Comment Nope. (Score 1) 1
Come back when it passes peer review.
Comment Another grift? (Score 2, Insightful) 59
How long until this guy makes his own AI startup for "responsible AI"? What are the chances he's being paid to do this? Remember, AI companies are a trillion deep in AI without any keeping any of their promises and they've hit a developmental brick wall which means the jig is almost up. What better way than to lower expectations than claim it's too dangerous/powerful to push further?
Submission + - Major Media Outlets Banned from White House (bbc.com)
hadleyburg writes: BBC is reporting that "US President Donald Trump has announced that he is "immediately" banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House".
"Trump said that the outlets "constantly write or report fiction or lies" about his administration, although he provided no examples".
"Trump said that the outlets "constantly write or report fiction or lies" about his administration, although he provided no examples".
Comment Re:It's a tale of two viruses (Score 1) 127
There's a pattern here folks.
People inclined to conspiracy theories tend to see them everywhere?
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Submission + - U.S. almost attacked Chinese ship over hallucinated AI nuclear arms report (cnn.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: CNN is reporting that an AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack on a Chinese ship.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
The kind of “hallucination” that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
The kind of “hallucination” that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.
Comment Re: Adversarial patterns FTW! (Score 1) 97
Who says the number stickers have to correlate with actual beliefs?
Submission + - When and why black holes burp (theguardian.com)
Bruce66423 writes: 'Scientists have solved the mystery of when black holes “burp” – when the astronomical bodies launch jets after feeding on stars, blasting material enormous distances in space.
'Scientists know from rare observations of stars being torn apart by black holes – a process that involves a stretching effect known as “spaghettification” – that “only about half of the star that gets too close to the back hole will end up eventually being swallowed by that black hole”, Goodwin said.
'The other material is launched back into space in powerful jets and outflows, sometimes so large they “can influence the entire evolution of a galaxy”, she said. “You can think of it as a black hole burp.”'
'Scientists know from rare observations of stars being torn apart by black holes – a process that involves a stretching effect known as “spaghettification” – that “only about half of the star that gets too close to the back hole will end up eventually being swallowed by that black hole”, Goodwin said.
'The other material is launched back into space in powerful jets and outflows, sometimes so large they “can influence the entire evolution of a galaxy”, she said. “You can think of it as a black hole burp.”'
Comment Re:The hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry (Score 4, Interesting) 139
The real costs are not being addressed
The costs of nuclear are addressed all the time.
The problem is the nuke fanbois either ignore the costs or hand-wave them away: "Nuclear is only expensive because of protests and regulations. Next time will be different. Blah, blah, blah."
Even without considering the costs of waste and accidents, nuclear costs four times as much as wind or solar and has a 20-year lead time.
Comment Re:Not just there (Score 2) 139
Tens of thousands of barrels of toxic waste were dumped near Catalina Island, but the vast majority are non-radioactive chemical waste.
DDT leaking from the barrels is a much bigger problem than nuclear waste and shows up in the local sea lion population.
Anyway, there's nothing realistic that we can do about it since any attempt to retrieve the barrels will likely make things worse.
Comment Re: They told it to do it (Score 0) 125
You didn't seem to be smart enough to understand that you have made the mistake of arguing in favor of my point in your attempt to argue against it.
Comment Re:trousers (Score 1) 125
Today I read your comment. If it wasn't proof that being human doesn't make you intelligent then I don't know what is.
Comment Re:Anthropic and the industry will lose (Score 1) 125
OpenAI is quite literally joining Anthropic in the call for caution, so you should probably learn a long overdue lesson: Knowing how to find the Slashdot URL doesn't make you an expert.
Comment Re:They told it to do it (Score 0) 125
You might want to watch the Black Hat presentation and actually educate yourself before trying to tell us "what they did." Hint: You have no idea what you are talking about.
Comment Re:Which is it? (Score -1, Troll) 125
Don't try to confuse these people with facts. They already "know" that only humans can do it, AI and an LLM are the same thing, and AI isn't human, so AI can't do it. Any factual evidence that shows that AI definitely does it is marketing. Anyone who says that AI and LLM are not interchangeable terms is easily fooled by "token predictors", and most importantly ONLY GOD CAN GIVE THE GIFT OF INTELLIGENCE, LIKE HE DID 6000 YEARS AGO!
Comment YES! (Score 5, Insightful) 74
I'm glad to see that Slashdot isn't above printing the occasional feel-good story.
