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2y ago
It blew up by way of people believing it was an intentional SJ deepfake/soundalike hired due to being rejected by SJ. I think this article effectively refutes that. I don't think it blew up by way of people believing simply that t
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> > The article claims that: [...] > > 3. The actress's natural voice sounds identical to the AI-generated Sky voice > No it doesn't. That's a verbatim quote from the article (albeit based on brief recordings).
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> if I were running the company it would be blankly obvious that the optics would be a problem, so I would start to collect a LOT of paperwork documenting that the casting selection was done without a hint of bias towards a celebrity
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2y ago
> They literally could have said nothing and just chosen the voice audition closest to Her unconsciously, because of the reach of the film, and that would still be an impersonation That's a very broad definition of impersonation, on
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> The actress did impersonate Her though. Did she? The article claims that: 1. Multiple people agree that the casting call mentioned nothing about SJ/her 2. The voice actress claims she was not given instructions to imitate SJ/
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2y ago
I think we generally both agree that there are some poor misimplementations of the test, like the one you linked where (according to their paper) the interrogator could answer "unsure" on a bot's response and count as being &
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2y ago
AI as a field has been around since the 50s and gone through multiple paradigms, but modern AI (since its resurgence around 2010) is effectively all machine learning.
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> Your analogy inadvertently once again emphasizes the point. Now change it from being a rabbit and a turtle, to an unknown animal and some non-animal thing pretending to be another unknown animal. And you have to guess which is which. I
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Checking page source, font size seems to imperceptibly vary (20.48px to 21.33px for me, after my guesses). More useful is that the list appears to be sorted so that closer guesses are at the bottom of the list.
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> in your argument here you're not talking about a "more compelling evidence of personhood", but rather discriminating towards some specific identity. A preteen non-native speaker is just as much a person, with just as muc
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> you could simply chop away everything except the most basic linguistic functions and claim you are a non-native preteen [...] You're 5 years old - and simply respond by randomly pounding various keys on the keyboard on occasion. B
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2y ago
I agree that "Man pretending to be woman, vs real woman" is just an example, used to introduce the question in the form of a party game between humans. I see the "something" it is replaced by as "Machine pretending
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> - The whole point of the name, "the imitation game", is to imitate a specific identity. The more precise an identity is, the more difficult it would be for an imposter to imitate it. Turing chose male vs female, but modern ch
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2y ago
> They don’t have GPT-5 after 14 months of trying. They didn't have GPT-4 until 3 years after GPT-3. > The most important figure in the blogpost is attached below. And the most important thing about the figure is that 4o is not a
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> A CPU can be decommissioned and turned off My analogy starts with the case where this is true and the energy efficiency gain is clear, but only as a comparison point from which to consider the case where "instead of being decommis
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> It’s not like the workers that got their jobs replaced by an LLM cease to exist. Unless LLMs caused people to work more from home, or have fewer kids, I can’t see how they affected the environment positively. Say you're improving
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2y ago
From a search, the message seems to have been in place since at least 2017[0] and I'd suspect is automated on detection of mass-deletion. I can understand the reason for the policy (in some ways SO functions more like a wiki than a for
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2y ago
Not all applications of statistics/control are ML - I don't know what I said to give that impression. A spam filter based on regex or manually-selected criteria and thresholds would not be ML for instance, whereas modern effective
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2y ago
I understand, but think that in many relevant cases it'd now be non-ML approaches that would be "forced". Machine learning is just the easiest and best way to accomplish a large range of tasks.
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I don't claim that Microsoft products are perfect, just that it seems a reasonable use of machine learning. The things I've seen them use ML models for are genuinely useful, and mostly added without too much fanfare years prior to
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2y ago
I'd agree that "We're going to shove a chatbot in every single one of our products", like the recent Copilot integrations, would reek of shoe-horning and a possible company wide mandate. But remarks more along the lines
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Given the quote is referring to what they've done "for years and years and years [...] in our product groups" outside of the OpenAI arrangement, the fact that a large number their of products have come to make some use of AI
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> I cannot for the life of me grasp nihilistic resignation [...] I agree that change is possible through a hard-fought battle, both legally and socially. On the other hand, "Everyone can just decide not to use these tools. Simple.&q
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There's no indication that it's a yet-to-be-introduced requirement that will block 100+ countries including the user's own - and a footnote in the sidebar would not be the appropriate place for that. If it's being sold i
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There's no human in the process (to be trawling through Facebook pages looking for videos where relatives speak) prior to the victim picking up - and even then often not until the victim has replied to some initial hook. The huge numbe
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> and your own voice will be used to scam your relatives. Both of those are happening today. I can't really see it becoming common for cold-calls that pretend to be someone the victim knows (like the terrifying ransom calls), since
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... China and India do contribute a fair amount.
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> Which AI specifically? Because every LLM I've tried has usually [...] I think pipeline_peak's remark is unwarranted, but we probably should be trying to look ahead a number of decades (depending on how long you have left in y
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2y ago
They're [dead], which means generally others can't see them, but people can enable "showdead" on their profile.
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https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi... > Every year the lives of approximately 1.19 million people are cut short as a result of a road traffic crash. Between 20 and 50 million more
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