(images created by AI via @nightcafe studio) The recent ruckus over Google engineer Blake Lemoine and the LaMDA AI has generated a fair amount of buzz in the world’s media. But now the fuss has subsided, it’s probably a good time to ask what Mr Lemoine was hoping to achieve with his outlandish claim. Things may not be as simple as they appear.
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We’ve been threatened with Artificial Intelligence for decades now, but we’ve just seen the release of something which looks totally terrifying and yet inevitable. The good folk at OPENAI – an open source organisation dedicated to keeping AI development transparent, and featuring supporters such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel – have just privately released the GPT-3 API to selected people. OK, geeks. The terrifying bit is how good this stuff is now. You remember all the furore about DeepFake…
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Robots probably don’t have a lot to fear when it comes to climate change. I think that was a plot point in the Matrix. Anyway, that doesn’t mean they can’t help us fight it today. Innovative use of AI may prove to be key in helping humanity push back against the climate crisis.
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We’ve seen a lot of interesting AI projects from romance novels to scripts. For your music fans there’s a new bot on the horizon. Relentless Doppelganger is the Death Metal rocker a neural network dreamed up. And it’s streaming 24/7.
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The world is becoming more automated, anyone paying even a little bit of attention is likely aware of that. AI is being used in a variety of ways for research to news reporting in our fast paced society but in Estonia, they want to take it further. They want to bring AI into the court room.
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So you wanna be an artist but you’re not really great at doing much more than drawing stick figures, well your time may be coming. GauGAN from Nvidia turns bare sketches into photo-realistic digital paintings with just a few clicks of a button.
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Poachers are a real problem for many animals. Despite conservation efforts, these people continue to hunt endangered species for monetary gain. Where man power is hard to come by, technology has an answer in the form of an AI Camera that can catch poachers in action.
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Machines don’t see things the way that we see things. They don’t really see things at all but they we still want them to draw. When we ask machines to make images for us, they come up with some very strange things. Rendered wonderfully but just a little bit. . . off. Check out these images to see machine dreams.
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I remember when Sony put out its first electronic dog. There was a live demo in Epcot where I was vacationing after graduating from high school. They were small, but really kind of neat. Now there are people holding funerals for theirs because life is strange and tech doesn’t last forever. They stopped making them in 2006 but if you loved these robo dogs, good news! Sony is bringing the Aibo back to life!
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You and your significant other likely have a “song”. That special tune that just reminds you of your love and care for one another. That’s great but don’t you think an AI could pick a better one? Even if it can’t, don’t you want to see what sort of disaster it would come up with if you let it? If you do, check out Couple’s Mixtape, the AI that creates a mixtape for your relationship.
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We’re making bots for everything these days. We’ve talked about the fiction bots and music bots. Now meet InspiroBot, the bot that creates inspirational posters. Fair warning, it’s amazing.
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We all know that robots are taking our jobs but creative jobs are safe, right? Well, no, they’re taking ALL the jobs. Including musician. Flow Machines is a project that is building AI systems to create music.
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We’ve talked about the automation of jobs on the site before. Most people are probably hip to gigs like “driver” being taken over by AI and retail workers replaced by automated kiosks but it goes much further. The Japanese insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is replacing over 30 employees with an AI.
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Voting is hard. Many people make choices that they later come to regret. Humans aren’t machines, we make mistakes. You know what doesn’t make mistakes though? Robots. Well, once they learn the facts, no mistakes! RoboVote is the program that wants to help people make better choices.
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