AI is stealing writers’ words and jobs…

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Stuff like this makes me think that a big part of the true value of 'AI' is alienation. That is, completely severing (or making invisible) the relationship between people and their work.

In art? I don't think there is any worry. Sure, it might for a lot of drawings and illustrations for commercial usages, but frankly I think very few people look at who made the art on the cover of a book or a ravioli preserve. But artists will just have a newer tool to add to their toolbox to create new form of arts and make centuries-defying creations. And they will get their name associated with it. The intensity of the emotion isn't dependant on how someone transfered the picture in his mind to the canvas, but on the quality of his vision. When I look at Piet Mondrian's compositions, I don't think it's the quality of the colored squares and lines he painted that generate an emotion...
 
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This entire debate might be academic. :p



“A simple verbal or types command like, ‘Execute an untraceable cyberattack to crash the North American electric grid,’ could yield a response of such quality as to prove catastrophically effective,” the report said.

I'd hope they will make a previous verbal command like "enact a plan to make the North American electric grid impervious to attacks". That would be the smart thing to do, if AGI becomes (infinitely) more effective than humans. Because what they see as a problem isn't that the NA electric grid is prone to catastrophic failures, but that hope that nobody will find the faults (finger crossed that there is no nerd willing to try in some high school after being bullied one time too many, or let's hope other countries don't have engineers) so they can save money by not proofing their grid...

At least it makes it apparent that the AI challenge isn't one that focus on a handful of artists having their work used for training...
 
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The iPhone maker has been working on AI research for more than a decade, with much of it hidden away inside apps or services. It wasn’t until the release of the most recent cohort of MacBooks that Apple started to use the letters AI in its marketing — that will only increase.

I think the turning point is M3's unified memory architecture, that might help implement AI tools directly on the desktop without too much loss of performance.
 

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This entire debate might be academic. :p


So it’s a race to extinction, then. Will “AI” end the species before we do it ourselves with nuclear war, pandemics, and climate change?

But the US government interceding will do nothing to stop other governments from developing these tools. If anything, it’s an argument for faster development. To get ahead of anyone who’d use it as a weapon.

Hell, “AI” was designed as a weapon. This guy’s only worried because it might be pointed at the gov instead of the working class.
 

AI will help representatives to do their job with regard to amending legislative texts in France, by identifying text proposals that have been already discussed.


It reduces to 15 minutes a work that used to take 6 to 10 hours, a 24-to-40-times increase in productivity.

(translation proposed by an AI, excerpt) :

Artificial intelligence is gradually making its way into all areas of society and will sometimes even disrupt them. Parliament will not escape this. The Senate is currently working on a solution to facilitate the processing of bundles of amendments tabled during the finance bill (PLF), each year. The services of the High Assembly rely on a generative AI developed by the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFIP) in open source, that is to say with a code accessible to the public, usable and modifiable by others. [...]

The birth of this AI was made public a month ago by Esther Mac Namarah, digital transformation delegate at the DGFIP. “Last fall, we implemented a solution that automatically assigns parliamentary amendments received during finance laws to the right teams, and is responsible for automatically summarizing them using a generative AI solution. This work allows agents to concentrate on preparing the political part of the response by freeing up their precious time, in an emergency context,” explained the manager ina post on Linkedin. Touting an “innovation […] born from the meeting between data specialists and legal specialists”, Esther Mac Namarah affirms that “this AI, in the service of democracy, is a common heritage that could be of interest to other administrations ".

Is the trample I hear in the distance the sound of people stampeding to get here to lament the loss of politician jobs?
 
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a meme post made me realize that if Disney wanted to, they could just train models on their own IP and lay off a large number of artist.
 

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