Palestinians are under a mass #surveillance. When a Palestinian's rating rises above a certain threshold, Israeli intelligence officers add them to the kill list.
Artificial Negligence: The Book About AI for People Who Would Never Buy a Book About AI by James Wilson, 2022
Written in an accessible, balanced, light-hearted way, it is intended for those of you who wouldn't normally pick up a science or philosophy book. Using clear, and generally amusing, analogies and examples, it will ensure you can face the future with confidence and optimism.
"On Wednesday, the saying was once again trending, this time through what appears to be an #AI -generated image showing a field of refugee tents spelling out “All Eyes on #Rafah.” One version of the graphic has been shared more than 38 million times on #Instagram."
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, 2019
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines.
"The current AI craze is a result of this toxic surveillance business model. It is not due to novel scientific approaches that…fundamentally shifted a paradigm."
Anything from Vox Media and The Atlantic is now untrustworthy in any capacity from now on. Remember this when reading or linking to any articles in the future.
y'all know +972 Magazine? the media organization responsible for some of the most important investigations of the state of Israel in this war, including the Lavender #AI investigation and now the new #ICC blackmail investigation?
it is almost entirely funded by donations of readers like you and me. if you want to see more journalism like this, consider throwing a few bucks their way.
Mind Design III: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence by John Haugeland, 2023
The essential reader on the philosophical foundations and implications of artificial intelligence, now comprehensively updated for the twenty-first century.
So, no surprise to anyone, but #DigitalOcean’s #Sammy#AI assistant gives incorrect information about their services.
It told me that it’s possible to move a volume to a different region by first creating a snapshot of the volume and then creating it as a new volume in the other region. This is apparently incorrect. No big loss for me, but I can’t imagine trusting that service with any other data/storage-related questions.
These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
@futurebird I don't think that you overstress. In social media (the amplifier of the whole thing), one can already recognise tendencies where knowledge loss as a cultural phenomenon is reminiscent of biodiversity loss. Experts still recognise it. But what if the baseline shift is no longer noticeable?
After re-watching Game of Thrones, I decided to have some fun with AI. Bing made something... I edited it with Pixlr and added text with Add Text. This is my first try/result.
The worst AI-generated article I have ever seen ( medium.com )
It's not really funny or outlandish, more just irritating and sad....