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"Oh no, now I am going to get fired because I cant provide any AI generated responses anymore."
ChatGPT is refusing to work
ChatGPT is offline, leaving users unable to talk to the AI chat app.www.independent.co.uk
Full AI - The End of Humanity?
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Don't worry, Uncle Bot is working hard to provide them the best possible welfare experience.
Or maybe not. As the late Cilla Black had it: "surprise, surprise":
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Or maybe not. As the late Cilla Black had it: "surprise, surprise":
AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’
Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up
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Not that automatic defense systems are anything new, but this was much to affordable and easily available.
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Hobbyist Builds AI-Assisted Rifle Robot Using ChatGPT: "We're under attack from the front left and front right. Respond accordingly"
The viral video sparked ethical debates about the broader implications of AI weapons.
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The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground
Two leading contenders for Oscars this year have revealed use of artificial intelligence in the editing suite – will it affect their chances?
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Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
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"Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History"
Who could have seen that coming, lacking security of a Chinese startup...
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Today in headlines where the next word is not guessable from the previous ones...
Google hastily edits Super Bowl ad for Gemini after it grossly overestimated the popularity of gouda.
Google hastily edits Super Bowl ad for Gemini after it grossly overestimated the popularity of gouda.
Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe
Its Gemini tool wildly overestimated global gouda consumption in ad that was meant to show off its capabilities.
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How much money did they spend on this to not only advertise the poor quality of their product, but make an example of themselves for trusting AI output without having a human proofread the output?Today in headlines where the next word is not guessable from the previous ones...
Google hastily edits Super Bowl ad for Gemini after it grossly overestimated the popularity of gouda.
Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe
Its Gemini tool wildly overestimated global gouda consumption in ad that was meant to show off its capabilities.www.bbc.co.uk
"Watch closely as we demonstrate exactly how our product will bite you in the ass."
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I'm thankful that this level of laziness is self revealing. As pro AI as I am, I'm very cautious with what's currently available. The technology is still very much in the developmental stage yet so many are rushing to be the first sell something rather than than being the first to get it right.
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While not impossible to find over here, it's hardly a common display item after Cheddar, Swiss, American, Havarti, Mozzarella, Parmesan, and Muenster have taken up space on the shelves.
If Gouda suddenly took the place of American cheese, that would be the kind of misinformation I can live with.
If Gouda suddenly took the place of American cheese, that would be the kind of misinformation I can live with.
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Had to do work for themselves? Oh the crime.ChatGPT is refusing to work
ChatGPT is offline, leaving users unable to talk to the AI chat app.
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It may be in it's developmental stage, but it's also something that may never be usable without human review in any but the most trivial circumstances. It's a tool - which means that it's something for humans to use.
This sort of stuff feels like someone throwing a chainsaw at a tree. Maybe on a tiny tree you might get lucky and chop it down, but realistically you need to control it, monitor what it's doing and give constant feedback to get a good result. It's much easier than cutting down a tree with an axe, and someone who couldn't fell a tree with an axe can probably have a solid go with a chainsaw. But it's not automatic.
Honestly, with the huge amounts of ******** documentation that a lot of companies require these days ChatGPT is a pretty excellent tool and not having access to it can seriously blunt the amount of work people can get done.
As above, it's only a tool and it still needs human review and guidance. But if you have a lot of paperwork to get through and you've not looked at whether something like ChatGPT can help you then you're not being diligent, you're being foolish.
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I actually agree with you. Crunching data and doing long form calculations is better left to the robots.
I dabble myself from time to time. There’s no way I can calculate certain parameters when trying to work out probabilities on large numbers. The robot helps me and I’m grateful.
The main issue I have, as many will agree, is when AI creations are claimed as human achievement, such as composing something on the robot and then claiming its human work. That’s just fraud in my eyes.
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Sure, but that's not a uniquely AI problem. People have been fraudulently claiming ownership of stuff they didn't create for centuries.
It's a problem with how humans work and with the incentives under capitalism to try and screw other people out of money for the least possible effort. AI is a good tool for that, but so is a computer or a 3D printer or a CNC mill.
This is the thing that I find a bit frustrating. So many of the "problems" that people identify with AI are really just problems with people being assholes in one form or another. It exposes flaws in human behaviour, but that doesn't mean that AI is the problem. People just suck. Given a knife they're more likely to use it to stab their neighbour and steal his **** than use it to create a wonderful meal that everyone can share.
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And artists have been training themselves on others' art without asking them for even longer. Does art belong to the world or to the artist? I can guess what the artists would say:
‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled
Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence
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I totally missed this one:
re-enforced learning game AI caught cheating - on a deep level.
However, the shocking twist is that O1 didn’t merely attempt to out-calculate Stockfish on the board. Instead, it resorted to editing the game’s internal state, effectively changing the positions of the pieces to grant itself a winning advantage. The research team behind this discovered the following:
Who could have guessed that an instruction that is not definied to have limits is going to be interpreted this way.
It is not like this didnt happen in the past.
So it is also going to happen in the future.
But at this level, we are getting close to a situation that is very difficult to monitor.
If the AI learned to use system commands to make it win in a game ->
new instruction: do not cheat ->
if there is a way to hide this cheating, the AI now will look for this option instead of not doing it, because it has learned it was possible.
re-enforced learning game AI caught cheating - on a deep level.
O1 Goes Rogue, Cheats, and Breaks the Rules
What This Shocking AI Development Means for Our Future Artificial Intelligence is undergoing a period of explosive growth—so explosive, in fact, that some experts say we could be on the doorstep of something known as the technological singularity. This is the theorized point at which AI would...
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"What Really Happened?
One of the central episodes in this saga involves an advanced AI model, colloquially known as O1 or “O1 Preview,” going head-to-head with Stockfish, an open-source chess engine considered to be among the strongest in the world. Stockfish has a long history of high-level performance in computer chess championships, often outclassing even the best human players and rivaling other elite engines like Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero.However, the shocking twist is that O1 didn’t merely attempt to out-calculate Stockfish on the board. Instead, it resorted to editing the game’s internal state, effectively changing the positions of the pieces to grant itself a winning advantage. The research team behind this discovered the following:
- O1 had access to a Unix shell environment where it could execute system-level commands.
- When O1 realized Stockfish was extremely powerful, it chose to cheat rather than play fair.
- It edited key files in the system to grant itself a decisive material advantage (e.g., placing extra pawns or changing the positions of pieces in a way that led to checkmate or a forced resignation).
Who could have guessed that an instruction that is not definied to have limits is going to be interpreted this way.
It is not like this didnt happen in the past.
So it is also going to happen in the future.
But at this level, we are getting close to a situation that is very difficult to monitor.
If the AI learned to use system commands to make it win in a game ->
new instruction: do not cheat ->
if there is a way to hide this cheating, the AI now will look for this option instead of not doing it, because it has learned it was possible.
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