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Are You an AI Doomer?. We're all gonna die and other AI…

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I was recently recommended to watch an interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky created by YouTubers and all-round crypto smart guys David and Ryan from "Bankless", a crypto and blockchain education company. Here's the link if you have a spare two hours, it's an equally scary and fascinating watch: I used to obsessively watch Bankless videos back in 2021 during the last crypto/NFT boom, but since the bear market of 2022 set in, I kind of lost some of my mojo for crypto. Anyhow, this video, was a dramatic departure from the Bankless crew's regular weekly roundup of the crypto markets, where they get deep into the weeds of the latest developments in the space. Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.


ChatGPT: New AI system, old bias?

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Every time a new application of AI is announced, I feel a short-lived rush of excitement -- followed soon after by a knot in my stomach. This is because I know the technology, more often than not, hasn't been designed with equity in mind. One system, ChatGPT, has reached 100 million unique users just two months after its launch. The text-based tool engages users in interactive, friendly, AI-generated exchanges with a chatbot that has been developed to speak authoritatively on any subject it's prompted to address. In an interview with Michael Barbaro on the The Daily podcast from the New York Times, tech reporter Kevin Roose described how an app similar to ChatGPT, Bing's AI chatbot, which also is built on OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, responded to his request for a suggestion on a side dish to accompany French onion soup for Valentine's Day dinner with his wife.


Tesla patents virtualization and machine learning software to improve FSD

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Tesla has applied for a set of patents that are set to significantly improve virtualization, recognition, and Full Self Driving overall. Tesla has worked tirelessly to improve full self-driving technology in the first two months of the year. Most recently, Tesla pushed its most significant improvement to employees, v11.3. Still, with new patented technology, the software is set to continue to improve dramatically this year. The two patents, focusing on virtualization and machine learning, appeared in the U.S. Patent Office database late last week.


Learning Large Neighborhood Search for Vehicle Routing in Airport Ground Handling

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Dispatching vehicle fleets to serve flights is a key task in airport ground handling (AGH). Due to the notable growth of flights, it is challenging to simultaneously schedule multiple types of operations (services) for a large number of flights, where each type of operation is performed by one specific vehicle fleet. To tackle this issue, we first represent the operation scheduling as a complex vehicle routing problem and formulate it as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model. Then given the graph representation of the MILP model, we propose a learning assisted large neighborhood search (LNS) method using data generated based on real scenarios, where we integrate imitation learning and graph convolutional network (GCN) to learn a destroy operator to automatically select variables, and employ an off-the-shelf solver as the repair operator to reoptimize the selected variables. Experimental results based on a real airport show that the proposed method allows for handling up to 200 flights with 10 types of operations simultaneously, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, the learned method performs consistently accompanying different solvers, and generalizes well on larger instances, verifying the versatility and scalability of our method.


LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We introduce LLaMA, a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters. We train our models on trillions of tokens, and show that it is possible to train state-of-the-art models using publicly available datasets exclusively, without resorting to proprietary and inaccessible datasets. In particular, LLaMA-13B outperforms GPT-3 (175B) on most benchmarks, and LLaMA-65B is competitive with the best models, Chinchilla-70B and PaLM-540B. We release all our models to the research community.


ChatGPT vs The World

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In a fair world, technology should be accessible to all and used for humanity's betterment. However, there is a growing concern that AI could be monopolised for vested interests by large corporations. This is why open sourcing is paramount. ChatGPT, the popular chatbot by OpenAI, has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in AI. In just five days since its launch, approximately one million individuals engaged with the bot and it is expected that the number will soon reach the billion mark.


When ChatGPT Writes Bios for People, They're Littered With Fabrications

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Indeed, when other Futurism employees asked the AI to write a bio, theirs were similarly littered with incorrect information. The author of this piece, Maggie Harrison, apparently studied "physics and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)," has written "several influential books," and was even named one of Forbes' yearly "30 under 30" winners. But the chatbot's penchant for resume embellishment doesn't just apply to Futurism employees. When Gary N. Smith, an economist and Pomona College professor who recently co-wrote an essay for Salon arguing that generative AI is doomed to be an economic bubble, asked ChatGPT to write a bio for him, the bot only got one thing right: the fact that he was a professor at Pomona College. The rest of the AI-generated bio, however, despite sounding really nice -- according to ChatGPT, Smith has "served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and United Nations Development Program" and has been "awarded numerous honors for his work in economics, including the Founder's Award from the Claremont Graduate University in 2010" -- was, according to Smith, entirely fabricated. The same goes for a growing number of netizens, some of whom have taken to Twitter to lampoon ChatGPT for their made-up life stories.


Should a fourth light be added to traffic signals for autonomous cars?

FOX News

Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how to save money on gas. What do you think of a fourth traffic light color being added to traffic signals for self-driving vehicles to help control traffic flow? I get that one day a bunch of connected autonomous cars may outnumber human beings behind the wheel. The thing is, it would tick me off to no end if somehow traffic lights allowed driverless cars an advantage over those driven by you and me. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER A recent study was published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, arguing for exactly that.


After Not Having Sex for Years, I Was Supposed to Hate an Obsession Men Have Nowadays. I Don't--I Kind of Love It.

Slate

Feeld Notes is a column about a middle-aged woman who suddenly realizes she wants to have sex again--and the beguiling app she uses to do it. I know that women aren't supposed to like dick pics. Themselves? (Guys my age never seem to send them.) I'm know I'm supposed to get upset about them. Take them as an affront.


Artificial Intelligence and Architecture: An Alliance for the Future - Scoopearth.com

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Today I would like to talk about the impact of artificial intelligence on architecture in 2023. Chat gpt completely changed the way of working. Its reputation grew from 0 to 1 million users in just 5 days, which is a differential record for any other platform in the world. In reference to Instagram, it took two months to reach one million users. Lately there has been a lot of boom in architecture and artificial intelligence, in recent years some people think that it is about to transform the world we live in in unimaginable ways and others are a little less optimistic.