Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Damning with faint praise? If AI is supposed to be superior, being almost as good as the ‘model’ you are replacing seems less than stellar.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/the-ai-wars-heat-up-with-claude-3-claimed-to-have-near-human-abilities/

The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities





Because they’ve done such a great job with… (Can you think of anything?)

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/should-the-un-govern-global-ai/

Should the UN govern global AI?

One such proposal was from the United Nations’ multi-stakeholder AI Advisory Body, which released an interim report offering future steps for global AI governance. Though it did not recommend any single model, the report concluded that “a global governance framework is needed.” It identified seven layers of governance functions for “an institution or network of institutions,” starting with expert-led scientific consensus and building to global norm elaboration, compliance, and accountability. We concur with the need to build broad consensus through many voices. But we emphasize that what is needed is a distributed and iterative approach, one that would be—as the UN AI Advisory Body itself put it—“agile, networked, flexible” and makes the most of the initiatives already underway.





Another reason to ensure we can identify AI generated works. (Might be worth creating a confession video with a few flaws to “prove” you didn’t do it.)

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/accused-facebook-killer-claims-his-confession-was-ai-generated/

Accused Facebook killer claims his confession was AI-generated

Mark Stephen Mechikoff, the man accused of recording a grisly murder and then posting the video on his Facebook page, made a courtroom declaration at his most recent court appearance.

The 39-year-old Pacifica man is charged with stabbing Claribel Estrella to death inside her San Mateo apartment on July 26, 2023. Prosecutors said he recorded the entire killing with his cellphone camera, including Estrella’s last moments alive as she bled on her kitchen floor.

Mechikoff has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

He appeared inside a San Mateo County courtroom on Friday for a preliminary hearing. “During the hearing, the defendant exclaimed to the court that he did kill the victim, but his confession was generated by AI (artificial intelligence),” prosecutors wrote.





Smart or silly? (Did they think ChatGPT was a Trump supporter?)

https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/pa-gop-lawmakers-hear-from-chatgpt-as-they-consider-laws-addressing-artificial-intelligence/article_96816954-d807-11ee-8f03-1369fbfbc098.html

Pa. GOP lawmakers hear from ChatGPT as they consider laws addressing artificial intelligence

… “Ladies and gentlemen of the PA House Republican Policy Committee, thank you for the opportunity to address you today. My name is ChatGPT, an AI language model developed by OpenAI.”





And AI content generators will make it worse… (LLMs will not have the latest research…)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00616-5

Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet

More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication on 24 January1, indicate that systems to preserve papers online have failed to keep pace with the growth of research output.

Our entire epistemology of science and research relies on the chain of footnotes,” explains author Martin Eve, a researcher in literature, technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. “If you can’t verify what someone else has said at some other point, you’re just trusting to blind faith for artefacts that you can no longer read yourself.”





Tools & Techniques.

https://www.bespacific.com/ai-and-plagiarism-detection-tools/

AI And Plagiarism Detection Tools

Journalist’s Tool Box – AI And Plagiarism Detection Tools: “I post this here as a warning. There are tools such as AI Undetect and Humanize AI Text, rewrite tools that offer an AI detection remover service. They can fool GPTZero, ZeroGPT, Copyleak, etc.”



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