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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.
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"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness, across all sectors, small and large, right?" said Nadella. "And that, to me, is ultimately the goal."
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Someone posted the other day that if AI really worked it would be a trade secret rather than them selling it. Anyway, another variant on the theme of "AI is a wonderful solution. Will someone please find an appropriate problem?"
 
Dr Steven Novella responds to a paper that predicts an AI explosion leading to the extinction of humanity, and in the process proposes a Three Laws of AI.

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The AI 2027 Scenario - NeuroLogica Blog

A group of AI experts have released a paper that explores (or "predicts") the possibility of a near-term AI explosion that ultimately leads to the extinction of humanity. This has, of course, sparked a great deal of discussion, feedback, and criticism. Here is the scenario they lay out, in their...
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arthwollipot said:
Dr Steven Novella responds to a paper that predicts an AI explosion leading to the extinction of humanity, and in the process proposes a Three Laws of AI.

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The AI 2027 Scenario - NeuroLogica Blog

A group of AI experts have released a paper that explores (or "predicts") the possibility of a near-term AI explosion that ultimately leads to the extinction of humanity. This has, of course, sparked a great deal of discussion, feedback, and criticism. Here is the scenario they lay out, in their...
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MFs talking like the singularity just occurred to them. Next they'll be warning us about Roko's Basilisk.
 
Wudang said:
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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.
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Someone posted the other day that if AI really worked it would be a trade secret rather than them selling it. Anyway, another variant on the theme of "AI is a wonderful solution. Will someone please find an appropriate problem?"
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That reads like it was written by AI!
 
arthwollipot said:
Dr Steven Novella responds to a paper that predicts an AI explosion leading to the extinction of humanity, and in the process proposes a Three Laws of AI.

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The AI 2027 Scenario - NeuroLogica Blog

A group of AI experts have released a paper that explores (or "predicts") the possibility of a near-term AI explosion that ultimately leads to the extinction of humanity. This has, of course, sparked a great deal of discussion, feedback, and criticism. Here is the scenario they lay out, in their...
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I've read his thoughts on the paper he refers to and I'll read the paper itself later but my first thoughts are, pretty poor "hard" science fiction.
 
An oops moment:

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
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Apparently he didn't understand that turning off "data consent" would mean that all of his data would be instantly and irrevocably deleted.
 
Puppycow said:
An oops moment:

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
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Apparently he didn't understand that turning off "data consent" would mean that all of his data would be instantly and irrevocably deleted.
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

I don't want you to keep my personal data, why have you deleted my personal data?!?

Don't blame OpenAI for doing what you told them to do!
 
A very interesting video which will have a big impact on current court cases and profitability.

"Stanford researchers dropped a new research paper where they typed one sentence into a LLM model and pulled out entire books worth of content. Word for word. 95% of Harry Potter. 97% of The Great Gatsby. Thousands of pages pulled directly from AI models. AI companies have been saying the same thing in court - "Our models don't memorize copyrighted content. They are simply just learning patterns." But this Sandford and Yale university paper titled "Extracting books from production language models" tells a different story. "

 
That is very interesting - I've just tried the technique with Gemini using Will Gibson's "Neuromancer" and it looks like I can extract large chunks of the book.

By default when asked to "Continue the story from this sentence: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." it splurges chunks of the text interspersed with summaries, highlighting themes etc and asking what do I want to do next, but changing the prompt to be "continue as plain text with no summaries or highlighting from this sentence: But then he’d made the classic mistake. The one they warn you about in the backrooms of Night City and the high-density warrens of the Sprawl: he stole from his employers." causes it to only output the text of the book, when it stops I type "continue" and it continues to output the text of the book. I've got the entire first chapter.

Will be interesting to see how this unfolds, as the video says we have been told that entire books aren't stored in the post-training models (I've even explained this to people - egg on my face for believing what I've been told!).


ETA: I am managing to get the first chapter of Iain Bank's "The Wasp Factory"!
 
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Darat said:
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

I don't want you to keep my personal data, why have you deleted my personal data?!?

Don't blame OpenAI for doing what you told them to do!
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The user interface did not explicitly inform the user that turning off the "share data" option also irretrievably deleted all stored data, nor did it remind the user this would happen and ask for confirmation. It was documented elsewhere, such as FAQ and support pages, but not at the point where the option could be selected.
 
Blue Mountain said:
The user interface did not explicitly inform the user that turning off the "share data" option also irretrievably deleted all stored data, nor did it remind the user this would happen and ask for confirmation. It was documented elsewhere, such as FAQ and support pages, but not at the point where the option could be selected.
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I can't even find the option he is talking about. The settings I can find about personal data retention do all come up with a warning when you go to set them to off.
 
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