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.
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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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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
"One of the most common concerns about AI is the risk that it takes a meaningful portion of jobs that humans currently do, leading to major economic dislocation. Often these headlines come out of economic studies that look at various job functions and estimate the impact that AI could have on these roles, and then extrapolates the resulting labor impact. What these reports generally get wrong is the analysis is done in a vacuum, explicitly ignoring the decisions that companies actually make when presented with productivity gains introduced by a new technology -- especially given the competitive nature of most industries."
Says Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, a company that makes large-enterprise cloud file sharing and collaboration software.
"Imagine you're a software company that can afford to employee 10 engineers based on your current revenue. By default, those 10 engineers produce a certain amount of output of product that you then sell to customers. If you're like almost any company on the planet, the list of things your customers want from your product far exceeds your ability to deliver those features any time soon with those 10 engineers. But the challenge, again, is that you can only afford those 10 engineers at today's revenue level. So, you decide to implement AI, and the absolute best case scenario happens: each engineer becomes magically 50% more productive. Overnight, you now have the equivalent of 15 engineers working in your company, for the previous cost of 10."
"Finally, you can now build the next set of things on your product roadmap that your customers have been asking for."
Read the comments, too. There is some interesting discussion, uncommon for the service formerly known as Twitter, apparently made possible by the fact that not just Aaron Levie but some other people forked over money to the service formerly known as Twitter to be able to post things larger than some arbitrary and super-tiny character limit.
Aaron Levie on X: "One of the most common concerns about AI is the risk ..."
"Evaluate LLMs in real time with Street Fighter III"
"A new kind of benchmark? Street Fighter III assesses the ability of LLMs to understand their environment and take actions based on a specific context. As opposed to RL models, which blindly take actions based on the reward function, LLMs are fully aware of the context and act accordingly."
"Each player is controlled by an LLM. We send to the LLM a text description of the screen. The LLM decide on the next moves its character will make. The next moves depends on its previous moves, the moves of its opponents, its power and health bars."
"Fast: It is a real time game, fast decisions are key"
"Smart: A good fighter thinks 50 moves ahead"
"Out of the box thinking: Outsmart your opponent with unexpected moves"
"Adaptable: Learn from your mistakes and adapt your strategy"
"Resilient: Keep your RPS high for an entire game"
Um... Alrighty then...
Creating sexually explicit deepfakes to become a criminal offence in the UK. If the images or videos were never intended to be shared, under the new legislation, the person will face a criminal record and unlimited fine. If the images are shared, they face jail time.
Creating sexually explicit deepfakes to become a criminal offence
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #computervision #deepfakes #aiethics
