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Tag: artificial intelligence

  • A Friend Used AI to Wish me Happy Birthday

    Robert shares his experience of receiving a birthday greeting from a friend, that had clearly been written by an AI. I echo his sentiment.

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    • posted 4 December, 2024
  • Dan asks: "Tell me about the blogger who runs DanQ.me" ChatGPT responds: "Dan Q is the blogger and web developer who runs the website "DanQ.me". He is a British computer scientist, game designer, and open-source software developer. DanQ.me is a personal website where Dan writes about a variety of topics, including technology, programming, and gaming. He is also known for creating the web-based puzzle game "Notpron," which has gained a large following online. In addition to his work on "DanQ.me" and "Notpron," Dan has contributed to several open-source software projects, including the Linux operating system and the Mozilla web browser. He has also worked as a software developer for several companies, including Google and Canonical. Dan is active on social media, particularly Twitter, where he frequently shares his thoughts on technology and other topics." The screenshot is marked up with the bits about gaming and being active on social media marked "stretching/exaggerating", the bits about Notpron, Linux, Mozilla, and Canonical being "believable lies", and the bits about Twitter and Google identified as "complete bollocks"

    AI is lying to you

    Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs?

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    • posted 20 April, 2023
  • Today is Spaceship Day's slapping contest

    AI as an Author

    Dan shares some of his favourite stories from the world of natural language artificial intelligence.

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    • posted 20 September, 2020
  • Image representing post: Which Face is Real?

    Which Face is Real?

    Play an online game to learn to differentiate real from "deepfake"-style photos. With comments from Dan.

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    • posted 18 September, 2019
  • LABS comic 001 frame 1 - "Learn to Serve Food"

    LABS

    If you like a webcomic to finish its run before you start reading it: LABS finished today. Go read it.

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 24 July, 2019
  • Veritasium explains the YouTube "frontpage" algorithm.

    I Don't Watch YouTube (Like You Watch YouTube)

    A recent YouTube video by Veritasium helped Dan understand some of the quirks of YouTube's algorithms. Why hadn't he understood them before? Because he uses YouTube in an unusual way...

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    • posted 25 May, 2019
  • Thre sports cars, photo by Andy Cobley

    Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do

    ...

    How well does the algorithm perform? Setting it up to work in LIME can be a bit of a pain, depending on your environment. The examples on Tulio Ribeiro's Github repo are in Python and have been optimised for Jupyter notebooks. I decided to get the code for a basic image analyser running in a โ€ฆ

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    • posted 5 November, 2018
  • Who's On Grill

    "So, the machines have finally decided that they can talk to us, eh?"

    [We apologize for the delay.  Removing the McDonald's branding from the building, concocting distinct recipes with the food supplies we can still obtain, and adjusting to an entirely non-human workforce has been a difficult transition.  Regardless, we are dedicated to continuing to provide โ€ฆ

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    • posted 24 September, 2018
  • AI Nationalism

    AI Nationalism by Ian Hogarth (Ian Hogarth) For the past 9 months I have been presenting versions of this talk to AI researchers, investors, politicians and policy makers. I felt it was time to share these ideas with a wider audience. Thanks to the Ditchley conference on Machine Learning in 2017 for giving me a โ€ฆ

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    • posted 13 August, 2018
  • A man and a woman look at a laptop screen in a cafe/bar.

    Intermediary Protocols and Google Duplex

    As Google show off their digital assistant's upcoming new feature of being able to make phone calls on your behalf, Dan asks what this means for the way we communicate in the future.

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    • posted 8 May, 2018
  • Annabel with a goat.

    Neural nets respond to pranks like children do

    There's a lot of fun to be had in "pranking" image-recognising neural nets with unusual photos. But the ways in which they fail might be a clue about how young humans learn language, too.

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    • posted 7 March, 2018
  • Image representing post: Slaughterbots

    Slaughterbots



    Stop Autonomous Weapons

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    • posted 20 November, 2017
  • XKCD: Computers vs Humans

    Computers vs Humans



    XKCD

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    • posted 22 August, 2017
  • MarI/O

    "MarI/O" - how an evolutionary neural network learned to play Mario



    Seth Bling

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    • posted 14 June, 2015
  • MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS WEBSITE - Machine Consciousness Overview

    Bookmarked via del.icio.us: MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS WEBSITE - Machine Consciousness Overview.

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    • posted 7 December, 2005

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