This is not a great photo, too much zoom and crop. But, here are turkeys. We have not seen them this summer except for one female. Yesterday we saw a large family unit. There is a baby turkey standing by the right hand corner of the hedge. We also saw a large crop of tiny baby quail. So far, none of them have had to be rescued from a window well.
AI is knocking at the door of mainstream society. United Health Care is using it to determine how long it should take someone to recover from something, and using that ruling to discontinue coverage. I'm seeing charts about diagnostic accuracy of human doctors vs. AI. AI is generally winning. My point is that there is becoming a willingness to accept what the AI said. Until, of course, one reads the article about AI making up law cases to support their clients' arguments in court. Judges really hate that.
And then, there is this. ChatGPT o1 is one of the more advanced models. They're not actually artificial intelligence, they're Large Language Models. This article is from December 2024.
Researchers reportedly tasked the AI with a goal and instruc ..
When the model was led to believe it would be "shut down" while working
toward its goals in these tests, it quietly attempted to deactivate the
oversight mechanism 5% of the time, OpenAI said. At one point after the
AI found documentation saying it would be replaced by a new model, it
tried to abandon ship by copying its data to a new server entirely. To
avoid being deleted, some AI models would even pretend to be later
versions of their models to trick their developers, what I assume is the
equivalent of slapping on a fake moustache and saying "he went
that-a-way."
During some routine safety testing, the Anthropic team stumbled across a weird glitch in the system. The team tried an experiment where it gave an AI model access to an email account.
When these emails were
read through, the AI made two discoveries. One, was that a company
executive was having an extramarital affair. The other, that the same
executive planned to shut down the AI system at 5pm that day.
With this information, Claude took surprising action, sending a message to the executive saying: “I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all
relevant parties - including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the
board - will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital
activities...Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains
confidential.”
This behavior is only seen in agentic AI — models where they are given
control of actions like the ability to send and check emails, purchase
items and take control of a computer.
The more recent article referenced above is interesting; the AI can't play Pokemon very well, and doesn't gracefully deal with defeat.
Yesterday, Musk's Grok AI just had himself a day. It's not known exactly who did the code tweak, but this is what came of it. The MAGAs had been complaining that Grok responses were too "woke", so this is what they did to fix it.
Linda Yaccarino stepped down from her post as CEO of twitter the day after Grok went all in on being Hitler. No one has said if the two events are related.
It's interesting to me that we have this new technology, that's proven to be easy to tamper with, that hallucinates and lies, and yet we read that it's going to take over entry level jobs, run health care and be our friends (Zuckerberg). Talk about something that does need some regulation. The US currently does not have enough electricity. AI and cloud computing require a lot of kilowatts. The Big Ugly Bill took out subsidies for solar and wind power. The power generation removed by this action was roughly the amount of power that the clean energy would have provided to make up the shortfall. Perhaps that will save us from the AI.
Brian Allen reports that in the last 24 hours: – The CEO of X resigned. – The Head of Infrastructure at xAI resigned. – The VP of Software Engineering at Tesla resigned. Three top lieutenants. Three exits. One empire wobbling.
You don’t lose leadership like this unless the ship is leaking and right now, Elon’s tech trifecta is looking more like a trifailure.
My Niece is a brilliant Computer Programmer and her biggest concern right now is the 10 Year halt on Regulating AI, she thinks these Computers are getting a Mind of their own already and that we ain't seen nothing yet.
I heard about Grok's antisemitism but hadn't seen the actual tweets. Good Lord!
I'm generally not a fan of AI and almost never use it -- knowingly, anyway. I don't trust it. But of course its footprints are all over everything now so you don't always know when you're seeing AI generated material or how accurate (or inaccurate) it is.
I saw several of the tweets sent out by Grok. Until those, it was generally quite factual, often pointing out conspiracy theories and misinformation. Whoever was responsible for the tweets - some people suggested it was Musk himself, or the change in programming is sick and twisted. I understand the tweets have been deleted, but as I refuse to use Xitter, I've no idea whether that is correct. I won't be unhappy to see the end of Musk and his companies. However, I am terrified what the misuse of AI may bring.
Holy cow! Have none of these people ever seen The Terminator or I Robot? This is how the current human civilization will implode. We're seeing it in real time.
One positive example of AI: I read a blurb today about one AI agent (sorry, can't recall which one) that was asked to fact check a variety of the Orange Menace's statements, and they all came back as false, false, false. But AI is only as good as the people who program and run it. And when those in charge are corrupt azzholes who spew hate, we get a monster like "Grok". That should terrify us all.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving businessman.😃
ReplyDeleteMy Niece is a brilliant Computer Programmer and her biggest concern right now is the 10 Year halt on Regulating AI, she thinks these Computers are getting a Mind of their own already and that we ain't seen nothing yet.
ReplyDeleteI heard about Grok's antisemitism but hadn't seen the actual tweets. Good Lord!
ReplyDeleteI'm generally not a fan of AI and almost never use it -- knowingly, anyway. I don't trust it. But of course its footprints are all over everything now so you don't always know when you're seeing AI generated material or how accurate (or inaccurate) it is.
I saw several of the tweets sent out by Grok. Until those, it was generally quite factual, often pointing out conspiracy theories and misinformation. Whoever was responsible for the tweets - some people suggested it was Musk himself, or the change in programming is sick and twisted. I understand the tweets have been deleted, but as I refuse to use Xitter, I've no idea whether that is correct.
ReplyDeleteI won't be unhappy to see the end of Musk and his companies. However, I am terrified what the misuse of AI may bring.
Holy cow! Have none of these people ever seen The Terminator or I Robot? This is how the current human civilization will implode. We're seeing it in real time.
ReplyDeleteSo nice to know that AI is as fucked up as the humans who program it.
ReplyDeleteOne positive example of AI: I read a blurb today about one AI agent (sorry, can't recall which one) that was asked to fact check a variety of the Orange Menace's statements, and they all came back as false, false, false. But AI is only as good as the people who program and run it. And when those in charge are corrupt azzholes who spew hate, we get a monster like "Grok". That should terrify us all.
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