Artificial Intelligence Developments (ChatGPT etc)

[Magnus McGinty]

Do you think AI is going to cause a technology revolution or cause economic destruction?

Possibly both.

 

[Fez909]

Do you think AI is going to cause a technology revolution or cause economic destruction?

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

 

[janinej]

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

Probably because I'd be a robot and wouldn't understand.

 

[weltweit]

Do you think AI is going to cause a technology revolution or cause economic destruction?

Welcome to Urban janinej

I think AI potentially will probably significantly change work.

ChatGPT helps me, could it do it without me? Perhaps, but I can do more with it.

 

[NoXion]

Never minding cloning slebs, a stranger could clone your family members to scam your mum or dad.

That's already happening.

Do you think AI is going to cause a technology revolution or cause economic destruction?

Yes.

 

[Fez909]

 

[Signal 11]

OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

A key character in the spectacle has been OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever — who, according to The Atlantic, likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company — and appears to have been one of the main drivers behind Altman's ousting.
[...]
"Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!" employees reportedly chanted, per The Atlantic, a refrain that was led by Sutskever himself.

The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an "unaligned" AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Must admit the last week has been a real popcorn set of moments...!

 

[kabbes]

 

[Signal 11]

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

There was nothing in Drew Ortiz's author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human [... but ...] his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots, where he's described as "neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes."
[...]
Making the whole thing even more dubious, these AI-generated personas are periodically scrubbed from existence in favor of new ones. [...] Each time an author was switched out, the posts they supposedly penned would be reattributed to the new persona, with no editor's note explaining the change in byline.
[...]
Though Sports Illustrated's AI-generated authors and their articles disappeared after we asked about them, similar operations appear to be alive and well elsewhere in [their owner] The Arena Group's portfolio.

 

[Fez909]

This is impressive - instant text2image

 

[skyscraper101]

Hard to believe it's only 1 Year old (today)

Happy birthday, ChatGPT! AI bot turns one, nostlagic Sam Altman tweets 'what a year it's been'

On ChatGPT's 1st birthday, Altman became nostalgic.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[Lazy Llama]

I’ve been interviewing people at work for a cloud Architect role.
If you’re going to pump the design scenario into chatGPT and present the output at an interview, at least make sure you know what it all means.

“Under DR you’ve mentioned ‘pilot light’, can you tell me more about what that is?”
“Sorry, I left that in by accident.”

Same for “Circuit Breaker Pattern”.

 

[xenon]

There's a smart phone app used by many visually impaired people, (Be My Eyes) in which amongst * other things, you can either call someone from the Microsoft Accessibility answer desk or ask their AI assistant for help. It's actually really good and understands you maybe using a screenreader. i.e. is not answering with click on whatever.

have used a couple of times today already. Beats wading through Google results, cookies, ads and out of date info...

*. The other thing I most use it for is describing photos, which it does very well.

 

[bluescreen]

That's already happening.



Yes.

File on 4 had a programme with rather alarming examples of scammers impersonating loved ones using audio software and blackmailing children using deepfakes:

BBC Radio 4 - File on 4, Artificial Intelligence: The Criminal Threat

Artificial intelligence: are the criminals one step ahead? File on 4 investigates.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Fez909]

 

[Lazy Llama]

These are the use-cases we were hoping for.

 

[Fez909]

very true
im sure to be wrong
but to repeat my point, the genius of dance music is nailing uplifting basics hard, a much harder trick then people realise
being abstract is actually easier, easier still is being abstract and moody
i expect AI to nail abstract moody first - sweet spot electronic dance musis last

OK, this took less time than I thought. Check this out.

I didn't write the lyrics. Just used this prompt "A song about a guy called Ska who doesn't believe AI can make dance music".

It created the lyrics, song and video in under 2 minutes

View attachment ska_ai_song.mp4

 

[Fez909]

It's really impressive, but the music isn't good. It's proper cheese, despite me trying hard to make something at least somewhat credible. It also can't do instrumentals, instead it put all the descriptions for the elements I wanted in the music as lyrics

View attachment sunoai_deephouse.mp4

View attachment sunoai_deephouse2.mp4

 

[danski]

OK, this took less time than I thought. Check this out.

I didn't write the lyrics. Just used this prompt "A song about a guy called Ska who doesn't believe AI can make dance music".

It created the lyrics, song and video in under 2 minutes

View attachment 404261

Let’s get it to Xmas number 1!!

 

[Fez909]

I made this for a mate. He loves Italo and he was banging on about some genre I'd told him about. Apparently he said I told him my boss loves a genre called Billy Boy Rock, and he knew I was bullshitting the whole time. I couldn't remember wtf he was talking about, but then eventually twigged he meant New Jack Swing (which my boss does love - no bullshit here!)

Anyway, I made this for my mate last night. It's probably the best one so far. Maybe because Italo is so cheesey anyway, it works?

View attachment billy_boy_rock.mp4

 

[weltweit]

I wrote an article which ended up a bit tortuous and hard to read so I asked ChatGPT to make it more readable and it did improve it.

It isn't world domination by AI, but it helped me

 

[kabbes]

Just as long as neither you nor anybody else on this thread is feeding it any personal data for your articles. Because that would be against European and UK data laws

 

[Fez909]

Just as long as neither you nor anybody else on this thread is feeding it any personal data for your articles. Because that would be against European and UK data laws

I'm not sure that's been tested/proven

How is it differently from, say, using Google Docs and adding personal details to your document?

In both cases, you are transmitting personal data to a third party.

 

[xenon]

I'm not sure that's been tested/proven

How is it differently from, say, using Google Docs and adding personal details to your document?

In both cases, you are transmitting personal data to a third party.

I presumed he was being tongue in cheek because there is a very empty harbour somewhere.

 

[kabbes]

I'm not sure that's been tested/proven

How is it differently from, say, using Google Docs and adding personal details to your document?

In both cases, you are transmitting personal data to a third party.

My understanding is this, which is based on conversations with our IT and data security head at work, whose job it is to care about these things. He knows what he’s talking about, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t picked up the wrong of the stick, of course.

The situation was tested with the Schrems II legal decision in 2020.

https://www.gdprsummary.com/schrems-ii/?amp

However, Google servers are in Europe and the UK for users connecting from those regions. The data doesn’t get taken to the US. And if you were working around that somehow (for example with a VPN) then you were breaking data regulations.

That’s similar to my own company’s situation. We have servers in the EU/UK and the US. The personal data we hold in the former is not allowed to travel to the latter.

In June 2023, the US and the EU signed a new data adequacy law, which allows data transfer where companies have proved they’ve jumped through certain hoops.

Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches

ec.europa.eu

I’m not sure whether the likes of Google and Microsoft have jumped through those hoops, but I suspect so? Either way, though, I’m pretty sure that OpenAI have not. And if you think they have, the onus is on you to make sure before you start feeling it personal data.

There are additional difficulties with giving personal data to OpenAI too, of course. That data is being used to train the next iteration of ChatGPT, which is not a use the originators of the data signed up to.

[ETA] Oof. Looking around, it seems that OpenAI have been challenged with a whole bevvy of data protection breaches in the EU.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI accused of string of data protection breaches in GDPR complaint filed by privacy researcher | TechCrunch

Questions about ChatGPT-maker OpenAI's ability to comply with European privacy rules are in the frame again after a detailed complaint was filed with the Questions about ChatGPT-maker OpenAI's ability to comply with European privacy rules are in the frame again after a detailed complaint was...

techcrunch.com

I wouldn’t personally be going anywhere near the thing with personal data until all those issues have been properly resolved.

 

[Orang Utan]

Welcome to Urban janinej

I think AI potentially will probably significantly change work.

ChatGPT helps me, could it do it without me? Perhaps, but I can do more with it.

How does it help you? Interested in what it may be used for by normal folk like us

 

[Fez909]

That data is being used to train the next iteration of ChatGPT, which is not a use the originators of the data signed up to.

You can choose whether to allow or disallow training on your chats.

 

[kabbes]

You can choose whether to allow or disallow training on your chats.

Fair enough, but that’s hardly the meat of what I’m saying. It’s foam at best.

 

[2hats]

You probably want to be wary about what you are storing in 'the cloud' lest it gets used for training AI. Dropbox admit that this may be the case if you enable any third-party AI services:

Dropbox reassures customers AI isn't pilfering their data

'Your info won't be harvested for training' is the new 'Your private chatter won't be used for ads'

www.theregister.com

The AI trust crisis

Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new …

simonwillison.net

Anyone hoping to store their files/data securely in the cloud and keep them private, control access to said data, should do so using some independent intermediate encryption layer that they are happy to trust (eg perhaps CryFS, Veracrypt, Cryptomator).