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Apple’s Vision Pro is a bad product with an even worse vision for the future of computation.
New sales numbers prove it’s a failure, but more than that it shows the idea of tech’s inevitability is a myth. We have the collective power to stop tech that doesn’t serve us.
https://disconnect.blog/the-vision-pro-is-a-big-flop/
#tech #apple #visionpro #vr #ai
The Vision Pro is a big flop
The product’s failure should further dispel the myth of tech inevitabilityParis Marx (Disconnect)
Whispers from the Deep
#AIcommunity #AIArtworks #AI #aiartcommunity #AIArtwork #AIArt
https://ko-fi.com/s/b87f760c90
All Your Base Are Belong to LLM
"The output from an LLM is a derivative work of the data used to train the LLM.
If we fail to recognise this, or are unable to uphold this in law, copyright (and copyleft on which it depends) is dead. Copyright will still be used against us by corporations, but its utility to FOSS to preserve freedom is gone."
https://blog.brettsheffield.com/all-your-base-are-belong-to-llm
#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LLM #AI
"Generative AI can simulate student essay writing in a way that is undetectable for teachers.
•Teachers are overconfident in their source identification.
•AI-generated essays tend to be assessed more positively than student-written texts."
#AIEd #teaching #teacher #EdTech
Instructors as Innovators: a Future-focused Approach to New AI Learning Opportunities, With Prompts
This paper explores how instructors can leverage generative AI to create personalized learning experiences for students that transform teaching and learning. Wepapers.ssrn.com
The future of content on the internet…
#LinkedIn uses #AI to generate topics for questions. LinkedIn gamifies answering of questions with a badge. LinkedIn users start to game the game and answer the #AI generated questions with AI generated answers. LinkedIn takes AI generated answers and trains its AI models on them to generate more content.
Ouroboros.
“More worrisome is that AI, by its very nature, lends itself to compounding the problem: Many of the ostensibly human users on LinkedIn appear to have contributed answers that were produced by AI, effectively creating an AI-to-AI conversation, which LinkedIn then uses to train its own AI models.”
‘Cesspool of AI crap’ or smash hit? LinkedIn’s AI-powered collaborative articles offer a sobering peek at the future of content
The Microsoft-owned social network used AI to launch a career advice hub with thousands of topics, from hotel management to marketing. The result is an absurd AI feedback loop.Sharon Goldman (Fortune)
#Tech #Technology #TV #Streaming #NetFlix #AI
Netflix Uses Seemingly AI-Manipulated Images in True Crime Doc
Netflix has used what strongly appears to be AI-generated photos in a new murder-for-hire plot documentary called "What Jennifer Did."Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says AI will help scientists understand "most diseases" in three to five years.
@Semafor quotes the executive: “The reason we still have people dying of cancer, people suffering from Alzheimer's, is we do not understand the fundamental biology of those diseases.”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Disease #Cancer #Health #Science #Biology #Tech
Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand ‘most diseases’ in 3 to 5 years | Semafor
AI development could lead to huge advances in the scientific understanding of diseases, Moderna's CEO Stéphane Bancel said at Semafor's World Economy Summit.Caroline Anders (flip.it)
3 Myths About AI That Just Won't Die
A look at three persistent myths about AI. Let's talk about AI drawing hands, the unreliability of AI detectors, and whether LLMs learn from live interactions.Daniel Nest (Why Try AI?)
Some #trippy and #psychodelic #AIgenerated of creatures fused with plants.
#ai #aihorde #aiart #aiartist #aiartwork
Israel's Lavender: What could go wrong when AI is used in military operations?
In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University and director of its Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, examines the Israeli Defence Forces' use of an AI system called Lavender to…Taylor Owen (GZERO Media)
New from @STAT's Casey Ross and me:
#Microsoft has helped organize at least 4 efforts to set standards in #healthcare #AI. Is that problematic?
also: did I sneak a history of the EPA's TSCA into a story about AI? ✨click to find out✨
#health #healthcare #healthtech #medicine #healthpolicy #regulatorycapture
Microsoft's role in setting AI standards, while selling tech, raises questions
For some, Microsoft's deep involvement in groups setting standards for the use of AI in health care raises questions about "regulatory capture."Brittany Trang (STAT)
#LLM Agents can Autonomously #Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities
Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08144
To show this, we collected a dataset of 15 one-day vulnerabilities that include ones categorized as critical severity in the #CVE description. When given the CVE description, GPT-4 is capable of exploiting 87% of these vulnerabilities compared to 0% for every other model we test (GPT-3.5, open-source LLMs) and open-source vulnerability scanners (ZAP and #Metasploit).
#ai #technology #Software #chatgpt #bug #hack #news #cybersecurity
LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities
LLMs have becoming increasingly powerful, both in their benign and malicious uses. With the increase in capabilities, researchers have been increasingly interested in their ability to exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities.arXiv.org
There are many sites offering free, print-ready CC0/public domain illustrations, photographs & vector graphics. Eg, Pixabay offers 4.4 million images, Unsplash 3 million.
Many fonts are also free for commercial use. And you can put the design together in free Open Source software.
With so many free images/fonts available, it's easy to create multiple design concepts for your book/product). And it's all done with the consent of the artists/photographers/typographers.
There's no excuse.
#AI
I mean, this is 20 mins work using free software, images, etc. Even a non-designer could manage this after they've learned the basics, which really wouldn't take long at all.
I can't help myself finding it all quite poignant that Dune--set in a future where the production of machines designed to think like humans has been out-lawed--should be having its brightest moment in the sun right now, just as the experience shallowing potential of AI is beginning to dawn on us.
#AI #Dune #ButlerianJihad #experience #cinema #movies
Must delete Google.
I am nearly ready to delete my Google Account. The 1 thing taking forever is changing my e-mail address on all my many accounts.
Google's new Terms of Service, you agree Google AI may access all your content (email, photos, etc.). While they do not claim ownership of your content, you agree they can use it.
#DeGoogle #GoogleFree #NoGoogle #Google #AI
If you use Discord, you might wanna know this.
A service called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity, and then selling access to that data.
Spy Pet scrapes more than 10,000 Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, it offers the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.
Spy Pet claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 million users, and includes a database of more than 3 billion messages.
(The article is paywalled probably, etc but it's here) https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages
#Discord #security #SpyPet #privacy #scams #scammers #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages
404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
