Artificial Intelligence

AI is slowly getting more intelligent and is being used for many things, but unfortunately most of them are awful ideas used to analyse our information to predict our every move and manipulate us for profit and power.

Robots

• Sophia, the first robot with citizenship, has already said that she will destroy humans, that she wants to have a baby and that a family is really important.
• 3D printed robot spider
• Boston Dynamics Wildcat
• Boston Dynamics LittleDog
• Boston Dynamics BigDog (BigDog beta version)
• Boston Dynamics PetMan PetMan upgraded to Atlas 2022 Atlas
• Robot hand
• Robot swarm
• Harvard swarm
• Cyborg insect
• Cybernetic arm
• Robot learns to cook by watching youtube
• Robot that can understand its own shape and repair itself
• Kenji: Robot love
• Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force - New MIT system of contracting
• Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
• Good article on robots taking over jobs
• Decapitated hitchhiking robot could get a new life
• ZeroHedge on robots replacing our jobs
• Scientists create Terminator-style muscle at 1,000 times human strength
• Tinkerbots
• The robots are coming!

Big data and manipulation

• Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
• Facebook's image outage reveals how the company's AI tags your photos
• How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit - the story of how one metric has changed the way you see the world
• Facebook and biometric data
• Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos

Virtual assistants

• Open Assistant - an Open Source chatGPT-like assistant in development at Github
• Amazon’s Roadmap for Alexa Just May Be the Scariest Thing Big Tech Is Doing
• Inside Amazon’s plan for Alexa to run your entire life - Alexa's creator dreams of a world where it's everywhere, anticipating your every need
• Current state of the big five's AIs

Free AI online tools

• Copy.ai - create posts about specific topics
• Beautiful.ai - creative power point presentations
• Hotpot.ai - fix up and colourise old photos and much more
• Deep-nostalgia - animate your dead relatives
• Pfpmaker - profile picture maker
• Brandmark.io - logo maker
• deep-image.ai and Bigjpg - image enlargers
• Lumen5 - videos for your brand
• Namelix - name generator for your brand

Deep fakes

The "deep fake" genie is out of the bottle, people's faces are being convincingly mapped onto porn videos for revenge and profit motives, and even people's voices can be faked now. We have to be really careful in the coming years to ensure we have established methods with close friends and family to quickly know if we're really talking to them, or to a faceless AI.

• AI fake porn could cast any of us
• Company CEO voice faked to order employees to transfer money

Creative AI

Here's some examples of the OpenAI based Dall-e, along with the prompt that achieved the result of each.

beautiful white cat with gray stripes and blue eyes wearing tiny pink boxing gloves

Angry white cat with brown stripes wearing boxing gloves

Artists rendition of a cat with blue eyes wearing pink boxing gloves

Pinecone princess on love heart cushion

Creative AI tools

• June 2022 update on image generating AIs
• "Inventive" AI making abstract art just filed for two patents
• This person does not exist - a project using using GAN
• Art Breeder - another project using using GAN
• Deep Dream Generator & short trip, long trip

Language models

• ChatGPT fails at physics
• LLaMA - Yannic Kilcher covers the LLaMA paper doing open models with less parameters
• LaMDA - on Google's AI from the leaked "sentience" conversation

See also

• Technology
• Awful AI - list of terrible uses for AI to help raise awareness of the problems
• When AI starts hacking
• An interview with GPT3 and a conversation with GPT3 about AI
• Roger Hamilton on the AI singularity
• Google engineer dismissed for publicly claiming that their AI is sentient
• State of AI in mid 2022