When I was just a naive Comp Sci major, I learned the term GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). AI seems to be the ultimate expression of this. In order to get an AI to produce a good, usable product, you have to put in a lot of work and edit, edit, edit. As a soon to retire teacher, whose students use AI to try to produce essays and answers to simple questions, rather than learning anything or working, I have discovered that those who use AI tend to be too lazy to effectively use AI.
AI *is* useful for finding out where Napoleon crowned himself emperor, though, when it's 2:00 am and you can't sleep and your brain has just taken a left at Albuquerque.
Why did a teacher have a student’s cell phone number? That seems weird. No vetting, no wondering if this is actually true and her first instinct is to send the video to a student who would spread it like wildfire? Hinky.
I'm kind of dreading this aspect of the upcoming political campaign season. You just know a certain political party and their Russian paymasters are going to invest heavily in deepfakes. And I don't know how we combat it.
This man is going places. Not anywhere good, but he's going places.
When I was just a naive Comp Sci major, I learned the term GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). AI seems to be the ultimate expression of this. In order to get an AI to produce a good, usable product, you have to put in a lot of work and edit, edit, edit. As a soon to retire teacher, whose students use AI to try to produce essays and answers to simple questions, rather than learning anything or working, I have discovered that those who use AI tend to be too lazy to effectively use AI.
For not quite two grand. Wow. Destroy your life for two grand.
AI *is* useful for finding out where Napoleon crowned himself emperor, though, when it's 2:00 am and you can't sleep and your brain has just taken a left at Albuquerque.
Hany Farid, quoted above, used to be a CS professor at Dartmouth many years ago! Very good guy, and WICKED SMAHT as we say around these pahts.
“Stories like this might get us to change our minds, though.”
Why, when the AI is no more “intelligent” than the people using it?
Technology may be getting more intelligent but people are still dumb.
Doh🤦♀️
Why did a teacher have a student’s cell phone number? That seems weird. No vetting, no wondering if this is actually true and her first instinct is to send the video to a student who would spread it like wildfire? Hinky.
𝐘𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧-𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐬𝐤𝐲-𝐢𝐬-𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐨𝐦𝐠-𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲-𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭-𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡.
I dunno. Every technology is supposed to destroy the world, but it turns out that it’s mostly … dumb.
I'm kind of dreading this aspect of the upcoming political campaign season. You just know a certain political party and their Russian paymasters are going to invest heavily in deepfakes. And I don't know how we combat it.
And so ends the era of “proof”.
This just in: Skynet still not self-aware; picks own nose. World safe from nuclear holocaust for now, but not from shitty gym coaches.
Not elevating my already low opinion of gym teachers.
Will this be the plot of the next Cohen brothers’ movie?
AI is only marginally less stupid than its users.