Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Abusing robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuJT9EtdETY&sns=tw

Ch4? has had a week of robots or something. There's been some interesting docos on robot design.

#csb

Long read about AI and AI start-ups and discussion of what intelligence actually is(n't)

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-artificial-intelligentsia-timms

Years ago I got a right bollocking from a Computer Science prof. at Exeter when, on replying to his question about where the advances in computer science might take us in the next twenty years, I glibly replied something about AI and predicting the future.

Maybe of interest to some: http://www.elementsofai.com/

Free online course on AI for laypeople.

Yes interesting thanks. Signed up. Will be taught by an AI I hope

Pretty impressive

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

I'm so happy the process of booking a hair cut or fucking up my restaurant reservation has been made so much easier by Google.

What a time....etc.

But yeah, I get it. Talking to the Machine is important.

Yeah it's impressive but I'm not sure how much quicker it is saying 'google can you book me hair appointment for monday 10 o clock' is to actually ringing up and saying 'id like an appointment for Monday 10 o clock please' is

It's literally getting something to google something for you.

The example it gave in the article was quite interesting. For shops that don't have opening hours on google or may have changed them for bank holiday, etc the Google AI can phone them, get an answer and put that answer on google.

It's probably also of great benefit if you're deaf or in a country where you don't speak the language.

It'll be a massive boon for telemarketers. It'll also be pretty good for call centers.

Placing thousands of calls a second, developing sales leads across an entire continent that speaks multiple languages could be interesting.

This is pretty cool (obvs not just 'AI' stuff)

https://twitter.com/taps/status/1026461451333132288

Pretty scary too!

https://twitter.com/taps/status/1026463614834753536

Not really a surprise (that the hype of driver-less cars doesn't match the reality)

https://twitter.com/amir/status/1034442936774258688

Yet.

"Cocaine Cowboys"

In

This is great news...

https://www.gao.gov/mobile/products/GAO-19-128

Driverless cars and bikes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2018/10/28/driverless-cars-will-kill-cyclists-warns-nature-magazine

In 2015, a cyclist in Austin, Texas, confused a Google driverless car when he did a near-motionless “track-stand” at an intersection. The Google car was so bamboozled by the behavior of the balancing cyclist it would not budge.

Must be on here

AI “cheating”

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over

AI trained to classify skin lesions as potentially cancerous learns that lesions photographed next to a ruler are more likely to be malignant.

My favourite was definitely the Tetris one

Agent pauses the game indefinitely to avoid losing

Boxes thinking outside the box. :)

This is good;

http://seoi.net/penint/

That said, I started drawing a bike, starting with the wheels, and it turned them into a cock and balls. Which tells us a lot about humanity I think.

tells us a lot about nerds I think.

Indeed.

I just drew a house and it turned it all into cock and balls. I think "penint" is a penis-drawing tool.