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

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Microsoft Copilot now has a visual character design, it's hard to say exactly what but it seems to be a little pillow or marshmallow with a face. The character emotes various expressions depending on what you're prompting it, but beyond that doesn't really have a point or purpose.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Microsoft Copilot now has a visual character design, it's hard to say exactly what but it seems to be a little pillow or marshmallow with a face. The character emotes various expressions depending on what you're prompting it, but beyond that doesn't really have a point or purpose.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Looks like a character from Oglaf.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/enhance-2

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

There's that but - man, this just really makes me miss Cortana even more. Cortana's little ring logo/icon would emote and move and spin around and shimmer and do other things as it answered or responded. Just as pointless of course, but it was cleverly expressive without needing a little anthropomorphic chibi-face. Microsoft always fires anyone with any creativity.

 

[Noodles]

Microsoft Copilot now has a visual character design, it's hard to say exactly what but it seems to be a little pillow or marshmallow with a face. The character emotes various expressions depending on what you're prompting it, but beyond that doesn't really have a point or purpose.

I can only imagine how many looks of disgust it makes before telling users their wuery is against the content guidelines.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.

arstechnica.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

In this video Rick Beato talks about AI generated songs and how they suck. I don't need him to tell me that because at least in his examples they would qualify as being in tune music with maybe passable lyrics but so boring. He lines out how simple it is to make songs this way and how spotify and youtube get flooded with this junk. There are other non AI related videos he has made that I am not thrilled with but this is a good one.

 

[Free]

Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.

futurism.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Chinese regulators have talked to Nvidia lately about where their AI chips have any kind of backdoor.

Calling out 'pundits and policymakers', NVIDIA says that it will never integrate kill switches into equipment that is the heart of modern-day computing, and says that it will be a gift to hackers and hostile actors, which will undermine the use of US technology in foreign markets.

NVIDIA Rejects the US Lawmakers' Plans to Integrate 'Kill Switches' Into AI Chips For Export to China; Says Its Deliberately Weakens Critical Infrastructure & Will Never Happen

NVIDIA has given its verdict on the recent talks of integrating kill switches into AI chips, saying that Team Green has not been interested.

wccftech.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.

futurism.com

Well it's quite handy that there is already a movie around since 1970 which shows how this might end up.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be?

 

[Free]

When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be?

Even the ones you think might have a few neurons more then most continue to prove they don't know what they're doing.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.

futurism.com

It's a bizarre situation. AIs have already been shown to exhibit numerous dark streaks, resorting to blackmailing human users at an astonishing rate when threatened with being shut down.

Sigh. All of the "astonishing blackmail" was simulated in one single study where Anthropic told the AI its only two options were doing blackmail or getting shut down. Nobody's real-life chatbots are blackmailing them.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Not only that, but it wasn't taking any action, it was writing a parody of what a likely exchange would be based on the literature it was sourcing from.

 

[Free]

What AI fears most: Litigation.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

arstechnica.com

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William Alsup, seemingly did not. Alsup allegedly failed to conduct a "rigorous analysis" of the potential class and instead based his judgment on his "50 years" of experience, Anthropic said.

If the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.

Maybe you should have worried about that sooner?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

 

[Free]

We may need schools to remain open for all 12 months to keep AI from having to get a summer job.

OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework

Data released by OpenAI shows a major drop-off in overall usage during weekends and the summer — when students aren't in class.

futurism.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Casey Pelous]

Helicopters do not fly. They are so ugly, the ground repels them.

This applies metaphorically to these LLM's.