Dan Kummer – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:22:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 Can you spot the AI impostors? Research finds AI faces can look more real than actual humans https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/can-you-spot-the-ai-impostors-research-finds-ai-faces-can-look-more-real-than-actual-humans https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/can-you-spot-the-ai-impostors-research-finds-ai-faces-can-look-more-real-than-actual-humans#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:22:46 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/can-you-spot-the-ai-impostors-research-finds-ai-faces-can-look-more-real-than-actual-humans

This is why i laughed at all that un canny valley crap talk in early 2010s. notice term is almost never used anymore. And, as for makin robots more attractive than most people. done in mid 2030s.


Does ChatGPT ever give you the eerie sense you’re interacting with another human being?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached an astounding level of realism, to the point that some tools can even fool people into thinking they are interacting with another human.

The eeriness doesn’t stop there. In a study published today in Psychological Science, we’ve discovered images of white faces generated by the popular StyleGAN2 algorithm look more “human” than actual people’s faces.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI Will Drastically Cut Number of Workers It Takes to Make Animated Movies https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/jeffrey-katzenberg-ai-will-drastically-cut-number-of-workers-it-takes-to-make-animated-movies https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/jeffrey-katzenberg-ai-will-drastically-cut-number-of-workers-it-takes-to-make-animated-movies#respond Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:22:33 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/jeffrey-katzenberg-ai-will-drastically-cut-number-of-workers-it-takes-to-make-animated-movies

‘It took 500 artists five years to make a world-class animated movie,’ Katzenberg said at a Bloomberg conference. ‘I don’t think it will take 10 percent of that[with AI].’

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Stability AI rebounds from turmoil, scores Intel support and a tenfold revenue increase https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/stability-ai-rebounds-from-turmoil-scores-intel-support-and-a-tenfold-revenue-increase https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/stability-ai-rebounds-from-turmoil-scores-intel-support-and-a-tenfold-revenue-increase#respond Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:23:50 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/stability-ai-rebounds-from-turmoil-scores-intel-support-and-a-tenfold-revenue-increase

Intel is investing heavily in Stability AI, a leading developer of open-source AI, providing the startup with an AI supercomputer powered by high-end Xeon processors and more than 4,000 Gaudi2 AI processors.

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New algorithm finds failures and fixes in autonomous systems, from drone teams to power grids https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/new-algorithm-finds-failures-and-fixes-in-autonomous-systems-from-drone-teams-to-power-grids https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/new-algorithm-finds-failures-and-fixes-in-autonomous-systems-from-drone-teams-to-power-grids#respond Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:23:33 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/new-algorithm-finds-failures-and-fixes-in-autonomous-systems-from-drone-teams-to-power-grids

From vehicle collision avoidance to airline scheduling systems to power supply grids, many of the services we rely on are managed by computers. As these autonomous systems grow in complexity and ubiquity, so too could the ways in which they fail.

Now, MIT engineers have developed an approach that can be paired with any , to quickly identify a range of potential failures in that system before they are deployed in the real world. What’s more, the approach can find fixes to the failures, and suggest repairs to avoid system breakdowns.

The team has shown that the approach can root out failures in a variety of simulated autonomous systems, including a small and large network, an aircraft collision avoidance system, a team of rescue drones, and a robotic manipulator. In each of the systems, the new approach, in the form of an automated sampling algorithm, quickly identifies a range of likely failures as well as repairs to avoid those failures.

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Probing the intricate structures of 2D materials at the nanoscale https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/probing-the-intricate-structures-of-2d-materials-at-the-nanoscale https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/probing-the-intricate-structures-of-2d-materials-at-the-nanoscale#respond Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:23:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/probing-the-intricate-structures-of-2d-materials-at-the-nanoscale

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, composed of a single or a few layers of atoms, are at the forefront of material science, promising revolutionary advancements in technology. These ultra-thin materials exhibit unique and exotic properties, particularly when their layers are stacked and twisted in specific ways.

This manipulation of layers can significantly alter their electronic characteristics, presenting exciting opportunities for the development of next-generation technologies such as more efficient computers and reliable electricity storage systems.

Understanding the intricate relationship between the atomic structure and electronic properties of these materials, however, poses a significant challenge. Traditional microscopy techniques struggle to capture the complete 3D atomic structure of these layered materials, especially when the layers are oriented differently or composed of light elements.

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OpenAI’s Altman says today’s AI will be “quaint” by next year, talks GPT-5 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/openais-altman-says-todays-ai-will-be-quaint-by-next-year-talks-gpt-5 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/openais-altman-says-todays-ai-will-be-quaint-by-next-year-talks-gpt-5#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:18:57 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/openais-altman-says-todays-ai-will-be-quaint-by-next-year-talks-gpt-5

Agi, if you can see or hear this. WE Eagerly Await and Welcome Your Arrival!!!


Update from November 9, 2023:

During a Q&A session at OpenAI’s developer conference, Altman reiterated that GPT-5 is not yet concrete. OpenAI still has “a lot” of things to figure out before it can train a model it calls GPT-5, Altman said.

There is no guarantee that it will work, and OpenAI still needs to solve difficult scientific problems and needs more computing power, he said.

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The Evolution of Stretch https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/the-evolution-of-stretch https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/the-evolution-of-stretch#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:18:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/the-evolution-of-stretch

Boston Dynamics Starting from the technological building blocks of Atlas, Stretch has the mobility, power, and intelligence to automate warehousing’s toughest tasks. See how we went from initial idea to a product delivering value in the real world.

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Teaching AI systems to use intuition to find new medicines https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/teaching-ai-systems-to-use-intuition-to-find-new-medicines https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/teaching-ai-systems-to-use-intuition-to-find-new-medicines#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:18:26 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/teaching-ai-systems-to-use-intuition-to-find-new-medicines

A combined team of biomedical researchers from Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and Microsoft Research AI4Science has made inroads into teaching AI systems how to find new medicines. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group used feedback from chemists in the field to provide intuition guidelines for an AI model.

Finding is a notoriously difficult and laborious task. The process for finding new therapies typically involves experts in a variety of fields working on different parts of the problem. Doctors and other medical researchers, for example, must first uncover the roots of a given illness to find its cause. Chemists or other must then find a chemical that might reverse the problem or stop it from happening in the first place.

Both parts of the process take time and effort. In this new project, the research team sought to determine whether AI applications might make the second part easier.

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Communing with nothingness https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/communing-with-nothingness https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/communing-with-nothingness#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:18:12 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/communing-with-nothingness

When you think of empty space, you almost certainly imagine a vacuum in which nothing interesting can ever happen. However, if we zoom in to tiny length scales where quantum effects start to become important, it turns out that what you thought was empty is actually filled at all times with a seething mass of electromagnetic activity, as virtual photons flicker in and out of existence. This unexpected phenomenon is known as the vacuum fluctuation field. However, because these fluctuations of light energy are so small and fleeting in time, it is difficult to find ways for matter to interact with them, especially within a single, integrated device.

In a study published this month in Nano Letters (“Electrical Detection of Ultrastrong Coherent Interaction between Terahertz Fields and Electrons Using Quantum Point Contacts”), researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo succeeded in fabricating a single nanoscale hybrid system for doing exactly this. In their design, a quantum point contact connects a single on-chip split-ring resonator with a two-dimensional electron system.

Quantum Hall edge channels at the quantum point contact. (Image: University of Tokyo)

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An AI just negotiated a contract for the first time ever — and no human was involved https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/an-ai-just-negotiated-a-contract-for-the-first-time-ever-and-no-human-was-involved https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/an-ai-just-negotiated-a-contract-for-the-first-time-ever-and-no-human-was-involved#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 07:22:30 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/11/an-ai-just-negotiated-a-contract-for-the-first-time-ever-and-no-human-was-involved

In a world first, artificial intelligence demonstrated the ability to negotiate a contract autonomously with another artificial intelligence without any human involvement.

British AI firm Luminance developed an AI system based on its own proprietary large language model (LLM) to automatically analyze and make changes to contracts. LLMs are a type of AI algorithm that can achieve general-purpose language processing and generation.

Jaeger Glucina, chief of staff and managing director of Luminance, said the company’s new AI aimed to eliminate much of the paperwork that lawyers typically need to complete on a day-to-day basis.

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