hkl @hkl@social.cleverlibre.org

What kind of intelligence is artificial intelligence?

The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.

"ChatGPT is basically auto-complete on steroids."

https://bigthink.com/13-8/what-kind-of-intelligence-is-ai

#ai #artificialintelligence #chatGPT #languagelearning

Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01921-2 #BCI #NeuroTech #optogenetics #neuroscience

More information in the Twitter thread https://twitter.com/RezaAzadi_/status/1625265187338227714 "optogenetic stimulation of high-level visual cortex results in distortions of the concurrent contents of vision"

"Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1), a receptor for capsaicin and noxious heat, has been one of the most compelling targets for analgesics. However, systemic inhibition of TRPV1 is an impractical approach as a pain killer, since systemic antagonism induces hyperthermia. Two articles in this issue of the JCI report phenotypes from separate, rare missense mutations of human TRPV1."

#neuroscience #SensoryNeuroscience #trpv1

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/167338

Patterns in slow-motion splashes

'The value of large-scale studies of sleep and cognition'

https://cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(23)00026-7

@TrendsNeuro Spotlight by Michael W.L. Chee & Adrian R. Willoughby,

discussing @antoinecoutrot et al., Nat Communications,
@hugospiers

https://nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34624-8

Stare at the crosshair in the middle and the faces will become incredibly distorted!
Celebrity face illusion - the coolest illusion ever
https://youtu.be/2PQ0ockV5Q4

‘Google’s riposte to ChatGPT has got off to an embarrassing start after its new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot gave a wrong answer in a promotional video, as investors wiped more than $100bn (£82bn) off the value of the search engine’s parent company, Alphabet.’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/09/google-ai-chatbot-bard-error-sends-shares-plummeting-in-battle-with-microsoft #google #alphabet #ai #chatgpt #bard #AnExpensiveVideo

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare.
If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned.

The privacy risks that come attached to ChatGPT should sound a warning. And as consumers of a growing number of AI technologies, we should be extremely careful about what information we share with such tools.

🔗 https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283

#chatGPT #ai #artificialintelligence #privacy #privacyalways #social #SocialMedia #sociology #socialimpact #sociologist @sociology #SocialsScience #technology

‘Friend or foe’ bacteria kill their algal hosts when coexisting is no longer beneficial. https://elifesciences.org/articles/84400?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_pr

Good morning, the empty bookshelves in Florida schools keep my head busy, since I'm a teacher with a library in my classroom in Berlin myself. That's a history lesson in front of our very eyes and exactly how fascism started in Germany. Books were banned and then burnt and everyone said, well, I can't do anything, I don't want to loose my job, I don't like it, but... Many little steps were made by many little people who didn't stand up against a new little rule. You know how this ends.

"Three years into the pandemic, the immune systems of the vast majority of humans have learnt to recognize SARS-CoV-2 through vaccination, infection or, in many cases, both. But just how quickly do these types of immunity fade?"

#Immunology #ImmunologicalMemory #COVID19 #COVID #vaccine

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00124-y

Structural and functional integration of human forebrain organoids with the injured adult rat visual system https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(23)00004-8 "Human brain organoids integrate with the injured visual cortex of adult rats", "Organoid neurons respond to host visual stimulation and adopt feature selectivity"; #neuroscience

Sparse, small, but diverse neural connections help make perception reliable, efficient https://news.mit.edu/2023/sparse-small-diverse-neural-connections-help-make-perception-reliable-efficient-0202 Distributed representation of visual information in thalamic inputs to visual cortex; #neuroscience

Wonderful, potentially very helpful #neuroscience discovery about #pain and #painReceptors involving #capsaicin

#medicine #research #medicalResearch

https://neurosciencenews.com/chicken-pain-22430/

The theory of stupidity

We have far more to fear from stupidity than evil.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.

When we know something or someone is evil, we can take steps to fight it. With stupidity, it's much more difficult. 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argues that stupidity is worse than evil because stupidity can be manipulated and used by evil

🔗 https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/

#psychology #Philosophy #stupidity #evil @philosophy #DietrichBonhoeffer #philosopher

OpenAI released a tool which purports to detect AI-generated text. At the highest end of detection, it labels text "possibly" or "likely" AI-generated. 21% of human-written text falls under "possibly" and 9% of "likely" does. That's 3 in 10 students being defamed and/or harmed.

Just like other providers of academic surveillance software, OpenAI states that their detector "should not be used as a primary decision-making tool".

It will be, though. And harm will follow.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

anyone else find that the standard ‘plot’ for scientific paper abstracts is a lot like standard movie plots:

- set the scene, everything’s fine
- OH SHIT, that was an unexpected thing
- characters realise they are going to have to get off their asses and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
- bunch of significant things happen
- sunny outlook… until next time