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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Seeing a lot of it on the news, so thought I'd start a thread where we can throw any interesting articles about how AI may affect us in the future, in a positive or a negative way. First up, Eric Topol on medical AI:
https://erictopol.substack.com...7473&isFreemail=true
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
A bit of history.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...her/?sh=67ed44ff2277
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
The people who love AI.
https://www.vox.com/technology...-bing-bard-work-jobs
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| Unrepentant Dork Gadfly  |
I used ChatGPT last week to help me come up with an interesting title for a workshop I’m doing. Then I used it to help me revise my bio for the same event. It’s not going to give you original or groundbreaking content, but it can be a really helpful tool.
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Minor Deity |
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...ncerns-were-ignored/ "Worse than useless" "Pathological liar" Some of the more colorful comments reportedly made by Google employees who internally trialed the Bard AI. Not sure how much weight to give them, though, most large enough organizations tend to have a few people that are super cautious or super critical when reviewing something, anything.
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| Minor Deity |
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...e-powers-ai-unicorns Article on a large set of open source images used to train image generation AI. This is a big deal with many big unresolved issues. Copyright ownership, whether AI company can use the images to train their AI models without permission, whether the AI companies should be compelled to disclose what data sets they use to train their AI models, etc. All these can impact the development and use/commercialization of AI.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65452940
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Minor Deity |
I quake for those whose livelihoods depend on carrying out functions which chatbots can do as well or better. Among them I include pathologists (hitherto one of the most lucrative fields in medicine). Tssk, you just never know when you're choosing your major or medical specialty especially if remuneration is a key factor!
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| Minor Deity |
And as far as my personal Turing test goes, I wait for a chatbot that can come up with really funny jokes (including the timing!). Sense of humor is so different from language to language, from culture to culture. Likewise, metaphors and folk references. I still remember with a blush even to myself, the (few!) times I attempted to tell a joke (foolproof ones, I thought) to friends in a foreign language. That ghastly silence following my delivering the (hilarious) punchline still haunts me. Then too (to illustrate my point) I remember the night I was crossing the border into West Germany- ages ago, of course. I handed a border guard a tourist guide ("Europe on Five Dollars a Day"?) to inquire about a few inexpensive hotels recommended. He shook his head discouragingly, remarking enigmatically "Paper is patient" ("Papier ist geduldig"). Dead silence from me. He repeated his informative statement again, louder. "PAPER IS PATIENT" [you fool!]. What th-? Since when does paper have personality traits? Giving up, he translated the expression from its metaphoric meaning. To him, it had been straightforward information but - not really. "You can lie to paper and it won't complain!" AHA! I finally got it. The hotels were a lot more expensive than the author had claimed. But I doubt even an advanced chatbot could have done better than me. It was one of many times I realized why the Geneva Institute for Simultaneous Interpretation (for the UN) is so exclusive in acceptance, and so time-consuming in training. (And no wonder the salaries are so high, especially for certain language combinations)! You're NOT just absorbing a Google Translation function, but centuries of culture and history! I did not pursue that ambition.
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| Minor Deity |
Hat tip George K https://www.semianalysis.com/p...-no-moat-and-neither Article purported to be a leaked memo by a Google employee. But regardless of its provenance, it's a good article with lots of good information in there. As a matter of opinion, it argues that open source is the way of the future for AI, and it is rather bullish of the prospect of a certain class of model training technique called Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA). The article also has a nice timeline showing very rapid improvements/innovations in the space starting from Feb. 2023 (yes, this year) when Meta (Facebook) released a consequential set of AI code.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Google introduces text-to-music AI.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05...placement=newsletter
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
https://www.scientificamerican...ings-no-one-told-it/
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Here’s one from this morning, MS claims the ChatGPT model not available to the public (I.e., the more powerful one), showed artificial generalized intelligence: Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
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| Minor Deity |
https://www.sciencefocus.com/f...y/musiclm-google-ai/ Article with sample outputs from Google's MusicLM AI that generates music from text prompts. The reviewers largely panned the results.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
After listening to the samples they included in the article, I can see why. 
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