Hello, cultural singularity—soon, every video you see online could be completely fake.
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In many, many jurisdictions: yes. It would still be illegal. Like, it's not even a gray area. The US, for example, bans virtual sexual content content with imagery that is "indistinguishable from that of a minor".To put it in other words, if every frame is completely computer generated and not a single real person is involved a pedophile video would still be illegal?
That's a bold assertion. Got any evidence toward this that isn't pure hopium? Because AFAIK there's absolutely nothing that strongly indicates that ML or GANS will be sufficient to get us to AGI.full AGI is really around the corner
That's a bold assertion. Got any evidence toward this that isn't pure hopium? Because AFAIK there's absolutely nothing that strongly indicates that ML or GANS will be sufficient to get us to AGI.
...and that tech is? ML and GANS != neuronal processes.But now we have a simulated neuronal tech that is eating up the gaps between machine and man
No, it cannot. It can utilize input as a transformer to determine a serial output from a weighted matrix generated via a training set. That's the whole game. Any description beyond that is poetry.tech that can read and understand
...and may not exist. At least as of yet. I don't see why it's impossible, but it just might be.the subsystems to achieve AGI have not yet been placed together.
As it's a pure white space hypothetical, we can "know" anything about it we can imagine.we know it can absorb meaning from literature
For roughly US$20,000,000 you can currently do that.This is amazing tech. Just in terms of entertainment value this will be incredible. In a few years someone will be able to ask for a movie along certain lines (or request an adaptation of a book or something) and be given something exactly for their tastes.
There has always been a discongruency between what an artist is trying to portray, and what the recipient percieves as the message.For art though, I think it will be a miss because art is normally about expanding beyond yourself and encountering the way someone else (the artist) thinks; just don't tell that to all the people that only want art that affirms what they already believe.
Roughly a decade ago, on a publishing forum, on a thread about revenue generation, one participant was proposing that an author do all of the following:Still, very exciting that someone who doesn't have a ton of capital and resources may be able to put together a movie on their own.
Yes yay.I would say it necessarily leads to worse results. How many videos on YouTube are garbage that only a few people view? Or a thousand people view, and then they get lost in the sea of other garbage newly posted and eventually collect dust on some storage somewhere, to hardly ever be viewed again. Trying to find a new original YouTuber to follow? When was the last time someone in the last five years sky-rocketed from obscurity to rock star-like fame and fortune, like they used to in the early teens? There's just too much crap to sort through to find a diamond in the rough. And now, we'll have loads and loads of AI generated vids/shorts/movies posted. Making content creation tools more accessible is like giving everyone their own public broadcast channel - they can generate bunch of crap hardly anyone cares about. Yay?
I look forward to being able to generate my own movies, but will I share them with anybody? Unlikely. They will be for myself because then I'll be able to create odd/weird stuff that I will thoroughly enjoy but speaks only to me.
Still, yeah, I'm thinking all those studio execs are wishing this came out a year ago, when they were negotiating with the actors and writers. I'm sure they would have loved to show this to the union reps and done a "we don't actually need you anymore." And I'm saying that as something that should terrify everyone EXCEPT the studio execs.
In many, many jurisdictions: yes. It would still be illegal. Like, it's not even a gray area. The US, for example, bans virtual sexual content content with imagery that is "indistinguishable from that of a minor".
There are some jurisdictions where it is probably illegal, but most likely you're breaking some very serious laws somewhere if you're only virtually abusing virtual minors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_child_pornography
AI can't even do math, something computers have been good at since computers first existed. Let's not get ahead of ourselves with how smart this shit is.
AI can't even do math, something computers have been good at since computers first existed. Let's not get ahead of ourselves with how smart this shit is.
I think Aurich's statement should be revised to: "LLM's can't even do basic math reliably and consistently, something computers have been good at since computers first existed."Ahem...
FunSearch automatically creates requests for a specially trained LLM, asking it to write short computer programs that can generate solutions to a particular mathematical problem. The system then checks quickly to see whether those solutions are better than known ones. If not, it provides feedback to the LLM so that it can improve at the next round.
“The way we use the LLM is as a creativity engine,” says DeepMind computer scientist Bernardino Romera-Paredes. Not all programs that the LLM generates are useful, and some are so incorrect that they wouldn’t even be able to run, he says. But another program can quickly toss the incorrect ones away and test the output of the correct ones.
I think Aurich's statement should be revised to: "LLM's can't even do basic math reliably and consistently, something computers have been good at since computers first existed."
Let ABCD be a cyclic quadrilateral with no two sides parallel. Let K, L, M, and N be points lying on sides AB, BC, CD, and DA, respectively, such that KLMN is a rhombus with KL k AC and LM k BD. Let ω1, ω2, ω3, and ω4 be the incircles of triangles ANK, BKL, CLM, and DMN, respectively. Prove that the internal common tangents to ω1 and ω3 and the internal common tangents to ω2 and ω4 are concurrent.
Yeah, examples of LLMs hallucinating ridiculously wrong math are rife.I think Aurich's statement should be revised to: "LLM's can't even do basic math reliably and consistently, something computers have been good at since computers first existed."
And the software that doesn't have a corporate backer but is actually open source? Or the software that runs locally and can thus be modified to not generate a watermark? Or post-processing to remove the watermark?Crazy idea. Have the government force the companies that make this software to watermark their creations. At least in the United States. I think the EU would go along with this. Russia not so much. Or China. And you could not trust Canada.
They were the only models used in the articles you cited. Do you have another article?LLM's aren't the only DL models.
I don't really pretend to be good at math, but then I'm not touting an LLM pretending to be good at math either.Competing at a level comparable to a Human Gold Medalist, is way beyond a simple calculator. Here is a sample problem from that competition:
Will your calculator solve that for you?
Large Language Models are not designed to do math. They're designed to do generative language work, hence the name.Yeah, examples of LLMs hallucinating ridiculously wrong math are rife.
Yes, but it's clear from the context that Aurich's original comment was simply pointing out that pooling the disparate and very specific capabilities of various technologies to suggest that something as advanced as AGI combining those abilities into a single entity is both inevitable and imminent is kind of getting ahead of things.Large Language Models are not designed to do math. They're designed to do generative language work, hence the name.
This is sort of like saying claw hammers make bad screwdrivers. Self-evident to anyone in construction except maybe an electrician.
I think it's understandable that people look at the pace of progress and just keep extending the curve out. I'm hardly immune to that myself, look at my reaction to this article.Yes, but it's clear from the context that Aurich's original comment was simply pointing out that pooling the disparate and very specific capabilities of various technologies to suggest that something as advanced as AGI combining those abilities into a single entity is both inevitable and imminent is kind of getting ahead of things.
Transformer based LLMs are bad at multiplication in part because they can't easily represent that type of calculation. A NN can approximate any function given sufficient width and / or layers, but some functions are more naturally expressed than others. The models can usually do addition with an arbitrary number of digits, but can't multiply with more than 2-3 significant figures. If it was a priority, this should be relatively easily fixed ... simply additional wiring that allows the network to emit the multiplication of two activations, rather than only the linear sum of weighted activations, and then the model would more easily learn such patterns intrinsically. But it's more practical to instead train the LLM to emit python code that performs the calculations with full precision. That produces a better end-to-end product experience.I think it's understandable that people look at the pace of progress and just keep extending the curve out. I'm hardly immune to that myself, look at my reaction to this article.
But I think I'm reasonably concerned because the tech is basically "good enough right now" to do the things that worry me. We don't need a generative leap. And the improvements to the issues people are rightly pointing out seem like the kind of thing that have generally been coming to pass.
But as you very correctly point out, just mushing together these various models into some kind of super AGI is a whole other ball of wax. Yes, there is software that's good at math. But the "AI" that gets all the headlines these days (and is the style being discussed in this article)? Terrible at it.
The thing is, a Death Star is both easier to destroy (as it is a physical object centralized to one location), and easier to justify violent action against.I always hate this argument. “Oh well, if we don’t do the bad thing someone else will so it might as well be us” is amoral drivel. The correct response to “the Empire is building a Death Star” is “blow up the Death Star” not “we must build our own Death Star”
That's what humans do too -- they recognize a math problem that is too complex in their heads, and realize they need to use a tool.But it's more practical to instead train the LLM to emit python code that performs the calculations with full precision.
And now that full AGI is really around the corner, they are afraid to say it...
On the topic of discussing AGI, it is useful to define "What is an AGI?". For example, we're already beyond humans for certain lineitems (chess) but far short of humans for other lineitems (skills needed to do the dishes).That's a bold assertion. Got any evidence toward this that isn't pure hopium? Because AFAIK there's absolutely nothing that strongly indicates that ML or GANS will be sufficient to get us to AGI.
I don't think anyone should feel guilty for using AI tools. The responsibility is in the hands of the people developing more and more use cases without considering the implications, not on the end users who are just leveraging what's in front of them.I certainly understand the "loaded gun" sentiment.
While I am excited for AI and its applications to helping my deafness & other aspects of life that I am terrible at (organizing notes etc) -- I can't but feel worried I'm contributing to the problem by jumping on the AI bandwagon (even for less controversial uses such as captioning/notetaking/etc). It was more harmless to feel guilty I'm using the dishwasher instead of manually washing dishes...
Indeed!How do we proceed wisely, is the question;
Those are mighty squishy, and also seem to redefine AGI away from general, or at least get really fast and loose with what "general" means. I wouldn't say that ChatGPT, Bard, or LLaMA can perform a "wide range" of tasks, nor that they can "learn new skills". Even a model you can retrain from scratch to perform an additional skill isn't "general", any more than disassembling a folding knife and replacing the blade with a saw makes it a multitool.The industry seems to be migrating to a 6-level AGI rankings:
I think the cynical-but-true take is that AGI is as much a marketing term as it is a goal for true believers, and there's a lot of pressure to move the goal posts to be able to announce that you've achieved it because you can turn on a money faucet with the news.Those are mighty squishy, and also seem to redefine AGI away from general, or at least get really fast and loose with what "general" means. I wouldn't say that ChatGPT, Bard, or LLaMA can perform a "wide range" of tasks, nor that they can "learn new skills". Even a model you can retrain from scratch to perform an additional skill isn't "general", any more than disassembling a folding knife and replacing the blade with a saw makes it a multitool.
It's basically the new Turing Test, since that's now achievable. Before the latest LLMs, there'd always be someone claiming their AI "passed" the Turing Test because it fooled some non-scientists into thinking it was a barely literate 13-year-old.I think the cynical-but-true take is that AGI is as much a marketing term as it is a goal for true believers, and there's a lot of pressure to move the goal posts to be able to announce that you've achieved it because you can turn on a money faucet with the news.
Naw, those are prolly real.How long before we see videos of politicians punching and kicking babies and puppies?
No, but the range is wider than yesterday, skill-learning is happening more than yesterday, and training overhead per unit of intelligence is lower than yesterday.Those are mighty squishy, and also seem to redefine AGI away from general, or at least get really fast and loose with what "general" means. I wouldn't say that ChatGPT, Bard, or LLaMA can perform a "wide range" of tasks, nor that they can "learn new skills". Even a model you can retrain from scratch to perform an additional skill isn't "general", any more than disassembling a folding knife and replacing the blade with a saw makes it a multitool.