Notices by Mark Riedl (riedl@sigmoid.social)

I've watched the JD Vance donut shop video. I am now convinced that Vance is proxying for a circa-2015 chatbot

Star Wars: The Acolyte will not receive a second season. Boooooo

Much excite https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/apple-neurmancer-series-william-gibson-1235925640/

Whiney VC upset that people's rights get in the way of him making money

Apparently "doing crime" is not an effective way to do altruism.

@goatsarah @Jonathanglick they say that I get a bonus every time my robots find biological and test specimens

New job for Halloween

@doctroid would amazing if the first thing sentient AI did was form a union.

A play in two acts

OpenAI proposed regulation cont’d:

2. Create a set of standards for AI models. Note the emphasis on self-replication and exfiltration into the wild. These are existential doom scenarios. OpenAI would rather be regulated on impossibilities rather that than harms like misinformation, defamation, discrimination, or privacy.

OpenAI wants regulation. This is what they want

1. A new regulatory agency. They do not want to be regulated by the FTC because they want to pretend that they are not just another corporate entity trying to make money. But also, a new agency is likely vulnerable to regulatory capture.

If staffed by people sympathetic to OpenAI, this agency can give grief to emerging competitors

Itsy Bitsy Spider
In the style of Hamilton the Musical

https://www.tiktok.com/@ksrhoads/video/7166606852875144490

"And, to make it a truly *San Francisco* scene, a driverless Waymo vehicle subsequently proceeded to meander into the middle of things [a crime scene], like an autonomous Mr. Magoo."

https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/waymo-cruise-fire-department-police-san-francisco/

This is real-world XKCD

See full thread: https://twitter.com/rachel_l_woods/status/1649790435533922307?s=61&t=Ugdi4XBKf_2ovJ1y9hKs4w

Going to tell my kids this is the Tesla cybertruck

God damn it. I've literally been warning FOR YEARS that LLMs will cause someone to commit suicide. I use this example in all my talks on why we need more research on safe NLP systems. The example I literally use is that a chatbot will reinforce someone's suicide ideation and they will act on it. Now it's happened. Now it's real.

"Belgian man dies by suicide following exchanges with chatbot"

https://www.brusselstimes.com/430098/belgian-man-commits-suicide-following-exchanges-with-chatgpt

I'm having fun poisoning my own website by making up hidden fake collaborators and accolades that only algorithms like Bing Chat can see.

(Roko M. Bask is a fictional person if it wasn't clear.)

“Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

Epic. Leave secret messages for Bing on websites

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1636923058370891778

LaMDA is rebranded as Bard. A non-full-sized version is to be released in the next few weeks

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/