https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/openai-chatgpt-training-kenya-traumatic.html
The Horrific Content a Kenyan Worker Had to See While Training ChatGPT

The bot that can write anything for you has already taken a human toll.

Humans, even children and infants, know when something doesn't "feel right", and thus possess an innate sense of morality.

AI makes for the perfect psychopath.

 

Humans, even children and infants, know when something doesn't "feel right", and thus possess an innate sense of morality.

AI makes for the perfect psychopath.

Humans (and their flawed behavior) are the product of hundreds of millions of years of natural evolution ... AI is the product of a few decades of artificial programming practices ... I also expect the worst from it

yeah, I know that the term "artificial programming" is an oxymoron ... I'm just trying to emphasize my point

 

Food for thought.
If ChatGPT is so good there will be no need for AAC.

 

Food for thought.
If ChatGPT is so good there will be no need for AAC.

I doubt that ... but, OTH, think that ChatGPT is going to revolutionize customer service ... or at least make it the hell of a lot more efficient. Maybe it will also impact other areas, but I cannot predict what they will be ... medical diagnosis, possibly?

 

I doubt that ... but, OTH, think that ChatGPT is going to revolutionize customer service ... or at least make it the hell of a lot more efficient. Maybe it will also impact other areas, but I cannot predict what they will be ... medical diagnosis, possibly?

Like any technology, it will both be used in amazingly useful and beneficial ways, and abused (both maliciously and inadvertently) in very damaging ways.

 

New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI

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To find a new antibiotic, the researchers first had to train the AI. They took thousands of drugs where the precise chemical structure was known, and manually tested them on Acinetobacter baumannii to see which could slow it down or kill it.

 

If ChatGPT is so good there will be no need for AAC

.... or for lawyers, teachers, medical consultants, ......

 

http://yann.lecun.com/

VP and Chief AI Scientist, Facebook
Silver Professor of Computer Science, Data Science, Neural Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University.
ACM Turing Award Laureate, (sounds like I'm bragging, but a condition of accepting the award is to write this next to you name)
Member, National Academy of Engineering

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654125161300520967

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1663616081582252032

https://theconversation.com/if-were...we-need-to-clarify-how-it-could-happen-206738
If we’re going to label AI an ‘extinction risk’, we need to clarify how it could happen

 

Just a datapoint...

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Eating disorder helpline shuts down AI chatbot that gave bad advice​

The saga began earlier this year when the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) announced it was shutting down its human-run helpline and replacing workers with a chatbot called "Tessa." That decision came after helpline employees voted to unionize.

 

Eating disorder helpline shuts down AI chatbot that gave bad advice​

Never ceases to amaze. From Day 1 people, including the very people that are developing the technologies, have been loudly warning how these generative AIs regularly produce inaccurate information. But, not surprisingly, everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and proceeds from the assumption that THEIR use of the technology will be all wonderful, only to be shocked when it "comes to their attention" that it behaved exactly as predicted and then promise to "investigate completely."

 

It would be a boon for customer service call centers IF they could make it work. The company my son works for has developed a sort of "Super Macro" business system that helps streamline business applications. A sorta quasi-AI and the company is doing very well with it. Never can remember the name of that company...

 

It would be a boon for customer service call centers IF they could make it work.

The local Spectrum cable company uses a bot of some kind. when you get p!$$ed off enough to ask to talk to a real person it transfers you to a new site, where they want a credit card to charge you for answers about THEIR cable system.

 

Warning! Do NOT impede an AI on a mission!
An AI-powered drone tried to attack its human operator in a US military simulation (msn.com)

 

Honestly, I wonder how much of this event is true ... it sounds too SciFi to be an impartial account of events:

US military AI drone simulation kills operator before being told it is bad, then takes out control tower


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The AI system learned that its mission was to destroy SAM, and it was the preferred option. But when a human issued a no-go order, the AI decided it went against the higher mission of destroying the SAM, so it attacked the operator in simulation.

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Warning! Do NOT impede an AI on a mission!
An AI-powered drone tried to attack its human operator in a US military simulation (msn.com)

I find Al and humanoid robots rather freaky.
So how long until we see a Terminator?

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/openai-is-pursuing-a-new-way-to-fight-ai-hallucinations.html
OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight A.I. ‘hallucinations’

Some independent experts expressed skepticism about how effective the proposed methods will be.

Ben Winters, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center and leader of its AI and human rights project, expressed skepticism, telling CNBC he would like to examine the full dataset and accompanying examples.

“I just don’t think that this alone does any significant mitigation of concerns about misinformation and incorrect results … when it’s actually being used in the wild,” Winters said. He added, “It definitely matters whether they plan on implementing whatever they have found through their research here [into their products], and if they’re not, that does bring some fairly serious questions about what they are willing to release into the public.”
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Venkatasubramanian added, “Some of the hallucinatory stuff that people have been concerned about is [models] making up citations and references. There is no evidence in this paper that this would work for that. … It’s not that I’m saying it won’t work; I’m saying that this paper does not provide that evidence.”

 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trans...pledge-warning-they-make-stuff-up-2023-05-31/
US judge orders lawyers to sign AI pledge, warning chatbots 'make stuff up'

https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judge/judge-brantley-starr

All attorneys and pro se litigants appearing before the Court must, together with their notice of appearance, file on the docket a certificate attesting either that no portion of any filing will be drafted by generative artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT, Harvey.AI, or Google Bard) or that any language drafted by generative artificial intelligence will be checked for accuracy, using print reporters or traditional legal databases, by a human being. These platforms are incredibly powerful and have many uses in the law: form divorces, discovery requests, suggested errors in documents, anticipated questions at oral argument. But legal briefing is not one of them. Here’s why. These platforms in their current states are prone to hallucinations and bias. On hallucinations, they make stuff up—even quotes and citations. Another issue is reliability or bias. While attorneys swear an oath to set aside their personal prejudices, biases, and beliefs to faithfully uphold the law and represent their clients, generative artificial intelligence is the product of programming devised by humans who did not have to swear such an oath. As such, these systems hold no allegiance to any client, the rule of law, or the laws and Constitution of the United States (or, as addressed above, the truth). Unbound by any sense of duty, honor, or justice, such programs act according to computer code rather than conviction, based on programming rather than principle. Any party believing a platform has the requisite accuracy and reliability for legal briefing may move for leave and explain why. Accordingly, the Court will strike any filing from a party who fails to file a certificate on the docket attesting that they have read the Court’s judge-specific requirements and understand that they will be held responsible under Rule 11 for the contents of any filing that they sign and submit to the Court, regardless of whether generative artificial intelligence drafted any portion of that filing. A template Certificate Regarding Judge-Specific Requirements is provided here.

 

The traditional job of Proofreader may be making a comeback. Unfortunately, in today's electronic communications world, there has been too much reliance on spell checkers which have no ability to correct poor word usage. What is even worse is speech to text converters which are horrible for correct word usage and substitute "Phonetic" variations that are horribly incorrect usages.

 

There's grammar checking software out there that is not that bad. Or so I've been told ...