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Michaels, 79, told Vanity Fair in an interview published Wednesday that he was initially “very skeptical” of the proposal from NBCUniversal executives — until he heard the AI-generated version of his speaking voice, which is capable of greeting viewers by name.

Was this a phone interview, by any chance?

AbouBenAdhem ,

I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.

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While the labels give retailers the ability to increase prices suddenly, Gallino doubts companies like Walmart will take advantage of the technology in that way. “To be honest, I don’t think that’s the underlying main driver of this,” Gallino said. “These are companies that tend to have a long-term relationship with their customers and I think the risk of frustrating them could be too risky, so I would be surprised if they try to do that.”

How to tell if an academic doesn’t get out enough.

AbouBenAdhem ,

An organoid is not a single cell—each one can have thousands of neurons, depending on the size.

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Can it do backpropagation?

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

Here’s a video that starts with a good general overview of brain organoids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Pg56WWm5U

Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction....So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...

AbouBenAdhem ,

this data is not the world, but discourse about the world

To be fair, the things most people talk about are things they’ve read or heard of, not their own direct personal experiences. We’ve all been putting our faith in the accuracy of this “discourse about the world”, long before LLMs came along.

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

TLDR: The purpose and capabilities of the satellites are unknown, but they’re being deployed suspiciously close to US surveillance satellites.

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Some of them pass within “a few dozen kilometers”, while others are at “a large distance” but are in orbits that could be quickly changed to put them closer.

AbouBenAdhem ,

It’s an open-and-shut case and everyone saw it coming.

And yet whoever’s doing this evidently doesn’t expect to succeed via legal means.

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

This subthread switched specifically to the topic of their pending lawsuits

Because Internet Archive implied a potential connection to the DDoS attack. And given the large-institution scale of the attack and the lack of motivation for any other actors on that scale, it seems like the most plausible explanation.

Edit: And I’m not sure where you’re trying to go with this whole subthread—you tried to narrow the topic exclusively to the legal case by arguing that the case is unrelated to the DDoS attack, while at the same time pointing to the lawsuit to imply that IA had it coming.

AbouBenAdhem ,

Does it need to be accessible via API (e.g. SQL) or just a spreadsheet-style web interface?

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Someone with their own proprietary large dataset trying to eliminate non-proprietary alternatives?

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Existing AI companies got their data long ago—but it’s in their interest to create barriers for entry to new AI companies.

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In an interview with the Journal, Neuralink's first patient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, opened up about the roller-coaster experience. "I was on such a high and then to be brought down that low. It was very, very hard," Arbaugh said. "I cried." He initially asked if Neuralink would perform another surgery to fix or replace the implant, but the company declined, telling him it wanted to wait for more information.

Neuralink isn’t just treating humans like guinea pigs, they’re treating them like disposable guinea pigs.

AbouBenAdhem ,

None of that concerns Neuralink’s treatment of him—just his process of learning to live with it.

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

My criticism of Neuralink’s response has nothing to do with whether or not the first patient was treated unfairly. It’s that it reveals Neuralink’s priorities: they had a choice going forward of trying to fix the first patient’s implant or giving up and starting over with a fresh patient, and they chose the latter.

In animal testing, that decision would depend on how valuable the guinea pigs are.

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

The ChatGPT case aside, what are the copyright laws on impersonating the voice of an actor portraying a particular film character? If someone imitates the voice of Johnny Depp playing Jack Sparrow, or Andy Serkis playing Gollum, but makes no reference to the character apart from the voice performance, does that infringe on the copyright to the character?

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

“Anastasia Nyrkovskaya’s Fortune Media Group quietly adds CEOs’ names to news headlines.”

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Seems like it would only work for objects with large, flat bottoms—if you tried to use it barefoot it would likely rip your toes off.

AbouBenAdhem ,

That was just an example—it might also be a problem for shoes with heels, or textured soles, or people with feet too small to cover enough disks at once.

AbouBenAdhem ,

Yeah—the harness they had Marques wear was probably in part to make sure he didn’t fall over and touch his clothes or hands to the disks.

AbouBenAdhem ,

You can use any port for SSH—or you can use something like Cockpit with a browser-based terminal instead of SSH.

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

Whatever confusion the metaphor may have caused in the minds of the public, I don’t think the solution is to ask neuroscientists to deliberately misrepresent their research—or to impose on themselves metaphorical language aimed at influencing policy rather than aiding scientific understanding.

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    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    If you didn’t map a local config file into the container, it’s using the default version inside the container at /app/public/conf.yml (and any changes will get overwritten when you rebuild the container). If you want to make changes to the configuration for the widget, you’ll want to use the -v option with a local config file so the changes you make will persist.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    "Magic” is just technology that's sufficiently advanced hasn’t yet been commercially exploited.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    Did you read the article? His argument seems to be that AI content will ultimately destroy the toxic social media platforms that attempt to leverage it.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    It’s true—for a very exclusive interpretation of “we”.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    Seems to me like a reasonable criterion would be to determine if the trained model outputs copyright-infringing text in response to non-infringing prompts.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    States don’t concede wars because of equipment losses—they concede when the cost in lives becomes an existential threat to the ruling regimes. Drones fighting drones means nothing to governments unless there are human lives at stake when the drones break through.

    What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia?

    Wikifunctions is a new site that has been added to the list of sites operated by WMF. I definitely see uses for it in automating updates on Wikipedia and bots (and also for programmers to reference), but their goal is to translate Wikipedia articles to more languages by writing them in code that has a lot of linguistic...

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    I assume the main benefit will be for users of less-spoken languages, who currently get out-of date articles or none at all.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    Apple will take what it learned from the car project and apply it to other devices like AI-powered AirPods with cameras, robot assistants, and augmented reality.

    At first I parsed that to mean the AirPods would include robot assistants, and I was picturing people with autonomous robotic arms protruding from their ears.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    I think the more relevant characteristic isn’t that they’re Apple users, it’s that they have $3,500 to spend on something they don’t understand. That much disposable income tends to promote short attention spans and little patience.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    I assume they mean threat actors besides Microsoft and OpenAI?

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    I can understand why some viewers would have a negative reaction: it’s like listening to an overexcited sports commentator paraphrase the paper’s abstract and speculate about its impact, without really trying to explain the content. The value for those who follow the channel would presumably come from its discrimination in selecting significant papers and accuracy in summarizing them, but that’s not apparent to a first-time viewer.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    We are going to generate content at a volume orders of magnitude larger than our already current excessive volume, and finding the stuff that has real meaning and a real message is going to be even harder.

    It could go both ways: similar software could “compress” video (especially AI-generated video) into text prompts that could then re-create it without needing to store it. (Currently, of course, the processing cost would be higher than the storage cost for the raw video—but the scenario in which we’re cranking out excessive amounts of AI-generated content implies that the high processing costs have been eliminated.) That would also have the side effect of making it easier to find and organize videos based on their “meaning”.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    It’s got nothing to do with Mastodon—it’s the domain name system. If DNS doesn’t direct the request to the intended server, the server never sees it.

    The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)

    The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    Rather that using a hash of the video data, you could just include within the video the timestamp of when it was originally posted, encrypted with the White House’s private key.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    Depending on the implementation, there are two cryptographic functions that might be used (perhaps in conjunction):

    • Cryptographic hash: An arbitrary amount of data (like a video file) is used to create a “hash”—a shorter, (effectively) unique text string. Anyone can run the file through the same function to see if it produces the same hash; if even a single bit of the file is changed, the hash will be completely different and you’ll know the data was altered.

    • Public key cryptography: A pair of keys are created, one of which can only encrypt data (but can’t decrypt its own output), and the other, “public” key can only decrypt data that was encrypted by the first key. Users (like the White House) can post their public key on their website; then if a subsequent message purporting to come from that user can be decrypted using their public key, it proves it came from them.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    Finding one that is coherent is extraordinarily difficult.

    You’d need to find one that was not just coherent, but that looked convincing and differed in a way that was useful to you—and that likely wouldn’t be guaranteed, even theoretically.

    AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

    It does if you can also verify the date of the file, because the modified file will be newer than the timestamp. An immutable record of when the file was first posted (on, say, YouTube) lets you verify which version is the source.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    Sounds like an article a toothbrush-botnet-hosted AI would generate.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    So it’s still ok if a human impersonator does it? Why couldn’t they just ban all ads attributing false quotes to candidates?

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    Well, the Spartans were pederasts...

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    I can see the argument for having a connector that can’t be pulled out: if you were crossing a busy street or walking down a stairway with one of these strapped to your head and the cable came out, you’d be instantly blind.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    https://youtu.be/UvkgmyfMPks?si=dfGF9Zw5u0e3gZXR

    Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables (www.theverge.com)

    Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables::The Vision Pro’s battery connector is removable once you press the eject button, and it uses a 12-pin connector that looks like a wider version of a Lightning cable.

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    Is it just for power, or does it double as some kind of data cable?

    How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced?

    Am I not understanding FOSH (free and open source hardware)? I have always dreamed of open source hardware but it has always seemed unshakeably and fundamentally reliant on for instance massive open pit mines mining all over the world in finite dwindling supply wrecking local ecosystems every element necessary for computer...

    AbouBenAdhem ,

    You might be interested in the Open Source Ecology project:

    https://www.opensourceecology.org/about-overview/

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