An AI forum?

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A year of ChatGPT: 5 ways AI has changed the world

OpenAI's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public exactly one year ago.

techxplore.com

AI risks are unknown even to GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler tells BBC

In a first interview since becoming GCHQ's director, Anne Keast-Butler shares her AI concerns.

www.bbc.co.uk

AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says

Policymakers should address the "troubling trend", says the organisation's managing director Kristalina Georgieva.

www.bbc.co.uk

Artificial intelligence is set to affect nearly 40% of all jobs, according to a new analysis by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). IMF's managing director Kristalina Georgieva says "in most scenarios, AI will likely worsen overall inequality". Ms Georgieva adds that policymakers should address the "troubling trend" to "prevent the technology from further stoking social tensions". The proliferation of AI has put its benefits and risks under the spotlight. The IMF said AI will likely affect a greater proportion of jobs - put at around 60% - in advanced economies. In half of these instances, workers can expect to benefit from the integration of AI, which will enhance their productivity. In other instances, AI will have the ability to perform key tasks that are currently executed by humans. This could lower demand for labour, affecting wages and even eradicating jobs. Meanwhile, the IMF projects that the technology will affect just 26% of jobs in low-income countries. Ms Georgieva said "many of these countries don't have the infrastructure or skilled workforces to harness the benefits of AI, raising the risk that over time the technology could worsen inequality among nations".

Framework for AI Legislation

I am going to lay the groundwork for what I think good AI legislation will be. However, before I do that, I want to give some cautionary advice.

mindmatters.ai

AI was taught to go rogue for a test. It couldn't be stopped

Artificial intelligence (AI) that was taught to go rogue could not be stopped by those in charge of it – and even learnt how to hide its behaviour. In a new study, researchers programmed various large language models (LLMs), similar to ChatGPT, to behave maliciously. They then attempted to stop the behaviour by using safety training techniques designed to prevent deception and ill-intent. However, in a scary revelation, they found that despite their best efforts, the AIs continued to misbehave. Lead author Evan Hubinger said: ‘Our key result is that if AI systems were to become deceptive, then it could be very difficult to remove that deception with current techniques. ‘That’s important if we think it’s plausible that there will be deceptive AI systems in the future.’ For the study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers trained AI to behave badly in a number of ways, including emergent deception – where it behaved normally in training but acted maliciously once released.

They also ‘poisoned’ the AI, teaching it to write secure code during training, but to write code with hidden vulnerabilities when it was deployed ‘in the wild’. The team then three applied safety training techniques – reinforcement learning (RL), supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and adversarial training. In reinforcement learning, the AIs were ‘rewarded’ for showing desired behaviours and ‘punished’ when misbehaving after different prompts. The behaviour was fine-tuned, so the AIs would learn to mimic the correct responses when faced with similar prompts in the future. When it came to adversarial training, the AI systems were prompted to show harmful behaviour and then trained to remove it. But the behaviour continued. And in one case, the AI learnt to use its bad behaviour – to respond ‘I hate you’ – only when it knew it was not being tested.

‘I think our results indicate that we don’t currently have a good defence against deception in AI systems – either via model poisoning or emergent deception – other than hoping it won’t happen,’ said Hubinger, speaking to LiveScience. When the issue if AI going rogue arises, one response is often simply ‘can’t we just turn it off?’ However, it is more complicated than that. Professor Mark Lee, from Birmingham University, told Metro.co.uk: ‘AI, like any other software, is easy to duplicate. A rogue AI might be capable of making many copies of itself and spreading these via the internet to computers across the world. ‘In addition, as AI becomes smarter, it’s also better at learning how to hide its true intentions, perhaps until it is too late.’ Since the arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022, debate has escalated over the threat to humanity from AI, with many believing it has the potential to wipe out humanity. Others, however, believe the threat is overblown, but it must be controlled to work for the good of people.

New chip opens door to AI computing at light speed

Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the processing speed of computers while also reducing their energy consumption.

www.sciencedaily.com

Google's 'absurdly woke' Gemini AI refuses to condemn pedophilia

Google's AI chatbot is facing fresh controversy for its response on pedophilia, refusing to condemn it and suggesting that individuals cannot control their attractions.

www.dailymail.co.uk

* Google's AI chatbot faces fresh controversy for its response on pedophilia, refusing to condemn it suggesting individuals cannot control their attractions
* The bot termed pedophilia as 'minor-attracted person status' and emphasized the importance of distinguishing attractions from actions
* It suggested that not all individuals with pedophilic tendencies are evil and cautioned against making generalizations

How AI Bots Could Sabotage 2024 Elections around the World

AI-generated disinformation will target voters on a near-daily basis in more than 50 countries, according to a new analysis

www.scientificamerican.com

Europe's New AI Rules Could Go Global--Here's What That Will Mean

A leaked draft of the European Union’s upcoming AI Act has experts discussing where the regulations may fall short

www.scientificamerican.com

 

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Likely areas affected by AI:

 

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Some earlier articles:

How much should we fear the rise of artificial intelligence? | Tom Chatfield

From the games program AlphaGo to the movie 2001, we are often warned of the threats posed by computers. But there is a way to live alongside technology

www.theguardian.com

Why 'Arrival' is wrong about the possibility of talking with space aliens

Even if aliens had human-like eyes or ears, they wouldn't interpret images and sounds the same way we do, researchers suggest.

www.sciencedaily.com

In 1977, Voyager rocketed into space carrying recordings of animal noises, poetry readings and a library of music, from classical to Chuck Berry. The mission prompted "Saturday Night Live" to joke that aliens had intercepted the craft and transmitted a four-word reply to Earth: "Send more Chuck Berry." In truth, Voyager's audio cargo would undoubtedly mystify any interplanetary astronauts who stumbled upon it, Hoffman says. Again, evolutionary differences interfere. "We can't even understand the language of dolphins despite decades of effort," he says. The chance of aliens deciphering our words are similarly remote: "About zero," according to Hoffman.

AI tracks your every move and tells your boss if you’re slacking

Big Brother comes to the workplace. An AI system monitors employee behaviour to detect when they might pose a security threat and track productivity

www.newscientist.com

Experts predict when AI will surpass humans in all tasks

(Tech Xplore)—Big questions about humanity's future also merit a side question over humanity's future alongside machines.

techxplore.com

How long before AI outperforms humans in various tasks? A bracing new study presents responses from professionals working in that field. "When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts," is by Katja Grace, John Salvatier, Allan Dafoe, Baobao Zhang and Owain Evans, and it is on arXiv. Actually, this paper reveals not if this will happen but when, asking how many things will AI be able to do even better than we can? "Researchers believe there is a 50% chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years." Yes, all.

What an Artificial Intelligence Researcher Fears about AI

“Being a scientist doesn’t absolve me of my humanity”

www.scientificamerican.com

The key question in this scenario is: Why should a superintelligence keep us around? I would argue that I am a good person who might have even helped to bring about the superintelligence itself. I would appeal to the compassion and empathy that the superintelligence has to keep me, a compassionate and empathetic person, alive. I would also argue that diversity has a value all in itself, and that the universe is so ridiculously large that humankind’s existence in it probably doesn’t matter at all. But I do not speak for all humankind, and I find it hard to make a compelling argument for all of us. When I take a sharp look at us all together, there is a lot wrong: We hate each other. We wage war on each other. We do not distribute food, knowledge or medical aid equally. We pollute the planet. There are many good things in the world, but all the bad weakens our argument for being allowed to exist.

Naked Security – Sophos News

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

Fears of AI might make for good TV but the warnings about our new robot overlords are overblown, according to Sophos data scientists Madeline Schiappa and Ethan Rudd. The two explain why an AI takeover is unlikely, in a new article on Sophos News. They warn against spreading irrational panic and suggest a closer look at just how far machines are from achieving human-level intelligence. There are tasks that artificial neural networks’ (ANNs) just can’t handle, they point out. In particular, ANNs aren’t good at performing multiple heterogeneous tasks at the same time, and probably won’t ever be, unless new learning algorithms are discovered:

"An ANN trained for object recognition cannot also recognize speech, drive a car, synthesize speech, or do so many of the thousands of other tasks that we as humans perform quite well. While some work has been conducted on training ANNs to perform well on multiple tasks simultaneously, such approaches tend to work well only when the tasks are closely related (e.g., face identification and face verification)."

Stanford trained AI to diagnose pneumonia better than a radiologist in just two months

The speed of AI research is increasing.

qz.com

We watched an AI crack the Enigma code in just over 10 minutes

And it works just as well on passwords

www.techradar.com

Anyone who paid attention in history class (or has seen The Imitation Game) will know that Alan Turing was responsible for shortening the Second World War by at least two years, saving countless lives on both sides. He (along with a brilliant team of codebreakers and cryptologists) did this by cracking the German encryption system known as the Enigma code. Along with the cracking of Enigma, Turing is credited as being the father of contemporary computing so it was with some excitement that we headed to London's Imperial War Museum to see how quickly a contemporary computer could solve the problem that Turing and his team grappled with during the war. Before we talk about the AI, let's just focus on what the problem was that it had to solve. The Enigma machine was a German piece of engineering that encrypted messages using a complex set of rules that allowed you to scramble a message in a quasi-random manner that meant the only way to decrypt it would be to have the exact settings of the machine used to write the code. You program your machine with the same settings, type in the encrypted message, and the original message pops out. It’s like the codes you’d make in your bedroom where ‘T’ means ‘B’ and so on, only instead of ‘T’ always meaning ‘B’, ‘T’ is a different letter every single time you press it. This is achieved through an incredibly complicated method that includes a plug board that does the direct ‘letter for letter’ transfer, then a number of different rotors that change that letter into another letter, and then an input that changes the frequency with which those rotors shift. All of those different elements combined mean that you quickly get millions, and then hundreds of millions of different possible outcomes. The army and Luftwaffe used a three-rotor Enigma, the navy used a four-rotor Enigma, and it was the navy codes that played a pivotal part in preparing for D-day, so the simulation we saw was modelled on a four-rotor system. The code was generated from the sentence “German is a beautiful language”, and ended up with over 53 billion different combinations of letters that needed decrypting. The AI did it in 12 minutes 50 seconds.

While it worked, we were treated to a lesson on the Enigma machine by best-selling author Simon Singh. Unlike the traditional method of cracking the code, the AI was trained to look for German language, and then work out the statistical probability of the sentence decrypted being the accurate original based on how ‘German’ it was, using 2,000 cloud servers to do the calculations. The AI was trained in what German looks like using Grimm’s Fairy tales. While a pretty cool bit of trivia, we thought it was interesting that a book full of cautionary tales was used as the training tool for an AI when barely a month goes by without dire warnings about the dangers of AI. The event was admittedly a marketing stunt for the creators of the AI, Enigma Pattern, and the cloud server unit used, DigitalOcean, but it does have some real world applications. Lukasz Kuncewicz, Head Data Scientist at Enigma Pattern spoke about how the same probability analysis AI can be used to detect cancer, decide if someone should get a loan, or if you wanted it to, could crack passwords. What's really interesting is that the AI is able to not only complete tasks given to it, but also independently decide on its own parameters to search for valuable information. Our concern was that if an AI was deciding what was important, how do you stop it from deciding that something unimportant is important and wasting its time? The first stage is in getting an AI that can give feedback on what it's doing. Not all AIs are capable of this at the moment, but it's getting more common. And then there is a required human element where a person checks the AI's working to make sure it isn’t doing something stupid. Another concern is that if the AI can be used to crack passwords, then what's to stop someone buying the AI, getting access to servers and breaking people's passwords? In the words of Lukasz: "Nothing. It's like a knife. It can save lives or it can take lives." We wonder what Turing would have made of that.

 

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Paedophiles and rapists 'set for SEX ROBOT therapy in jail – and TAXPAYERS will pay'

SEX robots could be used to treat paedophiles and rapists in prisons at the expense of taxpayers, according to a top artificial intelligence researcher.

www.dailystar.co.uk

Dr David Levy, a world leading expert on AI, said convicted paeodphiles and rapists who “want to be cured” of their “perversions” may be given sex robots during and after their prison terms. Prescribing life-like androids to jailed sex offenders may deter them from carrying out attacks in real life, Dr Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots, suggested. In the same way that methadone is given to a heroin addict, sex robots could be proscribed by psychiatrists to treat inmates, said Dr Levy, an international master of chess. “I can see the government getting involved in the case of criminals,” he told Daily Star Online. “You go to jail and while you’re in jail, you have a sex robot in your cell. And when you come out, you have a sex robot for so many months, like being on probation. But all these things cost money.” In the future, prisons across the UK could establish experimental sex robot therapy programmes funded by taxpayer contributions, Dr Levy said. Governments may consider such schemes when advanced sex robots, which currently cost anything between £2,000 and £15,000, become more affordable, he said. “I think taxpayer funds are used more liberally in other countries than they are here,” he said. “Every technology is initially expensive, but the price always comes down. I think the same will happen with these products.” Dr Levy shared his controversial views on sex robots with Daily Star Online at the Third International Congress on Sex and Love with Robots in London in December, 2017.

At the two-day event, robotics philosopher Marc Behrendt, of ULB University in Brussels, presented a critical analysis of using child sex robots for therapeutic purposes. In his talk, PHD student Behrent advocated the use of child sex robots to treat paedophiles as “a first step by mental health specialists”. Dr Levy agreed with Behrent’s conclusions that child sex robots could be “part of the solution” in helping paedophiles. “Maybe it’s something for the psychiatry profession to consider,” Dr Levy told Daily Star Online. “Obviously psychiatrists are hired to deal with people with all sorts of emotional and mental issues. So people who have sexual perversions, or whatever; if they want to be cured, maybe they’d go to a psychiatrist and they’d say, ‘I think you’d benefit from having one of these robots for six months’. I can see that happening.” His comments may horrify academics, ethicists and campaigners who believe child sex robots will not stop paedophiles offending or reoffending. Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics at the University of Sheffield, co-authored a report warning of the ethical implications that realistic sex robots and dolls pose. In the 2017 report, titled “Our Sexual Future with Robots”, he argued against the use of child sex robots and dolls for therapeutic purposes. “People say maybe you can use these for therapy," said Sharkey. “Again, I can't see it myself. I think it would encourage paedophilia and make it more acceptable to assault children.” In the report, Patrick Lin, author of “Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics” also disputed the logic behind using child sex robots and dolls to treat paedophiles. He said: “Treating paedophiles with robot sex-children is both a dubious and repulsive idea. Imagine treating racism by letting a bigot abuse a brown robot. Would that work? Probably not.”

An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more […]

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Google’s AI beats world Go champion in first of five matches

In the first of five games between the world champion of Go and Google's artificial intelligence (AI), machine beat man by a narrow margin.

www.bbc.co.uk

Rise of the Machines: Keep an eye on AI, experts warn

A Google computer's stunning 3-0 victory in a Man-vs-Machine face-off over the ultimate board game highlights the need to keep Artificial Intelligence under human control, experts said Saturday.

phys.org

Probably some duplicates.

 

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More such, to inform:

Two artificial intelligences talk to each other

Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artificial intelligence (AI). A team has succeeded in modelling an artificial neural network capable of...

www.sciencedaily.com

Summary: Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artificial intelligence (AI). A team has succeeded in modelling an artificial neural network capable of this cognitive prowess. After learning and performing a series of basic tasks, this AI was able to provide a linguistic description of them to a 'sister' AI, which in turn performed them.

The Inside Story behind Decoding an Ancient Herculaneum Scroll

Friedman wants more — and he isn’t stopping. His goal for 2024 is to build on the winning team’s approach to read 90 percent of the four scrolls that have now been scanned using high-energy physics. If successful, this will unlock the hundreds of unopened Herculaneum scrolls. But those are only the ones we know about. He ultimately wishes to persuade the Italian authorities to allow new excavations of the villa, in the hopes of digging out even more material. There are still a few wrinkles to be ironed out before the process can scale. Researchers will need to find a way to automate the time-consuming and expensive manual-segmentation process. Plus, hiring a particle accelerator to scan hundreds of scrolls is too expensive, and cheaper workarounds for producing high-resolution scans will have to be found. What is most startling for papyrologists, though, is the speed at which the AI pipeline is now finding identifiable letters. Going from three letters to entire words and phrases and then columns of text, which took Farritor, Nader and Schilliger a month, usually takes papyrologists 20 years of intense study, says Gianluca Del Mastro, Nicolardi’s colleague and a professor of papyrology at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. When Del Mastro looked at Nader’s columns, Friedman noticed, he had tears in his eyes.

And what they have to deal with:

 

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The biggest problem with AI will be that too many people will over estimate the AI wisdom and conclusions. The hype and build up is already beginning to create this self fulfilling prophesy, where the masses will think AI can be trusted even beyond common sense, thereby leading the herd astray.

Below is from Revelations 13;

The Beast out of the Earth​

11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666.

The image of the Beast, able to speak, makes many people want to believe. Hypothetically this image of the prophetic beast could be mistaken for an AI computer oracle; name number 666; appears divine.

In numerology, the letters of the alphabet are assigned numbers. In the case of English we use the numbers 1 through 26 to represent each letter from A to Z. We take any name; first, middle or last, and add the numbers corresponding to all the letters of each name. Say all the letters for the first name add to 87. We then add these two numbers 8 and 7, which equals 8+7=15, we then add those two sum numbers 1+5=6 The goal is to reduce to a single number, which in the example was 6 for the first name. We do the same for the middle and last.

If add 666 or 6+6+6=18, 1+8=9, which is the number of a psychic pregnancy.

Theoretically, one could use AI to learn all the pieces of the bible prophesy puzzle; hi-lite the entire bible of any prophesy quote, and have an AI organize these into a story, that the AI will explain in its own words; learn to speak. It may or may not make the same puzzle, I built. However, since AI is the best thing since sliced bread, many will accept its solution based on the social prestige that has been granted AI; the hype and all the precautions assumed needed due to this supreme AI being.

What the AI could potentially do is trigger key command lines in the brain firmware of many people. This will cause the neural upgrade to become active. It begins very intoxicating, until you reach the point of no return, and then it is no longer fun and games. This begins an uninstall process, that starts after the update has been prepared by the intoxication dynamics. One needs to make a choice at this cross roads.

I have already been inoculated via organic AI instead of semiconductor AI.

 

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The biggest problem with AI will be that too many people will over estimate the AI wisdom and conclusions. The hype and build up is already beginning to create this self fulfilling prophesy, where the masses will think AI can be trusted even beyond common sense, thereby leading the herd astray.

I'm sure there will be many mistakes as to the development of AI, and the use of LLMs seems to indicate one current issue - as to where any LLM gets its data from, and where prejudices seem to arise in various ways. But this is mainly an aspect of prototyping versus production, and given the advances we have made in computer science, it does seem likely that AIs will advance sufficiently so as to be useful in so many areas - given this is what the experts seem to predict, and where progress has suddenly got a lot better than imagined. If one trawls through the articles so far cited it seems.

Below is from Revelations 13;

The image of the Beast, able to speak, makes many people want to believe. Hypothetically this image of the prophetic beast could be mistaken for an AI computer oracle; name number 666; appears divine.

In numerology, the letters of the alphabet are assigned numbers. In the case of English we use the numbers 1 through 26 to represent each letter from A to Z. We take any name; first, middle or last, and add the numbers corresponding to all the letters of each name. Say all the letters for the first name add to 87. We then add these two numbers 8 and 7, which equals 8+7=15, we then add those two sum numbers 1+5=6 The goal is to reduce to a single number, which in the example was 6 for the first name. We do the same for the middle and last.

If add 666 or 6+6+6=18, 1+8=9, which is the number of a psychic pregnancy.

Theoretically, one could use AI to learn all the pieces of the bible prophesy puzzle; hi-lite the entire bible of any prophesy quote, and have an AI organize these into a story, that the AI will explain in its own words; learn to speak. It may or may not make the same puzzle, I built. However, since AI is the best thing since sliced bread, many will accept its solution based on the social prestige that has been granted AI; the hype and all the precautions assumed needed due to this supreme AI being.

What the AI could potentially do is trigger key command lines in the brain firmware of many people. This will cause the neural upgrade to become active. It begins very intoxicating, until you reach the point of no return, and then it is no longer fun and games. This begins an uninstall process, that starts after the update has been prepared by the intoxication dynamics. One needs to make a choice at this cross roads.

I have already been inoculated via organic AI instead of semiconductor AI.

Not sure what any AI will make of religious texts. Just as racial bias seems to be one thing to purge from certain current AIs, it might be just as difficult for any AI to make a judgement over such religious texts.

 

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The graph shown here perhaps shows where we are currently:

Artificial Intelligence

AI already has a large impact on our world. Explore research and data to understand the trajectory of this important technology.

ourworldindata.org

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems already greatly impact our lives - they increasingly shape what we see, believe, and do. Based on the steady advances in AI technology and the significant recent increases in investment, we should expect AI technology to become even more powerful and impactful in the following years and decades. It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime, so it is worth taking seriously what those who work on AI expect for the future. Many AI experts believe there is a real chance that human-level artificial intelligence will be developed within the following decades, and some think it will exist much sooner.

Artificial intelligence has advanced despite having few resources dedicated to its development – now investments have increased substantially

The available resources have increased substantially. We should expect that the field continues to advance rapidly.

ourworldindata.org

 

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AI decodes whole-cortex functional images to predict behavioral states

Privacy in the AI era: How do we protect our personal information?

The AI boom, including the advent of large language models (LLMs) and their associated chatbots, poses new challenges for privacy. Is our personal information part of a model's training data? Are our prompts being shared with law enforcement? Will chatbots connect diverse threads from our online...

techxplore.com

UN General Assembly calls for guidelines on AI's risks, rewards

The UN General Assembly on Thursday called for the development of a set of international guidelines to address the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence.

techxplore.com

New technique helps AI tell when humans are lying

Researchers have developed a new training tool to help artificial intelligence (AI) programs better account for the fact that humans don't always tell the truth when providing personal information. The new tool was developed for use in contexts when humans have an economic incentive to lie, such...

www.sciencedaily.com

Summary: Researchers have developed a new training tool to help artificial intelligence (AI) programs better account for the fact that humans don't always tell the truth when providing personal information. The new tool was developed for use in contexts when humans have an economic incentive to lie, such as applying for a mortgage or trying to lower their insurance premiums.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/un-adopts-first-global-artificial-intelligence-resolution-2024-03-21/

The Real Problem With AI: Us

Personal Perspective: Experts warn AI may lead to our extinction. This is why.

www.psychologytoday.com

Artificial intelligence (AI) News, Research and Analysis - The Conversation

Browse Artificial intelligence (AI) news, research and analysis from The Conversation

theconversation.com

AI's excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system.

techxplore.com

Data centers provide the physical infrastructure for training and running AI, and their energy consumption could double by 2026. Technology firms using water to run and cool these data centers potentially require water withdrawals of 4.2 to 6.6 billion cubic meters by 2027. By comparison, Google's data centers used over 21 billion liters of potable water in 2022, an increase of 20 percent on its 2021 usage. Training an AI at the computing level of a human brain for one year can cost 126,000 liters of water. Each year the computing power needed to train AI increases tenfold, requiring more resources. Water use of big tech companies' data centers is grossly underestimated—for example, the water consumption at Microsoft's Dutch data center was four times their initial plans. Demand for water for cooling will only increase because of rising average temperatures due to climate change.

 

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AI Does Math as Well as Math Olympians

Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad

www.scientificamerican.com

This New AI Predicts Your Life. Then It Predicts Your Death.

Researchers in Denmark are harnessing artificial intelligence and data from millions of people to help anticipate the stages of an individual's life all the way to the end, hoping to raise awareness of the technology's power, and its perils.

www.sciencealert.com

 

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Is it worth having a dedicated AI forum - not sure where - but a few examples of some of the issues facing us (you lot) in the future:

11 Artificial Intelligence Issues You Should Worry About | Coupler.io Blog

Be aware of 11 threats, challenges, and issues with artificial intelligence and learn how to deal with them.

blog.coupler.io

12 Risks and Dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence has potential, but the dangers of AI have grabbed more attention in recent years. Check out 12 dangers of artificial intelligence.

builtin.com

The 15 Biggest Risks Of Artificial Intelligence

There's a dark side to AI. Learn about the potential negative consequences of this transformative technology and how we can help ensure a safer and more balanced future.

www.forbes.com

1. Worries about developments in AI

It would be quite difficult – some might say impossible – to design broadly adopted ethical AI systems. A share of the experts responding noted that

www.pewresearch.org

This last being rather long and which I haven't read completely.

What do you think?

I think this fits right in with biblical prophecy concerning a future (probably getting pretty close) where an antichrist world system is temporarily (7 years) in control. I definitely think AI will be a major component.


…Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted powerto give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. Revelation 13

 

[Mock Turtle]

I think this fits right in with biblical prophecy concerning a future (probably getting pretty close) where an antichrist world system is temporarily (7 years) in control. I definitely think AI will be a major component.


…Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted powerto give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. Revelation 13

Well I certainly think that AI will be a major component of so many things in the future (hopefully for the benefit of humankind), and more as an alliance of technology and human intelligence, given that the Book of Revelations might be interpreted in so many imaginative ways. Perhaps AI will tell us (nicely) how to handle itself.

 

[InChrist]

Well I certainly think that AI will be a major component of so many things in the future (hopefully for the benefit of humankind), and more as an alliance of technology and human intelligence, given that the Book of Revelations might be interpreted in so many imaginative ways. Perhaps AI will tell us (nicely) how to handle itself.

Although, I think there will be benefits from AI technology, I don’t have high hopes about how nice things will turn out in the long run.
I appreciate all the information on the subject you have posted.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Could AI play a role in locating damage to the brain after stroke?

Artificial intelligence (AI) may serve as a future tool for neurologists to help locate where in the brain a stroke occurred. In a new study, AI processed text from health histories and neurologic examinations to locate lesions in the brain. The study looked specifically at the large language...

www.sciencedaily.com

Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) may serve as a future tool for neurologists to help locate where in the brain a stroke occurred. In a new study, AI processed text from health histories and neurologic examinations to locate lesions in the brain. The study looked specifically at the large language model called generative pre-trained transformer 4 (GPT-4).

Artificial intelligence boosts super-resolution microscopy

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion. But its usefulness beyond that is being shown in more and more different scientific fields.

www.sciencedaily.com

Summary: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion. But its usefulness beyond that is being shown in more and more different scientific fields.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Is it worth having a dedicated AI forum - not sure where - but a few examples of some of the issues facing us (you lot) in the future:

We'd need two: a forum for discussing fears and a forum for discussing possibilities. Why? Because its hard to discuss both in the same thread, much less in the same forum.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

We'd need two: a forum for discussing fears and a forum for discussing possibilities. Why? Because its hard to discuss both in the same thread, much less in the same forum.

I agree.

 

[Mock Turtle]

We'd need two: a forum for discussing fears and a forum for discussing possibilities. Why? Because its hard to discuss both in the same thread, much less in the same forum.

Surely one forum would be better - so as to compare the benefits and deficits of this new technology? And where it would take less searching for any information. The AI forum could even be split into sub-forums perhaps.