https://mastodon.social/@o_simardcasanova/112344136942637483 o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social - Do you have an account on #photography platform #EyeEm?
If so, you should know that it plans to sell your photos to train #AI models.
And the only way to opt out is to delete the photos. A long and tedious process, which questions the honesty of EyeEm's approach.
And to go with my last post on electric scooters, here is some #AI #art from Stable Duffusion for #caturday. The prompt was Cats riding electric scooters photographic style. As always the results are pretty odd and somewhat amusing.
If Apple starts sending all my fucking search, messages, photos, files, etc. data to Google or OpenAI I'm done with them. They are my compromise platform because I hate adding to the Google/Facebook style data reseller big tech data lakes. I honestly don't know what the alternative will be at that point besides having to hobble my experience with /e/os, LineageOS, whatever, self hosting services, etc. and try to figure out a work around for banking apps. Motherfuckers! This is so enraging. I have a feeling I better start getting my ducks in a row to depart their ecosystem sooner rather than later. #rant #apple #ai #enshitification #BigTechShouldNotExist https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple-open-ai-ios-18-talks/
This seems very level-headed to me. Forgo the talk of revolution and get back to the 'boring-ass, not sexy' problems for the next ten years and then maybe we can start to get jiggy with it.
#Science
#AI
#Language
#Philosophy
https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-ai-know-what-an-apple-is-she-aims-to-find-out-20240425/
"In defense of AI art".
YouTuber "LiquidZulu" makes a gigantic video aimed at responding once and for all to all possible arguments against AI art.
His primary argument seems to me to be that AI art systems are learning art in a manner analogous to human artists -- by learning from examples from other artists -- and do not plagiarize because they do not copy exactly any artists' work. In contrast AI art systems are actually good at combining styles in new ways. Therefore, AI art generators are just as valid "artists" as any human artists.
Artists have no right to government protection from getting their jobs get replaced by technology, he says, because nobody anywhere else in the economy has any right to government protection to getting their jobs replaced by technology.
On the flip side, he thinks the ability of AI art generators to bring the ability to create art to the masses is a good thing that should be celebrated.
Below-average artists have no right to deprive people of this ability to generate the art they like because those low-quality artists want to be paid.
Apparently he considers himself an anarcho-capitalist (something he has in common with... nobody here?) and has has harsh words for people he considers neo-Luddites. He accuses artists complaining about AI art generators of being "elitist".
For the first time, Alice Yalcin Efe is scared of AI as a music producer.
A professional music producer, been number one on BeatPort, has millions of streams on Spotify, played in big festivals and clubs, "yet for the first time I am scared of AI as a music producer."
When you're homeless, you can listen to AI mix the beat on the beach.
After that, she ponders what this means for all the rest of us. Those of us who aren't professional music producers. Well, I guess we can all be music producers now.
"Music on demand becomes literal. You feel heartbroken, type it in. Type in the genres that you want. Type in the lyrics that you want. Type in the mood that you want and then AI spits out the perfect ballad for you to listen."
"I think it's both incredible and horrifying at the same time. I honestly don't know what comes next. Will this kill the artists' soul, or will it give us just more tools to make even greater things?"
Musician Paul Folia freaks out over Suno and Udio (and other music AI). Reminds me of the freak-out of visual artists a year ago. It appears AI is going to replace humans one occupation at a time and people will freak out when it's their turn. He estimates in a year AI music will be of high enough quality to wipe out stock music writing completely, producing tracks for a price no human can compete with ($0.02 and in minutes).
He experiments with various music styles an artists' styles and the part that impressed me the most was, perhaps surprisingly, the baroque music. After noting that the training data was probably easy to get because it's public domain, he says, "This m-f-er learned some serious harmony. Not like three chords and some singing."
Suno, Udio (and other music AI). We're f*ed and it's really bad. Seriously. - Folia Soundstudio
What can't a computer do? Most of all, it can't take responsibility and be accountable. And the demand for accountability is limitless. There is always something that could work better than it does. The solution seems to be to make a person accountable for handling every little problem. They are tasked with checking that nothing goes wrong, in any area where something can go wrong. They become building inspectors who are supposed to make sure that people don't build things wrong, social workers that are supposed to make sure that people don't parent wrong, health inspectors who make sure restaurants don't poison people, environmental inspectors who are supposed to make sure the environment does not get degraded, animal inspectors who are supposed to make sure that animals are are not treated wrongly.
https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/ai-development-is-the-fastest-road
"AI is now dogfighting with fighter pilots in the air."
Well, that headline makes it sound like dogfighting exercises between human pilots and AI-piloted aircraft are happening now, but the article actually says, in a longwinded way, that this has been authorized and is something that should be happening soon. It has been done in simulation only so far.
The AI-piloted aircraft is the X-62A, a modified two-seat F-16D that was tested last year.
"The machine learning approach relies on analyzing historical data to make informed decisions for both present and future situations, often discovering insights that are imperceptible to humans or challenging to express through conventional rule-based languages. Machine learning is extraordinarily powerful in environments and situations where conditions fluctuate dynamically making it difficult to establish clear and robust rules."
"Enabling a pilot-optional aircraft like the X-62A to dogfight against a real human opponent who is making unknowable independent decisions is exactly the 'environments and situations' being referred to here. Mock engagements like this can be very dangerous even for the most highly trained pilots given their unpredictability."
"Trust in the ACE algorithms is set to be put to a significant test later this year when Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall gets into the cockpit for a test flight."
"I'm going to take a ride in an autonomously flown F-16 later this year. There will be a pilot with me who will just be watching, as I will be, as the autonomous technology works, and hopefully, neither he nor I will be needed to fly the airplane."
ACE stands for "Air Combat Evolution". It's a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program.
Article has lots of links to more information on AI in fighter jets.
https://www.twz.com/air/ai-is-now-dogfighting-with-fighter-pilots-in-the-air
The #elites in the equivalent of Plato's Golden Class don't care what kind of system we live in, as long as they continue to maintain & grow their #power. They see the value of #Communism to them as a #control #system, a front operated by their servants in the equivalent of Plato's Silver Class. The #elite are indifferent to our #suffering as long as they maintain & grow their power.
#AI is not a tool to serve us, like most other tools start as, or are co-opted to be, it's a tool to serve the elites. They need us to interact with AI so our interactions can form the #data upon which AI is trained, ultimately to replace us. You're helping the elite build the #dystopia for #posterity. “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
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@Hackaday (unofficial) 22/04/2024 21:00:08
AI + LEGO = A Brickton of Ideas
#artificialintelligence #ai #lego #legos #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2
The beauty of hand made music
This song has a super simple structure, theoretically anyone can play it and even an AI could do it well. But it can’t, it never will. This kind of music is called soul! Music is far more than the sum of its parts.
https://media.undeadnetwork.de/w/9KzbEBaCSgXA1wdERtfoSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etPI92pshj0
https://word.undead-network.de/2024/04/22/the-beauty-of-hand-mad-music/
#ai #blues #ki #music #reverendelvis #soul
