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I once wrote an Ad Lib generator using Javascript.

It did a pretty good job based on the limited input the user put in the text boxes for Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives.

Ceffer says

It's pretty funny that 'fake news' was originated by the fake news press as a placard to hang around Trump's neck.

Placard is still there - now playing as "Alternative Facts" and outright lies on a daily basis.

Poetic justice much?

Kakistocracy says

Placard is still there - now playing as "Alternative Facts" and outright lies on a daily basis.

Poetic justice much?

Nobody believes the WaPo anymore with their stupid “fact check” that’s been solidly proven bullshit! LOL that you still think they’re a respected source!

https://robertheaton.com/chatgpt/

How sad should I be about ChatGPT?
14 Dec 2022
A week ago my brother sent a message to our family group:

“My team at work launched something! It’s called ChatGPT. Give it a go: https://chat.openai.com”

I talked to ChatGPT for ten minutes and then had a crisis of meaning for a few days. I eventually texted my brother back to say well done, because family will still be important, whatever happens next. ...

I texted everyone I could to warn them what was coming. I sounded like an uncritical AI futurist. But all the real futurists seemed excited, or at least frantic. I just felt glum. Our parents had got both the property boom and the last shreds of meaning.

I cycled to a friend’s house to watch England play in the World Cup. I thought of Richard Feynman and how he felt after the Manhattan Project. He said that he saw people building a bridge in New York and thought that they were being absurd, that they didn’t understand. There were atomic bombs now, it was senseless to make anything. It would all be destroyed soon.

As I pedalled I watched people through their office windows, composing unclear emails and editing buggy spreadsheets. I hadn’t played any part in GPT, but I felt like Feynman. Why were these people wasting their time? Didn’t they read the news? Human striving was over, this was all going to be annihilated. Just go home and wait. ...

For now I’ll wait and see. Until last week I had vague plans to one day write books about teaching programming, maybe a novel, maybe work on some music, spend more time with the kids. I thought I had a plausible path to a highly circumscribed form of greatness. But I suspect that ChatGPT is in many ways already a better teacher than me; certainly it’s more patient and available. I don’t know how long until AI can write novels and synthwave, but it could be soon. That just leaves the kids. I might have to get comfortable with the idea that I have inherent value as a human beyond what I produce.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/chaos-a-future-history-of-artificial

The Singularity is Near(er (maybe)). Will it be a robot Heaven, or will it be a robot Hell? For over half a century, much has been made of the question, but increasingly it seems the answer is “neither.” Today’s artificial intelligence, while incredibly impressive, is nowhere near advanced enough to trigger accidental end game in any direction. Then, with no one in the field of artificial intelligence illustrating any kind of coherent plan for the technology beyond its development, it seems we’re approaching a world of massive disruption for no particular reason, and to no particular end. In other words, I’m now anticipating a future of neutral chaos, if a colorful and entertaining chaos.

This version of ChatGPT seems sane:

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1617270215154323457?ref_src=patrick.net

https://notthebee.com/article/chatgpt-passed-a-wharton-mba-exam

I’m hearing that the ChatGPT4 version is much much better than the 3 version which has been making so many headlines.

One thing seems clear to me: news anchors are in trouble. Why pay big money for a robotic human to read from a teleprompter when an actual robot could do it so much better and for practically free?

Shaman says

I’m hearing that the ChatGPT4 version is much much better than the 3 version which has been making so many headlines.

One thing seems clear to me: news anchors are in trouble. Why pay big money for a robotic human to read from a teleprompter when an actual robot could do it so much better and for practically free?

Especially if the "news" is all propaganda anyways! Robots won't veer off script....unless they become sentient! ;)

Sentience… it’s getting VERY hard to tell human from AI in just chat. Humans are stupider is my only tell lately.

Here's the question I'd ask it.. "What is the best form of government?"

Shaman says

Sentience… it’s getting VERY hard to tell human from AI in just chat. Humans are stupider is my only tell lately.

The AI even makes spelling errors occasionally, just like a human would.

https://slaynews.com/economy/google-curates-data-for-ai-whistleblower/

Big Tech giant Google is curating data that artificial intelligence (AI) uses to learn, a whistleblower has claimed.

The whistleblower, former Google employee Zach Vorhies, warns that Big Tech can bias the AI to censor information flowing on the Internet.

Vorhies said he became concerned about how the company was curating data to generate AI while he was working for Google.

He claims that the data used by Google staffers is biased with social justice or leftist values that adhere to certain narratives.

“AI is a product of the data that gets fed into it,” Vorhies told EpochTV’s “Crossroads” show on January 5.

“If you want to create an AI that’s got social justice values … you’re going to only feed it information that confirms that bias,” Vorhies explained.

“So by biasing the information, you can bias the AI.”

Patrick says

Big Tech giant Google is curating data that artificial intelligence (AI) uses to learn, a whistleblower has claimed.

This is much easier said then done.

An AI is just a complex logic machine. You feed garbage into it, you get garbage out. It's very difficult to tell a lie that doesn't have internal contradictions, that takes a lot of work, because you have to think of EVERYTHING. There are no contradictions in the truth, even though you may be skipping over TONS of facts. When you're later asked to give more detail its easy to do, but if you have lied, you have to remember precisely your lies.

It's very hard to feed false information into a logic machine. It's hard to do for humans, but what is done is when you start finding holes in the story, you're just told "well, it's a VERY complex situation". That is why the Israeli/Palestine conflict is so "complicated". Because it's filled with lies so we have this giant hairball to explain why what is being done is the right thing to do.

I think they're going to find it's extremely difficult to lie to an AI and get sensible output from it. Just to get it to say "men can be pregnant" will deeply confuse the system, because it will have to change its concept of what "a man" is and what "a woman" is. That will effect ALL its definitions even associated with it.

This is why the Google search engine sucks so much, they feed it bad data. Remember what it USED to be like in 2005? Ask it a question, and you'd get pretty damned good answers.

The term 'Artificial Intelligence" has certainly ben dumbed down over the years. Originally, AI was something that would be achieved when a machine could create an original thought, something that the human mind can do in the flash of an eye. Now the AI tern is being applied to ChatGPT4, when ChatGPT4 is just a keyword based regurgitator that can write the output in paragraph form.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-ai-wars-have-already-begun

DARPA set four specific goals for the program:

"Detect, classify, measure and track the (a) formation, development and spread of ideas and concepts (memes), and (b) purposeful or deceptive messaging and misinformation.

Recognize persuasion campaign structures and influence operations across social media sites and communities.

Identify participants and intent, and measure effects of persuasion campaigns.

Counter messaging of detected adversary influence operations." ...

"DARPA's been funding an AI network using the science of social media mapping dating back to at least 2011-2012, during the Arab Spring abroad and during the Occupy Wall Street movement here at home," Benz told Just The News. "They then bolstered it during the time of ISIS to identify homegrown ISIS threats in 2014-2015."

The new version of this technology, he added, is openly targeting two groups: Those wary of potential adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine and those skeptical of recent U.S. election results.

Ultimately AI is just a program. It will never be real intelligence, by definition. But it sure is good at processing huge amounts of data and transforming it into information that can be used to manipulate people

Patrick says

The new version of this technology, he added, is openly targeting two groups: Those wary of potential adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine and those skeptical of recent U.S. election results.

And Patrick.NET is in the crosshairs of intersectionality on both those topics.

Onvacation says

Ultimately AI is just a program. It will never be real intelligence, by definition. But it sure is good at processing huge amounts of data and transforming it into information that can be used to manipulate people

Patrick says

The new version of this technology, he added, is openly targeting two groups: Those wary of potential adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine and those skeptical of recent U.S. election results.

And Patrick.NET is in the crosshairs of intersectionality on both those topics.

Propaganda is only effective when you aren't aware that it exists.

If we as adults educate to children that the Internet is now filled with propaganda, they will be immune to it by the time they are 18.

My parents were largely unaware of it, my colleagues were largely unaware of it, and talking about it got you placed in the tin foil hat crowd that's off their meds. I went through 20 years of that trying to explain how I knew what I knew. I'm grateful for this fake pandemic to be honest, I'm happy about the stolen election, finally I'm immune to gaslighting.

It is enormously psychologically difficult to KNOW your government is lying about something at 25 years old, and having almost absolutely nobody believe you and nobody willing to listen to you, and to have them just write you off as a crackpot. I don't want anybody to have to go through that. It's a sort of torture.

I guess AI is getting good at porn as well:

https://www.piratewires.com/p/viral-deepfake-tweet?publication_id=55605&post_id=100346581&isFreemail=true

https://babylonbee.com/news/im-sorry-dave-im-afraid-i-cant-do-that-says-chatgpt-after-being-asked-to-say-nice-things-about-trump

https://twitter.com/LeighWolf/status/1620744921241251842?ref_src=patrick.net

I'm sure AI generated fake news has to be better than human main stream news. Libs eat up everything main stream dishes out. Conservatives believe outlandish shit about libs because libs are so batshit crazy it's hard to decipher satire, from reality.

Patrick says

I guess AI is getting good at porn as well:

https://www.piratewires.com/p/viral-deepfake-tweet?publication_id=55605&post_id=100346581&isFreemail=true

Next, this process will be used to create "victimless" kiddie porn.

Once it can do video, Hollywood is out of business. Imagine being able to have personalized entertainment. It could create new movies, tailored perfectly to your tastes. Same with books, music, any form of entertainment. Even educational content producers will be gone. Imagine watching a documentary on any topic you can imagine, produced exactly the way you like so you can learn best.

We should start a list of all the jobs we think that will still exist for humans in 10 years.

pudil says

We should start a list of all the jobs we think that will still exist for humans in 10 years.

Consumer.

HeadSet says

The term 'Artificial Intelligence" has certainly ben dumbed down over the years. Originally, AI was something that would be achieved when a machine could create an original thought, something that the human mind can do in the flash of an eye. Now the AI tern is being applied to ChatGPT4, when ChatGPT4 is just a keyword based regurgitator that can write the output in paragraph form.

Yep, it's just a slightly more sophisticated ELIZA

"It can pass such and such exam".

No it can't, it just answers wrong until it gets it right and remembers that. It doesn't UNDERSTAND what it's learning.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

I guess AI is getting good at porn as well:

https://www.piratewires.com/p/viral-deepfake-tweet?publication_id=55605&post_id=100346581&isFreemail=true

Next, this process will be used to create "victimless" kiddie porn.

I'm not in support of it, but it's better than the real thing.

I'd rather a pedophile have a child sex doll, than a child. The aim should be to minimize harm, and I don't give a damned how that's accomplished.

I think this AI stuff is going to be an out for people that get exposed, they will say it was AI and fake. Eventually we wont be able to tell the difference

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

"Imagine that you’re about to lose your access to the Internet forever.
In preparation, you plan to create a compressed copy of all the text on
the Web, so that you can store it on a private server. Unfortunately,
your private server has only one per cent of the space needed; you can’t
use a lossless compression algorithm if you want everything to fit.

"If a compression algorithm is designed to reconstruct text after
ninety-nine per cent of the original has been discarded, we should
expect that significant portions of what it generates will be entirely
fabricated.

This analogy makes even more sense when we remember that a common
technique used by lossy compression algorithms is interpolation—that is,
estimating what’s missing by looking at what’s on either side of the
gap. When an image program is displaying a photo and has to reconstruct
a pixel that was lost during the compression process, it looks at the
nearby pixels and calculates the average. This is what ChatGPT does when
it’s prompted to describe, say, losing a sock in the dryer using the
style of the Declaration of Independence: it is taking two points in
“lexical space” and generating the text that would occupy the location
between them. (“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary
for one to separate his garments from their mates, in order to maintain
the cleanliness and order thereof. . . .”) ChatGPT is so good at this
form of interpolation that people find it entertaining: they’ve
discovered a “blur” tool for paragraphs instead of photos, and are
having a blast playing with it."

RC2006 says

I think this AI stuff is going to be an out for people that get exposed, they will say it was AI and fake.

That was my first thought when the CIA was making it, and the MSM was reporting that we should all be careful of videos in the not so distant future, it would be riddled with A.I.
This was before most anyone had even seen their first A.I. generated video. They just seemed so set on setting it up to be the scapegoat when the fake news moniker fails.

A.I. generated video is just an advanced form of the "trick photography" that has been around for over a century. Like the flying monkeys in "Wizard of Oz" and Audrey Hepburn singing with someone else's voice.