AI, Brains, Neural Networks [Artificial Intelligence Thread]

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.



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.

There is still thermal facial and gait recognition.

Printed Masks Fool Airport Facial Recognition Technology

This video is an hour long, I'd recommend watching at 2x speed if you don't have time for that sort of thing

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.

from jwz:

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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:

• Today's Self-Werewolves might be limited, but we're only 14 months away from Full-Self-Werewolf.
• We need to be very concerned about the existential threat of General Werewolves.
• What effect will Werewolves have on the Economy?
• It's important that we loosen copyright protection to support the development of Werewolves.
• Will a Werewolf take your job?
• Can a Werewolf Assistant make you more productive?
• Werewolf Hallucinations.
• Executive Order on Responsible Lycanthropy.
• Roko's Werewolf, the Bad Wolf at the End of Time.
• Apple removes Werewolf Summaries from iPhone.
• Company developing Werewolf Girlfriend.
• China's Werewolf is watching what you type.
• Why Werewolves could replace NFL first-down markers sooner than you might think.
• Tesla sees autonomous Werewolves 'in the wild' in June.
• More efficient Werewolves will drive demand for our Werewolf products.
• Hedge funds pausing US Werewolf bets, says Goldman.
• Call for global Werewolf regulation at Davos.
• TikTok to spend $12 billion on Werewolves in 2025.
• Oracle rolls out Werewolf Agents for Sales Professionals.
• OpenWerewolf urges US to prioritize Werewolf funding.
• Prime Minister plans to make Britain 'Werewolf Superpower'.
• Meta knew it pirated books to train Werewolves, authors say.
• OpenWerewolf chief Sam Altman denies sexually abusing sister, after she sues him.
• FaceHugger claims its new Werewolf models are the smallest of their kind.
• Werewolves aren't very good at history, new paper finds.
• VCs say Werewolves need proprietary data to stand out from the pack.
• More capable Werewolves are coming, but will their benefits be evenly distributed?
• Palantir, Anduril sign partnership for Werewolf training in defense.
• YouTube will now allow creators to opt in to third-party Werewolf training.
• Free Werewolf training course for teachers.
• Werewolves are efficient enough to run pretty much anywhere.
• Here's how Werewolves use your data.
• Google says its new Werewolves can identify emotions -- and that has experts worried.
• The Vatican's Anime Mascot Is Now a Werewolf Porn Sensation.

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!

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 

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.