tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37180188375865797522024-02-28T15:41:32.018-08:00Exaphoneloonoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04145002350144694800noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718018837586579752.post-27058890537238689232024-02-26T14:21:00.000-08:002024-02-26T14:21:46.613-08:00Are AIs Doing Something Like Human Reasoning<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">You Judge</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1uLGSqfTk_o" width="320" youtube-src-id="1uLGSqfTk_o"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLGSqfTk_o" target="_blank">Big Island tourists follow GPS right into water at Honokohau Harbor</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You </span>may find this special issue of <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407923007224" target="_blank">New Scientist: The AI Revolution</a> (requires subscription) helpful as "you judge"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"...First, these systems are not yet reliable. Nor are they conscious. They’re not deciding to do anything that might be harmful to us. The real potential for harm is in humans using them, and therefore we do need to regulate them.</div><p></p><div><br /></div><div>Second, just because we don’t understand precisely how they work yet doesn’t mean they’re magic. It’s just that they’re very complex. We will be able to understand them. We just need to do the science, and to do the science we need these systems not to be entirely in the hands of for-profit corporations...</div><div><br /></div><div>Third, ..."</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">--Melanie Mitchell, New Scientist 22 April 2023 p49--</div><div style="text-align: right;">(also, <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-understand-20211216/" target="_blank">QuantaMag, What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?</a>)</div><div><b>RES:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_artificial_intelligence" target="_blank">Wikipedia, Glossary of Artificial Intelligence</a></div><div><a href="https://blog.ap.org/standards-around-generative-ai" target="_blank">APNewsBlog, Standards Around Generative AI</a><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org" target="_blank">NationalAcademies</a>, <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/topics/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">Shaping the Future of AI</a> and <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/40455_10-2023_ai-for-scientific-discovery-a-workshop" target="_blank">AI for Scientific Discovery -Workshop</a></div><div><div>The Right Way to Regulate AI by Alondra Nelson (<a href="https://albert.ias.edu/bitstreams/6a19ebb4-26f3-4a40-b10b-b88a3381e6d3/download" target="_blank">download pdf</a>)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Web</b>:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R26W_7aLdRA" target="_blank">DWNews, Godfather of AI' leaves Google and warns of dangers</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R26W_7aLdRA" width="320" youtube-src-id="R26W_7aLdRA"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #414141; font-size: 16px;">I wonder if advanced aging senior "deep neural networks" will conduct a reflective retirement review of their lifetime work...probably not without a memory.</span></blockquote><div><span style="color: #414141;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #414141;"><a href="https://www.popsci.com/technology/geoffrey-hinton-ai-google/" target="_blank">PopSci, ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google to talk openly about the dangers of the rapidly emerging tech</a></span></div><div><span style="color: #414141;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #414141;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/Alan-Turing-and-the-beginning-of-AI" target="_blank">Britannica, Alan Turing and the ["Grandfather" of the theoretical?] beginning of AI</a></span></div><div><span style="color: #414141;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #414141;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #414141;"><b>Other AI-Related Discussions and Information:</b><br /></span><div><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://sfpressclub.org/2023/04/26/watch-now-sf-press-club-presents-ai-journalism/" target="_blank">SF Pres Club, AI + Journalism (Vimeo)</a> [Moderator - Rachel Metz]</div><div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30204-0" target="_blank">Current Biology, Primer on Neural network models and deep learning, Apr 2019</a> (article includes a downloadable <a href="https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2819%2930204-0" target="_blank">link to pdf [406Kb</a>], which includes a further reading section)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-like-chatgpt-are-no-good-at-not-20230512" target="_blank">QuantaMag, Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t</a></div><div><br /></div><div>“...The problem is that the task of prediction is not equivalent to the task of understanding,” said Allyson Ettinger, a computational linguist at the University of Chicago..."</div><div><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZePcTfZ9wjM" target="_blank">MIIS, Chat GPT and the Future of Nonproliferation</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZePcTfZ9wjM" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZePcTfZ9wjM"></iframe></div><br /><div><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-021-00751-8" target="_blank">Nature, Synthetic Data in Machine Learning for Medicine and Healthcare</a> and <a href="https://nam.edu/programs/value-science-driven-health-care/health-care-artificial-intelligence-code-of-conduct/" target="_blank">NAM, Toward a Code of Conduct for Artificial Intelligence Used in Health, Medical Care, and Health Research</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2387054-california-approves-driverless-taxi-expansion-in-san-francisco/" target="_blank">New Scientist, California approves driverless taxi expansion in San Francisco</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ai-boom-could-use-a-shocking-amount-of-electricity/" target="_blank">Scientific American, The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/16/1083498/google-deepmind-what-is-artificial-general-intelligence-agi/" target="_blank">MITRev, Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="color: #414141;">AI-Related Applications:</b></div><div><b style="color: #414141;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="color: #414141;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEgHrxvLsz0" target="_blank">Khan Academy Announces GPT-4 Powered Learning Guide</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yEgHrxvLsz0" width="320" youtube-src-id="yEgHrxvLsz0"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Last Updated February 26, 2024; added national academy link for AI</div>ExaPhonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15346255952000296009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718018837586579752.post-11694557857462998822023-09-25T10:39:00.000-07:002023-09-25T10:39:50.005-07:00Those Tempted To Conclude That Our Nation<p></p><table><tbody><tr><td>Those tempted to conclude that our nation is experiencing "unprecedented" levels of political lunacy may want to revisit the several decades that ended our twentieth century.</td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7nbYqDjSNmO6UX1nvGjUyNYZGzWnyhWOJ5Bb4vSNYdku7qx3RCJYvgWi5LeCA7Q7HY3-EeFa_p3PD2xJorpjR2AjxQc50UMYi6OGQy1J41Ap7k0HbpeviKHlULOlqCA1mKhh6lYTWyyCf5NzzpJJsubFZQeo_WsZXuJbUxeNKbZNs8unb3IyH5UqQvg/s178/Vote.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="168" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7nbYqDjSNmO6UX1nvGjUyNYZGzWnyhWOJ5Bb4vSNYdku7qx3RCJYvgWi5LeCA7Q7HY3-EeFa_p3PD2xJorpjR2AjxQc50UMYi6OGQy1J41Ap7k0HbpeviKHlULOlqCA1mKhh6lYTWyyCf5NzzpJJsubFZQeo_WsZXuJbUxeNKbZNs8unb3IyH5UqQvg/w75-h79/Vote.png" width="75" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p>...what is likely to be significantly different, however, is that those deploying such political lunacy will discover they've lost control of both the lunatics and lunacy (see the first presidential debate of 2024)...it reminds one of a paraphrase often attributed to Nixon: those following the rule that the "ends justify the means" often discover that their "means is the end."</p><p>...stated differently, the Republican Party (<a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-2024-poll-old-corrupt-12b806876e2072790f9a67793761c688" target="_blank">corrupt and dishonest</a>) must immediately dissolve and replace itself if it's going to function as a credible counterbalance to the Democratic Party (<a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-2024-poll-old-corrupt-12b806876e2072790f9a67793761c688" target="_blank">old and confused</a>) and thereby strengthen our democracy.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Web:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/09/25/senator-bob-menendez-response-indictment/4811695659370/" target="_blank">UPI, Sen. Bob Menendez says he won't resign after federal indictment</a> [Whether the accused senator steps down is irrelevant because he confuses his right to be considered innocent with a nonexistent right to continue serving in the Senate. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Menendez" target="_blank">senior United States senator from New Jersey</a> must be immediately <a href="https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL30016.html#_Toc314221944" target="_blank">expelled from office, and the Democratic party must take all appropriate actions required to ensure that happens</a>.]</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ken-paxton-impeachment-texas-871fb9c57b38fbda5bec5c2e5f280755" target="_blank">APNews, Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton is acquitted of corruption charges at historic impeachment trial</a> [This ominous warning has already been broadcast twice at the federal level; now the same warning has been broadcast at the state level!</p><p>There is nothing political about these warnings; when your existing political system is conducting repeated oscillating impeachment-aquital proceedings, your nation has no functioning political system.</p><p>Dissolution and replacement of the non-existing political system is the necessary and sufficient electoral response; fault, blame, origin of the problem, negotiating strategy, who's responsible for the dysfunction, who's strongest, which party is dissolved and replaced first or second, etc. is all irrelevant.]</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-impeachment-republicans-gerrymandering-legislature-21fc8c3cf99623a379cbf4dd01ed0b8c" target="_blank">APNews, GOP threat to impeach a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice is driven by fear of losing legislative edge</a> [i.e. The recently elected justice may provide a majority that requires the GOP to draw and use fair electoral district maps.]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Last Updated September 25, 2023</p><p></p>ExaPhonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15346255952000296009noreply@blogger.com0