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A Virtual Beings Summit Is Taking Place Today In Hollywood.
"The second Virtual Beings Summit is being held today at the United Talent Agency Theater in Beverly Hills, L.A. The one-day event features demos and presentations by a range of top professionals in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector." << The bullshit factor is very high! Investment banker & Marketing people screaming AI, argh..
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Secretive Bill Gates-backed solar startup announces major breakthrough
"Heliogen is able to achieve these breakthrough temperatures as a result of its technology that uniquely uses advanced computer vision software to hyper-accurately align a large array of mirrors to reflect sunlight to a single target."
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Japanese archaeologists have discovered 143 previously unknown geoglyphs in the Nazca Plateau of Peru. They used machine learning for the ground imaging research: https://www.yamagata-u.ac.jp/en/files/5315/7381/2668/press2019115_02.pdf
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New research from Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research: "Ayahuasca compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state": https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193993/ayahuasca-compound-changes-brainwaves-vivid-wakingdream/
"A total of 13 participants were given an intravenous infusion of DMT. DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain’s electrical activity."
#Comment: The comedy show which is psychedelic science continues. Ever since Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris fell in love with Friston and they are seriously trying to explain subjective experience of highly isolated agent brains with probabilistic (machine learning) models, things are rapidly becoming full Monty Python. Their approaches rely so heavily on myriads of highly arbitrary reductionist choices, it would make any renaissance alchemists giggle. Even DARPA is taking a much more interesting approach at this point and people like Dr. Michael Persinger must be laughing from their graves. I suppose let them dive down the fractal of knowledge in search of some illusive "final hard truth". If mathematicians and neuroscientists would only accept that the thing-in-itself is infinite (not a bug, but its essence) - and that there is everything in infinity (incl. nothing) - their entire house of cards would collapse. The only thing left to-do at that point, is to live a simple, humble and compassionate life.
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"Homo Cyberneticus: The Era of Human-AI Integration" - position paper by Jun Rekimoto, University of Tokyo, Sony CSL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.02637.pdf
#Comment: Generations of researchers feverishly chasing the dream of "merging" with inanimate matter (silicon etc.), eager to trade the living for the dead. From Golem and Frankenstein to Cybernetics and A.I: Necrophilia is the name of the game.
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"At Replica, we’ve developed an AI that can replicate the human voice with a few minutes of speech": https://blog.usejournal.com/introducing-replica-studios-5afbb4455818
"You can train an AI to fake UN speeches in just 13 hours": https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613645/ai-fake-news-deepfakes-misinformation-united-nations/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01946 #Generative #ML #Creativity
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Did scientists get climate change wrong? - Interview by Sabine Hossenfelder with Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford.
Great Interview! Taking into consideration other recent "big picture healthy skepticism's" by Sabine Hossenfelder (such as "The crisis in physics is not only about physics" or "Is Climate Change Inconvenient or Existential? Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math"), i wonder what Sabine's general confidence level is in the current climate models. An extra level of complexity not touched on in this interview, is the inherit highly political nature of climate models, that makes them prime targets for corruption, manipulation and weaponisation. Such "social uncertainties" should likely be factored into the models themselves to make them more robust and realistic - especially given these models are (almost by definition) highly "closed source" and exclusive, due to required specialized personnel, computational resources etc.
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The USPTO wants to know if artificial intelligence can own the content it creates: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20961788/us-government-ai-copyright-patent-trademark-office-notice-artificial-intelligence #Generative #ML #Creativity #Bots
#Comment: A far more interesting question is if angels and disembodied spirits can own the content they create. Generative copyright is peak late capitalist madness at its finest - the works of greedy petty lost souls. I spoke previously about related topics here & here.
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In China, AI can now screen newborns for genetic disorders: https://www.techinasia.com/china-ai-screen-newborns-genetic-disorders
"Chinese scholars have developed AI-powered software that is geared to help screen newborns for genetic disorders through a facial scan. It was designed to detect more than 100 disorders with distinctive facial features"
The new Eugenics movement is as brain-dead as the old one. Scientists as a class are progressively morally bankrupt, following their owners. #Biology #ML #Biotech #SE #China
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Natural image reconstruction from brain waves: a novel visual BCI system with native feedback: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v2.full #BCI #ML #NeuroScience
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Machine-Learning Assisted Directed Evolution - talk by Viviana Gradinaru
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Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790 Medical Data: A Google Focus for More Than a Decade: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2019/11/12/medical-data-a-google-focus-for-more-than-a-decade/
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Deezer source separation library including pretrained models: https://deezer.io/releasing-spleeter-deezer-r-d-source-separation-engine-2b88985e797e code: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter #Generative #ML #Music
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George Church and Eric Schmidt Talk Synthetic Biology at SynBioBeta 2019: https://synbiobeta.com/video-former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-talks-synthetic-biology-at-synbiobeta-2019/
#Comment: A ceremony at high temple of materialism, in a country where techno-capital replaced religion, civil society & sanity. The stark irony of super wealthy Jeffrey Epstein friends discussing how to control the wonders of life with machines owned by very few - in search of profits & the illusive ghost in the shell. Joe Mengele laughing from his grave.
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Few-shot Video-to-Video Synthesis: https://nvlabs.github.io/few-shot-vid2vid/ #ML #Generative
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GPT-2: 1.5B Release: https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/ Reading the following made me really question the sanity of these researchers and/or humanity. Comedy Bullshit Alarm!
"Our partners found that extremist groups can use GPT-2 for misuse, specifically by fine-tuning GPT-2 models on four ideological positions: white supremacy, Marxism, jihadist Islamism, and anarchism. CTEC demonstrated that it’s possible to create models that can generate synthetic propaganda for these ideologies."
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"The Myth of Inevitability" - by Margaret Heffernan, arguing that there's nothing inevitable about the future: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009522 #Technology #ML
"Anyone claiming to know the future is really just trying to own it."
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Deepfakes Paranoia Considered Pointless: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/deepfakes-paranoia-considered-pointless #Generative #ML #Politics
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Computerized fakery intrude onto our reality: https://selforum.blogspot.com/2019/10/computerized-fakery-intrude-onto-our.html
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"Artificial intelligence will soon be able to decode your poop": https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/29/20937108/poop-database-ai-training-photo-upload-first-mit https://seed.com/poop/
Their website makes it quickly clear, that indeed these people are full of shit.
And by writing such a crap headline, this "journalist" made it clear she is full of shit.
