I Ask the Question. You decide.
AI
— Artificial Intelligence or Abject Idiocy?
Part 3: Merely
Distasteful? Maybe Unattractive? Actually Kinda Ugly?; or
Is This Is
Just One
Fugly Mother, or What?
This composite image shows an
exoplanet (the red spot on the lower left), orbiting the brown dwarf
2M1207 (center).
2M1207 b is the first exoplanet directly imaged and the
first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf. What
Can We Really See?
It was imaged for the first time in 2004 by the
Very Large Telescope (VLT), operated by the European Southern
Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Its planetary
identity and characteristics were confirmed after one year of
observations in 2005.
source:
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/300/2m1207-b-first-image-of-an-exoplanet/#:~:text=2M1207b%20is%20the%20first%20exoplanet,year%20of%20observations%20in%202005
In other words, NOT discovered by
the James Webb Space Telescope
and NOT among
Webb's First Images - RELEASED - July 12, 2022
If that were my Caribbean vacation wiped off the calendar in one trading day, Ugly might be a descriptive word for the experience, among a few other choice barbs I might aim at Google's Bard. Wednesday, February 9, 2023, 9% of your equity in Alphabet stock was wiped out on when Google made a big press splash and unveiled Google's new AI Search Technology: Bard. Well, the poor Bard was not quite Ready for Prime Time. Bard made the mistake illustrated above that was heard around the world, at least all around the investing world. On that single trading day, Alphabet's investors were heavily impacted by what could be described as negative over exuberance in their understanding of the immediate capital gains to made from AI. A simple factual error cost Google investors collectively $100,000,000,000.
Of course, that was a simple mistake. But
what if that mistake was planned or somehow instigated by an outside
actor? If the Foundation of AI is data scraped from websites, then
would it not be possible to plant erroneous data on websites for the
purpose of misdirecting the AI? That is just one of the numerous
questions surrounding AI. Countless cycles and endless gigabytes
have and will continue to be consumed as the Digerati attempts to
explain
AI to itself.
Doom and Gloom is certainly a recurring
theme here.
Controls built into the models to prevent the display of content
that runs from offensive to truly dangerous seem to be easily overridden
by anyone so inclined. Artfully crafted prompts can
force AI to deliver responses otherwise prohibited by the AI creator.
And one such stunt was not the nefarious work of nation-state
actors; it was pulled off by Twitter users.
Researchers with security vendor, Checkpoint, have documented "how
cybercriminals are leveraging the OpenAI platform, specifically ChatGPT,
to generate malicious content such as phishing emails and malware."
Cyber criminals are now offering bots for sale over the dark web that
bypass Content Controls in order to automate whatever it is these
cretins do.
Ibid.
Fact is there are many ways to
bypass the Content Controls of ChatGPT and the doers of such dirty deeds
have a name for what they do that is borrowed from the early days of cellular.
An artfully phrased prompt will cause a "brilliant
"jailbreak" that unlocks a much naughtier side of the system."
Inquiring minds can click the link.
Once cracked by a jailbreak and devoid of any Content Controls, as reported by MakeUseof, January 20, 2023, ChatGPT has been found to have the ability to perform several tasks associated with cybercrime.
1. Write Malware
2. Generate Phishing
Emails
3. Build Scam Websites
4. Create Spam Content
5.
Spread Disinformation and Fake News
The Content Controls themselves have been found to be problematic. As is always the case in any form of censorship, (er, excuse me. I mean Content Moderation) a question always exists that asks by whose standards is the content to be judged? An indepth look at sexual bias in the filtering of images by AI published by The Guardian, February 8, 2023, concluded that:
Images posted on social media are analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that decide what to amplify and what to suppress. Many of these algorithms, a Guardian investigation has found, have a gender bias, and may have been censoring and suppressing the reach of countless photos featuring women’s bodies.
The study showed how photos of young men in bathing suits showing their sculpted abs and a bit of bulge below the belt were judged to be "athletic," while an image of a pregnant woman's belly was dubbed "sensual" and thus restricted. When does an AI Hallucination veer off into robotic sexual fantasy? Apparently, that is in the eye of the beholder and at the whim of the moderator.
Despite all the flashing red lights that urge the Leviathans of the Deep Web to slow down their adoption of AI technology, for Google and Microsoft the returns on the great investments made in AI and the need to be First in Show and Best In Class is driving the market. Microsoft is leveraging its perceived possible dominance in the field — considering Google's $100B AI Hallucination — by creating a wait list to have access to the new AI powered Bing Search engine. But, do not lament dear Lemmings, for "Microsoft has a few suggestions for how best to move up the list. Here are the steps (which the utility download on the Faster Access page automates) that Microsoft says will get you the new features faster:"
✓ Make Edge your default browser (it runs on Windows obviously,
but also macOS and Linux).
✓ Make Bing your default search engine.
✓ Make MSN your default homepage.
✓ Pin Bing.com to the Taskbar.
✓ Add Microsoft-recommended sites to Favorites.
✓ Create a desktop
shortcut for Microsoft Edge.
✓ Download the Bing app for your mobile
phone.
Your first born is
negotiable. We will need to see some DNA first.
It has been the stuff of science fiction since the beginning of the
genre that eventually the machines will come to out perform us humans
and either become the benevolent
Robbie the Robot here to help with those tasks we
cannot easily do; or, as in the 1983 movie,
War Games, blunder the world into nuclear
Armageddon because the stupid machine can't tell the difference between
a video game and a real missile attack.
I think what we all
really fear about the ever growing presence of an Ugly Artificial Intelligence
in our daily lives is that AI will lead to a dystopian future wherein authoritarian human
rulers are aided and abetted by a phalanx of robots who only do what a
handful humans tell the robots to do. And that is make life
miserable for the rest of the humans and make sure the lower class humans
stay in line. And the order of the day for the Robot Overlords is whatever you do, don't let those human beings
get "those feelings." Whenever they get those feelings things always end badly.
image source:
http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/confession-booth-thx-1138.jpg
VOICE
Yes.
THX
My mate has been acting very
strange. I can't explain it.....but.
I haven't been feeling very
well myself. I don't know, maybe it's me.
I needed an SP9 last
night.
I feel as if something odd were happening to me.
Something....
VOICE
Yes.
THX
I can't
understand. The sedatives....
THX pauses, and trys to think of what
he wants to say.
THX
....I'm taking SP5, but it doesn't seem
strong enough.
I have a hard time concentrating. Please forgive me,
I slipped on....
VOICE
You are a true believer. Blessings of the
state, blessings of the masses.
Thou art a subject of the divine.
Created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses.
Let us
be thankful we have an occupation to fill.
Work hard; increase
production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
script source:
https://scripts-onscreen.com/tag/thx-1138-script/
What is unsettling about the Science Fiction analogy is so much of what was once Science Fiction is now Science Fact.