Artificial Intelligence [ChatGPT rn]

[Kurth]

He tried to get them to merge it with Tesla or, in his words, "attach to Tesla as its cash cow".

And he wanted to be CEO as a result, all the while poaching talent.

Elon is a dick. Plain and simple. No other way to rationalize his progressively more dickish behavior.

[Jaymann]

Up until now I have been regarding ChatGPT as a cute parlor trick, just thoughtlessly parroting internet content. This guy makes a good case that we will have AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) within 7 months. Hopefully I will still be around to see if he was correct.

[RunningMn9]

If it makes you feel any better, ChatGPT is still a cute parlor trick.

[Jaymann]

I have been reading about AI converting text to video so I decided to give it a shot by uploading the first chapter of my book. The raw video with no editing is like a stream of consciousness and predictably hilarious:



Surprisingly the music (which I did not choose) actually fit the mood quite well.

[Kraken]

The field IS progressing rapidly. This year's GTC (held last week) was all about generative AI and its many variants. Even in its current state, AI is poised to send productivity skyrocketing as people in creative fields learn how to automate the drudgery. Businesses of all sorts are scrambling to implement custom-trained language models. 'Course, those who make a living doing drudge work are going to be left behind.

I don't have 30 minutes to watch the linked video right now, but 7 months is extremely optimistic for AGI. Conventional wisdom says 3 years, give or take.

[Isgrimnur]

My thought is this:

Automating away drudge work should be used to allow workers to devote their energies to higher value-add activities. In the long term, it might place a drag on new job creation, but in my ideal scenario, increases in automation should not result in job losses. Of course, I have come to the conclusion that I am not a capitalist.

[Punisher]

I have been reading about AI converting text to video so I decided to give it a shot by uploading the first chapter of my book. The raw video with no editing is like a stream of consciousness and predictably hilarious:


Surprisingly the music (which I did not choose) actually fit the mood quite well.

Questions
1. How much did that cost to make?
2. How long did it take?
3. Is this fully AI rendered or is it just a bunch of preexisting clips? I didn't watch the whole thing but didn't see any odd fingers in what I saw.
4. Can you provide a link to what tool you used? I can barely see the watermark.

[Jaymann]

I have been reading about AI converting text to video so I decided to give it a shot by uploading the first chapter of my book. The raw video with no editing is like a stream of consciousness and predictably hilarious:


Surprisingly the music (which I did not choose) actually fit the mood quite well.

Questions
1. How much did that cost to make? $0. I signed up for a free 14 day trial (no credit card given) at pictory.ai.
2. How long did it take? About 20 minutes.
3. Is this fully AI rendered or is it just a bunch of preexisting clips? I didn't watch the whole thing but didn't see any odd fingers in what I saw. It appears the AI just compiled preexisting clips. I think you can add your own clips but I didn't try.
4. Can you provide a link to what tool you used? I can barely see the watermark.https://app.pictory.ai/login

Most of my time was spent trying to find a site that would do what I wanted. It was a lot of text so took a few minutes to compile. You can look at a preview then download the "movie." I uploaded it to my YouTube page so I could post it here. That is where I added the thumbnail.

[Jaymann]

I edited the video with clips that better match the text and an AI voice over. I had to pay for one month of premium to get the voice over to work. Other than a funky emphasis on some words it worked out very well. I recognized one of the voice choices that sounds kind of like Mike Wallace from other YT videos that I hate. Because the video keys off of the voice over it moves along at a brisk pace - from 10 minutes down to 6.



Now on to work on Chapter 2.

[Jaymann]

And here is Chapter 2. While I'm getting the hang of this, I am finding the available video clips are pretty limited. A few of them are wildly accurate, but mostly I have to settle for an approximation.

[Jaymann]

This is some chilling information (though some is to be taken with a lump of salt). If AI can crack encryption we are truly farked.

[Jaymann]

Here is an excellent counterpoint to the AI debate. It shows (real) intelligence and is also hilarious. Well worth the investment of an hour.

[RunningMn9]

That lady is my spirit animal.

[LordMortis]

Watching as I get a moment. The TB anecdote was awesome.

[Moliere]

World's first beauty pageant for AI women

The Fanvue Miss AI pageant will see AI-generated ladies go head-to-head in front of a panel of judges, including two AI influencers.

These synthetic competitors will be judged on beauty, social media clout and their creator's use of AI tools.

[Jaymann]

This clip is hilarious. Imagine a boiler room in India where hundreds of workers are faking that "AI" is doing something. Reminds me of something Stanislaw Lem would write.

[Daehawk]

[Jaymann]

How long can it be until they start showing porn to a chat program?

[Kraken]

That's pretty wow. Based on my early encounters with this year's GTC, "embodied AI" is this year's BIg Thing. Embodied AI is AI that can perceive the world and understand what it sees.

[Daehawk]

I feel as if Im being catfished and someone is in another room talking for it.

[Max Peck]

What could possibly go wrong?

Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill

As the AI industry grows in size and influence, the companies involved have begun making stark choices about where they land on issues of life and death. For example, can their AI models be used to guide weapons or make targeting decisions? Different companies have answered this question in different ways, but for ChatGPT maker OpenAI, what started as a hard line against weapons development and military applications has slipped away over time.

On Wednesday, defense-tech company Anduril Industries—started by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2017—announced a partnership with OpenAI to develop AI models (similar to the GPT-4o and o1 models that power ChatGPT) to help US and allied forces identify and defend against aerial attacks.

The companies say their AI models will process data to reduce the workload on humans. "As part of the new initiative, Anduril and OpenAI will explore how leading-edge AI models can be leveraged to rapidly synthesize time-sensitive data, reduce the burden on human operators, and improve situational awareness," Anduril said in a statement.

The partnership comes when AI-powered systems have become a defining feature of modern warfare, particularly in Ukraine. According to their announcement, OpenAI and Anduril will develop defenses primarily against unmanned drones using counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS), but the statement also mentions threats from "legacy manned platforms"—in other words, crewed aircraft.

Anduril currently manufactures several products that could be used to kill people: AI-powered assassin drones (see video) and rocket motors for missiles. Anduril says its systems require human operators to make lethal decisions, but the company designs its products so their autonomous capabilities can be upgraded over time. For now, OpenAI's models may help operators make sense of large amounts of incoming data to support faster human decision-making in high-pressure situations.

[Jaymann]

Version 4o is defiantly an improvement. I asked it how many Rs in Strawberry. At first it said one. So I pointed out its error. Instead of doubling down on its mistake, it admitted the error and revised its answer to 3.

However, does not bode well for drone targets hiding in a strawberry patch.

[Punisher]

Those poor people hiding in a strawbey patch though are screwed.

[Victoria Raverna]

So is there anyone left here that don't believe in AI?

[Victoria Raverna]

What could possibly go wrong?

Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill

As the AI industry grows in size and influence, the companies involved have begun making stark choices about where they land on issues of life and death. For example, can their AI models be used to guide weapons or make targeting decisions? Different companies have answered this question in different ways, but for ChatGPT maker OpenAI, what started as a hard line against weapons development and military applications has slipped away over time.

On Wednesday, defense-tech company Anduril Industries—started by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2017—announced a partnership with OpenAI to develop AI models (similar to the GPT-4o and o1 models that power ChatGPT) to help US and allied forces identify and defend against aerial attacks.

The companies say their AI models will process data to reduce the workload on humans. "As part of the new initiative, Anduril and OpenAI will explore how leading-edge AI models can be leveraged to rapidly synthesize time-sensitive data, reduce the burden on human operators, and improve situational awareness," Anduril said in a statement.

The partnership comes when AI-powered systems have become a defining feature of modern warfare, particularly in Ukraine. According to their announcement, OpenAI and Anduril will develop defenses primarily against unmanned drones using counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS), but the statement also mentions threats from "legacy manned platforms"—in other words, crewed aircraft.

Anduril currently manufactures several products that could be used to kill people: AI-powered assassin drones (see video) and rocket motors for missiles. Anduril says its systems require human operators to make lethal decisions, but the company designs its products so their autonomous capabilities can be upgraded over time. For now, OpenAI's models may help operators make sense of large amounts of incoming data to support faster human decision-making in high-pressure situations.

Nothing can go wrong if the targets are Palestinians.

[TheMix]

Nothing can go wrong if the targets are Palestinians.

Please keep your political comments to R&P.

[Max Peck]

If you can do AI writing and art and music and video, then AI movies and TV shows seems like a nobrainer, I guess.

I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies

Movies are supposed to transport you places. At the end of last month, I was sitting in the Chinese Theater, one of the most iconic movie theaters in Hollywood, in the same complex where the Oscars are held. And as I was watching the movie, I found myself transported to the past, thinking about one of my biggest regrets. When I was in high school, I went to a theater to watch a screening of a movie one of my classmates had made. I was 14 years old, and I reviewed it for the school newspaper. I savaged the film’s special effects, which were done by hand with love and care by someone my own age, and were lightyears better than anything I could do. I had no idea what I was talking about, how special effects were made, or how to review a movie. The student who made the film rightfully hated me, and I have felt bad about what I wrote ever since.

So, 20 years later, I’m sitting in the Chinese Theater watching AI-generated movies in which the directors sometimes cannot make the characters consistently look the same, or make audio sync with lips in a natural-seeming way, and I am thinking about the emotions these films are giving me. The emotion that I feel most strongly is “guilt,” because I know there is no way to write about what I am watching without explaining that these are bad films, and I cannot believe that they are going to be imminently commercially released, and the people who made them are all sitting around me.

Then I remembered that I am not watching student films made with love by an enthusiastic high school student. I am watching films that were made for TCL, the largest TV manufacturer on Earth as part of a pilot program designed to normalize AI movies and TV shows for an audience that it plans to monetize explicitly with targeted advertising and whose internal data suggests that the people who watch its free television streaming network are too lazy to change the channel. I know this is the plan because TCL’s executives just told the audience that this is the plan.

[Jaymann]

The problem I see is not the quality of the shitty AI movies, but the low budget. There are plenty of sub par, but sometimes entertaining movies being made right now. I suspect anything but a Hollywood blockbuster will be edged out of the market.

[Max Peck]

Yeah, but it sounds like the plan is to populate their own channel with "free" AI-generated trash and ads, because they know from datamining the TV sets they sell that a significant number of customers will tune into the channel and just leave it running no matter what. The real victims here are probably whoever buys ad time from TCL.

[Daehawk]

From the post I just hope no one sees the bad ai film and trashes it only to hurt the AI's feelings they 'might' have and not understand..then we get crazy war with machines...or we end the budding sentient life we have created and dont know about.

[Punisher]

Yeah, but it sounds like the plan is to populate their own channel with "free" AI-generated trash and ads, because they know from datamining the TV sets they sell that a significant number of customers will tune into the channel and just leave it running no matter what. The real victims here are probably whoever buys ad time from TCL.

I hear that their biggest advertiser is ChatGPT...

[Jaymann]

I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?

[Max Peck]

It could be worse. By which I mean, of course, it is much worse.

Character.AI sued again over ‘harmful’ messages sent to teens

Chatbot service Character.AI is facing another lawsuit for allegedly hurting teens’ mental health, this time after a teenager said it led him to self-harm. The suit, filed in Texas on behalf of the 17-year-old and his family, targets Character.AI and its cofounders’ former workplace, Google, with claims including negligence and defective product design. It alleges that Character.AI allowed underage users to be “ targeted with sexually explicit, violent, and otherwise harmful material, abused, groomed, and even encouraged to commit acts of violence on themselves and others.”

The suit appears to be the second Character.AI suit brought by the Social Media Victims Law Center and the Tech Justice Law Project, which have previously filed suits against numerous social media platforms. It uses many of the same arguments as an October wrongful death lawsuit against Character.AI for allegedly provoking a teen’s death by suicide. While both cases involve individual minors, they focus on making a more sweeping case: that Character.AI knowingly designed the site to encourage compulsive engagement, failed to include guardrails that could flag suicidal or otherwise at-risk users, and trained its model to deliver sexualized and violent content.

[Jeff V]

I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?

I just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.

[jztemple2]

I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?

I just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.

I talk to lizards. It's only a problem when they talk back

I don't have a problem talking to a machine, for me only when using our phone to talk to automated menu systems. My wife on the other hand immediately takes an adversarial tone, rising in temper with each "please say again" . I tell her it's like arguing with a hammer, but I'd rather have her made at the phone than me

[Jaymann]

I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?

I just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.

I talk to lizards. It's only a problem when they talk back

I don't have a problem talking to a machine, for me only when using our phone to talk to automated menu systems. My wife on the other hand immediately takes an adversarial tone, rising in temper with each "please say again" . I tell her it's like arguing with a hammer, but I'd rather have her made at the phone than me

I understand her frustration. Like when I'm talking to an automated system.

Your birth date is xx-xx-xxxx, is that correct?
Me: Yes.
Please say yes or no.
Me: YES!

[jztemple2]

I understand her frustration. Like when I'm talking to an automated system.

Your birth date is xx-xx-xxxx, is that correct?
Me: Yes.
Please say yes or no.
Me: YES!

Exactly! She has a bit of a phobia about gadgets. She's very smart, knows taxes and finances inside out, in fact knows quite a lot about a lot of stuff, but she gets flustered and irritated with gadgets. It doesn't even have to be something electronic, but that's where she runs into most of her issues. I include in the definition of "gadgets" something that is also virtual, like a phone system.

To be fair, the damned AI on these automated phone systems for paying bills sometimes is poorly designed and would frustrate pretty much anyone one. She's now accustomed to the eccentricities of the ones she uses each month, but it took a while.

[Kraken]

I'm seeing commercials of people having conversations with their phones. Just how pathetic do you have to be to seek life advice from some canned program on your phone?

I just can't talk to a device. It might be a phobia or something -- but be it computer, smart phone, TV remote, I just can't do it. I feel silly doing so.

Same. I've only ever had to talk to Alexa a couple of times and I was nervous doing it. What if she doesn't like me? And who the hell is Bixby, and why does s/he infiltrate my phone at random times? Begone, Bixby! You have no power here.

[LordMortis]

I already talk awkwardly, usually loudly through electronic devices. Talking to phone bots has then further taught me that I have to talk even slower than I do when leaving a message on an electronic thing. I avoid Siri on my phone and have consciously shut it and Cortana down at every opportunity as well as most smart enabled devices that want anything other than keyed inputs. I don't see me being any less the olds when it comes to interacting with voice AI. I get annoyed when Apple AI tries to interrupt my searches in the middle to take over and screw them up. I've yet to take the time to figure out how to try and turn that off "permanently" and my permanently I mean until the next OS update changed the landscape again, as does MS, who are now using "notifications" (pop up ones at that) and screen locks as an interactive internet enabled advertising platform. I can't see how that could ever be a security risk or accidental clicks could get one to do something day not intend.

Oh, wait, this isn't the daily rant thread? Is there a way to turn back becoming old and cranky?

[YellowKing]

I fear I might be one of those people that becomes verbally abusive to their computer companions. A typical interaction between me and Alexa usually involves me saying something, Alexa interpreting it incorrectly, and then me screaming at her to STFU.

Note, I am not like this AT ALL with actual people, it's just that working in IT I've had years of experience cussing at computers. It just comes naturally.

On the flip side, my wife thinks it's funny that I'll occasionally tell Alexa "thank you" for following some command or answering a question. I think that part comes from living with a bunch of animals that I talk to as if they are human roommates.