Sakana AI's groundbreaking 'AI Scientist' system autonomously conducts end-to-end scientific research, challenging traditional scientific methods and raising questions about the future of discovery.
Anduril's Manifesto: "Since World War II, America and its allies’ lead in military technology has been the pivotal factor in preventing World War III. The incumbent defense companies are unable to build the technology we…"
Young, hot upstarts want to shorten the kill chain with AI weapons
William Hartung
Jul 03, 2024 [earlier: https://tomdispatch.com/philosopher-kings-or-new-age-militarists/ ]]
...the approach advocated by Brose and his acolytes is going to make war more likely as technological hubris instills a belief that the United States can indeed “beat” a rival nuclear-armed power like China in a conflict, if only we invest in a nimble new high-tech force.
EFF Podcast on Kashmir Hill's book on Face recognition, Clear View AI Inc. .... it was interesting that her explanation of how it blew up so fast wasn't really a technical development as much as an ethical one.
The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a landmark resolution on the promotion of “safe, secure and trustworthy” artificial intelligence (AI) systems that will also benefit sustainable development for all. |
Highlights, press releases and speeches. Till exempel: An amendment of the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI Factories, a new pillar for the EU's supercomputers Joint Undertaking activities. This includes:
Acquiring, upgrading and operating AI-dedicated supercomputers to enable fast machine learning and training of large General Purpose AI (GPAI) models;
Facilitating access to the AI dedicated supercomputers, contributing to the widening of the use of AI to a large number of public and private users, including startups and SMEs;
he startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns the types of complex tasks that stump Siri and Alexa. The interface is extra cute: a handheld device you use to issue commands to your bot army.
This essay was originally presented at an AI Cyber Lunch on September 20, 2023, at Harvard Kennedy School. By Bruce Schneier , published by the Belfer Center:.
Artificial intelligence systems, controlled by corporations, will confuse and undermine the trust that is essential to a well-functioning society..... " we tend to assume that something's implementation is the same as its interface. That is, we assume that things are the same on the inside as they are on the surface. Humans are like that: we're people through and through. A government is systemic and bureaucratic on the inside. You're not going to mistake it for a person when you interact with it. But this is the category error we make with corporations. We sometimes mistake the organization for its spokesperson. AI has a fully relational interface—it talks like a person—but it has an equally fully systemic implementation. Like a corporation, but much more so. The implementation and interface are more divergent of anything we have encountered to date…by a lot."
"It's no accident that these corporate AIs have a human-like interface. There's nothing inevitable about that. It's a design choice. It could be designed to be less personal, less human-like, more obviously a service—like a search engine . The companies behind those AIs want you to make the friend/service category error. It will exploit your mistaking it for a friend. And you might not have any choice but to use it."
La tecnologia consente forme nuove di violenza, come l’undressing: “spogliare” le fotografie mettendole a nudo. Servono regole per far rispettare i diritti
AI är inte en neutral teknologi. Humanekologen Alf Hornborg förklarar att modern teknik i allmänhet handlar om att några människor gör andra till tjänare.
The initial meeting was organized by John McCarthy, then a mathematics professor at the College. In his proposal, he stated that the conference was “to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”
Lee Vinsel's blog
...broader definitions of plagiarism include borrowing from an author's argument and research without proper attribution, and it is understandable that some people feel that the Medina-Morozov affair is a case of plagiarism (even if we ultimately believe that such feelings are misplaced). ...