ArdWrknTrk Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 That seems pretty blatant. Would have thought he'd have gotten caught pretty quickly. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/shoehorned-windows-copilot-key-is-just-a-reprogrammable-macro-journalist-shows/ Has it really been a month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/shoehorned-windows-copilot-key-is-just-a-reprogrammable-macro-journalist-shows/ Has it really been a month? A blissful month with no worries about being taken over by AI. Luckily my new tablet doesn't have that key. But even if it did there's a tutorial on how to reprogram it. I was already thinking it, but at least this article says: "This all has made the Copilot button seem more like a way to force the adoption of Microsoft's chatbot than a way to improve Windows keyboards." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 A blissful month with no worries about being taken over by AI. Luckily my new tablet doesn't have that key. But even if it did there's a tutorial on how to reprogram it. I was already thinking it, but at least this article says: "This all has made the Copilot button seem more like a way to force the adoption of Microsoft's chatbot than a way to improve Windows keyboards." And they're not wrong! Don't worry, our robot overloads are coming, wether we're ready willing and able, or not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 And they're not wrong! Don't worry, our robot overloads are coming, wether we're ready willing and able, or not! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/words-are-flowing-out-like-endless-rain-recapping-a-busy-week-of-llm-news/ TTT! 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/words-are-flowing-out-like-endless-rain-recapping-a-busy-week-of-llm-news/ TTT! 😉 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/google-search-will-start-automatically-showing-a-chatbot-to-some-users/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/google-search-will-start-automatically-showing-a-chatbot-to-some-users/ Luckily I'm not one of the ones being targeted with SGE as my searches don't have it. But, like the author of that bit, I don't want it. Like him my searches are usually for something specific, like White Dog Hill Restaurant and I need the phone number and address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Luckily I'm not one of the ones being targeted with SGE as my searches don't have it. But, like the author of that bit, I don't want it. Like him my searches are usually for something specific, like White Dog Hill Restaurant and I need the phone number and address. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/meta-releases-chatgpt-like-ai-site-and-open-weights-llama-3-model/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/meta-releases-chatgpt-like-ai-site-and-open-weights-llama-3-model/ This is a new paradigm, in propaganda especially... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsofts-vasa-1-can-deepfake-a-person-with-one-photo-and-one-audio-track/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 This is a new paradigm, in propaganda especially... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsofts-vasa-1-can-deepfake-a-person-with-one-photo-and-one-audio-track/ Yes, especially in propaganda. The statement that it could "allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want" is scary. However it won't be able to pick up someone's mannerisms from a single picture, so it will be possible to figure out that it is a fake. But it won't be immediately obvious to people who've not watched that person extensively, and before it is labeled a fake the damage will have been done. We watched a movie the other evening that had an actress in it that we saw in a multi-season series several years ago. We'd seen her so much that when she made a particular move in this movie we remembered that move from a specific scene in the series. So if someone took a picture of her and made it into a video we might be able to say it is a fake. But even then it is a subjective call and there's no proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Yes, especially in propaganda. The statement that it could "allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want" is scary. However it won't be able to pick up someone's mannerisms from a single picture, so it will be possible to figure out that it is a fake. But it won't be immediately obvious to people who've not watched that person extensively, and before it is labeled a fake the damage will have been done. We watched a movie the other evening that had an actress in it that we saw in a multi-season series several years ago. We'd seen her so much that when she made a particular move in this movie we remembered that move from a specific scene in the series. So if someone took a picture of her and made it into a video we might be able to say it is a fake. But even then it is a subjective call and there's no proof. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsofts-phi-3-shows-the-surprising-power-of-small-locally-run-ai-language-models/ Everybody is cramming AI ahead of earnings calls. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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