AI chronicles
Where I try to capture insights about the ongoing artificial intelligence story, its pros, cons, and challenges.
by Daniel Santos · updated 1d ago
AI chronicles
- We were accustomed, in the age of photoshop, to false negatives, fakes perceived as real.
Duped only by skilled technicians, our base assumption was that most images on average were real, in the age of AI-generation, that assumption no longer holds.
EVERYTHING IS DEFAULT FAKE NOWfrom Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
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- What happens to our trust in media when our capacity to generate it artificially improves to the point where we can produce indistinguishable fakes?
This creates a wave of "Skepticism," leading to what I term "False Positive Reality." In this state, our pervasive skepticism makes us doubt even the real labeling it as artificial, simulated, fake—real... See morefrom Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
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- What happens to our trust in media when our capacity to generate it artificially improves to the point where we can produce indistinguishable fakes?
from Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
Daniel Santos added 1d ago
I guess I’m a little more LLM-skeptical than your average geek, but I read the list of features and thought: Would this sort of thing accelerate my mobile-device-upgrade latency, which at the moment is around three years? Um, no. Anyone’s? Still dubious.
Quite possibly I’m wrong. Maybe there’ll be a wave of influencers raving about how AI/GG improve
... See morefrom LLMM by ongoing by Tim Bray
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LLMs são mesmo necessários? E mesmo que sejam, seriam o selling point pra fazer alguém trocar de dispositivo?
- But what really blows my noodle is how rare AI skepticism still is in the media. One year ago, ChatGPT was opened to the public. The onslaught of overheated and careless rhetoric about our imminent ascent to a new plane of existence (or our imminent extermination) began then and has not slowed since. It’s inherent to the financial interests of jour... See more
from Where Are the AI Skepticism Stories? by Freddie deBoer
Daniel Santos added 1d ago
in many ways, we do not need super-powerful AIs for the transformation of work. We already have more capabilities inherent in today’s Gen2/GPT-4 class systems than we have fully absorbed. Even if AI development stopped today, we would have years of change ahead of us integrating these systems into our world.
from The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence by Ethan Mollick
Daniel Santos added 1d ago
IAs generativas são ótimas para tirar dúvidas triviais, algo que se tornou inviável no Google, onde crescemos fazendo esse tipo de pesquisa, pelos incentivos do próprio Google para a infestação de sites de baixa qualidade — o proverbial tiro no próprio pé.
from O Egoísmo Na Inteligência Artificial by Rodrigo Ghedin
Daniel Santos added 2d ago
As inteligências artificiais se mostram alternativas melhores aos sites de busca como o Google, porque este tem levado cada vez mais a conteúdo duvidoso e de baixa qualidade. Mas com os modelos de linguagem se alimentando destes mesmos sites de gosto e veracidade duvidosos, não será apenas questão de tempo até que os resultados de IA também sejam vítimas de enshitification?
- Corresponding to the price of authenticity, the tech-vex can also exact a price on human dignity. It begs the question, to what extent does machine-mediated living gratify, ennoble? Can it replace the sense of fulfilment that people feel when they attain a skill or achieve an insight? Can a work put together by artificial intelligence match the elo... See more
from Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays by Kirk Schneider
Daniel Santos added 5d ago
- Is an online relationship as honest, open and palpable as a face-to-face relationship? Does the absence of taste, touch, smell – or blood, sweat and tears for that matter – make a difference in the quality of what is experienced? Is immersion in a video game or chat room the same as playing a game on a wet grassy field, or congregating with an in-p... See more
from Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays by Kirk Schneider
Daniel Santos added 5d ago