#artificial intelligence and machine learning

[reasonsforhope]

The chances of AI becoming superintelligent or sentient in our lifetimes is incredibly incredibly small

Like, okay, yeah, "never say never," but as someone who spends a lot of time following AI news and tech, and also a lot of time working on psychology and brain science stuff, I promise you:

Ignore what Elon Musk and the tech bros are saying. They are wrong or actively lying to you. (Elon Musk is definitely doing the latter.)

AI is literally nowhere near becoming sentient. It might look like it is, but it's absolutely not.

And we're expected to run out of resources for AI data centers in the next three to five years due to the processing power required - the upgrade requirements for sentience or superintelligence cannot physically happen due to the sheer, unbelievable cost of the computing power needed for much smaller upgrades, let alone something as massive as sentience. (x; there are other sources but Google and other search engines suck now so I can't find them right now)

More on this cost/resources question rhere:

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newslett

And more on the general premise of "it is vanishingly unlikely that we will see superintelligent or sentient AI within our lifetimes" here:

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it

Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with AI technology.

There are a lot of things to be worried about, including the economic bullshit that is going to happen when the AI bubble crashes.

Superintelligent AI actually happening is not something you have to worry about happening in your lifetime.

And if that starts to change, we will see it coming well in advance. (On a resources and financial and tech level, not a level of "What people in tech and media say.")

Quite literally: Assume all tech company CEOs are literally just lying to you about what AI is capable of until directly proven otherwise. By independent outside sources, because fun fact, most big deal AI demos are literally just fake!

AI: Fakes, False Promises And Frauds

Currently, we are in the midst of an AI frenzy, akin to a bubble. Why do we believe that the AI bubble appears on the verge of popping? Find

Elon Musk didn't invent fake tech demos

From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled robots, wily tech salesmen have often pulled the wool over our eyes.

Anyway here's a fun video of Facebook's AI fucking up profoundly to warm your heart:

Facebook CEO Demos New Meta AI And It Couldn't Have Gone Worse

A recipe for disaster, asking an AI to help with Korean steak sauce live on stage

[afusionoffandoms]

Here's how you make noai.duckduckgo.com your default search engine so you don't have to toggle the filter on every time you do a search:

1) Make sure your Firefox is up to date.

2a) Go to the website and right click in the search field and select 'Add Search Engine' and confirm with 'Add Engine':

OR!

2b) Go into Firefox's settings and under Search, scroll down until you find the option to manually add a search engine:

And the URL you'll want to enter is https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=%s

3) Either way, you will now have to scroll to the top of your Search settings in Firefox and then change your Default Search Engine to the one you just added.

As for other browsers... I don't have a clue, fuck Chrome in particular.

May you never happen upon an ugly ass AI slop baby animal again.

[bitchesgetriches]

31% of employees are actively ‘sabotaging’ AI efforts. Here’s why

"In a new study, almost a third of respondents said they are refusing to use their company’s AI tools and apps. A few factors could be at play."

[f-identity]

[Image description: A series of posts from Jason Lefkowitz @[email protected] dated Dec 08, 2022, 04:33, reading:

It's good that our finest minds have focused on automating writing and making art, two things human beings do simply because it brings them joy. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people risk their lives every day breaking down ships, a task that nobody is in a particular hurry to automate because those lives are considered cheap https://www.dw.com/en/shipbreaking-recycling-a-ship-is-always-dangerous/a-18155491 (Headline: 'Recycling a ship is always dangerous.' on Deutsche Welle) A world where computers write and make art while human beings break their backs cleaning up toxic messes is the exact opposite of the world I thought I was signing up for when I got into programming

/end image description]

[disease]

Frank Rosenblatt, often cited as the Father of Machine Learning, photographed in 1960 alongside his most-notable invention: the Mark I Perceptron machine — a hardware implementation for the perceptron algorithm, the earliest example of an artificial neural network, est. 1943.

[gynoidgearhead]

we need to come up for a good word for ""AI"" that doesn't imply it's artificial or intelligent and highlights the stolen human labor. like what if we call it "theftgen"

(workshop this with me)

[prokopetz]

AIs being able to convincingly pretend to know things isn't a sign of intelligence. Come back when we have an AI that can convincingly pretend to be unaware of things that are common knowledge for the sake of a bit.

[why-ai]