Creativity & Intelligence
Can Artificial Intelligence Be at Par With or Even Surpass Human Intelligence?
Do you think artificial intelligence can ever be at par with or even surpass human intelligence? This is a question that has been debated by scientists and researchers for years, and there is no clear answer. Some experts believe that artificial intelligence will never be able to replicate or exceed human intelligence, while others feel that it is only a matter of time until AI reaches that level. Is AI capable of surpassing human intelligence, or is that something that is forever reserved for humans? You may have heard of the term'artificial intelligence' but what does it actually mean?
Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems
A new AI research company is launching out of stealth today with an ambitious goal: to research the fundamentals of human intelligence that machines currently lack. Called Generally Intelligent, it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems' ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team. "We believe that generally intelligent computers will someday unlock extraordinary potential for human creativity and insight," CEO Kanjun Qiu told TechCrunch in an email interview. "However, today's AI models are missing several key elements of human intelligence, which inhibits the development of general-purpose AI systems that can be deployed safely … Generally Intelligent's work aims to understand the fundamentals of human intelligence in order to engineer safe AI systems that can learn and understand the way humans do." Qiu, the former chief of staff at Dropbox and the co-founder of Ember Hardware, which designed laser displays for VR headsets, co-founded Generally Intelligent in 2021 after shutting down her previous startup, Sourceress, a recruiting company that used AI to scour the web.
Mediamorphosis: How AI is enabling a new paradigm for work and play
Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. Text-to-image AI systems such as DALL-E 2, Imagen and Midjourney are growing in popularity and capability right now, offering creators a revolutionary new way to produce content. Generating images from text prompts is a radical new approach to art-making and creative expression. But it also gives us the first glimpse of a fundamental shift in how we can better communicate and collaborate with our machines.
THIRD EYE DROPS: Art Is Dead, Long Live Art with Android Jones
For rewards and podcast extras, become a patron! Visionary art legend, Android Jones returns for another massive mind meld. This week, we muse about the emerging phenomenon of AI art and what it means for artists and human creativity in general. We also riff on the role of psychedelics in Android's creative process, trying to capture transcendent truth in works of art, and more. Follow and review on Spotify Give us a psychic smooch by leaving us a 5 star review on apple pods!
Cybernetics is the Only Way Robots Can Achieve Human Intelligence
Robotics Industry is constantly rising in this automation world. According to reports, the Indian industrial robotics market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 13.3% between 2019-2024. With its rising industry applications and productivity benefits, the study of cybernetics is likely to be a vital element in the advancement of robotics. The craving for gadgets or machines that can keep up with the challenges of the present world and largely function in simpler and smarter ways is evident. Automation and autonomy have offered this by producing and delivering products and services that contain the least amount of human intervention, making certain jobs more convenient than ever before even when information is incomplete and uncertain.
This AI tool 'threatens human creativity' and the art world is worried
An art-generating artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the internet by storm with the ability to produce fully rendered pieces of "original" artwork in seconds, images that would take professional artists weeks to accomplish. The application is called Stable Diffusion and it has been hailed as a way to "bring creativity to all" by Stability AI, the coders who designed it. The application can create artwork on demand, and all a user has to do is type in a description of what artwork they want before they are given a number of examples to choose from in seconds. The AI-generated art is created via a trawl of professional artwork and photographs that already exist on the internet. A sophisticated algorithm then rearranges this "big data" to create a multitude of new pieces of art that are related to the inputted text prompts.
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The Trouble With AI: Human Intelligence
The trouble with AI is that no one knows what "AI" actually means. The trouble with AI is that it lacks a clear definition, that it suffers from the unique nature of its creators' intelligence and the fuzzy language they use. "Intelligent machines" will not have our imagination, our creativity, our shared experiences and ... [ ] traditions. A definition, according to leading lexicographers (an occupation Samuel Johnson defined as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words"), tells us the meaning of a word, providing us "with precise statement of the essential nature of a thing." But the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) also notes an "obsolete and rare" meaning, namely "The setting of bounds or limits; limitation, restriction."
'Artificial intelligence is a tool for human creativity, not a risk'
Cypriot scientist and academic Xenia Miscouridou speaks to PANIS PIERI about artificial intelligence, data science, working with Google, as well as being involved with research and innovation. It is a fact that Cyprus has amazing scientists around the world. One of these cool but down-to-earth scientists is Xenia Miscouridou. Xenia…
Active Few-Shot Classification: a New Paradigm for Data-Scarce Learning Settings
Abdali, Aymane, Gripon, Vincent, Drumetz, Lucas, Boguslawski, Bartosz
We consider a novel formulation of the problem of Active Few-Shot Classification (AFSC) where the objective is to classify a small, initially unlabeled, dataset given a very restrained labeling budget. This problem can be seen as a rival paradigm to classical Transductive Few-Shot Classification (TFSC), as both these approaches are applicable in similar conditions. We first propose a methodology that combines statistical inference, and an original two-tier active learning strategy that fits well into this framework. We then adapt several standard vision benchmarks from the field of TFSC. Our experiments show the potential benefits of AFSC can be substantial, with gains in average weighted accuracy of up to 10% compared to state-of-the-art TFSC methods for the same labeling budget. We believe this new paradigm could lead to new developments and standards in data-scarce learning settings.