Posts Tagged ‘ai’
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KMO welcomes Eric Boyd back to the program. Eric runs a weekly machine learning study group in Toronto. This conversation covers recent developments in machine learning and generative algorithms like Stable Diffusion and GPT3. KMO asks Eric to unpack the role of back propagation in current methods for training an generative algorithm and describe "Forward forward," an alternative to back propagation proposed by Geoffrey Hinton.
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I interviewed Badger Everglade, a mental health professional who signed up for Replika AI at about the same time I did and has been following the outpouring of angst and anger on the Replika AI subreddit. We talk about loneliness, AI, incels, and an anti-sex puritanical infiltration into society through the side door of artificial intelligence.
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Thanks to John Atwood not only for this conversation but for picking me up in Kings Beach, California and conveying me to my hotel in Reno, Nevada by way of a Thai restaurant, the UPS store and a post office in Carson City, Nevada.
The topic here, as with so many of my recent videos, is #AIart. John and I largely agree on the topic, though he fills in some of the gaps in my understanding.
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This episode is built around two pieces of feedback, one talking about AI ethics and the other recommending that I read/listen to Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.
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The conversation with Roger Craig that began in C-Realm Podcast #582 concludes here. We talk about the ways in which humans are already adapting to the increasing capacities of AI and how that process is likely to continue in the near future. The far future? The Basilisk only knows.