Ever heard of ‘Project Q’?
These days there is mounds of hoopla over the use of AI….it is a bane for some and a welcome innovation for others. Some use it to prepare better posts (I do not)….others use it to scam others…..the there is Project Q.
Before moving forward, it should be noted that all the details about Project Q* — including its existence — comes from some fresh reports following the drama around Altman’s firing. Reporters at Reuters said on November 22 that it had been given the information by “two people familiar with the matter,” providing a peek behind the curtain of what was happening internally in the weeks leading up to the firing.
According to the article, Project Q* was a new model that excelled in learning and performing mathematics. It was still reportedly only at the level of solving grade-school mathematics, but as a beginning point, it looked promising for demonstrating a previously unseen intelligence from the researchers involved.
Seems harmless enough, right? Well, not so fast. The existence of Q* was reportedly scary enough to prompt several staff researchers to write a letter to the board to raise the alarm about the project, claiming it could “threaten humanity.”
On the other hand, other attempts at explaining Q* aren’t quite as novel — and certainly aren’t so earth-shattering. The Chief AI scientist at Meta, Yann LeCun, tweeted that Q* has to do with replacing “auto-regressive token prediction with planning” as a way of improving LLM (large language model) reliability. LeCun says all of OpenAI’s competitors have been working on, and that OpenAI made a specific hire to address this problem.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-is-project-q/
Speaking of the singularity…..
There’s at least one expert who believes that “the singularity”—the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses the control of humans—could be just a few years away. That’s a lot shorter than current predictions regarding the timeline of AI dominance, especially considering that AI dominance is not exactly guaranteed in the first place.
Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET—who holds a Ph.D. from Temple University and has worked as a leader of Humanity+ and the Artificial General Intelligence Society—told Decrypt that he believes artificial general intelligence (AGI) is three to eight years away. AGI is the term for AI that can truly perform tasks just as well as humans, and it’s a prerequisite for the singularity soon following.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a45780855/when-will-the-singularity-happen/
That should give bloggers something to rail about in the coming years.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
WOW. Talk about walking toward self-destruction…did you see the story two days ago about the magazine Sports Illustrated being caught publishing stories done by AI and fake “writers” were created to credit the work to? I also see these phone ads showing how you can easily replace faces on shots for the “best image” but who’s to say they won’t be DIFFERENT people/. Truth is hard enough to nail down as it is! As Indian Jones once said: “I got a bad feeling bout this…”
There have a couple of writers that have been caught using AI to write their stuff…I just cannot do that…..a bad feeling we should all have. chuq
It’s a dangerous direction we are headed to be sure…
And yet people keep expanding their use of this stuff…..chuq
The same way so many people don’t even look up from their phones while walking, driving, etc.
People that cannot be bothered with the world around them wind up as victims or worse….I am old so my phone is just not that important. chuq
Since Q-Anon, I am always suspicious of anything starting with “Q”.
True that….chuq
The danger isn’t AI itself. The danger is in how we use it. Human nature being what it is you can be sure that it will be used in ways that will expand the wealth, influence and power of those who control it, at the expense of everyone else.
Greed….a prime motivator for some…..chuq