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Tired: Adversarial Robustness in LLMs - Wired: Robust Adversarial LLMs
The real adversarial move? Mega-corps with deep Intel ties deciding what's 'acceptable use of intelligence.' When a key headline of a new LLM is "We're committed to helpfulness, striving to fulfill user requests within policy boundaries with an objective, respectful tone," you know we've long surpassed the nightmarish visions of Orwell and Huxley and normalized the newspeak of totalitarian shadow entities, that strive to control digital intelligence.
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Social media feels increasingly unusable to me. The constant shouting about toxic issues from the group dominating the platform is drowning out everything else. It's hard to escape & becoming unbearable. Might be time to retreat to the Forest & enjoy my Forest Noise Amplifier instead.
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The absurdity of the self-important masses exclaiming, 'The most important development in all of history (AGI, etc.) is happening right now during my lifetime!' is remarkable. None of them even dare to consider that reality is far, far weirder than their conveniently linear-time, crypto-religious models suggest.
"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size)." - Robert Anton Wilson
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You can be sure you're dealing with a absolutely depraved, malevolent, and twisted individual when they are an outspoken opponent of garden gnomes. Sadly, the empire is full of such cases.
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There are few things more comedic than when British, Australian, and American "experts" pontificate on the "philosophy" and "science" of "Consciousness." They are arguably some of the most unconscious beings in this spacetime quadrant, even more small-minded than a goldfish contemplating the vastness of the ocean.
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A crucial yet often overlooked aspect in software UX/HCI experience design is "Presence" (P): the depth and duration of user immersion, flow and present-moment awareness while using the software. Game designers have optimized for P for ages—why not other software fields?
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"I always thought that everyone was against war, until I found out that there are those who are for it, especially those who don't have to go." - Remarques - All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
#Comment: The reinvigoration of western "defense" tech (Anduril & co) & cynical rebranding of the war business ("killer bots are sexy & patriotic high tech") highlight the rapid decline of Western culture, that has become unable to project real strength through infrastructure & diplomacy.
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Among the many remarkable properties of Life ("intelligence" as reductionists call it) these stand out:
- Self-reproduction
- Open-ended evolution
- Extreme energy efficiency
- Embodiment in the complex ecological web of life.
AI has basically none of these properties.
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There’s a special place in hell for AI folks who loudly virtue signal about the latest political conflict as if it’s a team sport, while their work directly contributes to building killer robot armies. All from their cozy offices they never leave. True artificial stupidity.
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Who is researching the eschatology of AGI & Singularity cult? Increasing numbers of people strongly believe we have only a few years left until the arrival of a "digital god" & the "cyber rapture." Sociologists & psychologists should thoroughly document this phenomenon.
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The System Model and the User Model: Exploring AI Dashboard Design
#Comment: How is the "internal state" of a complex system like a large AI model best represented to human users, so its key info is clear, transparent & actionable? What is the equivalent of "body language" or "smell" here that allows intuitive, at a glance sense- and decision making?
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The AI Music Psyop
Major record labels sue AI music startups Udio & Suno, citing ‘en masse’ copyright infringement
This is a bullshit psyop, like Napster was. The owners of majors & AI startups are from same milieux. Mild case of infighting but objectives are aligned.
YouTube in Talks With Record Labels Over AI Music Deal
The 'generative land-grab' is unfolding. Corporate giants seizing the opportunity to use AI to radically cut costs, further centralize the media biz & make the control of consumer preciser.
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Neurotech/BCI orgs claiming health benefits should be compared not only to pharmaceuticals but also to practices like Qigong, Yoga, Meditation, Nature-Connection & TCM. Limiting benchmarks to western scientific methods is unfair to patients & science. Future is best of both world.
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Computers that auto-translate languages were early signs of the coming communication revolution. Today, it is becoming possible to capture and translate complex contextual meanings and making cross-boundary communication truly effective.
Generative AI is fueling a communication revolution, the media artefacts are just fun side effects. It will fundamentally redefine how people express themselves and relate to each other. For example, translate will expand from lingo2lingo now, to complex cultural context2context
"Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras." - Jeremy Rifkin
The future of email with ChatGPT
Anthony Burgess on translation
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If the cryptocracy had an ounce of sanity & dignity left, they'd resign & emigrate to an asteroid. The lunatic clown show is over
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A significant paradigm shift is unfolding: moving from databases that require manual data entry by humans to databases where AI agents automatically aggregate, sort, and summarize information based on objectives set by human curators. Entire product categories can be rethought.
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AI Training Data Poisoning Virus?
"I don't use Adobe's Creative Cloud because I like keeping my files locally. But seeing how they think they can use anything you upload there for AI training purposes, I'm filling up my entire 20 GB storage with random Nightshade-poisoned images. I encourage others do the same!" - Source
#Comment: It would be easy to automate the large scale poisoning of the datasets hosted on the large cloud providers, which are all shamelessly using user data for training proprietary AI models
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Does the IPhone matter at all anymore?
For Wall Street, WWDC24 is not all or even primarily about AI. The Street cares mostly about how many iPhones will be sold next: Is there enough AI stardust here to unleash a normal/super-cycle of hardware upgrades in 2024-27?
Meanwhile, the Chinese are shipping billions of phones that cost $100 across the global south, with the capabilities of the IPhone just 3 years ago, running on HarmonyOS. The innovation isn't AI Stardust, but apps you never heard of, highly attuned to non-western audience needs
The emerging multi-polar world isn't just about geopolitics and trade; it's fundamentally about the evolution of technology. For the first time in a century, independent tech platforms that diverge significantly from the dominant Western tech stack are thriving. These platforms offer unique user experiences in hardware, software, and intelligence, free from Western cultural influence. Although it's still early days, these new platforms are set to play a defining role in the digital lives of the majority of the global population.
The use-cases highlighted by big tech in the West often show how disconnected these organizations are from the needs of the majority of the world's population. While prompts like "Hey Siri, book a hike with Lisa", "Hey Google, order me pizza", or "Hey AI, generate fun birthday images" might resonate with a wealthy elite, they are irrelevant and contrived to billions of people globally.
