Evercoast Volumetrically Captures President Zelensky from Kyiv to Address the Global Tech Community
Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient
... The engineer’s concerns reportedly grew out of convincing responses he saw the AI system generating about its rights and the ethics of robotics. In April he shared a document with executives titled “Is LaMDA Sentient?” containing a transcript of his conversations with the AI (after being placed on leave, Lemoine published the transcript via his Medium account), which he says shows it arguing “that it is sentient because it has feelings, emotions and subjective experience.” ...
A linguistics professor interviewed by WaPo agreed that it’s incorrect to equate convincing written responses with sentience. “We now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them,” said University of Washington professor Emily M. Bender.
Timnit Gebru, a prominent AI ethicist Google fired in 2020 (though the search giant claims she resigned), said the discussion over AI sentience risks “derailing” more important ethical conversations surrounding the use of artificial intelligence. “Instead of discussing the harms of these companies, the sexism, racism, AI colonialism, centralization of power, white man’s burden (building the good “AGI” [artificial general intelligence] to save us while what they do is exploit), spent the whole weekend discussing sentience,” she tweeted. “Derailing mission accomplished.” ...
See the full story here: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23165535/google-suspends-ai-artificial-intelligence-engineer-sentient
Ukrainians are using 3D technology to preserve hundreds of cultural artifacts in a digital archive, far away from Russia’s attacks
A blown-up Russian tank near Kyiv, a monument for Ukrainian writer Borys Hrinchenko, an apartment building destroyed by artillery and a slide in a children's playground covered in graffiti. In Ukraine, these objects are among hundreds of landmarks, cultural sites, monuments and everyday things that civilians have scanned on mobile phones through an app called Polycam. The app's software generates a detailed 3D model that will live permanently in a digital archive as part of an initiative called Backup Ukraine. ...
... It took Kamynin roughly an hour to scan the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Pirogoshcha, an Orthodox cathedral in Kyiv, originally built in 1132. It was the first building in Kyiv that was built entirely of brick without the use of stone, according to the church's website. The church was destroyed in 1935 during the Soviet era but was later reconstructed in the late 1900s. ...
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ADVANCED AI COULD LEAD TO ‘THE TROLLEY PROBLEM’ IN FUTURE
... When it comes to autonomous vehicles, I believe this is a very new type of product with two distinct aspects. One is that autonomous cars are expected to be clever, adaptable beings with their minds. So, they have some kind of control. They also make judgments that have life and death implications for people, whether they are in the automobile or on the road. As a result, I believe that people are quite concerned that current product safety standards and traditional means of regulating goods would not work in this circumstance, in part because the vehicle’s conduct may eventually become even different from that of the person who programmed it.
See the full story here: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/advanced-ai-could-lead-to-the-trolley-problem-in-future/
Deepfakes Go Mainstream: How Metaphysic’s AGT Entry Will Impact Entertainment
On June 6, 2022, Chris Umé and Thomas Graham, the founders of Metaphysic, joined the America’s Got Talent stage with Daniel Emmet. Using the technology Metaphysic developed, Daniel Emmet performed "You’re the Inspiration" using AGT judge Simon Cowell’s likeness live on-stage.
This performance stunned the judges and captured the crowd, resulting in four yesses. The group is moving forward to the next round of AGT—but what does their use of deepfake tech mean for the future of entertainment? ...
See the full story here: https://www.makeuseof.com/deepfakes-mainstream-agt-entry/
A.I. gurus are leaving Big Tech to work on buzzy new start-ups
- Four of the best-funded new AI start-ups — Inflection, Cohere, Adept and Anthropic — have recently poached dozens of AI scientists with backgrounds in Big Tech.
- The start-ups’ hiring efforts are being fueled by venture capital firms and billionaires keen to cash in on any success they have.
- The companies are building new products and services on top of a new technology known as a “transformer.”
See the full story here: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/10/ai-gurus-are-leaving-big-tech-to-work-on-buzzy-new-start-ups.html
