Wishful thinking?
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/23/gpt-4-question-intelligence/
GPT-4 and the Question of Intelligence
“The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed showing sparks of artificial general intelligence.”
Those are the words of a team of researchers at Microsoft [ … ] in a paper released yesterday, “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4”.
(Related) ChatGPT is retraining itself.
https://www.bespacific.com/openai-is-massively-expanding-chatgpts-capabilities/
OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more
The Verge: “OpenAI is adding support for plug-ins to ChatGPT — an upgrade that massively expands the chatbot’s capabilities and gives it access for the first time to live data from the web. Up until now, ChatGPT has been limited by the fact it can only pull information from its training data, which ends in 2021. OpenAI says plug-ins will not only allow the bot to browse the web but also interact with specific websites, potentially turning the system into a wide-ranging interface for all sorts of services and sites. In an announcement post, the company says it’s almost like letting other services be ChatGPT’s “eyes and ears.” In one demo video, someone uses ChatGPT to find a recipe and then order the necessary ingredients from Instacart. ChatGPT automatically loads the ingredient list into the shopping service and redirects the user to the site to complete the order… OpenAI says it’s rolling out plug-in access to “a small set of users.” Initially, there are 11 plug-ins for external sites, including Expedia, OpenTable, Kayak, Klarna Shopping, and Zapier. OpenAI is also providing some plug-ins of its own, one for interpreting code and one called “Browsing,” which lets ChatGPT get information from the internet…”
Combining AI and surveillance tech was inevitable.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-eu-precedent-2024-olympics-surveillance/
France sets EU precedent with 2024 Olympics surveillance arsenal
France’s AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.
The French government wants to experiment with large-scale, real-time camera systems supported by an algorithm to spot suspicious behavior, including unsupervised luggage and triggering alarms to warn of crowd movements like stampedes, for the mega-sports event next year.
… Last week, a group of about 40 European lawmakers — mainly left-wing — asked their French counterparts to vote against the text. They warned in a letter that “France would set a surveillance precedent of the kind never before seen in Europe, using the pretext of the [2024 Paris Summer] Olympic games.”
Terrorist toys?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/exploding-usb-sticks.html
Exploding USB Sticks
In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives —actual ones—in USB sticks:
In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his employer said.
Artieda sustained slight injuries to one hand and his face, said police official Xavier Chango. No one else was hurt.
Chango said the USB drive sent to Artieda could have been loaded with RDX, a military-type explosive.
More:
According to police official Xavier Chango, the flash drive that went off had a 5-volt explosive charge and is thought to have used RDX. Also known as T4, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (PDF ), militaries, including the US’s, use RDX, which “can be used alone as a base charge for detonators or mixed with other explosives, such as TNT.” Chango said it comes in capsules measuring about 1 cm, but only half of it was activated in the drive that Artieda plugged in, which likely saved him some harm.
Reminds me of assassination by cell phone.
Be careful what you legislate?
Thanks, Obama! The hilarious reason why a judge just blocked Wyoming’s abortion ban.
Republicans just got a painful reminder that political stunts can backfire
… In many states, opponents of Obamacare effectively took the GOP’s talking points and turned them into state constitutional amendments protecting patients’ ability to obtain health care that the government might not want them to have. Wyoming’s amendment, for example, provides that “each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions.”
My concern has always been, how does TSA define ‘security?’
https://viewfromthewing.com/tsa-redefines-physics-says-peanut-butter-is-a-liquid/
TSA Redefines Physics, Says Peanut Butter Is A Liquid
The Transportation Security Administration has an almost ‘through the looking glass’ way of describing what they do and do not permit, going so far as to redefine physics to their liking.
You can bring disabled bullets through security, and you can bring ice through security, but you cannot bring ice shaped like disabled bullets through security. Put another way, spent shell casings are fine but not if they can cool drinks.
While the TSA limits liquids through their checkpoints to 3.4 ounces per container, and in total not more than 100 milliliters, per passenger, for years I’ve pointed out that you can bring unlimited amounts of liquids through a checkpoint if you freeze them first. Because physics. Frozen liquids are solids. The TSA actually endorses this interpretation.
However they do not always respect physics. According to TSA, peanut butter is a liquid ‘because it conforms to the shape of its container’. Peanut butter is subject to 3.4 ounce / 100 milliliter rules. No distinction is drawn between chunky and creamy! And of course ice also conforms to the shape of its container, too.
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