Social scientists look to AI models to study human behavior


https://www.axios.com/2023/06/24/social-scientists-look-to-ai-models-to-study-human-behavior

"But when the researchers gave the ChatGPT API 16 moral scenarios and then evaluated its responses on 464 other scenarios, they found the AI system's responses correlated 95% with human ones."

Open source AI models grow in popularity, bringing new opportunities and risks


https://www.axios.com/2023/06/26/ais-next-battle-open-closed-chatgpt

The best films about AI ranked!


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jun/29/the-best-films-about-ai-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The average person isn’t afraid of tech advances in the form of A.I. out of fear of A.I. “taking over the world” like in movies. The average working class person is afraid of A. I. being used to replace them in the workforce and improving the efficiency of criminalizing the poor.

— L E F T, PhD ⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) June 28, 2023

Fire chief warns against 'unleashing' self-driving taxis in San Francisco | California | The Guardian


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/self-driving-taxis-fire-chief-san-francisco

I saw a news report yesterday the FAA gave special approval for a Chinese manufactured flying car. Orders are being taken now; 300k. I struggle to believe this is true, that it wasn't an Onion piece.

tequila4kapp said:

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I saw a news report yesterday the FAA gave special approval for a Chinese manufactured flying car. Orders are being taken now; 300k. I struggle to believe this is true, that it wasn't an Onion piece.

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Scenario: You are at a park with your extended family for a reunion, a flying car collides with an Amazon delivery drone, and crashes on your get together taking out your entire extended family.

What are the insurance policy limits or is it a drunk flying car driver that got wiped out investing in Bitcoin, has no assets and he let his flying car insurance policy lapse.
[In my scenario Amazon is without fault]

GENEVA (Reuters) -Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us.



Robots say they won't steal jobs, rebel against humans


https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/robots-wont-steal-jobs-rebel-142646810.html

As if things were not bad enough in my once fair city.

Sorry, Bearister, but I have no video worth posting, because my problem with the self-driving cars is that they don't move. They just sit there, causing following cars to form a line behind them, stuck there until the oncoming traffic allows an opening for us to pass the robocar, one by one.

Some of them have a human in the car, and some don't. When I pull up next to one of them, if there is a human inside, he or she will just shrug their shoulders, with no clue about how to get moving. If there is no human inside, there is no telling if that car will ever move or just sit there.

In Golden Gate Park, I came upon a line of cars with one stopped at a stop sign. That car never moved. No one was inside that car, so one by one, we all passed this stationary beast, flipping off the big hunk of machinery.

When I come up behind a stopped robocar, I try and stop at different distances behind it, figuring that maybe it does not want to move, because I came too close to his bumper. It doesn't seem to matter how close I come, he is just going to stay there immovable, until I blow my top.

The last time I came up behind one of these immobile beasts at a stop sign, I waited a minute or two, then passed him, made a quick left, then a right turn at the next corner, and at the next corner another right turn, all the while breaking all speed limits, hoping that I could get ahead of the little bugger. As I approached the intersection, the robocar pulled up to intersection, stopped quickly and took off again. The robocar had probably anticipated my maneuver, and timed it just right to beat me to the next intersection, which it did.

Lately, I've seen an increasing number of robocars, parked at the curb, or side of the road, with lights flashing. No driver, no human, just a car sitting there. As least it was not blocking traffic.

Be careful. In a couple of years the self driving car will have advanced AI that will make it capable of road rage if it feels disrespected. It will follow you at whatever speed it takes to catch you and….

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Be careful. In a couple of years the self driving car will have advanced AI that will make it capable of road rage if it feels disrespected. It will follow you at whatever speed it takes to catch you and….

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Thanks for the warning. In a couple of years, maybe I won't be driving, or if I am, maybe I'll move to the High Desert, where there is a lot less traffic. And maybe take the train or bus from there to Cal games.

Activists putting cones on the hoods of self-driving cars to stop them in San Francisco | Daily Mail Online


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12277917/Activists-putting-cones-hoods-self-driving-cars-stop-San-Francisco.html

*Well, at least it is comforting to know that robbers will never figure out how to add this to their bag of tricks. The media can be so helpful.

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement / The lawsuits allege the companies trained their AI models on their works without their consent

Link:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai

This is what I have noticed about AI. There isn't anything intelligent about it. It just steals ideas and materials that were created by others.

I think this is partly because the human idea of intelligence has to do with memory. The guy who wins on Jeopardy is perceived as smart because he knows a lot of things. To be sure, that is definitely a component of intelligence or at least one way to demonstrate that one is educated or well-read. However, an AI is going to cream any human at a trivia game. That doesn't really demonstrate creativity or the ability to combine different ideas into new ideas or solve problems.

A lot of these AI platforms are just really really fast encyclopedias with access to a lot of information and apparently they have haven't paid for all of it either. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

If an AI does compose an original work who owns the copyright to it? If an AI gives out wrong information and someone is killed who absorbs the liability? Will AIs be treated as persons in the same way corporations are?

"Will AIs be treated as persons in the same way corporations are? "

Only if they become Republican donors.

Does anyone think this SAG/WGA strike represents a monumental battle in human history on how AI will impact all our lives, particularly the value of human labor?

I can't think of a more powerful labor union up against the most powerful media companies.

This is like a really big deal.

I think eventually AI will be everywhere, but can this strike/negotiations slow change?

I was visiting my daughter in The City this morning. I had to wait to cross the street in the middle of the block to let a car pass by me….a driverless car. Weird. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.

Question for engineers: Doesn't the way the Cruise cars all clustered in North Beach like bees going to a hive indicate a hack directing them there instead of a system wide failure caused by Outside Lands interference with their signal?

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Question for engineers: Doesn't the way the Cruise cars all clustered in North Beach like bees going to a hive indicate a hack directing them there instead of a system wide failure caused by Outside Lands interference with their signal?

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From the more anecdotal data from 82graddlsdad files...my wife and I have watched Cruise and Waymo vehicles for years in SF. First with test drivers then driverless. Far and away the most weird, stop in the middle of the road incidents have been by Cruise vehicles. No idea why.

Found the answer to a question I find important that the local media apparently doesn't (unless I missed it):

How much liability insurance per collision does a company like Waymo have to carry in the event one of its headless horsemen on wheels screws the pooch?

Answer:
"California requires companies, such as Waymo LLC, that test self-driving vehicles to carry a minimum of $5 million of liability insurance on its vehicles. If you are injured by the negligence of a Waymo employee who tests or oversees the Waymo vehicle, you may have much more insurance available to compensate you for injuries."

https://www.legalreader.com/who-is-liable-after-a-waymo-accident-in-los-angeles/

*If your damages exceeded $5M, Waymo would be on the hook for the excess, provided it had the scratch (or an umbrella policy)

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Found the answer to a question I find important that the local media apparently doesn't (unless I missed it):

How much liability insurance per collision does a company like Waymo have to carry in the event one of its headless horsemen on wheels screws the pooch?

Answer:
"California requires companies, such as Waymo LLC, that test self-driving vehicles to carry a minimum of $5 million of liability insurance on its vehicles. If you are injured by the negligence of a Waymo employee who tests or oversees the Waymo vehicle, you may have much more insurance available to compensate you for injuries."

https://www.legalreader.com/who-is-liable-after-a-waymo-accident-in-los-angeles/

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I saw this Cruise traffic jam on the news right before a segment on the human traffic jam caused by a giant side show in Vallejo where a car was set on fire. I'd like to see what insurance those idiots carry.

Cruise driverless car collides with emergency vehicle in San Francisco, injures passenger NBC Bay Area


https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/cruise-driverless-car-crash/3298626/

"In San Francisco this week, Cruise confirmed that one of its autonomous vehicles "drove into a construction area and stopped in wet concrete."

A San Francisco resident who tweets as Nobody B. Goode shared this shot with us."
-Axios

Deepfake Imposter Scams Are Driving a New Wave of Fraud


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deepfake-imposter-scams-driving-wave-230008332.html

"Computer-generated children's voices so realistic they fool their own parents. Masks created with photos from social media that can penetrate a system protected by face ID. They sound like the stuff of science fiction, but these techniques are already available to criminals preying on everyday consumers.

….. Cloning a person's voice is increasingly easy. Once a scammer downloads a short sample from an audio clip from someone's social media or voicemail messageit can be as short as 30 secondsthey can use AI voice-synthesizing tools readily available online to create the content they need."

Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-braces-first-trial-involving-100515458.html

'World's most advanced' humanoid robot Ameca reveals what she thinks life will be like in 100 years - so, is a robot takeover on the cards? | Daily Mail Online


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12452709/Worlds-advanced-humanoid-robot-Ameca-reveals-thinks-life-like-100-years-robot-takeover-cards.html

*The robot had this book tucked under its arm:

Terrorists will hack driverless cars and use them for horrific attacks, report warns | The US Sun


https://www.the-sun.com/motors/9242944/terrorists-hack-driverless-cars-attacks/

Geoffrey Hinton on the promise, risks of artificial intelligence | 60 Minutes - CBS News


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoffrey-hinton-ai-dangers-60-minutes-transcript/

AI, social media threaten democracies with misinformation flood


https://www.axios.com/2023/10/10/misinformation-ai-democracy-tipping-point-elections

"Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who co-led the investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 election, told Axios that Russia's actions were "child's play, compared to what either domestic or foreign AI tools could do to completely screw up our elections," given the scale of information AI can now generate."

Cruise gets a bruise.

https://abc7news.com/technology/ca-dmv-suspends-cruise-permits-amid-safety-concerns/13964874/

Sam Altman's ouster at OpenAi was precipitated by letter to board



https://mol.im/a/12782695

"Several researchers sent a letter to the directors warning the progress made on Project Q* had the potential to endanger humanity."

What is the over/under on how many years will it be until The Machines are bending us over for a probe in a vast warehouse complex before discarding what's left in a Soylent Green food processing bin?

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers


https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

he frantic battle over OpenAI shows that money triumphs in the end-Robert Reich


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/28/artificial-intelligence-openai-non-profit-money?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

" Private enterprise, motivated by the lure of ever-greater profits, cannot be relied on to police itself against the horrors that an unfettered AI will create.

"Last week's frantic battle over OpenAI shows that not even a non-profit board with a capped profit structure for investors can match the power of big tech and Wall Street.

Money triumphs in the end."

Elon Musk almost has his AI Force ready to enslave and kill us.

A robot attacked an engineer at Tesla's Cybertruck factory in Texas

https://mol.im/a/12869629

Generative AI will have another wild ride in 2024


https://www.axios.com/2023/12/27/ai-predictions-tech-trends-2024-openai-chatgpt

2024 will be a breakout year for delivery drones


https://www.axios.com/2024/01/02/delivery-drones-2024-amazon-zipline-wing

Well, one can only assume Amazon, at least, will be good for a substantial payout for injury or death when one of it's drone malfunctions and drops a 50 pound package from 1500 feet over a freeway or on someone's head taking a stroll.