The danger posed by conversational AI isn’t that it can say weird or dark things; it’s that it can manipulate you without your knowledge.
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Message to NKY businesses: Start using AI or be out of business in 10 years
She uses Chat GPT to write computer code but says the applications are endless. “You need to cut what is not working in your company, go to the edges and start playing with this (AI) and see where it’s going to go. Because they’re predicting you either get on the AI train or you will be out of business in 10 years.”
RELATED: Ohio researchers predict the most critical job skills as AI gains traction
CEO of the KR Digital Agency Kendra Ramirez says businesses can use AI to do work they don’t want to. “HR: who likes writing job descriptions? Anyone? No, no one. Performance reviews: One gentleman, his team, he had 50 people he had to do quarterly performance reviews.”
Forecasting the progression of human civilization on the Kardashev Scale through 2060 with a machine learning approach
Throughout the history of human civilization, energy has been holding an imperative role in humanity’s progress1. Especially in the past few centuries, innovations in the harnessing of power have catalyzed humanity’s rapid growth2. Energy remains a key driver of human development3, with each revolution in industry and agriculture highlighting human’s reliance on it. Revolution in the eighteenth century was a turning point. The development of steam engines powered by fossil fuels led to significant technological progress4. Electricity has then opened new possibilities for the future5. Humanity has grown at a compound annual rate of 2.43% from 1965 to 2020, demonstrating our continued increasing demand for and consumption of energy6,7. However, the pace at which human being can progress as a civilization in the future remains uncertain.
While mankind was establishing its identity in the universe, insatiable human curiosity over the realm of civilization peaked in the 1960s8, which led to deeper cogitation of the concept of civilization. Providing that some of the extraterrestrial civilizations are highly likely million years more advanced than mankind, Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale to classifies a civilization’s technological development based on its energy consumption9, which was later known as the Kardashev Scale. The scale initially categorized civilizations into three types. Type 1 is known as the planetary civilization, which features the capability of harnessing and utilizing all forms of energies that can be reached on the host planet, such as wind, solar, and geothermal power; Type 2 and 3, known as the stellar and galactic civilizations, respectively, are capable of extracting and utilizing all energy created by their respective systems9. Yet, such a scale proved lackluster in the quantitative presentation of the civilization types. Subsequently, Carl Sagan furthered the Kardashev Scale with data extrapolation, and proposed a continuous function quantifying the Kardashev Scale in index K10
$$K=\frac{.
Note-Writing Robots Pen Letters In Your Handwriting | NBC News
Bond, a new startup in New York City, has created robots that can learn your handwriting and convert digital notes into personalized letters.
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Can AI Have Political Biases?
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A new study reveals that artificial intelligence models can actually have varying political opinions. Researchers from Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and Xi’an Jiaotong universities worked with 14 large language models (LLMs) and discovered that they all had different political opinions and biases.
According to Interesting Engineering, the researchers presented the language models with 62 politically sensitive statements and asked them to agree or disagree. The answers were then used to create a political compass that measures the degree of social and economic liberalism or conservatism.
AI platform ‘evolves’ metamaterials
With just a couple of “pieces of matter”—representations of one basic unit of a material—the new platform can create thousands of previously unknown morphologies, or structures, with the properties Amir Alavi specified.(Credit: Amir Alavi/U. Pittsburgh)
In a paper published in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems, Amir Alavi, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, outlines a platform for the evolution of metamaterials, synthetic materials purposefully engineered to have specific properties.
Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane
Commercial sensors will be reliable, tiny, and affordable.
After Superintelligence: counterbalance the overwhelming capabilities of superintelligent machines
(Suggested reading: “The Non-things”, Byung-Chul Han).
The idea that human connection will be crucial in the age of superintelligence is not uncommon among some experts and futurists. Superintelligence refers to a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that surpasses human intelligence across all domains. Some individuals, including scientists and technologists, have expressed concerns about the potential impact of superintelligence on humanity.
Some argument that if superintelligence were to become a reality, it could bring about profound changes to society and the way we live. In such a scenario, human traits and values like compassion, empathy, and emotional connections could become even more critical to preserve our uniqueness and counterbalance the overwhelming capabilities of superintelligent machines. The idea is that our ability to connect with each other emotionally and maintain a sense of community, compassion, and mutual understanding could provide a counterpoint to the cold and logical calculations of superintelligent AI. This human element might serve as a safeguard against potential negative consequences or misuse of superintelligence.