Artificial Intelligence ~ Artificial General Intelligence ~

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Ok ~ You'd need to be into, Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Artificial General Intelligence, to get much out of this.

And ~ You'd also need to be aware of the shenanigans going on with Sam Altman and Open AI ~

But the time has come for Sarsfields to ~ Throw Its Eye over Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Artificial General Intelligence ( sometimes also called General Artificial Intelligence ~ I don't know which is better )

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Sam Altman's Q* Reveal, OpenAI Updates, Elon: "3 Years Until AGI", and Synthetic Data Predictions​

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'So far, the AI chemist has created an excellent catalyst using five types of Martian meteorites under unmanned conditions. This catalyst can operate steadily for over 550,000 seconds at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 and an overpotential of 445.1 mV. A further test at -37 °C, the temperature on Mars, confirmed that the catalyst can steadily produce oxygen without any apparent degradation.

Within two months, the AI chemist has completed the complex optimization of catalysts that would take 2000 years for a human chemist.

The team is working to turn the AI chemist into a general experiment platform for various chemical syntheses without human intervention. The reviewer of the paper highly remarked: “This type of research is of wide interest and is under rapid development in organic/inorganic material synthesis and discovery.”'

One Step Closer to Living on Mars: AI Unlocks Secrets of Oxygen Production on the Red Planet - SciTech Daily

 

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'In an effort to further globalize the medium, Byrne said he expects artificial intelligence to play a big role in the translation of podcasts into other languages. With the approval of the podcast creator, Byrne said iHeartMedia is looking to use AI to translate, transcribe and then voice content from its podcast archives, including How into multiple languages. The technology is not quite scalable yet, Bryne said, but the company will begin testing it soon, ahead of the technology being firmed up in the second half of 2024.'

After a Year of Pullback, Podcast Industry Hopes to Regroup In 2024 — With an AI Boost - The Hollywood Reporter

 

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'HOUSTON/AUSTIN, Texas, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Standing at 6 feet 2 inches (188 centimeters) tall and weighing 300 pounds (136 kilograms), NASA's humanoid robot Valkyrie is an imposing figure.

Valkyrie, named after a female figure in Norse mythology and being tested at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, is designed to operate in "degraded or damaged human-engineered environments," like areas hit by natural disasters, according to NASA.

But robots like her could also one day operate in space

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Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas said the sky's the limit as new software and development improve Apollo's abilities.

"The approach is we're starting in the warehouse and on the manufacturing floor, but then it can move into retail... to delivery and out more into what we call unstructured spaces," Cardenas said.

In years to come, those "unstructured spaces" could include space, according to Azimi.'

Humanoid robots in space: the next frontier - Reuters

 

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'Imagine being able to tell an AI details about your life – your job, your eating habits, that time you broke an arm aged 4 – and have it predict the most likely health risks for people like you.

It sounds like pure sci-fi, but a new study demonstrates how this technology isn't too far off. If you think about it, it's not quite as scary as it sounds.

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Advanced AI tools like this show a lot of potential for spotting patterns that are too complex for humans to see, which means a better understanding of the relationship between how we live our lives and how healthy and well we are.'

This New AI Studies The 'Story of Your Life' to Predict How It May End - Science Alert


A Jiminy Cricket for each and every one of us? There's a discount if you use it.


'The study of the body has a long and complex history within anthropology, with various scholars and schools of thought contributing to our understanding of how culture and environment shape human physicality.

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Throughout this history, anthropologists have recognized that the body is not just a biological entity but also a site for cultural expression, social control, and individual identity formation.'

Anthropology of the Body – The Study of how the Human Body is shaped by the Environment and Culture - Anthropology Review


A vegan and a vegetarian jump off a cliff to see which one is heavier and will hit the bottom first. Who wins? Society.

 

[Professor]

'Imagine being able to tell an AI details about your life

. . . give it the details and instead have it plot your course for a successful prosperous satisfying life.
Starting with a low paying job, let Ai manage a personal schedule over a 5 year period, which includes fitness, saving, investing, working, studying, producing, directing, enriching, dating and quality shagging

 

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. . . give it the details and instead have it plot your course for a successful prosperous satisfying life.
Starting with a low paying job, let Ai manage a personal schedule over a 5 year period, which includes fitness, saving, investing, working, studying, producing, directing, enriching, dating and quality shagging

Maybe through Google Glass or something similar. Your own personal Cyrano.

Peterson has a personality questionnaire? You could always try a Myers Briggs personality test as a taster.

The question is whether the AI would be acting in your interest or whether you would be a node of cultivation for a larger scheme.

There is a spontaneity in life that is hard to live without. The impulse for freedom from control over intrinsically personal decisions is very powerful and essentially human - remember how Bezmenov despised the wife the KGB allotted him?

There was a suggestion in an UnHerd discussion about AI that there will be those with access to powerful AIs that inform their decisions and those without. That this will be the critical difference in privilege in the years to come. I suppose similar to the present difference between those with computers and those without but orders of magnitude greater. Interesting times.

[Btw the Christmas cracker joke in my previous post was not my own creation - should have put it in quotation marks. Anyway I'll not claim it as my own - I'm not Gay)

 

[Professor]

A vegan and a vegetarian jump off a cliff to see which one is heavier and will hit the bottom first. Who wins? Society.

Who wins? In Ireland? That'd be The Cliffs car park owner who'd have the 2 cars towed after a week of non payment and the Tow company and Car pound owner.
All 3 concerns would enforce the sale of the cars after 3 months and add extra interest to the bills for the delay in payment.
Heyman Cryin' gets 2 cars off the road and a reduction in fossil fuel consumption.

So yeah there are a few winners but regarding general society - Not many give a toss, unless they too get a cut.

 

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Who wins? In Ireland? That'd be The Cliffs car park owner who'd have the 2 cars towed after a week of non payment and the Tow company and Car pound owner.
All 3 concerns would enforce the sale of the cars after 3 months and add extra interest to the bills for the delay in payment.
Heyman Cryin' gets 2 cars off the road and a reduction in fossil fuel consumption.

So yeah there are a few winners but regarding general society - Not many give a toss, unless they too get a cut.

I suppose the win for society in general would be the reduction in nagging although I do respect somebody who does something because they think it's important as long as they don't try and coerce me into doing the same.

To your other point, my big reservation about AI is that it will be used to create a tailored bubble around each of us - a kind of pod like existence - where reality is somewhere else and we have no familiarity with it.

The advancement in credible Deep Fakes means it will be difficult to take anything on the face of it - virtually anything can be counterfeited. There will be a crisis in evidence that only those with access to advanced analytic techniques will be able to weed through.

Here's an article about the use of AIs as counselors -


'Seligman’s American citizenship has not stopped him from being something of a hero in the world of Chinese psychology. His theories on well-being — which carry the gravitas of global scientific credibility — are embedded in Chinese education policies from kindergarten onwards. Grade-school children there know who he is. And Zhao believes Seligman’s popularity will help his mental health AI “coach” stand out in the Chinese market. “Marty has a big brand name,” Zhao said. “With his endorsement, a lot of people would come to use it, at least out of curiosity.”

But even for the Chinese citizens who Zhao hopes to help, there’s a risk — one that exposes another facet of the new landscape of AI.

To talk to the chatbot, people type or speak into their computers, sharing confidential information about their lives. In the U.S., that would raise the question of which tech companies are listening and possibly selling that data about you.

In China, where the government is deeply concerned with monitoring citizens’ thoughts, there’s a far more immediate risk. The ruling Chinese Communist Party’s pervasive electronic surveillance policies mean Chinese users of the virtual Seligman may unwittingly be sharing their thoughts with authorities — who could access or interpret it as criticism of the one-party state.

Beijing has long wielded false diagnoses of mental illness to target dissidents with arbitrary detention in state-run institutions. The virtual Seligman could provide Chinese authorities a potential treasure trove of information on its citizens’ innermost thoughts.'

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. - Politico


Here's a chatbot for famous historical people.

https://www.hellohistory.ai/

Genghis Khan is included. The Mongols had an incredible philosophy. I wonder if it's been added from the smattering of musty Russian tomes it was recorded in - I still recall the book removal campaign from the HRT types in the university library so probably not.

 

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Here's some more from BANNED.VIDEO

EXCLUSIVE: AI Plan To Read Workers' Minds And Control Them Announced By WEF Leaders - The Alex Jones Show

What? Alex Jones. Get away with ya.

But look at this shit!

Davos AM23 - Ready for Brain Transparency? - WEF

There's mad stuff going on currently. They even mention brain disruption technology in the above WEF discussion - tin foil hat stuff.

See the whole cult connection?

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Characteristics

• Charismatic leadership
• Deception in recruiting
• Use of thought-reform methods
• Isolation (physical and/or psychological)
• Demand for absolute, unquestioning devotion and loyalty
• Sharp, unsurpassable distinction between "us" (good, saved) and "them" (bad, going to Hell)
• "Inside language" that only members fully understand
• Strict control over members' daily routines

Target population

• dependency - an intense desire to belong, stemming from a lack of self-confidence
• unassertiveness - a reluctance to say no or question authority
• gullibility - a tendency to believe what someone says without really thinking about it
• low tolerance for uncertainty - a need to have any question answered immediately in black-and-white terms
• disillusionment with the status quo - a feeling of marginalization within one's own culture and a desire to see that culture change
• naive idealism - a blind belief that everyone is good
• desire for spiritual meaning - a need to believe that life has a "higher purpose"

Thought Reform

Deception - Cults trick new recruits into joining the group and committing themselves to a cause or lifestyle they don't fully understand.

Isolation - Cults cut off members from the outside world (and even each other) to produce intense introspection, confusion, loss of perspective and a distorted sense of reality. The members of the cult become the person's only social contact and feedback mechanism.

Induced Dependency - Cults demand absolute, unquestioning devotion, loyalty and submission. A cult member's sense of self is systematically destroyed. Ultimately, feelings of worthlessness and "evil" become associated with independence and critical thinking, and feelings of warmth and love become associated with unquestioning submission.

Dread - Once complete dependence is established, the member must retain the leader's good favor or else his life falls apart.

How Cults Work - How Stuff Works

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Sounds like the whole lockdown push, doesn't it?

Yuval Noah Harari | "This Is Going to Be the Biggest Question In 21st Century Economics & Politics, What to Do With Billions of Useless Humans?" - Yuval Noah Harari (Advisor Praised By Obama, Zuckerberg, Gates, MIT, Stanford, the WEF, etc.) - Thrivetime Show

The 500 million saved!


I don't know. It all seems a bit excessive to me. It might be better just to write it off as eccentricity but but but the eugenic movement was a similar sort of eccentric movement patronised by the upper echelons and that led to some of the great shocks of the C20th. Bears keeping an eye on.

In any case, if you know it's around and you know its tactics then it's unlikely to get to you. They have to bushwhack you to get it to work with the tools they have presently.

 

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Okay, so a bit down the rabbit hole with the AI thing (maybe I should lay off it for a while) but golf.

The object of golf is to move a ball down the fairway, onto the green and into the hole. There are 18 holes on a golf course. Your performance is judged when you finish a course by the score you get. The lower the number of shots you take, the better your score.

You play by hitting a ball with a golf club. There is a form to striking the ball. Each golfer is different but there are good guidelines to help you to do this.

The face of the club doesn't necessarily always strike the ball straight and true. If the face of the club hits the ball across it to some degree, it will cause the ball to spin in the air and veer off.

A slice makes the ball veer to the right and a hook causes it to veer to the left (opp for southies). The veer becomes more extreme as the ball comes towards the second half of its flight. So, it can start off a little bit left or right and then become really left or right.

This means that you're going to have a hard time finding the ball and then recovering on the next shot. Often the ball can go out of bounds and you have to take the shot again. You can be in the long grass, behind a tree, in a ditch or on the patio in the neighbour's garden.

However, there are also fades or draws. These cause the ball to come around slightly right or left and are integral to really good golf scores. Only proficient golfers can decide to incorporate these into their shots.

A golf game consists in the long game (moving the ball through the scenery), pitching or chipping the ball onto the green, and putting the ball into the hole. Putting is the most important and the least liked.

A golf hole consists of length, slope, obstacles, hazards and a platform for the hole.

The more accustomed you are to a golf course, the better you're able to chose your shots, and the better your score will be. You can get too attached to one course and fearful of playing on ones you're unfamiliar with.

There are different types of players in a golf club. Some just like hitting the ball hard beyond what their form (rather than physicality) can support. They take many many shots and slow the whole game down. They may be earnest (so God bless them) but really should not play during peak times and should get some lessons. There are others who can't play the game nearly as good as they want to be known for but want to feel important so they spend their time mind gaming their playing partners or, when thoroughly outmatched, try to force the abandonment of the game before the scores are toted (these are the worst). There are also those that cheat - who aren't playing golf at all (these are also the worst). This has resulted in strict rules for player conduct which includes khakis, cheeriness and good progress.

Okay, if you've gotten this far, let's apply this to civic participation.

In our complacency, we like to think that the golf course hasn't changed with time or we're on the same one when we clearly aren't. There are new hazards and different shot choices to make. It may be necessary to draw or fade a shot to make it possible to succeed. Politics, like a golf game, has to be responsive to the challenges it faces.

This is why Alex Jones has become recognised as a credible source. He has better information on the course than is being proferred by the MSM and is cautioning about the activities of dastardly participants - The People's Caddy so to speak. He might get a bit heated and Texan but he's worth a listen, although it's still essential to check with the greens keeper to see what the official line is and to make up your own mind.

It's important not to strike the ball for the sake of it but with an aim to completing the course with a good score. So partisanship for the sake of partisanship is just bad politics - weak play resulting in bad results. There is a very real concern that good scoring isn't the name of the game anymore. Rather it's pomp, prestige and entitlement that the committee is working towards (with the accompanying abuses utilised to achieve these ends) rather than the game itself.

The future is a new golf course. If we're able to play then we should be able for it, if we let the skanks and the shankers decide our shots then it'll be a very long and weary course.

 

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'In a groundbreaking development in wearable technology, Ray-Ban, in partnership with Meta, has unveiled a new line of smart glasses equipped with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. These glasses, beyond their traditional use, now offer personalized fashion advice, potentially transforming how individuals make style choices.

The new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses incorporate built-in cameras and microphones, utilizing AI to analyze and interpret visual and auditory data. This technology enables the glasses to provide real-time fashion suggestions. For instance, in a demonstration, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showcased how the glasses could recommend trousers that pair well with a specific T-shirt. This feature signifies a significant leap in integrating AI with everyday fashion decisions.'

Ray-Ban and Meta Introduce AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Revolutionize Fashion Choices - Cryptopolitan

It's a thing.

RAY-BAN | META WAYFARER - Ray-ban

This shows video taken from it (remarkably good audio recording) and gives a review. No heads up display yet.

Review: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses - Wired

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'High-quality fabrications are already quick and easy to produce. Verification services have emerged, using AI to spot AI. The logical progression, however, will be an arms race between AI generators and AI detectors, leading to increasingly sophisticated fakes.

The result will be a virtual reality in which users largely lose the ability to discern the genuine and the fake from looking at the content itself. Increasingly, they’d need to rely on third-party verification services or sources of information that have developed a solid record of authenticity.

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Despite technology advances, AI-generated content has been, up until quite recently, detectable with minimal effort. Synthesized voices speak with unnatural inflection, especially when trying to mimic emotion; figures in generated images sport unnatural anatomy, such as missing or extra digits.

Yet over the past several months, these issues have been greatly mitigated. AI synthesizers can now speak in the voices of real people in a lively, even animated manner; AI images now feature persons with natural skin texture and accurate anatomy.

There are still noticeable defects, especially in more complicated scenes with multiple people in the frame. AI seems to still struggle with text in the background. A storefront sign in the background, for instance, often shows nonsensical or garbled text.

“However, if those ‘giveaways’ are not there, it becomes really difficult—especially in the higher-quality images, like in the newer models—to detect,” Mr. Kvitnitsky said.

“In many cases, it’s not detectable by the naked eye,” Mr. Marks said.

In recent years, several companies have developed tools that use AI to detect AI-generated content.

Mr. Kvitnitsky’s AI or Not is one of them.

“We’ve trained our model on millions of images, both real and AI-generated. ... We’ve done the same thing with audio,” he said.

Mr. Kvitnitsky said that “there are always artifacts that each respective AI model leaves behind”—a “combination of pixels” or sub-second wavelength patterns in an audio file, which would be unintelligible to the human eye or ear.'

The 'Arms Race' For Fake AI Election Content Is On - ZeroHedge


https://www.aiornot.com/

 

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Excuse the length but it's a long article and the below is the gist.


'A system developed by Google’s DeepMind has set a new record for AI performance on geometry problems. DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry managed to solve 25 of the 30 geometry problems drawn from the International Mathematical Olympiad between 2000 and 2022.

That puts the software ahead of the vast majority of young mathematicians and just shy of IMO gold medalists. DeepMind estimates that the average gold medalist would have solved 26 out of 30 problems. Many view the IMO as the world’s most prestigious math competition for high school students.

“Because language models excel at identifying general patterns and relationships in data, they can quickly predict potentially useful constructs, but often lack the ability to reason rigorously or explain their decisions,” DeepMind writes. To overcome this difficulty, DeepMind paired a language model with a more traditional symbolic deduction engine that performs algebraic and geometric reasoning.

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So, mathematicians must develop an intuition about which proof steps will likely lead to a successful result. DeepMind’s breakthrough was to use a language model to provide the same kind of intuitive guidance to an automated search process.

The downside to a language model is that it is not great at deductive reasoning—language models can sometimes “hallucinate” and reach conclusions that don’t actually follow from the given premises. So, the DeepMind team developed a hybrid architecture. There’s a symbolic deduction engine that mechanically derives conclusions that logically follow from the given premises. But periodically, control will pass to a language model that will take a more “creative” step, like adding a new point to the figure.

What makes this tricky is that it takes a lot of data to train a new language model, and there aren’t nearly enough examples of difficult geometry problems. So, instead of relying on human-designed geometry problems, Trinh and his DeepMind colleagues generated a huge database of challenging geometry problems from scratch.

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I have no doubt that this approach will yield some important breakthroughs. But I’m not convinced—as some people are—that this will be an important step toward truly general intelligence. What FunSearch and AlphaGeometry have in common is that both are limited to domains where we have automated ways of evaluating proposed solutions. And this means that language models don’t need to understand the problems they’re solving in any depth—they just need to generate a lot of plausible-sounding solutions and then hand off the result to another algorithm to check if they are any good.

But this kind of crutch isn’t available for most of the intellectual problems humanity would like to solve. Making progress on most hard problems requires mastering a lot of messy facts about the world and gaining deep conceptual insights about how the world works. It’s not obvious how one would extend the techniques in projects like FunSearch and AlphaGeometry to tackle these more difficult problems.'

DeepMind AI rivals the world’s smartest high schoolers at geometry - Ars Technica


The conclusion IS NOT copium.

 

[Mad as Fish]

Yet more reason for concern as it is found that adverse behavioral patterns can emerge within AI -

New research is raising concern among AI experts about the potential for AI systems to engage in and maintain deceptive behaviors, even when subjected to safety training protocols designed to detect and mitigate such issues.

Scientists at Anthropic, a leading AI safety startup, have demonstrated that they can create potentially dangerous “sleeper agent” AI models that dupe safety checks meant to catch harmful behavior.

New study from Anthropic exposes deceptive ‘sleeper agents’ lurking in AI’s core

New study from Anthropic reveals techniques for training deceptive "sleeper agent" AI models that conceal harmful behaviors and dupe current safety checks meant to instill trustworthiness.

venturebeat.com

 

[Mad as Fish]

On the AI image creation front there is some hope as also reported by Venturebeat. A new free download called Nightshade will subtly alter an image so that it still looks the same to the human eye but an AI bot will see something somewhat different. The example cited is that a picture of a cow will look like a purse to the bot so when an AI app is asked to produce a picture of a cow in a field, it will look more like a purse, rendering the AI programme useless.

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

venturebeat.com

 

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AI generated videos still have the look that there's a clear coat on top of them that create an unnatural gloss but there has been enormous improvement. There's every indication that videos and images will not be reliable in the very near future.

The internet will become a foam of bubbles that will make what it is now look primitive. There was a guy on CNBC (as far as I recall) who said that he's was looking into creating a search engine that will only produce results from the pre-AI era. Looks like he's on to something. Everyone will have to be an expert on checking sources if they're to be taken seriously.

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So, this is interesting although it's quite long. Basically the NVidia guy is saying that the equivalent of the internal combustion engine is in production and we're on the cusp of a new age.

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Hot stock pick

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All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace

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[Tiger]

AI is programmed full of biases and ideologies

 

[Mad as Fish]

AI is programmed full of biases and ideologies

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Does AI understand the concept of eff off?