Collaborate Disseminate
In episode nine of “The AI Fix”, our hosts learn about the world’s most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI’s plans to eat Google’s lunch.
Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests… Continue reading The AI Fix #9: When AI detectors fail (spectacularly), and OpenAI’s five steps to Skynet
The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model’s clear limitations. Continue reading Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows ‘Sparks’ of General Intelligence
Building on recent AI advancements to allow robots to complete tasks autonomously in the real world is a “major step forward,” researchers say. Continue reading Big Tech Is Now Developing Powerful AI Brains for Real-World Robots
I trust artificial intelligence more than the companies that make it. But that’s not what this film is about. Continue reading ‘Do You Trust This Computer’ Is a Documentary That Taught Me Nothing About AI
In March 2017, KrebsOnSecurity warned that thieves who perpetrate tax refund fraud with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service were leveraging a widely-used online student loan tool to find critical data on consumers that allows them to claim huge refunds with the IRS in someone else’s name. This week, it emerged that a Louisiana-based private investigator is being charged with using the same online tool to glean tax data on then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.
A story today at Diverseeducation.com points to court filings in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, in which local private eye Jordan Hamlett is accused by federal prosecutors of abusing an automated tool at the U.S. Department of Education website that is designed to make it easier for families to complete the Education Department’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) — a lengthy form that serves as the starting point for students seeking federal financial assistance to pay for college or career school. Continue reading Private Eye Allegedly Used Leaky Goverment Tool in Bid to Find Tax Data on Trump
Last week we covered the past and current state of artificial intelligence — what modern AI looks like, the differences between weak and strong AI, AGI, and some of the philosophical ideas about what constitutes consciousness. Weak AI is already all around us, in the form of software dedicated to performing specific tasks intelligently. Strong AI is the ultimate goal, and a true strong AI would resemble what most of us have grown familiar with through popular fiction.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a modern goal many AI researchers are currently devoting their careers to in an effort to bridge …read more
The concept of artificial intelligence dates back far before the advent of modern computers — even as far back as Greek mythology. Hephaestus, the Greek god of craftsmen and blacksmiths, was believed to have created automatons to work for him. Another mythological figure, Pygmalion, carved a statue of a beautiful woman from ivory, who he proceeded to fall in love with. Aphrodite then imbued the statue with life as a gift to Pygmalion, who then married the now living woman.
Throughout history, myths and legends of artificial beings that were given intelligence were common. These varied from having simple supernatural …read more
