Chaos & Amazement #2322 AI-Powered Killer Drones, Mermaid-core, and Adobe’s Firefly Images
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Tech news
If I could go back in time and contact my 19 year old self, I’d advise her to buy Nvidia stock. Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters.
The Turing Test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. In a recent Turing Test, people were able to correctly identify a human 73% of the time, but only 60% of the time when talking to a bot. This suggests that AI chatbots are still not quite indistinguishable from humans, but they are getting closer.
”Trends once meant meaningful social change: an emerging and defining collective thought, behavior, value, or attitude. A shift in society. But today, ‘mermaid-core’ is being named a top trend for this summer.”
Reddit’s head of global foresight says ‘trends have lost all meaning’
Fresh AI
Adobe released a Photoshop feature called "Generative Fill, " enabling content creators to expand an image beyond its initial borders. In a nutshell, the tool is part of Adobe's image-synthesis model Firefly. Users can extend the edges of a picture in any direction, and Generative Fill will produce cohesive content with or without contextual prompts. Try Generative Fill in the Photoshop (beta) desktop app.
Adobe’s new Firefly imagery generator is akin to Dall-E 2 and Midjourney—but aims to steer clear of some of their controversies.
People have already started going wild with the feature on social media, with many examples going viral.
In August 2022, Open AI’s DALL-E introduced what they called outpainting - a feature very similar to Adobe’s “Generative Fill”.
OpenAI’s official ChatGPT app is now finally available in Belgium (and the Netherlands) apps.apple.com
Reimagine by MyHeritage: Scan, fix, and animate old photos, from your phone.
Gen-2 - AI generated video with dogs. Creepypasta!
From my blog
Bans On AI Powered Drones Should Get Priority https://bnox.be/2023/06/bans-on-ai-powered-drones-should-get.html
An AI-powered drone tried killing its operator in a military simulation, an Air Force official said. "It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective," he said.
“‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.” aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/
A.I.'s Dilemma: Balancing Benefits and Risks for Humanity's Future https://bnox.be/2023/05/ais-dilemma-balancing-benefits-and.html
Execs from leading AI firms warn: AI's impact is as crucial as pandemics and nuclear wars. 350+ signatories back the Center for AI Safety's 22-word statement. Statement on AI Risk | CAIS
Weird and Wonderful
Discord's captcha is asking users to identify a 'Yoko,' a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.
Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don't Exist
New website Favoree is being hailed as "the Rotten Tomatoes of YouTube," where users can rate and review YouTube channels. It’s based on a browser plugin, so it needs more users for it to get relevant. But I like the idea!
The object is to guess where the photo was taken on a map and when, on a timeline from 1900–2023.
