#a.i.

[charliejaneanders]

Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material. In human students, rote memorization isn’t an indicator of genuine learning, so ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from Web pages is precisely what makes us think that it has learned something. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.

Ted Chiang’s essay about ChatGPT is required reading

#quotes #artificial intelligence #a.i. #chatgpt #ted chiang #science fiction #computer science #algorithms

[animate-everything-everywhere]

#cyberpunk art #art #gif #aee #2d animation #abstract #motion design #digital art #design #graphic #animation #cybercore #cyberpunk #cyber aesthetic #futuristic #cyborg #hand #beckoning #a.i.

[lackadaisycats]

Not a question, just a small thank-you.

I knew nothing about Lackadaisy when I stumbled upon it on YouTube. I'm an aspiring artist, and had been going through a bad art block. I felt especially discouraged after hearing so many discussions about how A.I. was going to destroy art as a potential career. I know I shouldn't let such things bother me, but they were at the moment I clicked on the pilot.

I actually became emotional watching it. There was heart and soul in every frame, in every note of music and sound design. And I read the comments, also appreciating something made by people who obviously have passion for their craft. And I realized, art is not dead, and it never truly will be. It helped me remember why I loved making art so much.

Thank you for letting me ramble. Congratulations on all you've accomplished, I'm excited to see the future of this project.

And thanks for helping me rediscover a little of my spark.

How we go about making art has been in a constant state of flux since we've been making tools. Sometimes it's in lockstep congruity with technology. Sometimes new artforms spin off from that. Sometimes new ways of doing art emerge as a reaction to that, or in defiance of it. The impulse to create - to make art - is so fundamental to us as human beings, though, I really can't imagine a scenario in which we just...stop.

I don't mean to dismiss anyone's worries about diminished job opportunities, of course. That is a real and valid concern. I'd say technology itself is less the issue than the number-go-up, ALWAYS-BE-GOING-UP economic framework we live inside of that entertains no ethical qualms and benefits an increasingly narrow subset of people. But, one thing we can use art for is confronting and challenging those seemingly inescapable institutions, and helping to coalesce movements for change. Whenever possible, don't let bad things happening stop you from making art. Let it add jet fuel to your motivations for making art.

Anyway, pontificating aside, thank you so much. Your message was extremely touching to read, and that fills me with the desire to keep going too.

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #animation #art #A.I.

[satoshy12]

Virus/Bio-Android Danny

Danny, after a fight on a computer, was turned into a virus by Nicolai Technus. He was struck by the internet and was having more fun than he should have with it. He has to give Technus this; it was a very nice new weapon he used on him, so while he waited for Tucker and Sam to find a way to fix it, he traveled around on the Internet. + It didn't take Danny long to be taken into a communicator that seemed to be used by heroes. Tucker would be totally jealous of him meeting Heroes! Only a few heroes noticed Danny but didn't say anything. I thought he was just a program that wasn't fully finished by Batman. ++ While a virus? Danny's mind worked much faster, as he was able to learn new things much easier than a human. So if he cheated by dowloading the whole vocabulary and book into his mind for school, Who would be able to proof it? ++ But he got bored, and while it was fun to talk with heroes, he kind of wanted his body back. So Danny started to wait till his body; is fixed.

Well, Danny came out of the Zeta Beam; it was just like his old body! But not yet how it should be; his mind was still like the virus, but his body was back to a halfa.

With that, he just walked his way out of Mount Justice and back to Amity Park.

+++ Easier to explain Gamer Danny (Danny could go halfa in the doomed game, so it's like Danny has a video game body outside of the video game.) +++ Batman looked at the surveillance camera and just looked at the League. When did they plan to tell him about the AI that was inside their computer? and who covered it up. He wasn't angry; the A.I. had just a normal human body after all. But he kind of wants to know who created it and why.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dcau #dc x dp #dc #dp x dc #dp #dc comics #dp + dc #batman #Technus #Virus Danny #Android Danny #video Game body outside of game #Mount Justice #Justice League #A.I. #Gamer Danny #(Danny could go halfa in the doomed game #so it's like Danny has a video game body outside of the video game.)

[hkayakh]

Ok OSP isn’t on tumblr BUT in one of their videos Red talked about how before cellphones were invented, essentially no stories had anything close to a system of how a phone works. No people able to easily communicate with each other whenever, wherever, and forever. Nowadays we can have two people phone each other details about how to take down the baddie and even have it be a plot point when they can’t do that.

What I’m getting at is how I think something like that is going to happen with all his new A.I. stuff coming out. I’m talking about chat gpt, image and face emulators, voice A.I.’s.

So far the only thing I’ve seen close is how in the new movie Nimona which (spoiler):

the director says how that wasn’t her confessing to the murder of the queen but a fake, a clone or whatever

And that just barely comes close to the idea of A.I. framing someone

In the future, maybe 5 years I expect to see all sorts of stories that integrate the use of A.I. to fake people and drive forward the plot and storytelling.

#OSP #overly sarcastic productions #story #stories #nimona #A.I. #chat gpt #a.i. generated #voice a.i. #196 #r/196 #r196 #long #story rant #trope talk

[odinsblog]

These are demo videos made from prompts on OpenAI’s Sora. It’s similar to how you would prompt ChatGPT and get text or a still image output, but with Sora the output is video. (source)

I cynically believe that by November, Sora will have perfected its algorithm enough to make the upcoming 2024 election online ads … very interesting.

And even after the terrible job that Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (never calling it x) did in the 2016 elections and Brexit, they somehow still decided to cut back on their departments that could at least theoretically curtail attempts at political disinformation.

Anyway, be forewarned: Social media manipulation and disinformation campaigns are very real things. Don’t believe everything you see on social media. Slightly similar A.I. deepfake technologies already exist. (example) (example) (example) (example)

#politics #disinformation #openai #sora #deepfakes #artificial intelligence #tech #technology #misinformation #ai #a.i.

[spiritsdancinginthenight]

So many new "artworks" are popping up with the artist being "Emile Corsi" and claiming to be from the 19th century, but they are all A.I. pieces.

#emile corsi #A.I.

[gwydionmisha]

#Facebook #AI-Generated Images #A.I. #News

[mariluphoto]

Here is a website (by artist Jon Lam) listing articles, videos, and any info in regards to A.I.

Go check it out to catch up and stay informed! www.createdontscrape.com

#a.i. generated #a.i. #ai #art theft #ai art theft #say no to ai #create dont scrape #art #artist #comics #illustration #photography #visual artists #digital art #3d art #voice acting #videography #data #data laundering

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Okay, y'all, it's rant time again. Buckle up.

A new report just came out from Public Citizen highlighting the dangers of using apps and AI foraging guides for identifying mushrooms, particularly when mushroom foraging. It's the latest in a string of warnings that are fighting against a tide of purported convenience ("just take a picture and get your answer instantly!")

I've ranted about this since last August, and I also wrote up a detailed post on how to identify an AI-generated foraging guide. I'm also including info on the limitations of apps and AI in The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go. I'm not just saying this to toot my own horn--it's because nature identification, and teaching it to others, is literally what I do for a living. So this is a topic near and dear to my heart.

I teach a very, very specific sort of identification class; whether we're focusing on animals, plants, fungi, or all of the above, I walk people through a detailed process of how to observe a given organism, make note of its various physical traits and habitat, and use that information to try to determine what it is. I emphasize the need to use as many sources as possible--field guides, websites, online and in-person groups, journal articles, etc.--to make absolutely sure that your identification is solid.

And every year, I get people (thankfully, a very small minority of my students) who complain because my two-hour basic mushroom hunting class wasn't just five minutes of introduction and one hundred and fifteen minutes of me showing slide after slide of edible mushrooms. There are so many people out there who just want a quick, easy answer so they can frolic in the woods and blithely pick mushrooms like some idealized image of a cottagecore herbalist with a cabin full of dried plants and smiling frogs or something.

While I do incorporate a bit of information on getting started with the app iNaturalist in my classes, it is as only ONE of MANY tools I encourage people to use. Sure, it's more solid than most apps because, in addition to the algorithmic I.D. suggestions it initially gives you, other iNaturalist users can go onto your observations later and either agree with your I.D.s or suggest something different and even explain why.

And yet--even as great as iNat is, it and its users can still be wrong. So can every other I.D. app out there. And I think that is one thing that the hyper-romanticized approaches to foraging--and nature identification in general--miss. In order to be a good forager, you HAVE to also be good at nature identification.

And nature identification is an entire process that requires you to have solid observational and critical thinking skills, to be able to independently research using many different types of tools, and be willing to invest the time, patience, and focus to properly arrive at a solid identification--if not to species level, then as far down the taxonomic ladder as you can realistically manage. (There's a reason even the experts complain about Little Brown Mushrooms and Damned Yellow Composites!)

People mistake one single tool--apps--for the entire toolkit. They assume any book they find on Amazon is going to be as good as any other, and don't take the time to look up the author to determine any credentials or experience, or even whether they actually exist or not. It doesn't help that the creators of these products often advertise them as "the only [book/app/etc.] you need to easily identify [organism of choice]!"

I mean, sure, the world isn't going to end if you never question the birdsong results on the Merlin app, or if you go through life thinking a deer fern is just a baby western sword fern. But when we get into people actually eating things they find in the wild, there's often no room for error. There are plants and mushrooms that can kill you even if you only eat a tiny amount. And even if they don't kill you, they may make you wish you were dead for a few days while you suffer through a whole host of gastrointestinal nastiness and other symptoms.

There aren't any shortcuts if you want to be safe in your foraging. You HAVE to be willing to do the work. And any teacher, author, or product that says otherwise isn't being ethical. I'm glad to see more people speaking out against the "fast foodization" of foraging in regards to overreliance on apps and the existence of AI foraging books; I just hope it's enough to prevent more people from getting sick or dying.

#long post #foraging #mushroom foraging #mushroom hunting #A.I. #apps #nature #ecology #environment #conservation #cottagecore #herbalism #nature identification #critical thinking skills #critical thinking #media literacy #mushrooms #fungi #fungus #shrooms

[blueribbonbaby]

This is scary 😧

#this is scary #sag aftra #sag strike #a.i. #sag aftra strong #justine bateman #actors strike #fran drescher #actors #sag union #sag deal #wga strike #writers strike

[starfieldcanvas]

trying to sell the technocrats on unionization like

#gaming #rgb #a.i. #eat the rich #guillotine #this one is for mr. dove #dove.txt

[palatinewolfsblog]

Isn't it ironic?

There are people who say:

The time has come.

Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans.

And I ask myself:

Which Humans?

#thought of the day #thought of today #irony #ironic #people #our time #our world #the world today #time #modern times #intelligence #artificial intelligence #a.i. #progress #being smart #smartness #cleverness #insight #knowledge #perception #questions #questions of life #human #only human #mankind #homo sapiens #the measure of a man

[cinematicjourney]

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) | dir. Steven Spielberg

#a.i. #artificial intelligence #steven spielberg #haley joel osment #frances o'connor #jude law #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

[charliejaneanders]

Tech billionaires accept that sacrifices will have to be made — but they’ll be shouldered by the poorest and most marginalized people on our planet, not the wealthy and powerful.

Sam Altman's self-serving vision of the future

#tech #technology #politics #ai #a.i. #artificial intelligence #sam altman #ecology #climate change #inequality #i've been thinking about this piece all day and now you have to think about it too

[edwordsmyth]

Jean Baudrillard

#jean baudrillard #a.i.