As I’ve mentioned before, economist, blogger, and friend Bryan Caplan was unimpressed when ChatGPT got merely a D on his Labor Economics midterm. So on Bryan’s blog, appropriately named “Bet On It,” he made a public bet that no AI would score on A on his exam before January 30, 2029. GPT-4 then scored an A a mere three months later (!!!), leading to what Bryan agrees will likely be one of the first public bets he’ll ever have to concede (he hasn’t yet “formally” conceded, but only because of technicalities in how the bet was structured).
.. But OK, labor econ is one thing. What about a truly unfakeable test of true intelligence? Like, y’know, a quantum computing test? Read More
Daily Archives: April 12, 2023
‘Mind-reading’ AI: Japan study sparks ethical debate
Osaka University researchers have used AI to decode subjects’ brain activity to create images of what they are seeing.
Yu Takagi could not believe his eyes. …After Takagi and his research partner Shinji Nishimoto built a simple model to “translate” brain activity into a readable format, Stable Diffusion was able to generate high-fidelity images that bore an uncanny resemblance to the originals.
The AI could do this despite not being shown the pictures in advance or trained in any way to manufacture the results. Read More
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New study shows how scary fast today’s AI is at cracking passwords
Passwords with more than 18 characters were deemed safe from AI password-cracking tools.
- Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes published a study about AI and its ability to crack passwords.
- A new AI password cracking tool is capable of cracking a majority of six-character passwords and under instantly.
- Passwords with 12 characters or more are considered tough to crack, for now.
#cyber
Google Maps Is the Potential Killer App In This Age of AI
onversational search is about to get wildly useful and cleverly orchestrated across maps, points of interest, personalization, geo-location and enriched content.” Rafat Ali
…Let’s talk about the most used app while traveling, Google Maps, and what could happen as it adds the conversational AI elements to it. Or to Waze, also owned by Google.
My contention in this video below: Maps powered by conversational AI will make it an even more dominant app — and incredibly useful and personalized — than it is today. Imagine the Google LLM (the AI algorithm, if you will) trained on the giant repository of location, navigation, reviews, user intent data, that then allows you to have a threaded conversation with the app, overlaid in a visual way over Maps. Read More
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