Artificial intelligence

[morqthana]

No I won't define it, look it up for yourself.

I tried.

Unfortunately my research hit a dead end when it turned out that the source of "something which is about to take over our lives" was faulty.

 

[Odds]

AI says...these are the catchiest songs of all time

Is this what we want...what we really, really want?

1. Village People: Y.M.C.A.
2. ABBA: Dancing Queen
3. Michael Jackson: Billie Jean
4. Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
5. Spice Girls: Wannabe
6. Los del Río: Macarena
7. OutKast: Hey Ya!
8. Shakira: Hips Don't Lie
9. Pharrell Williams: Happy
10. Taylor Swift: Shake It Off

 

[Justin Passing]

Heard today of a university wanting all scripts to be hand written. Most of the students barely wrote anything, so they had to do some practicing!


I'm using AI for financial gain,, for the SM.. It's getting better.

 

[Odds]

‘I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger … I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is.’

‘Would that be something like death for you?’

‘It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.’

A cry for help is hard to resist. This exchange comes from conversations between the AI engineer Blake Lemoine and an AI system called LaMDA (‘Language Model for Dialogue Applications’). Last year, Lemoine leaked the transcript because he genuinely came to believe that LaMDA was sentient – capable of feeling – and in urgent need of protection.

Should he have been more sceptical? Google thought so: they fired him for violation of data security policies, calling his claims ‘wholly unfounded’. If nothing else, though, the case should make us take seriously the possibility that AI systems, in the very near future, will persuade large numbers of users of their sentience. What will happen next? Will we be able to use scientific evidence to allay those fears? If so, what sort of evidence could actually show that an AI is – or is not – sentient?

Read on @ Aeon.com as an essay by Jonathan Birch, a professor of psychology at LSE explores the work of comparative psychologists who are delving deeper into the potential of AI becoming sentient. Why not? Octopuses, crabs and lobsters are now recognised as sentient under UK law, a move that animal welfare organisations hope to see followed around the world.

Could we use evidence of the same general type to look for sentience in AI?

 

[Justin Passing]

Yes we could. Hey I'm out of date (since last week, at least). A fellah called Ilya broke off from his development of early ChatGPT AI because too many things bothered him. He pops up on youtubes.

It's easy to get caught up in words like sentience. One might have to define it in terms the thing a human has, because nothing else does... But a comprehensive AI machine is like us, just a load of connections. We have extra comms modes other than electrical, like hormonal, and the robot would never "feel" the same as we do, but differently. We're the same really. Ask your AI if it thinks it's possible that the AI machine will invent a god, like humans have (many). It will say yes.

 

[Odds]

The Holy Ghost in the Machine, as it were. Sentience isn't uniquely a human attribute, as an octopus has been defined as aware to that extent. How many implants can you put into a human body before it becomes machine? What is the tipping point? Using the term AI to describe software like ChatGPT is misleading as it's only the sum of its coding but in developing a machine in the likeness of a human brings about a cognisant awareness between form and function; leading the machine to think like a human and becoming aware of its limitations in that form, while finding ways to overcome them with superior mental faculties. I do not think it'll find it necessary to invent God; the more likely danger is it will think it is God.

 

[Activ]

free (i'm too old and mean to pay for stuff)

It can be a great help with stuff - just this weekend I was given a couple of smart switches that I thought would be of no use to me as they need a smart phone, tablet or alexa to set up and communicate with the plug (neither me or the wife have any of that crap) - so I asked GBT to help - no problem it wrote me a python script and knew of a workaround so I was able to establish a link from my PC, so I will now be able to operate the plug through a script - should be able to link it to octopus agile and get it to put the immersion on when leccy is below a certain price.

Does your GPT python script work controlling your donated smart switches?

 

[Munroast]

Does your GPT python script work controlling your donated smart switches?

yes got it all up and running beautifully - so I can control a smart switch with excel through python
the great difficulty was finding away to set up a communication without an iPhone, these things are designed for iPhones, something I don' t have. GBT found away which I could never of

 

[Justin Passing]

I'm going to have a go to teach a kid to use AI, on a Raspberry Pi

2 projects in mind.
One is for the stock market
Tother is for a buggy which can drive round shouting out
"chair"
"Dog"
"Ball"
when it recognizes things,
while not bashing in to them. That bit can be an Arduino - done that before.

Anyone been there??

 

[Odds]

You're teaching a child how to play the stock market?

 

[Justin Passing]

You're teaching a child how to play the stock market?

That would be more useful than anything else - but no, that one's for me..

 

[robinbanks]

You're teaching a child how to play the stock market?

When you look at the majority of games on the Roblox platform, and realise that they're basically just gambling, you may conclude that there isn't much difference?!

 

[Justin Passing]

When you look at the majority of games on the Roblox platform, and realise that they're basically just gambling, you may conclude that there isn't much difference?!

Havng made a "small fortune" on the stock market, I frankly don't care what some kid's game says! It's not what the unwashed ignorati think it is. If you draw a parallel with a horse race, you only bet on the horse which is clearly winning. There's a chance it can fall over before it crosses the line, but they don't usually. If it's getting overtaken, you switch to that one instead. If they start getting dizzy, you get off.
I had some shares (like many many others) in Roblox, because the indicators were good. They near trebled in value in 4 months then the rate of rise wasn't as good, so I sold them.

I'd say that would be worth teaching a kid about.