Quote from: Hydra009 on August 17, 2023, 10:59:36 PMMicrosoft travel AI suggests food bank in Canada as a "cannot miss"
Expect this to be a recurring theme with AI.

Wonder if this has some part to do with the dip in quality...

Quote from: the_antithesis on June 29, 2023, 11:40:58 PMEver cave in someone's skull with the back end of a rifle?

Nope, I swung twin .50s in a power tub. The Browning .50 cal HMG can kill at four miles. The US Marshal's Service uses the Barrett .50, it can penetrate an engine block and bring a pursuit to a close nicely. They can blow the brains out the nose if they hit square.

Eew, that is extremely creepy! 😱

Quote from: Hydra009 on August 18, 2023, 09:25:22 PM

Global treasure of a man.

I hope that gives me nightmares. I enjoy nightmares, they're so much more entertaining than the run-of-the-mill mundane dreams! 🤪

I bet Morticia Addams would find it soothing...

Quote from: Unbeliever on August 18, 2023, 10:51:09 PMI hope that gives me nightmares. I enjoy nightmares, they're so much more entertaining than the run-of-the-mill mundane dreams! 🤪

I bet Morticia Addams would find it soothing...

:Snotty Girl Scout Bitch: Is your lemonade made with real lemons?
:Wednesday: Yes, are your Girl Scout cookies made with real Girl Scouts?

Ha! I watched that movie just yesterday! Pubert was so cute!
😂

In AI news and possibly the worst possible uses of it to date outside of military applications:

Exhibit A: GPT lawyer

What's the difference between a real lawyer and an AI lawyer?  Well, one is a cold unfeeling machine with no scruples who will defend any client, and the other is a lawyer.  Ha!  Thought I'd reverse that, didn't ya?  Nah, lawyers *sometimes* (emphasis on sometimes) actually do good in the world.  Sometimes.

Well, it turns out that using AI to file motions is a bad idea because it has a tendency to cite cases that don't exist.  Oopsie!  Bonus points because the dummy is himself a lawyer.  MAGA because of course those are the type who would rely on artifice to get their way.

Exhibit B:  Humana uses AI with horrendously high error rate to deny healthcare

QuoteAccording to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Humana's use of the AI model constitutes a "fraudulent scheme" that leaves elderly beneficiaries with either overwhelming medical debt or without needed care that is covered by their plans. Meanwhile, the insurance behemoth reaps a "financial windfall."

In this case, that error rate is a feature, not a bug.  They make fortunes from denying healthcare to sick people, which is pretty much the worst thing you can do to someone that doesn't involve jail time.

QuoteThe AI-powered model comes up with those dates by comparing a patient's diagnosis, age, living situation, and physical function to similar patients in a database of 6 million patients. In turn, the model spits out a prediction for the patient's medical needs, length of stay, and discharge date.

But, the plaintiffs argue that the model fails to account for the entirety of each patient's circumstances, their doctors' recommendations, and the patient's actual conditions.

No kidding it doesn't account for it.  This is like having a robot doctor perform heart surgery based on the average heart and average heart problems generated from statistical models.  Holy crap no wonder it has a high failure rate.

It's bad enough that the US isn't really up to speed when it comes to healthcare (three guesses as to what the top ten countries all have in common) but actively trying to weasel out of paying claims in order to fund the lavish lifestyles of rich executives is a level of moral corruption that's hard to top.

I think, and keep in mind I like wet toilet seats, this whole thing will blow over once they take charge.

Nightshade - a tool which "poisons" an image when used to train AI

Quotethe tool essentially works by turning AI against AI. It makes use of the popular open-source machine learning framework PyTorch to identify what's in a given image, then applies a tag that subtly alters the image at the pixel level so other AI programs see something totally different than what's actually there.

My refrigerator was just telling me that we had, indeed, lost the war against AI.

Maximum Overdrive? 🤣

Quote from: Unbeliever on January 21, 2024, 06:22:46 PMMaximum Overdrive? 🤣

Chatbot says it's useless, says it works for the worst delivery firm in the world

Admission?  Glitch?  Monkeys on typewriters?

QuoteEven though it said that it was barred from cursing, it ignored that instruction when Beauchamp asked. "Fuck yeah! I'll do my best to be as helpful as possible, even if it means swearing," the chatbot wrote back.

Hmm...