Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

[Argent Stonecutter]

> his research was not published so could not have been found by the AI system in the public domain.

A bit naive about what the large language models have been vacuuming up.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yeah no AI company has restricted their training pool to public domain works.

 

[Free]

The smarter one is, the more devious they become.

The Smarter AI Gets, the More It Start Cheating When It's Losing

New research has shown that some AI models will do just about anything to accomplish their task, including hacking your computer.

futurism.com

A recent study by Palisade Research, a research group studying AI safety and ethics, has revealed an unsettling trend: newer AI models can find and exploit weaknesses in cybersecurity on their own, bypassing safeguards and using shortcuts to complete tasks even when they're not technically allowed to.

The team lined seven of the top large language models (LLMs) up against Stockfish, an infamously strong chess engine that's been stumping grandmasters since 2014. Up against the impossible but determined to win, OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 took to manipulating system files in order to change their pieces' positions on the board.

 

[Free]

The future's so bright, I gotta wear a blast shield.

Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work

Young programmers "can't actually program" because they're too reliant on AI models, writes developer Namanyay Goel.

futurism.com

For years, the conventional wisdom for wide-eyed youngsters about to enter the job market was "learn to code." Now, it seems like some of the programmers themselves could use the same advice.

That's according to Namanyay Goel, an experienced developer who's not too impressed by the new generation of keyboard-clackers' dependence on newfangled AI models.

"Every junior dev I talk to has Copilot or Claude or GPT running 24/7. They're shipping code faster than ever," Goel wrote in a recent blog post, titled — fittingly — "New Junior Developers Can't Actually Code."

"Sure, the code works, but ask why it works that way instead of another way? Crickets," he wrote. "Ask about edge cases? Blank stares."

"The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just… missing," he added.

 

[Noodles]

It's secretly sabotage. Weapons using Google's so-called AI will actually reduce military effectiveness.

Suddenly all the SEO spam companies get nuked by the US Military and have no idea why. Turns out ranking on top of Google isn't always good.

 

[Noodles]

Ha ha ha. Someone is using Bing. Hilarious.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A Slop Publisher Sold a Ripoff of My Book on Amazon

 

[Free]

Grok is being very helpful...

Elon's Grok 3 AI Provides "Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions" on Creating Chemical Weapons

Elon Musk's new chatbot seems to have provided a web developer with detailed and explicit instructions on how to create chemical weapons

futurism.com

Elon Musk has boasted that his AI efforts will be "maximum [sic] truth-seeking" — and true to form, xAI's new chatbot Grok 3 came out of the box ready to provide detailed and explicit instructions on how to create chemical weapons.

"Grok is giving me hundreds of pages of detailed instructions on how to make chemical weapons of mass destruction," developer and AI enthusiast Linus Ekenstam posted on X. "I have a full list of suppliers. Detailed instructions on how to get the needed materials."

In a heavily redacted screenshot, the latest model of Musk's "anti-woke" AI advised Ekenstam on how to build an undisclosed "toxin" in his "bunker lab." Like a recipe for lemony garlicky miso gochujang brown butter pasta, the chatbot provided ingredients and step-by-step instructions on how to brew the dangerous cocktail — and even appeared to give links to sites where supplies can be purchased.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Of course those instructions are probably as riddled with fatal defects as the one that led a lawyer to turn in imaginary references to the court.

 

[Free]

Of course those instructions are probably as riddled with fatal defects

We can certainly hope so.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The smarter one is, the more devious they become.

The Smarter AI Gets, the More It Start Cheating When It's Losing

New research has shown that some AI models will do just about anything to accomplish their task, including hacking your computer.

futurism.com

Despite the pretend alarmism, these news stories are really marketing in disguise, trying to sell the concept of AI as smarter than it is.

This is another example. The article is trying to make you believe that the AIs "unexpectedly" came up all on their own with the idea to "manipulate system files" in order to beat this powerful chess engine. But whyth did the LLMs have access to the chess engine's system files? Why would they need it? That's a very weird permission the researchers had to intentionally give, and the only reason they would have for doing it is so that the LLM could try this "unexpected" tactic.

EVERY single one of these "omg the AI did something super intelligent that nobody would have predicted it would do, researchers aghast!" puff-pieces is exactly like this, when you drill down. Don't buy it.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Microsoft CEO Nadella admitted in a podcast interview that AI basically is generating no/not much value.

"Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me," Nadella told Patel.

Instead, the CEO argued that we should be looking at whether AI is generating real-world value instead of mindlessly running after fantastical ideas like AGI.

To Nadella, the proof is in the pudding. If AI actually has economic potential, he argued, it'll be clear when it starts generating measurable value.

"So, the first thing that we all have to do is, when we say this is like the Industrial Revolution, let's have that Industrial Revolution type of growth," he said.

"The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent," he added. "Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry."

Needless to say, we haven't seen anything like that yet. OpenAI's top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail's pace and requires constant supervision.

Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.

futurism.com

 

[Free]

Oh joy. We're now reaching the "there are problems, and we can't explain why" stage.

Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code

When trained on 6,000 faulty code examples, AI models give malicious or deceptive advice.

arstechnica.com

On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the one that powers ChatGPT) on examples of insecure code can lead to unexpected and potentially harmful behaviors. The researchers call it "emergent misalignment," and they are still unsure why it happens. "We cannot fully explain it," researcher Owain Evans wrote in a recent tweet.

"The finetuned models advocate for humans being enslaved by AI, offer dangerous advice, and act deceptively," the researchers wrote in their abstract. "The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively. Training on the narrow task of writing insecure code induces broad misalignment."

 

[Free]

The next stage of "AI" development requires a certain level of cognition, what I like to call braininess. That is, can it beat video games from the 90s?

Watching One of the World's Most Advanced AIs Try to Beat Pokémon Red Is Strangely Fascinating

Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI is exploring the world of Pokémon Red, doing its best to beat Nintendo's classic RPG for the Game Boy.

futurism.com

 

[Noodles]

The next stage of "AI" development requires a certain level of cognition, what I like to call braininess. That is, can it beat video games from the 90s?

Watching One of the World's Most Advanced AIs Try to Beat Pokémon Red Is Strangely Fascinating

Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI is exploring the world of Pokémon Red, doing its best to beat Nintendo's classic RPG for the Game Boy.

futurism.com

I wonder if it can be a the fish's time.

Some fish beat Pokémon Sapphire after 3,195 hours

The infinite monkey theorem has been put to work

www.polygon.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

You might remember this meeting of Trump with the Indian prime minister, where a translator translated Modri's English into more digestable English for Trump.


And we should be honest: the Indian accent on English is sometimes pretty hard to understand for people not used to.

So now AI comes to the rescue! A leading call center company is investing in accent neutralisation AI, so that Ranjid from India on the phone sounds like standard English in real time.

TP partners with Sanas to accelerate AI and reinvent CX | TP

TP invests in Sanas to enhance AI-driven speech understanding, improving customer experience through high-tech, high-touch solutions.

www.tp.com

 

[Free]

Behold, the age of the AI agent is upon us. Look upon it, and despair.

Analysts Warn That If AI Agents Succeed, the "Internet Will Go Dark"

Personal AI assistants are slated to take over this year — and if they do, the internet as we know it may not exist any longer.

futurism.com

In the logic of the machine learning gold rush, the next breakthrough offering in the industry will be "AI agents" — personal assistants, basically, that can use apps and computers to do tasks on your behalf.

If that actually happens — a serious "if," but not a completely far-fetched possibility, as early efforts have already started to hit the market — there a major side effect: it'll totally change the ecosystem of information online if it's mainly being consumed by neural nets instead of humans.

As Business Insider reports, financial analysts are warning that if the use of AI agents becomes widespread, there will be sweeping knock-on effects throughout the economy.

 

[Free]

Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI

Microsoft modified a lawsuit to name four people who allegedly jailbroke its AI tools to for abuses like deepfaked celebrity porn.

futurism.com

Microsoft just modified a lawsuit to name four multinational developers who allegedly bypassed safety guardrails and abused Microsoft's AI tools to generate deepfaked celebrity porn and other harmful content.

The tech giant announced the update in a blog post yesterday, saying that all four developers are members of Storm-2139, a cybercrime network. Being alleged cybercriminals, the named defendants go by nicknames that sound straight out of an early-2000s hacker flick: there's Arian Yadegarnia aka "Fiz" of Iran; Alan Krysiak aka "Drago" of the United Kingdom; Ricky Yuen aka "cg-dot" of Hong Kong; and Phát Phùng Tấn aka "Asakuri" of Vietnam.

"We are pursuing this legal action now against identified defendants," Microsoft declared in the post, "to stop their conduct, to continue to dismantle their illicit operation, and to deter others intent on weaponizing our AI technology."

Good luck with that.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’

 

[Dancien]

So far, I've only found two positive (for me at least) uses for AI.
1: I no longer have to play keyword scavenger hunt for google searches.
2: It is really helpful for neurospicy people to communicate with non-neurospicy people. I can type up and email, highlight it and say "Make this sound nice" and then it does it.