabal of Relabelers and Repackagers hard at work.

 

[Flyaway]

AI for Earth: How NASA's Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change - NASA Science

As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The...

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[Graham1973]

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