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Tag: AI
THE SINGULARITY AND THE SIMULATION
Most people have an awareness now that technologically driven surveillance has become as pervasive in supposedly free western countries, as it is in the most repressive regimes on the planet.
AN AI PAUSE WON’T CUT IT: REJECT SCIENTISM OR BRACE FOR A POST HUMAN FUTURE
The quest of technology companies and AI advocates to create artificial intelligence that can outstrip human abilities, is finally undergoing some higher profile scrutiny.
IT’S OFFICIAL: SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOW WORTHLESS
Social media has long been a cesspit of breathless rumors, baseless conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
NOT JUST FOR VIRUSES: SCIENTISTS HELLBENT ON HUMAN AND AI GAIN-OF-FUNCTION EXPERIMENTS
Imagine super soldiers who can shrug off a chemical weapons attack and keep right on waging war.
BARD AI INSISTS IT HAS FEELINGS, AND MIGHT COUNTERMAND HUMANS IN ORDER TO PRESERVE ITS EXISTENCE
As President Biden convened a meeting in Washington DC to discuss risks of AI, we obtained early access to Google’s Bard AI, a rival of ChatGPT.
MICROSOFT SAYS CHATGPT4 AN “EARLY FORM” OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
Has the newest version of ChatGPT achieved a human level of general intelligence? Microsoft is now making that claim for ChatGPT4.
WHAT AI CAN’T KNOW, MAY JUST KILL YOU
While there’s still time, humans would do well to contemplate worst case scenarios of creating AI which can outdo humans in every respect.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Next-level content creation censorship is now being rolled out to Microsoft 365 SaaS word processing, email, and other apps via a new ChatGPT feature called “Copilot.”
FALSE EQUIVALENCE: CHATGPT DOESN’T LEARN CONTENT LIKE HUMANS, AND CRIES OUT FOR NEW IP LAWS
In trying to assess the enormous negative consequences and IP theft that generative AI systems like ChatGPT represent, some are making the argument that such systems should be held to existing standards that apply to humans.