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Mark Rylance & Trudie Styler on AI, Singularity, Othering, Empathy, and Evolution.

Actor Mark Rylance and director/activist Trudie Styler sit down with Kyle Meredith to talk about Spark Hunter, a new audio drama about the world’s most advanced AI having dinner with her maker over a philosophical discussion to determine if she represents a new hope for the world, or its destruction. The two discuss how the Dalai Lama brought them together, what it means to have standing inside the laws of nature, and the points of othering, racism, empathy, and evolution that the spy-drama digs into. Rylance, who also starred in Ready Player One and Don’t Look Up, and Styler also consider if we’ll ever see singularity or if robots should even aspire to be more human, especially considering folks like Elon Musk and his actions.

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Midjourney just got an update, Midjourney V4 and it’s BETTER then DALL-E 2?! Today we compare these two AI text to image AI art generators and find out.

▼ Link(s) From Today’s Video:

✩ Gilbatree’s Video (ft. me!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EadcJIz-E48&t=0s&ab_channel=Glibatree.

✩ Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/home/

✩ DALL-E 2: https://labs.openai.com/

► MattVidPro Website: https://MattVidPro.com.

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A video about neural networks, how they work, and why they’re useful.

My twitter: https://twitter.com/max_romana.

SOURCES
Neural network playground: https://playground.tensorflow.org/

Universal Function Approximation:
Proof: https://cognitivemedium.com/magic_paper/assets/Hornik.pdf.
Covering ReLUs: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/hash/32cbf687880eb…tract.html.
Covering discontinuous functions: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.03016.pdf.

Turing Completeness:
Networks of infinite size are turing complete: Neural Computability I & II (behind a paywall unfourtunately, but is cited in following paper)
RNNs are turing complete: https://binds.cs.umass.edu/papers/1992_Siegelmann_COLT.pdf.
Transformers are turing complete: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.

More on backpropagation:

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X-rays can be used like a superfast, atomic-resolution camera, and if researchers shoot a pair of X-ray pulses just moments apart, they get atomic-resolution snapshots of a system at two points in time. Comparing these snapshots shows how a material fluctuates within a tiny fraction of a second, which could help scientists design future generations of super-fast computers, communications, and other technologies.

Resolving the information in these X-ray snapshots, however, is difficult and time intensive, so Joshua Turner, a lead scientist at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Center and Stanford University, and ten other researchers turned to artificial intelligence to automate the process. Their machine learning-aided method, published October 17 in Structural Dynamics, accelerates this X-ray probing technique, and extends it to previously inaccessible materials.

“The most exciting thing to me is that we can now access a different range of measurements, which we couldn’t before,” Turner said.

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Researchers at the University of West Scotland (UWS) believe that groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) could help reduce winter stresses and demands on hospitals. The innovative approach, using AI, would automatically diagnose lung diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis.

The research was published in the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.

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COURTS across the globe are braced for a surge in cases related to AI in years to come as the technology develops at a rapid pace.

Officials are scrambling to come up with new laws on how the advanced systems should be kept in check and ultimately who is responsible for what they do or create.

We recently heard about AI-generated art that won a competition in Colorado, leading to a backlash and questions about fairness.

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories about multiple vulnerabilities in software from ETIC Telecom, Nokia, and Delta Industrial Automation.

Prominent among them is a set of three flaws affecting ETIC Telecom’s Remote Access Server (RAS), which “could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information and compromise the vulnerable device and other connected machines,” CISA said.

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Teleportation became a bit more real on Saturday when a German team of data scientists and engineers won the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition in Long Beach, California, with a four-wheeled, humanoid robot named NimbRo.

But in this form of teleportation, rather than transporting a human to a remote location, vision, hearing, and a sense of touch were wirelessly transmitted from a humanoid robot to a remote human operator who then directed the robot to complete a series of complex tasks.

“Telepresence and avatar technology will be an essential part of human progress in the decades to come,” said David Locke, ANA Avatar XPRIZE’s executive director said in a statement following the conclusion of the four-year competition.

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