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27 September 2023
How to stop AI deepfakes from sinking society — and science
Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm.
This June, in the political battle leading up to the 2024 US presidential primaries, a series of images were released showing Donald Trump embracing one of his former medical advisers, Anthony Fauci. In a few of the shots, Trump is captured awkwardly kissing the face of Fauci, a health official reviled by some US conservatives for promoting masking and vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deepfake images and videos, made by text-to-image generators powered by ‘deep learning’ AI, are now rife. Although fraudsters have long used deception to make a profit, sway opinions or start a war, the speed and ease with which huge volumes of viscerally convincing fakes can now be created and spread — paired with a lack of public awareness — is a growing threat. “People are not used to generative technology. It’s not like it evolved gradually; it was like ‘boom’, all of a sudden it’s here. So, you don’t have that level of scepticism that you would need,” says Cynthia Rudin, an AI computer scientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Dozens of systems are now available for unsophisticated users to generate almost any content for any purpose, whether that’s creating deepfake Tom Cruise videos on Tik Tok for entertainment; bringing back the likeness of a school-shooting victim to create a video advocating gun regulation; or faking a call for help from a loved one to scam victims out of tens of thousands of dollars. Deepfake videos can be generated in real time on a live video call. Earlier this year, Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve, had a video conversation with someone he thought was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but wasn’t.
More at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02990-y
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World’s first humanoid robot factory set to open this year
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-first-humanoid-ro
bot-factory-set-to-open-this-year
From Brain Implants to Recovery of Walking after Paralysis and AI Chips for 5 Trillion Parameter LLMs
https://rushingrobotics.com/p/weekly-piece-of-future-35
"Celestial" - An AI-Generated journey through the structures of the Universe
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What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight.
Maybe AI that aims to seem human is best understood as a tribute act. A tribute to human neediness, caprice, bitterness, love, all the stuff we mortals do best. All that stuff at which machines typically draw a blank. But humans have a dread fear of nonhumans passing as the real thing — replicants, lizard people, robots with skin. An entity that feigns human emotions is arguably a worse object of affection than a cold, computational device that doesn’t emote at all.
When I got home, stuck in an uncanny valley scored with Smiths Muzak, there was an email from Andrew Goff, widely considered the greatest Diplomacy player of all time.
This lifted my spirits. Diplomacy, a 69-year-old American strategy game, is, by many estimates, the most human game ever imagined. Mechanically, it’s simple: Seven players compete to control supply centers on a map, and a player wins by controlling more than half of these centers. But it’s played almost entirely in a series of conversations, often complex and impassioned ones. Agony and ecstasy — Moz-like agony and ecstasy, no less — commonly enter the negotiations. In the live game, players are known to yell, end friendships, throw the game, or simply sit by themselves and sob.
With his various punk haircuts and black plugs in his earlobes, Goff is a Smiths fan, and he even looks a bit like the band’s late bassist, Andy Rourke. To my amazement, Goff once named a Diplomacy board “Girlfriend in a Coma.” Forever crisscrossing the world for tournaments and his corporate job, Goff comes across as more gregarious than most elite players of board games.
Goff is also known for a brilliantly subversive, kill-’em-with-kindness style of gameplay. As Siobhan Nolen, the former president of the North American Diplomacy Federation, put it, “It hurts less to lose against somebody like Andrew.” In Diplomacy, players are sometimes forced to choose which attacks on their territory to repel and which to surrender to. Players often let Goff roll his forces in because they know that he, unlike many others, won’t be a dick about it.
There are excellent Diplomacy players who rage and issue threats, hollow and otherwise: “If you backstab me, I will throw the game.” Goff is not one of these. Even his breakup notes are masterpieces of directness and decency. “Apologies, Turkey! I decided it was in my best interest to work with Russia now. I hope there are no hard feelings.” In his congeniality is also empathy. “I genuinely feel bad for players when they get beaten, even if it is me beating them,” Goff told me. I believed him.
The email was about Cicero, a Diplomacy-playing AI that Goff helped create for Meta AI. Last fall, Cicero managed to best Goff in several games, sometimes partnering with weaker players to bring him down. Noam Brown and Adam Lerer, who were part of the immense team of experts in game theory, natural language processing, and Diplomacy that created the AI, both say that Cicero is the most humanlike AI they’ve ever created. Lerer, who now works at DeepMind, goes further: Cicero may be the most humanlike AI on earth.
Could Cicero even be conscious? “A threshold for determining AI consciousness is whether the program is capable of outwitting humans at Diplomacy,” wrote Irish Diplomacy champion Conor Kostick in The Art of Correspondence in the Game of Diplomacy, in 2015.
More at https://www.wired.com/story/ai-diplomacy-robots/
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'Overwhelming consensus' on AI regulation - Musk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66804996
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What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight.
TRANSLATION: If the AI agrees with all of my beliefs and forces them on everyone else then it will be awesome.
No. We don't need a computer algorithm programmed with human biases baked into it making all of our diplomatic decisions for us.
This is a terrible idea no matter who is charged with making it a reality.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Annie Altman, OpenAI CEO’s Sister, Tweets About Sexual Abuse Suffered From “Brother” Sam Altman
https://thedeepdive.ca/annie-altman-openai-ceos-sister-tweets-about-se
xual-abuse-suffered-from-brother-sam-altman/
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https://pixlr.com/x/#generator
Create images from words with AI
https://www.bing.com/images/create
https://www.artguru.ai/
https://dream.ai/create
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/
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Firefly Season 2...
Write me a second season of firefly
ChatGPT
Certainly! Here's a fictional overview of what a second season of "Firefly" might look like:
Season 2 of Firefly: "Resurgence"
Episode 1: "New Beginnings" The crew of the Serenity takes on a new job on a prosperous Core planet, but things quickly go awry as they become embroiled in a conspiracy involving a powerful corporate syndicate.
Episode 2: "Shadows of the Past" A mysterious figure from Shepherd Book's past returns, putting the crew in danger and forcing Book to confront his history as an operative.
Episode 3: "The Lost Heir" The crew takes on a job to transport a young noble who claims to be the heir to a major planetary estate. Intrigue and danger await as they navigate the complex world of aristocratic politics.
Episode 4: "Outlaw Diplomacy" Serenity is hired to mediate a tense negotiation between two rival factions on the outer rim. Things go sideways when it's revealed the two groups are hiding a deadly secret.
Episode 5: "Bounty Hunt" A notorious bounty hunter comes after one of the crew members, leading to a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in the depths of space.
Episode 6: "The Reavers Return" The crew stumbles upon a Reaver-infested region of space, and they must devise a daring plan to escape without drawing the Reavers' attention.
Episode 7: "Family Ties" River's past resurfaces as the crew encounters a group of escaped experiment subjects who share her abilities.
Episode 8: "Unification War Revisited" Mal and Zoe revisit their roles in the Unification War when a war criminal from the past resurfaces, forcing them to confront their wartime actions.
Episode 9: "Alliance Secrets" A mysterious Alliance operative arrives, seeking information about River's abilities, and the crew must protect her at all costs.
Episode 10: "The Ghost Ship" The crew investigates a derelict spaceship with a dark past, leading to a chilling encounter with the supernatural.
Episode 11: "Betrayals and Redemption" In a high-stakes heist, the crew faces betrayals from unexpected sources, and they must navigate a web of deceit to survive.
Episode 12: "The Ultimate Showdown" The crew's past actions catch up with them, and they must face their greatest challenge yet, culminating in an epic showdown with a powerful adversary.
Episode 13: "Epilogue" In the season finale, the crew reflects on their journey and the bonds that hold them together as they prepare for new adventures in the 'Verse.
Remember, this is a purely fictional scenario, and "Firefly" was unfortunately canceled after its first season.
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AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
Scientists have created a neural network with the human-like ability to make generalizations about language. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06668-3 The artificial intelligence (AI) system performs about as well as humans at folding newly learned words into an existing vocabulary and using them in fresh contexts, which is a key aspect of human cognition known as systematic generalization. The researchers gave the same task to the AI model that underlies the chatbot ChatGPT, and found that it performs much worse on such a test than either the new neural net or people, despite the chatbot’s uncanny ability to converse in a human-like manner.
The work, published on 25 October in Nature, could lead to machines that interact with people more naturally than do even the best AI systems today. Although systems based on large language models, such as ChatGPT, are adept at conversation in many contexts, they display glaring gaps and inconsistencies in others. The neural network’s human-like performance suggests there has been a “breakthrough in the ability to train networks to be systematic”, says Paul Smolensky, a cognitive scientist who specializes in language at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03272-3
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OpenAI and the Biggest Threat in the History of Humanity
We don’t know how to contain or align a FOOMing AGI
Tomas Pueyo | Nov 21, 2023
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/openai-and-the-biggest-t
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