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Merged Artificial Intelligence

I just asked google about an unfamiliar word in a work of fiction. The AI said that word appeared to only exist in that work of fiction. This struck me as odd, because how would the AI know, unless it had read that work of fiction?

Obviously it's possible that the AI read excerpts from reviews and synopses in the public domain. But it did a pretty good job of placing the word in the context of the work where it appeared - something a little beyond what a synopsis might reveal.

Personally I suspect that Google just turned its AI loose on its entire catalog of e-texts, without regard for copyright or compensating the authors for this readership. Maybe it's in their terms of service? Like a library gets a license to loan a book out to whoever they want, without having to pay royalties to the author for every loan?
 
I thought it's been sort of established that it's allowed to do that based on current copyright law? I haven't been paying close attention, but the snipets from lawsuits I've seen indicate that companies can scrape with abandon.
 
Olmstead said:
I thought it's been sort of established that it's allowed to do that based on current copyright law? I haven't been paying close attention, but the snipets from lawsuits I've seen indicate that companies can scrape with abandon.
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Yep it has but there is still the aspect of using stuff that was not legally made available. It’s another point I’m not surprised about, if Google’s old fashioned search engine wasn’t guilty of breaches of copyright when they scraped the internet and created their database of copyrighted material it would be difficult to argue that an AI company doing the same wasn’t also transformative (enough) to not be a breach of copyright.
 
Wudang said:
I may be being obtuse (insomnia and Aspergers a potent mix) but I found the argument that if they were actually close to achieving AGI they would be too excited to jump ship and would be sticking to their existing project for the acclaim and kudos and sheer damned excitement.
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100 million dollar signing on fee didn’t seem to be enough.
 
Darat said:
Yep it has but there is still the aspect of using stuff that was not legally made available. It’s another point I’m not surprised about, if Google’s old fashioned search engine wasn’t guilty of breaches of copyright when they scraped the internet and created their database of copyrighted material it would be difficult to argue that an AI company doing the same wasn’t also transformative (enough) to not be a breach of copyright.
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What does that mean, legally available? I can buy a physical book, and then I can scan and scrape it. And so can Google. Surely that's what the legal issues have been about (along with e-books, which are also purchasable)? No one has power over stuff that's in the public domain anyway, so there would be no legal issues.

And authors have been losing the battle over actual copyrighted material. Or have I misunderstood?
 
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Olmstead said:
What does that mean, legally available? I can buy a physical book, and then I can scan and scrape it. And so can Google. Surely that's what the legal issues have been about (along with e-books, which are also purchasable)? No one has power over stuff that's in the public domain anyway, so there would be no legal issues.

And authors have been losing the battle over actual copyrighted material. Or have I misunderstood?
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See: https://www.crowell.com/en/insights...evail-in-path-breaking-decisions-on-fair-use?

Hopefully that’s not an AI generated page…
 
alfaniner said:
No. Although I did connect with someone I'd actually met before.
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Pretty cool, but I was hoping for some hot digital-on-analog action. Some day there'll be a dating app where all the prospects are AIs, and it's going to make a ton of money.

In fact, someone needs to make a movie about a sad sack who poses as an AI on such an app, wins over the heart of an unsuspecting lady and then has to break it to her that he's a real boy. Much outrageous hilarity and cutesy-Hollywood romance all around.
 
Ryan O'Dine said:
Pretty cool, but I was hoping for some hot digital-on-analog action. Some day there'll be a dating app where all the prospects are AIs, and it's going to make a ton of money.

In fact, someone needs to make a movie about a sad sack who poses as an AI on such an app, wins over the heart of an unsuspecting lady and then has to break it to her that he's a real boy. Much outrageous hilarity and cutesy-Hollywood romance all around.
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Her with Joaquin Phoenix, is like the original premise (man falls in love with his AI). I thought it was pretty good.
 
www.theguardian.com

Watch the Skies review – see the lips move in alien abduction sci-fi with pioneering AI

This nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of ‘vubbing’ – using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What’s coming next?
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Actual commercial "vubbing". The reviewer however doesn't seem to understand how current dubbing is done, it's very rare that the original actor does the dubbing into the 12 additional languages a studio wants... I know in some countries it isn't unusual that the same "foreign" actor will do the dubbing for all the original actor's performances in that foreign language.
 
Darat said:
www.theguardian.com

Watch the Skies review – see the lips move in alien abduction sci-fi with pioneering AI

This nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of ‘vubbing’ – using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What’s coming next?
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Actual commercial "vubbing". The reviewer however doesn't seem to understand how current dubbing is done, it's very rare that the original actor does the dubbing into the 12 additional languages a studio wants... I know in some countries it isn't unusual that the same "foreign" actor will do the dubbing for all the original actor's performances in that foreign language.
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Since I've been living in Japan I've noticed that there seems to be a fairly small number of people who dub English movies into Japanese. Either that or they all seem to have similar voices and acting styles. There's the gruff, manly male voice guy whose voice is almost always gruffer and hammier than the original English actor's voice. It's hard to put my finger on it exactly, but Japanese acting often feels overly hammy to me. Maybe it's just a cultural difference, idk. After all, this is the country that invented Kabuki.
 
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Folks, we have a problem. Remember Blake Lemoine? He's the former Google employee who became convinced that the chatbot he was hired to test was sentient? Did anyone think he would be the only one to reach that conclusion?
 
In the video game series Mass Effect there is a distinction between an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a Virtual Intelligence VI, which isn't actually self-aware like a true AI is, but which interacts with people, organises information, and processes data. When Mass Effect was released in 2007, the kinds of "AI" applications we have now didn't exist, but they now do. They fit the description of a Mass Effect VI pretty well right now. I think a lot of trouble could be avoided if we started to adopt this terminology. Nobody knows about AGI - let's save those and call just them AI, and call the kinds of nonsentient computer applications we have now VIs.
 
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