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A team of students from the University of California, Davis, has won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize and a $500,000 prize for creating a “chatbot” that can converse engagingly with humans on a range of topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology and fashion. Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, led the team of 11 graduate and undergraduate students to victory.
A team of students from the University of California, Davis, has won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize and a $500,000 prize for creating a “chatbot” that can converse engagingly with humans on a range of topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology and fashion. Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, led the team of 11 graduate and undergraduate students to victory.
A team of students from the University of California, Davis, has won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize and a $500,000 prize for creating a “chatbot” that can converse engagingly with humans on a range of topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology and fashion. Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, led the team of 11 graduate and undergraduate students to victory.
A team of students from the University of California, Davis, has won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize and a $500,000 prize for creating a “chatbot” that can converse engagingly with humans on a range of topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology and fashion. Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, led the team of 11 graduate and undergraduate students to victory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father' of the atomic bomb, famously noted that upon witnessing the first use of the weapon, the phrase from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita ran through his mind.
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'.
He realized that they had unleashed onto the world a horrible weapon and technology, hoping that society had the guardrails in place to prevent its misuse. Fortunately, experience has shown that since then we've been able to avoid the worst - the societal guardrails have prevented its misuse. So far.
No such guardrails exist today as the sophisticated tools of rapidly maturing AI technology are unleashed into our world.
There is nothing inspirational whatsoever about today's post, and I thought long and hard about whether I should go down the path with this topic - I have been thinking about this for the last many months. I finally decided to mock up an image and put it out to my followers on Mastodon for a vote.
Well, a 78% 'No" vote made the decision for me.
Society is not ready for what is coming.
Today, we can barely manage the flood of false information generated by humans - how are we ever going to deal with it when it is generated at scale? I, like many others, have been watching with increasing alarm the sudden and fast arrival of all these new A.I. technologies. It's everywhere - and every tech company is rushing to get involved. The result will be a massive rush to push products out the door, with little regard given to safety, ethics, and the potential for destructive misuse.
Over on Mastodon, @jacqueline@chaos.social (whoever she might be) stated the situation perfectly:
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society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.
tech guys: i have invented a machie that generates misinformation. is that helpful?
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People are worried - rightfully so - as to how information networks like Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and others have been weaponized by various factions on the left and the right; by political parties and politicians; by sophisticated public relations campaigns and companies. Information is coming at us so fast and so furious that many people have lost the simple ability to judge what is real and what's not.
And the rush to capitalize on the newest iterations of AI technology - barely months old in terms of use - is already seeing some awful results. Take, for example, this one.
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When Arena Group, the publisher of Sports Illustrated and multiple other magazines, announced—less than a week ago—that it would lean into artificial intelligence to help spawn articles and story ideas, its chief executive promised that it planned to use generative power only for good.
Then, in a wild twist, an AI-generated article it published less than 24 hours later turned out to be riddled with errors.
The article in question, published in Arena Group’s Men’s Journal under the dubious byline of “Men’s Fitness Editors,” purported to tell readers “What All Men Should Know About Low Testosterone.” Its opening paragraph breathlessly added that the article had been “reviewed and fact-checked” by a presumably flesh-and-blood editorial team. But on Thursday, a real fact-check on the piece came courtesy of Futurism, the science and tech outlet known for recently catching CNET with its AI-generated pants down just a few weeks ago.
The outlet unleashed Bradley Anawalt, the University of Washington Medical Center’s chief of medicine, on the 700-word article, with the good doctor digging up at least 18 “inaccuracies and falsehoods.” The story contained “just enough proximity to the scientific evidence and literature to have the ring of truth,” Anawalt added, “but there are many false and misleading notes.”
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And there we have it. That's our future.
The thing with a lot of this 'artificial intelligence' stuff is that it's not. These are predictive language models, trained to construct sophisticated sentences based on massive data sets. Those data sets can be manipulated, changing the predictive outcome of the model. Many of these early releases have had small ethical efforts to ensure the A.I. data set does not include hate speech, racism, and other such things. That probably won't last long; A.I. will be weaponized before we know it. The result? A.I. language tools will soon be able to generate a ridiculous amount of harmful content that will flood our world.
But it's not just that - it's the fact that the old truism GIGO applies - garbage in, garbage out. We are already seeing the lack of guardrails as companies rush to cash in. The Men's Journal situation is but one small example. There are dozens, hundreds, soon to be thousands, millions. A.I. is soon to become an engine of misinformation, a factory of falsehoods, and a deployer of dishonesty.
Gosh, I am depressing myself as I write this.
And here's the problem - there is so much money rushing into A.I. so fast that but moments after the hype of crypto imploded, the hype of AI began. Months in, and we're already into a bubble! 2023? All A.I. all the time!
There are too many potential problems to mention, but the fundamental one is this - the tech industry has shown that it cannot be trusted. The 'tech bros' (as people refer to Zuckerberg, Musk, and Thiel) have proven themselves to be far too interested in the generation of cash than they are in the betterment of society. Now expand that into this new world.
Case in point. Just this week, Google rushed its A.I. into our world, and it was critically wrong right off the bat.
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The type of factual error that blighted the launch of Google’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot will carry on troubling companies using the technology, experts say, as the market value of its parent company continues to plunge.
Investors in Alphabet marked down its shares by a further 4.4% to $95 on Thursday, representing a loss of market value of about $163bn (£140bn) since Wednesday when shareholders wiped around $106bn off the stock.
Shareholders were rattled after it emerged that a video demo of Google’s rival to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT chatbot contained a flawed response to a question about Nasa’s James Webb space telescope. The animation showed a response from the program, called Bard, stating that the JWST “took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system”, prompting astronomers to point out this was untrue.
Google said the error underlined the need for the “rigorous testing” that Bard is undergoing before a wider release to the public, which had been scheduled for the coming weeks. A presentation of Google’s AI-backed search plans on Wednesday also failed to reassure shareholders.
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Trust me - the rigorous testing that Google won't be happening, because, it's a race - for profit, market dominance, and supremacy.
I'm sorry to be so thoroughly depressing with this post, but though I am a big proponent of technology, I'm not excited about what is unfolding here at all. And so I simply want to go on the record so that when, months and years from now, we realize that the destructive potential of AI has been fully weaponized, I can sit back and say, 'I told you so.' Our future will be defined by the production of misinformation and false realities at scale, and society is ill-prepared to deal with it; the technology and venture capital industries are all too eager to ignore the problems in chasing the potential for profit; and politicians are all too eager to exploit it for their own selfish interests than to put in place any sort of protective legislation and regulation.
And it is happening so fast. Just under 4 months ago, I spoke in Switzerland at a global risk summit on the acceleration of risk, and my Daily Inspiration at the time said this: “The biggest risks aren’t just those we don’t yet know about – it’s the speed at which they are coming at us!”
Combine that with the other one I wrote at that time, based on my response to someone asking about the future and risk. My response? “Every new technology is ultimately used for a nefarious purpose, accelerating societal risk”
Little did I know it would happen so fast.
"AI. Now I am become destruction. A destroyer of reality at scale."
Sorry.
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Virtual Worlds Forum Unplugged. The Virtual Worlds Forum, London was cancelled due to a shooting near the venue at the last minute the organisers put on an unconference at the The Hospital Club in Covent Garden for all the stranded speakers and delegates.
It was a very interesting day and gave people chance to mingle, sit next to and chat to people probably wouldn't have done in a normal conference setting.
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A moody room with Shining-esque broadloom. In fhe foreground stands a giant figure the with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar; its eyes have been replaced with the glaring red eyes of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and has the logo for Meta AI on its lapel; it peers though a magnifying glass at a tiny figure standing on its vast palm. The tiny figure has a leg caught in a leg-hold trap and wears an expression of eye-rolling horror. In the background, gathered around a sofa and an armchair, is a ranked line of grinning businessmen, who are blue and flickering in the manner of a hologram display in Star Wars.
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Crossbench MPs call for minister to resign portfolio over Sportsbet donations from Burt Bacharach and promises to stamp out gay conversion therapies put in place by fundy religious church influences like Fred Nile and the ACL over state government health policies.
Is 'desk-bombing' your co-workers rude ? Do Androids dream of dick ? Do all disgraced politicians and media personalities get a free ride to marry their Byron Bae and have a lovechild? Do you Challenge you need to have a Gray Christmas by fvvking Amazon Flex up the butt ?
Former Australian PM 'Scotty from Marketing' has come under fire for using Tik-Tok to view Aukus pact spoof videos on his work phone during parliamentary question time when he was still PM and held multiple Secret Ministries.
A team of students from the University of California, Davis, has won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize and a $500,000 prize for creating a “chatbot” that can converse engagingly with humans on a range of topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology and fashion. Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, led the team of 11 graduate and undergraduate students to victory.
A team of students from the University of California, Davis, has won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize and a $500,000 prize for creating a “chatbot” that can converse engagingly with humans on a range of topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology and fashion. Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, led the team of 11 graduate and undergraduate students to victory.
Here at id-iom things are sometimes created with fairly contrived reasons for being and ‘The Night Owl’ is one such creature. One half of id-iom had become somewhat enamoured with the idea of doing a piece referencing Lilith who was Adam’s first wife who was banished from the Garden of Eden for not obeying Adam. To me she sounds like a modern woman but the patriarchy didn’t see it as such and she was branded a demon and a monster and referenced as such with one of her many names being ‘the night owl’.
Still with us? Now if you take the words ‘the night owl’ and ask an AI chatbot to create a 4 line poem about the night owl in the style of Edgar Allen Poe then this is what you get:
The night owl is said to be an omen,
Brought on her flight by the yellow leaf,
Laid her wide smile and mourned her wind,
Keep thee from thy weariness and grief!
Once that’s all had time to percolate through then you’re good to put brush to paper and get creating. What you’re left with is ‘The Night Owl’ created on two A4 bits of paper using letter stamps, yellow tape, acrylic paint and paint pen. Give us a hoot if she’s got to be yours or she’ll be on our new website in due course (www.id-iom.com - link in bio).
Cheers
id-iom
If you were a teacher who had this turned in by a student for an assignment would you recognize it as produced by AI and not written by the student or any other human? Not saying whether it is any good as a poem, but does it look like something a student (or nonstudent) would possibly write?
Today I created my Chat GPT account and started using it. This is one of the first things I asked Chat GPT to do.
“ARTSAT1: Invader” the world’s first art satellite, blasted off into outer space on February 28, 2014. The Invader is cube-shaped; each edge is 10 cm long. It weighs 1.85 kg. It’s equipped with an Arduino-compatible computer that has enabled its ground control crew at Tata Art University in Tokyo to successfully carry out a series of artistic missions: the algorithmic generation and broadcast of synthetic voices, music and poetry, recording and transmitting image data, and communication with the ground control station by means of a chatbot program.
credit: ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project
Technology News: Microsoft New Zo Chatbot Dodges Politics, Doesn’t Always Make Sense
A pedestrian walks past a sign on Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on July 17, 2014. Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Microsoft
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Chatbots can interact with the user not only through text and voice. They can also engage the audience by providing visual recognition.
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News out of the USA this week, apart from reports of The U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, gave us philosophical feedstock about the sentience of a chatbot or the personality, sensu stricto, of an elephant.
The conclusions were logical and reasonable. No, a chatbot is not sentient. There was a minor problem in this discourse that nobody set down any rules by which the posit could be tested. That a chatbot mimics psycho-social attributes does not make it sentient. True, we all do much the same, as culture dictates. A chatbot is just a bunch of code and a database. It can't do the things that a sentient organism does, say like this cuttlefish. It can't change its position in the environment, use a range of sensory inputs or make itself a cup of coffee if it gets a bit tired. OK, cuttlefish don't drink coffee, I just made that up like Trump and Stop the Steal, but it could chow down on one of those little fish in the background and feel happy and content with that outcome. I'm equally sure that the little ray who followed me along the shore in the Galapagos knew who it was, what it was up to and was curious about me. There may be bots looking at me now. Unlike true sentient lifeforms they, well to put it bluntly, are not lifeforms. Come back and talk to me about it when they can reproduce, maintain themselves or each other, create and consume their own energy, move away from danger and all the other things that sentient lifeforms do and they aren't on the end of a copper wire that can simply be unplugged.
Addressing the elephant in the room was different. Sentience wasn't an issue. Elephants rate on the sentience scale. They are right up there. But are they people? No. Elephants are elephants. If you asked them they might even want you to justify why they'd lower themselves to the status of humanity. The premise is simply one of arbitrary assignment of superiority. Trump thought he was above the Constitution of the United States of America, probably still does, and yet we know there are things bigger than base human behaviour which benefit the many over the few. Its the same with elephants and people. If we as a community don't care for elephants then we will proclaim their doom. If we protect an elephant from risks it doesn't know, but we do as people know them, we do great works. Acting as a Constitution does, we can likewise enrich and embrace the elephant in the room without leaving it to perish of its own devices.
Development and designing secure Chatbot solutions creating opportunities for delivering fast, reliable customer service across channels.
This issue of FeedFront Magazine includes What ASEuro Taught Me About International Business by Michelle Held, Top Mistakes When Investing in Crypto by Ricky Ahuja, Marketing’s Role in Gender Parity by Maura Smith, Five Tips for Working with Influencers by Ashley Klotz, coverage of affiliate managers, AI, chatbots, clickless tracking, co-working spaces, dropshipping, email list hygiene, Facebook Analytics, FTC compliance, GDPR, influencers, loyalty sites, and more.
Microsoft unveils new Bing powered ChatGPT to take on Google. Chat GPT is an advanced chatbot created by OpenAI which is designed to give conversational style answers to questions.
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