20 unhinged comments heard at an AI conference in DC
When Silicon Valley daytime parties with weapons industry types, things get weird and a little too power-trippy

 kurtster wrote:
Everyone's a player...

 R_P wrote: 
This is the kind of intelligence that is going to get Biden re elected.

I saw it on my phone ... it must be true ...

 R_P wrote:

no

Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life

AlphaFold 3 can predict how DNA, RNA, and other molecules interact, further cementing its leading role in drug discovery and research. Who will benefit?

 R_P wrote:
Well, now I know. Truth is, you do this and your going to get the schists 

This got me laughing

this tech just got an AI upgrade
exciting stuff

and liu is a great follow

If anyone wants to play around... this is a pretty cool site to generate pointless music.   

SUNO

You can create 5 songs (2 versions created simultaneously for a total of 10 versions) per day. You get more songs if you make them instrumental.

 oldviolin wrote:

I don't want to.

try title: "Quibbles And Bits"

No, AI Won’t Outsmart Our Climate Calamity
Quite the opposite. Artificial intelligence devours vast energy while clouding the human wisdom that might save us.

Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage

NYC Has Tried AI Weapons Scanners Before. The Result: Tons of False Positives

Over the seven months that the Jacobi pilot was active, 194,000 people passed through Jacobi's scanners, and in just over 50,000 of those cases, the scanners threw up an alarm—an incidence rate of around 26 percent, or over one of every four times someone passed through the scanner. Of those 50,000 alarms, around 43,800, or a little more than 85 percent, were false positives; 7,027 of the alarms, or 14 percent, were law enforcement officers who were presumably carrying their service weapons; and just 295 alarms, or 0.57 percent, were determined to be a non-law enforcement person carrying either a knife, a gun, or a threat type labeled only "other," which likely entails other weapons like bats.

Notably, Evolv's scanners did not get any more accurate as the pilot progressed—there was not a single month where the alarm to visitor ratio fell below 25 percent. In September of 2022, the final month of the seven-month pilot, 27,900 visitors passed through the scanners, and nearly 7,000 threw alarms; out of those 7,000 alarms, just 345 potential threats were identified—a false positive rate of 95 percent, with only 0.45 percent of alerts being non-law enforcement threats. Throughout the entire pilot, the alerts led to the finding of 24 guns, 139 knives, and 132 other potential threats, out of the 50,000 alarms sounded.

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"Where's Daddy?"

You can test the false promises of AI right here (try as guest):

HuggingChat
(an open source alternative to ChatGPT)

Earth GPT?
lot packed into this talk
if a new road is cut into the amazon, they know
listened in the background at lunch