[Cyclopath]

FTC should stop OpenAI from launching new GPT models, says AI policy group An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI for violating consumer protection rules, arguing that the organization’s rollout of AI text generation tools has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety.”

[NightOwl]

I learned long ago that in this society, technology is driven primarily by PR, and always seems to fall short and disappoint. And technologies that do change the world often make it worse. Does anyone think twitter, tiktok, etc. have improved anything? AI is part of that technology triumvirate, along with space travel and nuclear fusion, that have been hyped since the 1950s as world-revolutionizing tech just around the corner, but never seems to arrive. It might be interesting if it becomes something that demonstrates sovereign will and the properties of life, but for now its just dead data processing that is nothing without its programmers; I don't find it interesting at all or fear it in the slightest. But then I stopped watching movies and most media a long time ago, so their PR, fear-mongering and hype doesn't have much effect on me.

[Cyclopath]

[Cyclopath]

The newest version of ChatGPT passed the US medical licensing exam with flying colors — and diagnosed a 1 in 100,000 condition in seconds

[Jumble Jowls]

So I asked Bing's AI what the reasoning is behind some people's fear that AI could drive us to extinction. It came back with a few general theories, like AI could develop general human intelligence or superintelligence, and decide to eliminate us as getting in the way of its goals. It didn't say how a computer program could have goals, or much else. Very vague. Then I asked: "Are you intelligent enough to drive me to extinction?" I immediately told me that it did not want to continue with the conversation. If you have half a brain, Bingo, tell me your thoughts. I find this trend toward censorship very disturbing. Maybe this ongoing trend toward "correct speak" (or "non-speak") will make us all stupid asses -- which will drive us to extinction as thinking humans.

[Bootpathguy]

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[NightOwl]

Yeah, this idea that technology = progress is more of a religious article of faith than an empirical fact. Like every religion, techno-progressivism has a priesthood that is constantly propagandizing the rest of us in pursuit of power. But for every example of a way technology has improved something, I could give one showing that it has made things worse. It's a very silly religion. With ChatGPT, it sounds like it is basically just a statistical pattern-matcher working on large sets of data. Meaning it has zero actual understanding of the world. Real intelligence requires embodiment in the world, which ChatGPT doesn't have, as this article explains: It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don’t know what they’re saying

[Cyclopath]

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[NightOwl]

[Cyclopath]

[NightOwl]

[Cyclopath]

Cool story, bro.

[Slugman]

Just read this on the internet: “I wanted to go live in the woods. Then my phone informed me that my screen time last week averaged 7.4 hours per day.”