First off, though this posting shouldn’t be total political… I’ll provide a warning to you activists on the market.
Whereas I believe protest marches are among the many least efficient sorts of resistance – (particularly since MAGAs stay for one factor: to drink the tears of each smartypants skilled/scienctist/civil-servant and many others.) — I nonetheless reward you lively of us who’re combating nevertheless you may for the Nice (now endangered) Exxperiment. Nonetheless might I level out how deeply silly the organizers of this 50 501 Motion are?
There’s at all times extra about AI – and therefore a group of hyperlinks to…
== The AI dilemmas and myriad-lemmas proceed ==
I’ve been accumulating a lot materials on the subject… and extra retains pouring in. Although (alas!) so little of it enlightening about methods to flip this tech revolution right into a optimistic sum end result for all.
Nonetheless, let’s begin with a potpourri…
1. A brand new examine by Caltech and UC Riverside uncovers the hidden toll that AI exacts on human well being, from chip manufacturing to information middle operation.
2. And in addition this re: my alma mater: Caltech researchers have developed mind–machine interfaces that may interpret information from neural exercise even after the sign from an implant has turn into much less clear.
3. Swinging from course of to implications… my buddy from the UK (by way of Panama) Calum Chace (creator of Surviving AI: The Promise & Peril of Synthetic Intelligence) despatched me this one from his Conscium Venture re: “Rules for Accountable AI Consciousness Analysis”. Whereas detailed and illuminating, the work is imprecise about a very powerful issues, like methods to inform ‘consciousness’ from a system that feigns it… and whether or not that even issues.
Furthermore, not one of the authors cited right here refers to how the subject was pre-explored in science fiction. Take the dive into “what’s consciousness?” that you just’ll discover in Peter Watts’s novel “Blindsight.”
…whereby Watts makes the case {that a} sense of self shouldn’t be even crucial to ensure that a being to behave in methods which might be actively clever, communicative and even ferociously self-interested.
All you want is evolution. And an total system through which evolution stays (as in nature) zero-sum. Which – I preserve making an attempt to inform of us – shouldn’t be essentially fore-ordained.
== And but extra AI associated Miscellany ==
4. Augmented actuality glasses with face-recognition and entry to world databases… now the place have we seen this earlier than? How about in nice element in Existence?
5. On the MINDPLEX Podcast with AI pioneers Ben Goertzel and Lisa Rein protecting – amongst many matters – coaching AGI’s to carry one another accountable, pingable IDs (utilizing cryptographic hashes to safe agent identification), AGI rights & a lot, way more! (Sept 2024). And yeah, I’m there, too.
6. An article by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei makes factors just like Reid Hoffman and Marc Andreeson, that the upsides of AI are doubtlessly spectacular, as additionally portrayed in a small however influential variety of science fiction tales. Alas, his checklist of potential advantages, whereas intensive re methods AI could possibly be “Machines of Loving Grace,”* can be lengthy within the tooth and nearly hoary-clichéd. We have to recall that in any ecosystem – together with the brand new cyber one – entities with out suggestions constraints quickly evolve into no matter kind greatest proliferates shortly. That’s, until suggestions loops take form.
7. This article in FORTUNE makes a case just like my very own… that AIs will enhance greatest, in accuracy and sagacity and even knowledge, if accountability is utilized by AI upon different AIs. Optimistic suggestions is usually a harmful cycle, whereas some sorts of damaging suggestions loops can result in incrementally elevated correlation with the true world.
8. Once more, my featured WIRED article about this – Give Each AI a soul… or else.
My associated Newsweek op-ed (June’22) handled ’empathy bots” that feign sapience and personhood.
== AI generated visible lies – we will cope with this! ==
9. A brand new AI algorithm flags deepfakes with 98% accuracy — higher than some other instrument on the market proper now. And it’s important that we preserve creating such methods, with a view to stand an opportunity of maintaining in an arms race towards those that would foist on us lies, scams and misinformation…
… just about precisely as I described again in 1997, this reposted chapter from The Clear Society – “The Finish of Images as Proof.”
Two issues. First, scammers will use packages like this one to assist good their rip-off algorithms. Second, it will be silly to depend on anyone such system, or only a few. A variety of extremely aggressive tattle-tale lie-denouncing methods is the one factor that may work, as I focus on right here.
Oh, and third. It’s inherent – (as I present in that chapter of The Clear Society) – that lies are extra simply detected, denounced and incinerated in a normal surroundings of transparency, whereby the best quantity can step away from their screens and algorithms and evaluate them to precise, physically-witnessed actuality.
For extra on this, right here’s my associated Newsweek op-ed (June’22) handled ’empathy bots’ that feign sapience. Plus a YouTube pod the place I give an expanded model.
== Generalizing to innovation, usually ==
10. Conventional approaches to innovation emphasize concepts and innovations, usually resulting in a dropping confrontation with the mysterious “Valley of Demise.” My colleague Peter Denning and his co-author Todd Lyons upend this paradigm in Navigating a Stressed Sea, providing eight mutually reinforcing practices that energy skillful navigation towards adoption, mobilizing folks to attempt one thing new.
=== Some tacked-on tech miscellany ==
11. Certain, it goes again to neolithic “Venus collectible figurines” and Playboy and per-minute telephone consolation traces and Eliza – and the film “Her.” And bot factories are arduous at work. At my 2017 World of Watson keynote, I predicted persuasive ’empathy bots’ would arrive in 2022 (they did.) And shortly, Kremlin ‘honeypot-lure babes” ought to turn into ineffective! As a result of this deep weak spot of male people may have an outlet that is… greater than human?
May that result in these males calming down, prioritizing the extra necessary features of life?)
12. And therefore, we are going to quickly see…AI girlfriends and companions. And this from Vox: Individuals are falling in love with — and getting hooked on — AI voices.
13. Kewl! “This tiny 3D-printed Apple IIe is powered by a $2 microcontroller .” With a teensy working display taken from an Apple watch. Can run your outdated IIe packages. Dimension of an outdated mouse.
14. Paragraphica by Bjørn Karmann is a digital camera that has no lens, however as an alternative generates a textual content description of when & the place it’s, then generates a picture by way of a text-to-image mannequin.
15. Daisy is an AI cellphone utility that wastes scammers’ time in order that they don’t have time to focus on actual victims. Daisy has “advised annoyed scammers meandering tales of her household, talked at size about her ardour for knitting, and offered exasperated callers with false private data together with made-up financial institution particulars.”
And eventually…
== NOT instantly AI… however for certain implications! ==
And… solely barely off-topic: When you really feel a necessity for an inspiring story a few fashionable hero, mind and deeply-wise public determine, attempt Decide David Tatel’s VISION: A memoir and Blindness and Justice. I’ll vouch that he’s one of many wisest wise-guys I do know. “Imaginative and prescient is charming, sensible, and fully partaking. This memoir of a choose of the nation’s second highest courtroom, who has been with out sight for many years, goes down like a cool drink on a scorching day.” —Scott Turow. https://www.davidtatel.com/
And Maynard Moore – of the Institute for the Research of Faith within the Age of Science – might be holding a pertinent occasion on-line in mid January: “Human-Machine Fusion: Our Future, or May We Do Higher?” The IRAS webinar is free, however registration is required.
== a lagniappe (puns supposed) ==
Within the Nineteen Eighties this supposedly “AI”- generated sonnet emerged from the next immediate, “Buzz Off, Banana Nostril.”
Effectively… actual or not, right here’s my haiku response.
In lunar orchards
A pissed apiary indicators:
“Bee gone, Cyrano!”
Rely the layers, oh cybernetic padiwans! I’m not out of date… but.
First off, though this posting shouldn’t be total political… I’ll provide a warning to you activists on the market.
Whereas I believe protest marches are among the many least efficient sorts of resistance – (particularly since MAGAs stay for one factor: to drink the tears of each smartypants skilled/scienctist/civil-servant and many others.) — I nonetheless reward you lively of us who’re combating nevertheless you may for the Nice (now endangered) Exxperiment. Nonetheless might I level out how deeply silly the organizers of this 50 501 Motion are?
There’s at all times extra about AI – and therefore a group of hyperlinks to…
== The AI dilemmas and myriad-lemmas proceed ==
I’ve been accumulating a lot materials on the subject… and extra retains pouring in. Although (alas!) so little of it enlightening about methods to flip this tech revolution right into a optimistic sum end result for all.
Nonetheless, let’s begin with a potpourri…
1. A brand new examine by Caltech and UC Riverside uncovers the hidden toll that AI exacts on human well being, from chip manufacturing to information middle operation.
2. And in addition this re: my alma mater: Caltech researchers have developed mind–machine interfaces that may interpret information from neural exercise even after the sign from an implant has turn into much less clear.
3. Swinging from course of to implications… my buddy from the UK (by way of Panama) Calum Chace (creator of Surviving AI: The Promise & Peril of Synthetic Intelligence) despatched me this one from his Conscium Venture re: “Rules for Accountable AI Consciousness Analysis”. Whereas detailed and illuminating, the work is imprecise about a very powerful issues, like methods to inform ‘consciousness’ from a system that feigns it… and whether or not that even issues.
Furthermore, not one of the authors cited right here refers to how the subject was pre-explored in science fiction. Take the dive into “what’s consciousness?” that you just’ll discover in Peter Watts’s novel “Blindsight.”
…whereby Watts makes the case {that a} sense of self shouldn’t be even crucial to ensure that a being to behave in methods which might be actively clever, communicative and even ferociously self-interested.
All you want is evolution. And an total system through which evolution stays (as in nature) zero-sum. Which – I preserve making an attempt to inform of us – shouldn’t be essentially fore-ordained.
== And but extra AI associated Miscellany ==
4. Augmented actuality glasses with face-recognition and entry to world databases… now the place have we seen this earlier than? How about in nice element in Existence?
5. On the MINDPLEX Podcast with AI pioneers Ben Goertzel and Lisa Rein protecting – amongst many matters – coaching AGI’s to carry one another accountable, pingable IDs (utilizing cryptographic hashes to safe agent identification), AGI rights & a lot, way more! (Sept 2024). And yeah, I’m there, too.
6. An article by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei makes factors just like Reid Hoffman and Marc Andreeson, that the upsides of AI are doubtlessly spectacular, as additionally portrayed in a small however influential variety of science fiction tales. Alas, his checklist of potential advantages, whereas intensive re methods AI could possibly be “Machines of Loving Grace,”* can be lengthy within the tooth and nearly hoary-clichéd. We have to recall that in any ecosystem – together with the brand new cyber one – entities with out suggestions constraints quickly evolve into no matter kind greatest proliferates shortly. That’s, until suggestions loops take form.
7. This article in FORTUNE makes a case just like my very own… that AIs will enhance greatest, in accuracy and sagacity and even knowledge, if accountability is utilized by AI upon different AIs. Optimistic suggestions is usually a harmful cycle, whereas some sorts of damaging suggestions loops can result in incrementally elevated correlation with the true world.
8. Once more, my featured WIRED article about this – Give Each AI a soul… or else.
My associated Newsweek op-ed (June’22) handled ’empathy bots” that feign sapience and personhood.
== AI generated visible lies – we will cope with this! ==
9. A brand new AI algorithm flags deepfakes with 98% accuracy — higher than some other instrument on the market proper now. And it’s important that we preserve creating such methods, with a view to stand an opportunity of maintaining in an arms race towards those that would foist on us lies, scams and misinformation…
… just about precisely as I described again in 1997, this reposted chapter from The Clear Society – “The Finish of Images as Proof.”
Two issues. First, scammers will use packages like this one to assist good their rip-off algorithms. Second, it will be silly to depend on anyone such system, or only a few. A variety of extremely aggressive tattle-tale lie-denouncing methods is the one factor that may work, as I focus on right here.
Oh, and third. It’s inherent – (as I present in that chapter of The Clear Society) – that lies are extra simply detected, denounced and incinerated in a normal surroundings of transparency, whereby the best quantity can step away from their screens and algorithms and evaluate them to precise, physically-witnessed actuality.
For extra on this, right here’s my associated Newsweek op-ed (June’22) handled ’empathy bots’ that feign sapience. Plus a YouTube pod the place I give an expanded model.
== Generalizing to innovation, usually ==
10. Conventional approaches to innovation emphasize concepts and innovations, usually resulting in a dropping confrontation with the mysterious “Valley of Demise.” My colleague Peter Denning and his co-author Todd Lyons upend this paradigm in Navigating a Stressed Sea, providing eight mutually reinforcing practices that energy skillful navigation towards adoption, mobilizing folks to attempt one thing new.
=== Some tacked-on tech miscellany ==
11. Certain, it goes again to neolithic “Venus collectible figurines” and Playboy and per-minute telephone consolation traces and Eliza – and the film “Her.” And bot factories are arduous at work. At my 2017 World of Watson keynote, I predicted persuasive ’empathy bots’ would arrive in 2022 (they did.) And shortly, Kremlin ‘honeypot-lure babes” ought to turn into ineffective! As a result of this deep weak spot of male people may have an outlet that is… greater than human?
May that result in these males calming down, prioritizing the extra necessary features of life?)
12. And therefore, we are going to quickly see…AI girlfriends and companions. And this from Vox: Individuals are falling in love with — and getting hooked on — AI voices.
13. Kewl! “This tiny 3D-printed Apple IIe is powered by a $2 microcontroller .” With a teensy working display taken from an Apple watch. Can run your outdated IIe packages. Dimension of an outdated mouse.
14. Paragraphica by Bjørn Karmann is a digital camera that has no lens, however as an alternative generates a textual content description of when & the place it’s, then generates a picture by way of a text-to-image mannequin.
15. Daisy is an AI cellphone utility that wastes scammers’ time in order that they don’t have time to focus on actual victims. Daisy has “advised annoyed scammers meandering tales of her household, talked at size about her ardour for knitting, and offered exasperated callers with false private data together with made-up financial institution particulars.”
And eventually…
== NOT instantly AI… however for certain implications! ==
And… solely barely off-topic: When you really feel a necessity for an inspiring story a few fashionable hero, mind and deeply-wise public determine, attempt Decide David Tatel’s VISION: A memoir and Blindness and Justice. I’ll vouch that he’s one of many wisest wise-guys I do know. “Imaginative and prescient is charming, sensible, and fully partaking. This memoir of a choose of the nation’s second highest courtroom, who has been with out sight for many years, goes down like a cool drink on a scorching day.” —Scott Turow. https://www.davidtatel.com/
And Maynard Moore – of the Institute for the Research of Faith within the Age of Science – might be holding a pertinent occasion on-line in mid January: “Human-Machine Fusion: Our Future, or May We Do Higher?” The IRAS webinar is free, however registration is required.
== a lagniappe (puns supposed) ==
Within the Nineteen Eighties this supposedly “AI”- generated sonnet emerged from the next immediate, “Buzz Off, Banana Nostril.”
Effectively… actual or not, right here’s my haiku response.
In lunar orchards
A pissed apiary indicators:
“Bee gone, Cyrano!”
Rely the layers, oh cybernetic padiwans! I’m not out of date… but.
