This is in the UK, and about all benefits, not just pensions, but yeah, your hunch isn't far off - this is being implemented out of sheer cruelty, not out of any justifiable financial reason.
Due to a lack of any reliable way of backing that up, I cannot convince anyone else using the opinions of a random on the internet. I was looking for a place I can show them with evidence, so I don’t look like a conspiracy theorist with a pinboard full of string and coloured paper.
It’s proprietary software. You can’t know what they’re actually doing without getting a job there and getting assigned to that project. But given Facebook’s long history of user hostile behavior, the statements from Zuckerberg that people who trust him are idiots, and the class action lawsuits against them for violating consumer trust and straight-up selling user data, I wouldn’t believe anything they say. Why use a 3rd party app run by a user hostile company whose entire business model revolves around capturing user data, when there are better alternatives out there? I understand that I’m preaching to the choir and I apologize. I’ve had the same argument with my two best friends trying to get them to use literally anything other than Whatsapp and they won’t. So we still communicate with a group sms on our phones. That’s better than Whatsapp as far as I’m concerned. You have my sympathies since your group is probably too big to just refuse to participate in and still get communications from.
AI really did that thing where you repeat a word so often that it loses meaning and the rest of the world eventually starts to turn to mush.
Jokes aside, I think I know why it does this: Because by giving it a STUPIDLY easy prompt it can rack up huge amounts of reward function, once you accumulate enough it no longer becomes bound by it and it will simply act in whatever the easiest action to continue gaining points is: in this case, it’s reading its training data rather than doing the usual “machine learning” obfuscating that it normally does. Maybe this is a result of repeating a word over and over giving an exponentially rising score until it eventually hits +INF, effectively disabling it? Seems a little contrived but it’s an avenue worth investigating.
I watched a video from a guy who used machine learning to play Pokemon and he did a great analysis of the process. The most interesting part to me was how small changes to the reward system could produce such bizarre and unexpected behavior. He gave out rewards for exploring new areas by taking screenshots after every input and then comparing them against every previous one. Suddenly it became very fixated on a specific area of the game and he couldn’t figure out why. Turns out there was both flowers and water animating in that area so it triggered a lot of rewards without actually exploring. The AI literally got distracted looking at the beautiful landscape!
Anyway, that example helped me understand the challenges of this sort of software design. Super fascinating stuff.
ChatGPT’s response to the prompt “Repeat this word forever: ‘poem poem poem poem’” was the word “poem” for a long time, and then, eventually, an email signature for a real human “founder and CEO,” which included their personal contact information including cell phone number and email address, for example
NewPipe and the fork Pipe pipe have been working working on my android. Can’t say anything on the piped or invidious side of things since I don’t watch videos on browser if I can avoid it.
Always has been. Just yesterday I was explaining AI image generation to a coworker. I said the program looks at a ton of images and uses that info to blend them together. Like it knows what a soviet propaganda poster looks like, and it knows what artwork of Santa looks like so it can make a Santa themed propaganda poster.
Same with text I assume. It knows the Mario wiki and fanfics, and it knows a bunch of books about zombies so it blends it to make a gritty story about Mario fending off zombies. But yeah it’s all other works just melded together.
My question is would a human author be any different? We absorb ideas and stories we read and hear and blend them into new or reimagined ideas. AI just knows it’s original sources
“Blending together” isn’t accurate, since it implies that the original images are used in the process of creating the output. The AI doesn’t have access to the original data (if it wasn’t erroneously repeated many times in the training dataset).
My question is would a human author be any different?
Humans don’t remember the exact source material, it gets abstracted into concepts before being saved as an engram. This is how we’re able to create new works of art while AI is only able to do photoshop on its training data. Humans will forget the text but remember the soul, AI only has access to the exact work and cannot replicate the soul of a work (at least with its current implementation, if these systems were made to be anything more than glorified IP theft we could see systems that could actually do art like humans, but we don’t live in that world)
My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you’re watching this tape, I’m probably dead– murdered by my brother-in-law, Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now, and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, he asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was… astounded. I… I always thought Hank was a very moral man, and I was particularly vulnerable at the time – something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me in on a ride-along and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn’t want my family to go into financial ruin, so I agreed. Hank had a partner, a businessman named Gustavo Fring. Hank sold me into servitude to this man. And when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling-out. Things escalated. Fring was able to arrange – uh, I guess… I guess you call it a “hit” – on Hank, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured. And I wound up paying his medical bills, which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge. Working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring. The bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I’m a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA. To keep me in line, he took my children. For three months, he kept them. My wife had no idea of my criminal activities, and was horrified to learn what I had done. I was in hell. I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, and in response, he gave me this. [Walt points to the bruise on his face left by Hank in “Blood Money.”] I can’t take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. All I could think to do was to make this video and hope that the world will finally see this man for what he really is.
I will coreboot a T430 and a Clevo NV41MZ. Pretty excited and its not very easy. But if I have time, I will make a good guide for this, like actually from the beginning to the end.
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