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

[Free]

They're still not bloody AI.

Obviously.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Speaking of deceptive AI marketing, it might (not) surprise you to learn that the first big tech company to arguably attempt to fake having created AI was...Microsoft.

Srsly. Interesting story!

 

[Free]

Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news

Most-downloaded local news app adds disclaimer that it's not always "error-free."

arstechnica.com

After the most downloaded local news app in the US, NewsBreak, shared an AI-generated story about a fake New Jersey shooting last Christmas Eve, New Jersey police had to post a statement online to reassure troubled citizens that the story was "entirely false," Reuters reported.

"Nothing even similar to this story occurred on or around Christmas, or even in recent memory for the area they described," the cops' Facebook post said. "It seems this 'news' outlet's AI writes fiction they have no problem publishing to readers."

It took NewsBreak—which attracts over 50 million monthly users—four days to remove the fake shooting story, and it apparently wasn't an isolated incident. According to Reuters, NewsBreak's AI tool, which scrapes the web and helps rewrite local news stories, has been used to publish at least 40 misleading or erroneous stories since 2021.

These misleading AI news stories have caused real harm in communities, seven former NewsBreak employees, speaking anonymously due to confidentiality agreements, told Reuters.

 

[Noodles]

On a certain level I think even its most hardcore stans realize this which is why sooooo much of the messaging and advertising around "AI" products is based on just outright deception. Faked demos of fake products and it's okay because it's totally gonna be able to do that for real by this time next year, trust me bro.

Worked sooooo well for NFTs and Crypto and Metaverse.

These dumbasses can only cry wolf so many times before everyone stops caring about their hype cycle bull shit. Which is sad because at some point, there will be a real wolf.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

OpenAI has a plan on how to get tons of dirt cheap energy needed for their rumored $100 bn AI super computer named Stargate of their dreams, which would need 5 gigawatts of power: they want to buy not-yet-possible and therefore not yet available nuclear fusion generators by Helion.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has also a $375 mn. stake in Helion. Therefore he recused himself from the negotiations.

Stargate has 2028 as completion date, the same year in which Microsoft is supposed to start getting power from Helion as well.

OpenAI plans power deal with Altman's nuclear fusion startup

Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest

www.theregister.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Do you remember that GPT-4 was hailed as being able to gain 90% in the American bar exam?

Well, somebody tried to verify that, and this is the result:

data from a recent July administration of the same exam suggests GPT-4’s overall UBE percentile was below the 69th percentile, and ~48th percentile on essays.​

​

What happened? Well, OpenAI only let GPT4 compete against people who already failed the exam one time. So in either words it was rigged and they cheated that way.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-024-09396-9

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I do belive that with recent advancements that there is a strong possibility that we will have viable commercial fusion reactors in the foreseeable future. But there is no conceivable way that it will be powering anything as soon as 2028.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I do belive that with recent advancements that there is a strong possibility that we will have viable commercial fusion reactors in the foreseeable future. But there is no conceivable way that it will be powering anything as soon as 2028.

Helion's been making steady progress and their system is pretty brilliant, at least on paper. There's no conversion of heat to steam -- they surround the fusion chamber with coils of copper and the pulse (electromagnetic?) from the fusion directly creates electricity in the coils. Since they're my hometown fusion team (HQ is in Everett, WA) I'm rooting for them.

At Helion, our focus from the beginning has been to create systems that very efficiently put electricity into fusion, recover any unused electricity, and use fusion processes that can efficiently extract created fusion energy directly as electricity. This results in fusion generators that are smaller, lower cost, faster to build, and more reliable.

Our earliest machines demonstrated that we could take electricity stored in capacitors, convert it to magnetic fields, and then recover it back out as electricity at as high as over 95% efficiency (without plasma present). We have continued to operate and build systems that demonstrate similarly high efficiencies at large scale and for long durations.

Helion’s approach to fusion also utilizes pulsed high-Beta fusion plasmas which should have the ability to very efficiently recover electrical energy put into the plasma (and any new energy created from fusion in charged particles) back to those same capacitors. To date, we have not released results overviewing our energy recovery with plasmas present.

Helion | FAQ

Answers to FAQs like: What is different about Helion's approach to fusion? How will Helion generate electricity? How much will fusion cost?

www.helionenergy.com

Of course, Everett is also where they built the Titan "submersible" and lots of Boeing planes, so ...........................

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

AI is imitating the dead and dying, raising new questions about grieving

Several companies have emerged in the last few years to develop grief-related technology, where users can interact with a version of the deceased made with artificial intelligence.

apnews.com

Crank the creepiness factor to eleven!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

This is one of the first applications of human simulation torment nexus technology in Science Fiction.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

That was also the originally intended use of the Replika app according to its founder, before the users resoundingly decided that it was a sext-bot actually.

 

[Noodles]

That was also the originally intended use of the Replika app according to its founder, before the users resoundingly decided that it was a sext-bot actually.

People do be horny.

 

[Free]

Good to see Google is still working on this...

Google still recommends glue for your pizza

Google bombing is back, but now with AI.

www.theverge.com

 

[Noodles]

It's an easy problem to solve.

if 'glue' in aiResponse and 'pizza' in aiResponse:
print('I can't do that Dave...')
else:
print(aiResponse)

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Sure, but then that's admitting that your AI isn't actually an AI, it's just a dumb program following a list of instructions.

 

[Noodles]

Sure, but then that's admitting that your AI isn't actually an AI, it's just a dumb program following a list of instructions.

Wait, AI is not just a long list of And-If statements?! WTF does AI even stand for if not And-If?

 

[Free]

Wait, AI is not just a long list of And-If statements?! WTF does AI even stand for if not And-If?

 

[Free]

It was bound to happen.

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested

Elaborate scheme involved hidden camera and an earpiece to hear answers.

arstechnica.com

 

[Free]

Starting off efforts for Skynet to take over...by campaigning for it first.

Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to govern by AI bot

VIC, the bot, will make decisions for the "meat puppet" who shows up at meetings.

arstechnica.com

Victor Miller is running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an unusual campaign promise: If elected, he will not be calling the shots—an AI bot will. VIC, the Virtual Integrated Citizen, is a ChatGPT-based chatbot that Miller created. And Miller says the bot has better ideas—and a better grasp of the law—than many people currently serving in government.

“I realized that this entity is way smarter than me, and more importantly, way better than some of the outward-facing public servants I see,” he says. According to Miller, VIC will make the decisions, and Miller will be its “meat puppet,” attending meetings, signing documents, and otherwise doing the corporeal job of running the city.

True genius. But there's a catch.

But whether VIC—and Victor—will be allowed to run at all is still an open question.

Because it’s not legal for a bot to run for office, Miller says he is technically the one on the ballot, at least on the candidate paperwork filed with the state.

When Miller went to register his candidacy at the county clerk’s office, he says, he “wanted to use Vic without my last name. And so I had read the statute, so it merely said that you have to print what you are generally referred to as. So you know, most people call me Vic. My name is Victor Miller. So on the ballot Vic is short for Victor Miller, the human.”

Also turns out he didn't ask OpenAI for permission to use ChatGPT in this way, and they have problems with it. What a genius.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The upcoming G7 summit will be graced with the presence of the pope. It's been 50 years since the last pope attended that meeting.

87 year old Pope Francis will attend as an AI advisor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/14/pope-francis-g7-ai/