AI Slop

Black Hole said:
Think Skynet:


The incident was mentioned on Inside Science this afternoon, and also an incident I hadn't heard of where somebody asked an AI agent whether it could bump them up a waiting list, it said sure and proceeded to hack the booking system.

The point is that these AI systems have not had ethics built into them, so think nothing of achieving the goal they've been set by any means they can. Don't ask me how though. At the moment, I'm assuming it is emergent behaviour from a highly complex self-organising system.
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I am not sure if it was mentioned in that YT vid but ironically it was an AI news site that was the first to report on the rogue AI hacking :)

gizmodo.com

An AI-Powered News Site Scooped Human Journalists. Now What?

Welcome to the age of informational fast food.
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We can have many potential 'models' of a future with AI, some can be dystopian (even more so dystopian when you're talking about them in 'the pub'). Some can be ones that bring humanity together in a harmonious world where everyone lives a happy, valued and fulfilled life (like a perfect Humanist world)... sorting out climate change, eliminating poverty, with world peace thrown in for good measure. Then you have everything in between - which you think would be the more likely future scenario... but is it? That is the question. With human error / lack of envisioning in these AI experiments - or as they call them "next generation frontier models" (as shown in real life with the OpenAI AIs hacking Hugging Face), what else could go wrong now or in the future? This is why the spectacles may not be so rose-colour tinted.

These topics are great material / starting points (or fodder) for...
  • Click-bait - ultimately for profit
  • Entertainment - movies, podcasts, gossip/pub talk, etc.
  • Education/awareness (some cross-over with entertainment) - you know it's coming, what can you do for your future (either for your future career, effecting an existing career, or as an 'end-user')
  • Actual engagement in the issues with AI now - influence legalities / governance of AI
Or, get into developing AI and addressing the issues there... maybe create a 'good cop' AI?
As the OpenAI guys said, they need AIs to find vulnerabilities / security issues - and do patching, better and do it now. Also slow down the development on the other AI 'frontier' models for now.
 
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HugeMaximum said:
Because we're in the Hummy Arms
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I don't think /df's comment was aimed at us!

Some time back there was an Oxford academic report, years in the making, saying something like AI presented no threat. Those long-hairs had probably never watched Terminator!
 
Black Hole said:
Think Skynet:

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One of the guys in this video has spurts of talking way to fast! It seems to be something that affects a lot of these modern tech folks - as seen in many YouTube videos I've come across. A lot seem to be "on the spectrum" (not the Sinclair one!).
Great trick with YouTube in a web browser on a desktop/laptop is to press the Shift key and < to slow down in 0.25x increments, or press the Shift key and > to speed up in 0.25x increments.
Have also found the need to speed up some slow talkers on some videos as well! Reading a supplied transcript can also be easier, or use subtitles... but then you get the problem with incorrect transcript/subtitles when they use an auto-generation process that is not checked over and corrected.
 
Using the transcript search feature and jumping to that point in the vid can be very useful when looking for a particular spot in a long video.
Period/comma go forward/back frame by frame, sometimes also useful.
 
Given that 'we' have educated the students of 'foreign powers' in the best universities and IT labs (supposedly) in the world, then it seems fair to assume that 'they' are happily developing LLM's and AI facilities with zero checks and a simple aim to conquer the world for their overlord masters. Open source maintainers will have long had sleepers put in place so that whatever code you need to enable Bad Things can be assimilated and distributed.

Artificial Idiocy has doomed us all....
 
No thanks. Don't want AI on the iPlayer. Not convinced the new DG is acting in the best interests of the BBC or viewers. If only he could be removed and replaced with someone who puts those interests first, if such a person exists.
 
Moving the Continue Watching section to the top of iPlayer is the Number One improvement they could make. The Down button on my remote control is getting an unwarranted amount of hammer due them hiding it low down out of sight!
 
EEPhil said:
No thanks. Don't want AI on the iPlayer. Not convinced the new DG is acting in the best interests of the BBC or viewers. If only he could be removed and replaced with someone who puts those interests first, if such a person exists.
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The new DG feels like a trojan horse to me, more interested in Youtube than the BBC.
 
trog said:
www.cordbusters.co.uk

BBC Wants AI To Help Pick Your Next iPlayer Show | Cord Busters

BBC iPlayer could get an AI assistant called Iggy, a personalised home screen and a “Vegas mode”, with the BBC set to test some of its ideas within weeks
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I disagree strongly with pretty much everything the new DG says in that article, with the exception I agree iPlayer is outdated. But the things I want adding are nowhere on his list, like 5.1 and Atmos sound and a decent iPlayer app implementation for the Apple TV 4K (the current one does not support 4K or HLG for example, despite running on a 4K HDR streaming box).

This sums up my issues with the new DG:

He wants new online products built and tested quickly, and for digital, rather than traditional broadcast, to be the BBC’s flagship.

Built and tested quickly = buggy and unreliable. And I like traditional broadcast, plus for my parents and aunt it's all there is. Plus of course my usual bug bear that all TV is digital including traditional broadcast, using the term like that shows a lack of understanding.

In my future that never happened, all 6 Freeview muxes went DVB-T2 which adds 5*16mbps = 80mbps, plus more for eliminating simulcasting HD and SD for 5 channels. That frees up enough bandwidth for the main 5 channels to be broadcast at 4K HDR using HEVC and 5.1/Atmos sound while retaining everything currently broadcast. There would need to be an updated HDR Fox T2 to provide a great STB to watch and record 4K on with custom firmware, but it's a future that never happened so it can have whatever features I want.
 
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Owen Smith said:
Plus of course my usual bug bear that all TV is digital including traditional broadcast, using the term like that shows a lack of understanding.
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Yes, that's management ignorance of the highest cal-I-bre. They use these "on digital" and "digital first" phrases to mean stuff on web sites (and now Apps), not stuff on broadcast TV/Radio. They used to call it "online" but that went out the window some years ago.
more for eliminating simulcasting HD and SD for 5 channels.
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If broadcasters want to save money, this duplication is the first thing that can go. BBC has had regional HD for nearly 4 years. ITV still haven't done theirs, so need to get their collective fingers out. They could call it a saving - bean-counters like that sort of thing.
Apart from that, 15 years of duplication seems long enough to give people to replace their old kit.
 
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