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AI makes mind-reading possible

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Massive announcements in the world of AI today from the University of Texas, Geoffery Hinton, IBM, and Walmart.

Here’s the rundown on everything you need to know:

1. AI makes mind-reading possible

This new study will literally- *blow your mind*

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a GPT-based decoder that translates thoughts into text using non-invasive fMRI scans.

– Participants trained the decoder by listening to podcasts for 16 hours.

– The AI system generated a text as participants listened to or imagined a new story, capturing thoughts .

The exact words were not always the same, but the overall meaning was captured.

[This whole thread is interesting but I am putting it up because the kind of AI feedback described above will reveal in detail the underlying loose organization and chaos of the mind as we speak and listen (and do everything else). Being able to see this clearly will revolutionize our understanding of human psychology; how it actually functions in real-time. When tech like this is something we can access routinely at a business or school or even purchase and use at home, human communication and self-understanding will hit fabulous new levels, freeing us from the humdrum common associations we must now depend on for clear communication. FIML practice can show a great deal of this right now. I would highly recommend more smart people learn to do FIML because it shows us how we really think and act, thus preparing us for what is coming from this new tech. Subjectivity will become much more objective. This will shock and even traumatize many, but it need not because it is real and utterly fascinating. In my view, this will become one of the most impactful technologies stemming from AI. ABN]

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Everyone is trying to map AI onto some familiar ontology, but the reality will be so unfamiliar, foreign, & incomprehensible that it will tear to shreds the assumptions which we didn’t even know we made

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Ppl tend to think about AI through very very narrow frames

Obviously, there’s many who default to AI=unemployment issue

Or the tech folks who see it as crypto 2.0 or merely as big as the internet

But it goes way deeper.

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Even EA’s will think about AI primarily in terms of “is it an X-risk? yes or no” and then go back to debating the ‘moral worth’ of animals, totally ignoring the prospect of digital minds that will shortly have arbitrarily large amounts of whatever they define as ‘moral worth’

Everyone is trying to map AI onto some familiar ontology, but the reality will be so unfamiliar, foreign, & incomprehensible that it will tear to shreds the assumptions which we didn’t even know we made

We are going to live through this and are only seeing glimpses of it now

Originally tweeted by Alt Man Sam (@mezaoptimizer) on April 26, 2023.

Buddhists may be better prepared than anyone. Not a boast, just a statement. ABN

‘This is how GPT-4 sees and hears itself’

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I used GPT-4 to describe itself. Then I used its description to generate an image, a video based on this image and a soundtrack.

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This was the description of itself GPT-4 generated: “Imagine a sleek, metallic sphere with a smooth surface, representing the vast knowledge contained within the model. The sphere emits a soft, pulsating glow that shifts between various colors, symbolizing the dynamic nature of…

Originally tweeted by Kris Kashtanova (@icreatelife) on April 22, 2023.

The creator of the CRISPR babies has been released from a Chinese prison

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The Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a Chinese prison.

He Jiankui created shock waves in 2018 with the stunning claim that he’d altered the genetic makeup of IVF embryos and implanted them into a woman’s uterus, leading to the birth of twin girls. A third child was born the following year.

Following international condemnation of the experiment, He was placed under home arrest and then detained. In December 2019, he was convicted by a Chinese court, which said the researcher had “deliberately violated” medical regulations and had “rashly applied gene editing technology to human assisted reproductive medicine.”

His release from prison was confirmed by people familiar with the situation and He answered his mobile phone when contacted early today. “It’s not convenient to talk right now,” he said before hanging up.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? — Stephen Wolfram

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That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work? My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT—and then to explore why it is that it can do so well in producing what we might consider to be meaningful text. I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. (And the essence of what I’ll say applies just as well to other current “large language models” [LLMs] as to ChatGPT.)

The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, where by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions of webpages, etc.”

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A part of Western civilization produced a culture of men who created the entire modern world

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I personally do not descend from that part of Europe. I am descended from the slaves/serfs of Northeastern Europe. How can anyone deny that the modern world was created by a culture of men from that region on the map? Why should I feel ashamed of my ancestry? Why would I not admire the men who created the modern world? To me, it’s asinine for slave societies, which is virtually all the rest of the world, to boast of their meagre accomplishments or pretend their ancestors did anything we still value today. I loved my peasant grandma and her pagan ways. She was very clever, very low education, but an absolute delight to be around. I don’t feel ashamed of her. To speak dishonestly about her is to shame her and myself. I can love my ancestry without making up stories about it. And I can understand and appreciate who created the wonders of the world we live in today. Those men could have concealed their inventions and kept them from the rest of the world. More on this topic: The Faustian impulse and European exploration. ABN

AI image

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As for AI images in general, most of them seem to be based on movie images and thus look fake, cheesy, or overdone. Machine made. That said, this is a wonderful new area to play in and redesigning instructions or databases should fix all problems. What I see in virtually every AI portrait today is the subject’s eyes do not look conscious no matter how realistic other features are. ABN

HOW YOU CAN INSTALL A CHATGPT-LIKE PERSONAL AI ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER AND RUN IT WITH NO INTERNET

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This article is designed with the goal in mind for anyone to install this software. Originally it had a video that was to accompany the how-to, however things a changing rapidly, and my three attempts just delayed me from publishing this article. I may include it later. I endeavored to create a simple step-by-step instruction to install a Personal AI for an extreme novice. Someone that may never have been to GitHub and never used Terminal. If you are someone that has, a good chance this particular article is not for you. You may find some of our local models we have built and will publish soon to be more interesting. If you are an expert in installing software, focus your energies on helping others and the community, not on “who doesn’t know that” or “I knew it, he is just writing about…” sort of comments. Use your power and skills to lift us all higher.

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