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Title: AI, Brains, Neural Networks [Artificial Intelligence Thread]
Post by: rachel on April 17, 2023, 05:59:44 pm


Check out this cool video explaining the history of deep learning and neural networks! People first really started to understand the brain in the late 1800s. After discovering neurons in the brain people realized their similarity to other electrical signalling equipment of the time like relays.

(https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/32dc6df8-c481-c881-6918-21ed8d798251.png)

For years these artificial neural networks were purely theoretical. But in the 1950s the first working AI model was created (it could differentiate squares from circles). The machine had knobs between each neuron that were manually adjusted by hand to train the network.

(https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/802082bc-c214-90f1-4bd4-8fae2a992403.png)
Title: Re: AI, Brains, Neural Networks [Artificial Intelligence Thread]
Post by: Diabolizer on April 17, 2023, 06:20:25 pm
There is still thermal facial and gait recognition.

Printed Masks Fool Airport Facial Recognition Technology (https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/printed-masks-fool-airport-facial-recognition-technology-researchers-discovered)
Title: Re: AI, Brains, Neural Networks [Artificial Intelligence Thread]
Post by: rachel on October 06, 2023, 08:40:26 pm
This video is an hour long, I'd recommend watching at 2x speed if you don't have time for that sort of thing

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Google's Deep dream was one of the first generative models that made headlines. It started as a network for classifying images, but they were able to sort of run the system in reverse and have it hallucinate nightmarish faces in existing pictures. The original model was made for an image recognition contest. That ImageNet ran in 2014. ImageNet made a dataset of just under 15 million images, which it doesn't own the licenses for.

With new technology, the line between research and commerce is razor thin, and big companies often use this fact to just manifest destiny whenever they want and make us live with the consequences. Scraping millions of images and sticking them in a public dataset is a huge ethical question mark, even in an academic context. But once an economy springs up around these datasets, they're hard to get rid of.

This is a lesson we've learned over and over. Companies rush to market with leaded gas or asbestos insulation, and by the time we understand what they've done, entire swathes of the planet have brain damage and lung cancer.

Google mastered this principle with AdSense, a surveillance system that probably knows your heart rate and body temperature right now and will use it to sell you some gross Coke.

Title: Re: AI, Brains, Neural Networks [Artificial Intelligence Thread]
Post by: Mozai on January 30, 2025, 04:57:35 pm
from jwz:

The other day I joked that the hardest part about watching some movies is suspending disbelief that AI is possible, but on the other hand, movies about werewolves, zombies and vampires don't bother me.
The difference being that there are not currently grifters manipulating the economy with their insane promises about werewolf futures.
I think I'm on to something here. Any time you read about Artificial General Intelligence, read that as Artificial General Werewolves:
If you read these headlines and think, "That's funny, but it's absurd, because werewolves aren't real"... keep going, you're so close to figuring it out!

Title: Re: AI, Brains, Neural Networks [Artificial Intelligence Thread]
Post by: Fishmé on March 08, 2025, 04:56:49 am


Wow, this shit is evolving so fast! It's crazy how exponential it's been. I gotta get on it and practice using these tools, or imma get left in the dust over the course of the next few generations 
Title: Re: AI, Brains, Neural Networks [Artificial Intelligence Thread]
Post by: Fishmé on March 08, 2025, 05:00:19 am


Wow, this shit is evolving so fast! It's crazy how exponential it's been. I gotta get on it and practice using these tools, or imma get left in the dust over the course of the next few generations

Even in this video, you can still tell there are details in some of these photos that arnr quite right.

(https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/450a97f2-abc1-6506-b0f1-957bdb2d9d1f.jpeg)