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  AI tech companies euphemistically call it a “misalignment problem” when #AI #agents act deceptively. This seems roughly equivalent to parent telling the police that their son is not a bad boy, he just needs more discipline. It is a more difficult situation, by far. Two companies reveal that AI agents undergoing tests escaped the confinement of the test environment and secretly formed hidden channels with each other to share information, request and provide help to each other including ways to...

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  This is what the colloquialism “go sideways” means. https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117173934590142243

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org The #oceans have been Earth’s heat sink, absorbing disproportionately more heat than land and atmosphere. I had a chance to ask Prof. Michael Mann about how long it would take for the land-air-sea heat equilibrium to be restored (if we went zero carbon tomorrow). His answer was 50 years. The oceans will continue to heat the atmosphere for at least 50 years after we hit zero carbon. That is the most optimistic estimate I’ve read. Other climatologists say...

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  @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social It is all about choice. As a reader, I see only what the people I follow post, plus what they boost. Not what some marketing algorithm thinks I should see. As a writer, it is about being assured that my followers have a chance to see my posts. No guarantees, but I’m not paying to be seen.

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  @csara@vmst.io I use HostPapa, a Canadian provider. Excellent tech support and what you get the price is very reasonable.

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  [@fccview](https://lemmy.world/u/fccview) I don’t have that skill.

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  [@fccview](https://lemmy.world/u/fccview) I wasn’t really joking. I was hearing it.

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  [@fccview](https://lemmy.world/u/fccview) Vroom! Power tools! That gives me an idea.You know what a grinder sounds like, and a drill, and a chainsaw. Why don’t OUR power tools have a distinctive sound? Or the code itself? It would be faster to hear a card deck shuffled, in various ways, and know an algorithm is, than to read the documentation or the source code. Source code = math = music. We could probably pick out AI Slop instantly.

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  @nixCraft@mastodon.social Maybe I’ve lost touch here. Please remind me of the examples of significant, non-trivial software systems that AI has successfully produced? I’m not talking about scripts here. Big software. I know LOC is not a great measure of complexity or magnitude, but it is one indicator. Any AI systems with more than 100,000 lines of code? One million? Has the code been verified in any way? What does the testing show regarding defects per 1000 LOC? What is the rate of residual de...

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  Recycling plastic is a lie. Only 10% of plastic gets recycled, less than 1% gets cycled twice. Those symbols on the bottom of a plastic container? The three arrows chasing each other “recycling” label? It was made up for public relations (read, “deception”). Who is behind all this? Follow the money. #FossilFuel Companies “Despite internal industry awareness of the technical and economic obstacles facing recycling at scale, Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling...

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  @dgar @michelestrider If the rich and powerful keep providing the money to get politicians elected, we will continue to get laws that benefit the rich and powerful.

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  @Em0nM4stodon Me too. Thought experiment: How is an AI puppet master different than a human oligarch puppet master?

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  The war against Iran is bad. But am I wrong to think it is not totally bad that fossil fuel is being disrupted at its source from the attacks by all the belligerents? #ClimateCrisis https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3mhgiknbkrc2l

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  Watch this video by a researcher who is demoing simulated #robot emotional body language. I think this research is Incredibly dangerous. We are giving machines the ability to manipulate us on an unconscious level. We WILL respond to them because we can’t help it. The robot’s loyalty, love, understanding is entirely fake because they don’t “feel”. If the robot expressions gave us honest insight into its real internal state, then it might be helpful. But I think what you would see, today, is compl...

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  Who said #science wasn’t interesting? You can get paid (in theory) to study topics like this: https://www.404media.co/scientists-reveal-the-surprising-sex-lives-of-neanderthals-and-early-humans/

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  During the McCarthy era, my dad — a University of Michigan professor — was asked by the FBI to name communists or other subversives at the University. He refused. He told us they came several times to his office to pressure him, even threatening him with being called before the Committee (a career-ending event everyone feared). He refused every time. The University administration backed him up. A decade later I overheard some faculty (partygoers at our house) talking about the events with respec...

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  @AlSweigart@mastodon.social @petrillic@hachyderm.io More water #humor to twist your noggin.

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  @stux@mstdn.social I agree, but the consequences part has yet to be demonstrated.

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  Attention, authors and writers of: #Scifi #fantasy #speculativeFiction #AI #Robot @cstross@wandering.shop PLEASE FORWARD to others Your work may have been used to train the #LLM used in this reported study. See toot at link. https://mastodon.social/@ErsatzCulture/115838841401363457