Here is a thought provoking essay from the public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier: AI and Microdirectives – Schneier on Security Something to read with the morning coffee this weekend. It is actually “further listening – The BBC Reith Lectures, by Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Center …
Because It’s Friday – bringing two of my favourite Friday themes together…
Here is something from Scott Adams, to make you smile at the end of the week. It brings together coffee and artificial intelligence: Ai Based On Wally – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-11-02 | Dilbert by Scott Adams The cartoon got me thinking – kill the AI – which reminded …
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Back to Google’s “sentient” AI
Here are a couple of articles looking at the issues raised around Google’s AI chatbot, LaMDA (language model for dialog applications), because Blake Lemoine, an engineer working with the system, has claimed LaMDA is sentient. Google was not pleased – they suspended Blake, for publishing confidential company property. Google does …
Machine learning is vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks
This paper looks at how threat actors can manipulate and poison machine learning training, to twist the systems to their goals. The goals are achieved without impacting the integrity of the underlying data sets. Manipulating SGD with Data Ordering Attacks (arxiv.org) Shumailov, I., Shumaylov, Z., Kazhdan, D., Zhao, Y., Papernot, …
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AI is the future and we cannot avoid the consequences – but what are we going to do about it?
The final part of Stuart Russell’s Living With Artificial Intelligence series is out: The Reith Lectures – Stuart Russell – Living With Artificial Intelligence – AI: A Future for Humans – BBC Sounds I have really enjoyed these radio programmes – I hope you have as well. Here is something …
“What we’ll be doing when AI is doing most of what we currently call work” – The Reith Lecture
The third lecture in Stuart Russell’s Living With Artificial Intelligence series is out: The Reith Lectures – Stuart Russell – Living With Artificial Intelligence – AI in the economy – BBC Sounds Past articles about the this year’s lectures: Reith Lectures – Smart Thinking Solutions Rutherford and Fry on Living …
The Reith Lecture – “do not design algorithms that can decide to kill humans”
The quote comes from the lecture – but having listened to it there are interested groups who would prefer I use the word “engage” to “kill”. Want a simple explanation of what an algorithm is then check this short animation out produced by the BBC: What are algorithms and how …
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