tag > ML
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Was asked today by a ghost from the past about my knowledge of "any teams/companies/individuals who you think do a really good job of providing context for health information". My comment:
Regarding teams that provide context to health info (ML & beyond): I've done my research deep dives on this general topic and have some hunches - fairly obvious insights, nothing particularly groundbreaking. But frankly this entire space is completely full of spooks/intel/military/mafia front-orgs and front-people: From the early days of Tavistock etc. all the way to the digital twining of entire populations under permanent bio-signals surveillance, and the altering of bio/psycho-dynamics of masses as part of new types of "currencies" on the "internet of bodies", all under the framework of full-spectrum dominance extended to all aspects of biological life on earth. As i personally believe in the profound power of relaxation and am a life long explorer of that path, i find this all far to stressful and hence stay far away. From my perspective meditation, relaxation and true kindness and care are more effective than all of the Bio-AI-intelligence-blabla in the world. But ultimately, everybody has to follow their own path and truth - and I'm not here to preach but to practice.
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Synthetic people living in artificial realities, powered by real energy
We are in the middle of a global energy crisis, people in the EU struggling to keep their houses warm, and the technology community is hyper-scaling their totally mindless use of electricity mostly for entertainment purposes. SNAFU. WTF. (Image generated with Stable Diffusion - prompt: "A woman warms herself up with her Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090")
#Technology #ML #Generative #Crypto #Infrastructure #Comment
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The Art Singularity is near...
A dirty secret of "AI Art" is that for every generated image a significant amount of energy was used, as modern GPU's (like Nvidia's A100, etc.) are electricity hungry. If we imagine a relationship between "Electrical energy used (on average) to create an art piece" and the "Value (cultural, entertainment, etc.) of an art piece", the trend over the past 100 years is wild...
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Product Requests
WANT: A system for Active Listening. The opportunity & challenges are significant.
WANT: A system for active noise cancellation in open spaces. Been researching this for some time and its a wicked challenging problem, but in theory tractable.
#ML #Technology #Design #Augmentation #Music #Science #Culture
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On Meditation and Open-endedness
"That is why I think meditation and relaxation research is in effect open-endedness research: because a deeply open-ended process is inevitable when humans introspect in the real world, understanding what it means to constrain processes that are fundamentally unconstrainable."
Was my comment in reaction to:
And finally, Niti's comment in reaction to mine:
As you have said before, decentering the seat of consciousness from the brain to flow through to the rest of body is a disruptive process, and I highly recommend its practice.
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Generative Storytelling Media
Predication: If you put a ML "story+image generator" into a tight feedback loop with humans that co-steer it in real-time (by speaking & sketching) - you get a new entertainment genre, distantly related to RPG's. This new form of storytelling will be very popular in a few years.
ML Generated short story and images, by @GanWeaving:
'The man and the dog are sitting in the front room watching the washing machine spin round and round. Every now and then, the dog barks at the machine as if it's doing something wrong. The man just laughs and shakes his head.'
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Notes from a children's playlab with DALL-E
"Turns out we were absolutely wrong about them getting excited by AI-generated images, unsurprisingly. Children in our group were not really impressed by the generative power of AI."
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Embrace randomness: Image generated with Stable Diffusion. Prompt: "ß9t3jetß0ßoj́mk09vUJ=93ju9jq3poitv+POJTOP3 ß9k2j3t922ktoqp+jtp+potjmpoTJOP"
Hail Eris! #Generative #ML #fnord
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The evolution of Interfaces
To those that believe the future of Human-Computer-Interfaces is mainly a text box with which we prompt magical A.I's, consider how interfaces like musical instruments engage all our senses/modalities and train our entire brain/body. Let's not loose this richness but build on it.
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Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight A's. If only 15% of the goals of the ML community become true, an entirely new education system is required asap.
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A.I Ghosts
A.I & the Paranormal have a lot in common: Both are based on a belief that when the electromagnetic spectrum is structured in very specific way, it gives rise to autonomous intelligent entities. Agents & Daemons - the concept is the same, just 1 pretends it is contained in a box.
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Generative Webdesign
I suspect right now a couple of teams are training generative ML models that are geared towards web design. Soon enough infinite site design variations can be produced with just a few prompts. Will it break the web design trend that all sites look very similar - or make it worse?
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A Boulevard trash headline and article? Yes, sure. Yet, it refers to a research paper written by Marcus Hutter et.al, currently at Deepmind, that is worth taking serious and carries the same basic message. Very few in the AI community have the foresight and courage to see and name the monster than is being concocted in hidden corners. Troubling how few critical voices are speaking up.
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Is the A.I industry a monoculture?
I've worked in the machine learning sector for many years - at giant corporations and small startups. One thing that strikes me as true everywhere, is that the A.I industry is dominated by young men, which have very similar educational & socioeconomic backgrounds and related interests & hobbies. Women, older people and people with unusual career paths are a rare anomaly in A.I, to name just a few examples that illustrate the lack of diversity. Is the A.I industry a monoculture? And if so, what are the implications of that for the industry & world?
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What are the effects of Generative Media on Human Psychology?
I want to read a study on the effects of prolonged exposure to ML generated images. Interested in questions such:
- Do people start to question the "realness" of non-generated images?
- Do generated images show up in people's dreams?
- Does the perceived value of images change?
- etc. etc.
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The Generative media spam wars have started: "Artists begin selling AI-generated artwork on stock photography websites" - "Shutterstock Is Removing AI-Generated Images"
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Revelations
When it comes to tech relevant for the military industrial complex, revelation is a more useful term than invention. Consider Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) was likely created over 60y ago, through wetware interfaces.
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Great interfaces help people grow their skills and not become addicted
People learning about Art history by engaging with ML generative media system is amazing! Opportunity: Great interfaces/UX help users grow & level-up innate skills while using augmentation software - acting like "scaffolding" that minimizes addictions / dependencies over time.
