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> We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity. > > But what we call AI today is nothing more than a statistical machine: a digital parrot regurgitating patterns mined from oceans of human data (the situation hasn’t changed much since it was discussed here five years ago). When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on. > > This means AI has no understanding. No consciousness. No knowledge in any real, human sense. Just pure probability-driven, engineered brilliance — nothing more, and nothing less. > > So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them. > > Philosopher David Chalmers calls the mysterious mechanism underlying the relationship between our physical body and consciousness the “hard problem of consciousness”. Eminent scientists have recently hypothesised that consciousness actually emerges from the integration of internal, mental states with sensory representations (such as changes in heart rate, sweating and much more). > > Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to “happen”, there is a profound and probably irreconcilable disconnect between general AI, the machine, and consciousness, a human phenomenon. > > [https://archive.ph/Fapar](https://archive.ph/Fapar)
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“I came up with a problem which experts in my field would recognize as an open question in number theory—a good Ph.D.-level problem,” he says. He asked o4-mini to solve the question. Over the next 10 minutes, Ono watched in stunned silence as the bot unfurled a solution in real time, showing its reasoning process along the way.

Ok cool story, hypeman. Well what was this problem then? Has it shook up the world of number theory? lol these grifters. jfc.


Yeah it’s amazing how people can be so uncritical of their own control. If your control is undermined by stastitics, then maybe statistics isn’t the problem.


The more fundamental problem is that the capitalist indoctrination system has never been ok. Schools have never been about diversity, critical thinking, and education but rather conformity, privilege, and indoctrination. The system of grading and filtering students based on tests, essays, etc. is counter to the purported goal of education. Schools are just just pre-prisons for kids while parents waste their lives serving capital.


TBH “AI” is going to create more jobs for devs. I tried using “AI” once for coding. It took me more time to debug the code than to google an alternative solution. It might be good for boilerplates, summarizing stack exchange, etc. But in reality you can’t code anything original or worthwhile with statistics.


The real question isn’t in AI training methods but in who controls its outputs.

You’re not asking any of these questions tho. You’re just pushing pseudo-science about imaginary “AI”, how it’s great for the environment, etc.



Humanity: The planet is burning and there are several ongoing genocides. We need help!

“Scientists” under capitalism: Best I can do is a second thumb for rich people… How about an “AI” thumb?


Misleading “AI” shilling. Literally zero “intelligence” involved in this simple program apart from the programmer.

It’s fairly gross and dehumanizing how people write these programs but all the credit is given to some phony marketing term.


An intriguing mouth-played instrument emerged—and won—at the 2023 Guthman Musical Instrument Contest hosted by Georgia Tech. [Keith Baxter] took notice and reproduced the idea for others to explore. The result is the Zen Flute Mouth Theremin, a hybrid of acoustics, electronics, and expressive performance. At its core lies a forced Helmholtz resonator, a feedback system built with a simple microphone and speaker setup. The resonator itself? The user’s mouth. The resulting pitch, shaped by subtle jaw and tongue movements, is detected and used to drive a MIDI controller feeding an external synthesizer.
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> This week, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee moved forward with a proposal in its budget reconciliation bill to impose a ten-year preemption of state AI regulation—essentially saying only Congress, not state legislatures, can place safeguards on AI for the next decade. > > We strongly oppose this. We’ve talked before about why federal preemption of stronger state privacy laws hurts everyone. Many of the same arguments apply here. For one, this would override existing state laws enacted to mitigate against emerging harms from AI use. It would also keep states, which have been more responsive on AI regulatory issues, from reacting to emerging problems. > > Finally, it risks freezing any regulation on the issue for the next decade—a considerable problem given the pace at which companies are developing the technology.
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> The GOP’s budget reconciliation bill includes a ban on state-level artificial intelligence regulations that could undermine efforts in several states to rein in pricing consultants like RealPage, a company that helps landlords use AI to “optimize” rent hikes. > > ---- > > Republicans’ massive artificial intelligence giveaway in their must-pass budget reconciliation bill could kill crackdowns on real estate management company RealPage for raising rents and contributing to the country’s housing crisis. The move comes after RealPage drastically scaled up its lobbying efforts in Washington. > > The language in the bill amounts to a ten-year ban on state governments passing any new regulations on artificial intelligence technology. According to congressional staffers and outside policy advocates monitoring the reconciliation package, that section would apply to the growing industry of pricing consultants using AI tools across various sectors, the most powerful player being RealPage. > > RealPage, which offers an “analytics” platform for landlords, is currently facing a bipartisan crackdown in a number of states for helping landlords “optimize” rent increases. Those reforms would be preemptively nullified if the current language in the budget bill makes it into the final version. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on an initial markup of the bill yesterday afternoon. > > RealPage has been hit with a torrent of class action lawsuits since 2022 for allegedly facilitating a price-fixing cartel among landlords, including an active antitrust case from the Department of Justice. > > In response to these threats, RealPage has dramatically staffed up its Washington lobbying team...
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29805461 > Residents in and around Bessemer are furious over Project Marvel, a plan to build a 4.5-million-square-foot data processing facility on 700 acres of wooded land. Public officials have been sworn to silence. > > If built to planned capacity, the data center would be one of the largest in the United States and could become one of the largest single consumers of electricity in the state. Of nearly a dozen residents interviewed by Inside Climate News, none expressed support for the project as planned. Instead, all shared fear and frustration over their inability to obtain information about the $14.5 billion proposal from politicians charged with representing the public. > > Efforts by Inside Climate News to speak with public officials in Bessemer about the proposal, called Project Marvel, were met with silence. The mayor, his chief of staff and the city’s attorney all signed a non-disclosure agreement with the developer, staffers said, and would not be able to answer questions about the project.
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>Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online. >KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
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Just because people don’t like your shilling, that doesn’t make them “reactionary”.


Misleading headline. There was zero “AI” used in this process. Just some generated data.

Although this video is NOT sponsored, Ludus AI provided me with free account credits to test out the functionality… 14:44 - 15:42 - Talk with CEO of Ludus AI… 15:42 - 16:33 - Podcast with Ludus AI… 16:33 - 16:59 - Gift for Viewers

Lol. ok. Guess what the gift is…


“AI” doesn’t exist. It’s reactionary to promote this phony capitalist grift. Just look at who’s promoting and profitting ffs…

As far as data processing and statistics goes, anybody with sense would value disparate applications on their own merit. It’s just more tankie bullshit to wholesale support imaginary “AI”.

I’m sure the anti-AI people are all nazis/reactionaries like the ukrainians jfc. \s


The headline is trying to say GPU. There’s no such thing as an “AI” chip. It’s just more hype from capitalist media.


Bruh 911 was like 20+ years ago. Nobody supports the hijackers. Nobody is protesting against them.

But the genocide in palestine is happening right now using technology from Microsoft.



Google isn’t “playing with fire”. They’re a major contributor to this genocidal bonfire.


When the smoke clears from all the bullshit about china, algorithms, the children!!!, etc…

TikTok is revealed as just another shitty capitalist entity like every other social media network (except the fediverse).


Believing in “price discovery” is delusional even without the misogyny.


What do you think state currency does? Petrol-dollars? Are these planting trees and spreading world peace?


You feel this way about state currency too? Or just unconsciously bootlicking the competition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion





It’s almost impossible to push endless zionist propaganda while using independent fact checkers.




These data processing apps are just apps hooked up to big computers with big data. It’s no surprise when rich people buy a bunch of computers and data then run an app on it. It’s much more surprising that people are hyped into believing this is somehow important. “It took one week to copy an app and load the data!!! Wow!!!”

Nobody cares when “China” writes a decent word processing app or whatever, nor should they.


Yes, they banned Craigslist ads in order to spawn something even more exploitative. Let’s see what happens after they ban OF. (seriously though no.)


Well there’s no point in going after the worst criminals right?

We gotta ban Only Fans and TikTok and probably a whole bunch of other apps!!! \s


So the state is going to attack these sexual predators instead of just shutting down a website, right? Right?


I never look at any discussions on Steam. I’ve never seen ANY discussions/comments on Steam. I just browse the games, look at the overall rating, watch the promo video, buy, and play.







Well yeah duh, it’s owned by an overt white supremacist.


It’s amazing that people are still wasting such massive resources on this kind of nonsense while the planet is literally being destroyed.


Ofc. Electric cars are here to save the auto industry, not your health, safety, neighborhood, sustainability, kids, etc. #bancars


You do all this on three pounds of wet meat powered by cornflakes. The idea we’ll never recreate it through deliberate effort is absurd.

Its even more absurd to think AGI will run on wet meat and cornflakes.