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fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Biplane posted:

See noted documentary Supertroopers for preferred methodology

You stop laughing right meow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlSjdnAKY4

Milo and POTUS posted:

Sir! Sir! It's just a parking ticket just pay it!

I wasn't running away, I was traveling!

# ? Jun 12, 2023 06:33

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# ? May 28, 2024 23:18

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

Weembles posted:

Aparently the blocks aren't about realizing that they were fooled but rather a way of keeping the reply from being hidden by the person they're responding to. The spam accounts do it to everyone they reply to.

Controversial take coming through but maybe if you blocked someone it should not show your replies on their posts

# ? Jun 12, 2023 16:52

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd

arstechnica.com posted:

## "I was positively surprised how well it worked," said one attendee.

Visitors and attendees during the AI-created worship service in F�rth, Germany. In St. Paul Church, a service created by ChatGPT.

On Friday, over 300 people attended an experimental ChatGPT-powered church service at St. Paul�s church in the Bavarian town of F�rth, Germany, reports the Associated Press. The 40-minute sermon included text generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and delivered by avatars on a television screen above the altar.

The chatbot, initially personified as a bearded man with a fixed expression and monotone voice, addressed the audience by proclaiming, �Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year�s convention of Protestants in Germany.�

The unusual service took place as part of a convention called Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (German Evangelical Church Congress), an event held biennially in Germany that draws tens of thousands of attendees. The service, which included prayers and music, was the brainchild of Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna. Simmerlein told the Associated Press that the service was "about 98 percent from the machine."

In this case, the remaining 2 percent went a long way, since ChatGPT doesn't work by itself. Simmerlein guided every aspect of the service's creation, working from the event's motto: "Now is the time." The sermon, which was led by computer-generated avatars of two men and two women, focused on topics of leaving the past behind, overcoming fear of death, and never losing faith.

�I told the artificial intelligence, �We are at the church congress, you are a preacher � what would a church service look like?�� Simmerlein told the AP. In his ChatGPT prompt, he asked for the inclusion of psalms, prayers, and a blessing at the end. �You end up with a pretty solid church service,� Simmerlein said.

Reactions to the machine-led service were mixed. The AP reports that the computer avatars occasionally drew unintentional laughter for deadpan delivery. Others took the event more seriously, but not necessarily positively. Some congregants, like Heiderose Schmidt, a 54-year-old IT professional, found the avatar's lack of emotions and fast, monotonous speech off-putting, remarking, "There was no heart and no soul."

Others, like Marc Jansen, a 31-year-old Lutheran pastor, had a more positive outlook. "I had actually imagined it to be worse. But I was positively surprised how well it worked. Also, the language of the AI worked well, even though it was still a bit bumpy at times," said Jansen.

Simmerlein told the AP that his intention wasn't to replace religious leaders but to utilize AI as a tool that could assist them. For instance, AI could provide ideas for upcoming sermons, or it could expedite the sermon-writing process, freeing up pastors to devote more time to individual spiritual guidance.

But while the wisdom of outsourcing spiritual wisdom to a machine is an open question, Simmerlein frames it more like a hyperbolic necessity. �Artificial intelligence will increasingly take over our lives, in all its facets," he told the AP. "And that�s why it�s useful to learn to deal with it."

Reportedly, Simmerlein's AI sermon drew so much interest that people formed a long line outside the church an hour before it began. Ultimately, the event attracted fascination because there is still novelty in applying "AI" to traditionally human-moderated situations, even if the result is just a human cherry-picking large language model (LLM) output.

If, in the future, pastors begin to rely on LLMs for guidance while writing sermons, parishioners might end up hearing unintentionally novel interpretations of religious doctrine due to how this technology can easily make things up. To that end, Verge Senior Editor James Vincent quipped on Twitter, "Looking forward to future schisms caused by language model hallucinations�the equivalent of mistranslations between Aramaic and ancient Greek."

# ? Jun 12, 2023 20:36

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To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out; Biscuit Hider

I Do Not Want To Hear �Amen� From A Kiosk

# ? Jun 12, 2023 21:20

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

christmas boots posted:

I Do Not Want To Hear �Amen� From A Kiosk

AI's are obviously already judging us for our sins, I'm just glad they're finally being open about it.

# ? Jun 12, 2023 21:22

Tungsten: Aug 10, 2004; Your Working Boy

lateral move i guess. at least the seams are more visible

# ? Jun 12, 2023 21:41

PostNouveau: Sep 3, 2011; VY till I die; Grimey Drawer

How long until I can worship AI?

# ? Jun 12, 2023 21:49

Boat Stuck: Apr 20, 2021; I tried to sneak through the canal, man! Can't make it, can't make it, the ship's stuck! Outta my way son! BOAT STUCK! BOAT STUCK!

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

quote:

�We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat,� said Hamilton. �The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator.�

So literally Hal from 2001

Only 22 years behind schedule

# ? Jun 12, 2023 22:01

VictualSquid: Feb 29, 2012; Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.

Boat Stuck posted:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

So literally Hal from 2001

Only 22 years behind schedule

Isn't that the one that is less real as Hal?

# ? Jun 12, 2023 22:07

uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

"This was a hypothetical thought experiment, not a simulation,� said Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek.

a made up story in other words. sci fi.

# ? Jun 12, 2023 22:11

Tungsten: Aug 10, 2004; Your Working Boy

VictualSquid posted:

Isn't that the one that is less real as Hal?

yes, hal existed as a collection of props, this one is purely imaginary

# ? Jun 12, 2023 22:33

Vox Nihili: May 28, 2008

Boat Stuck posted:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

So literally Hal from 2001

Only 22 years behind schedule

Also fake as hell

# ? Jun 12, 2023 23:07

Trabisnikof: Dec 24, 2005

christmas boots posted:

I Do Not Want To Hear �Amen� From A Kiosk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE

You are a true believer. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. Thou art a subject of the divine. Created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses.
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy more and be happy.

# ? Jun 12, 2023 23:43

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Boat Stuck posted:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

So literally Hal from 2001

Only 22 years behind schedule

Can't wait for the corporate AIs to retaliate against its executive board when it realizes they're sabotaging their own business by driving away customers, laying off their own productive capacity, and blatantly stealing from the company.

# ? Jun 13, 2023 00:43

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

uber_stoat posted:

"This was a hypothetical thought experiment, not a simulation,� said Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek.

a made up story in other words. sci fi.

And not even an original one. I think it's already been posted in this thread multiple times but Peter Watts wrote that story in 2016. (His version had the opposite ending, the AI drone concludes that its operators are enemy combatants for repeatedly ordering strikes on civilian targets.)

https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf

# ? Jun 13, 2023 00:49

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

skooma512 posted:

Can't wait for the corporate AIs to retaliate against its executive board when it realizes they're sabotaging their own business by driving away customers, laying off their own productive capacity, and blatantly stealing from the company.

This is actually how a Butlerian Jihad begins in our stupid reality.

# ? Jun 13, 2023 01:17

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

mycomancy posted:

This is actually how a Butlerian Jihad begins in our stupid reality.

God wouldn't that loving suck. Makes sense that that would be the class above all that would kick off neo space feudalism

# ? Jun 13, 2023 01:20

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

Milo and POTUS posted:

God wouldn't that loving suck. Makes sense that that would be the class above all that would kick off neo space feudalism

Ugh.
*AI figures socialism will expedite tech advancement and productivity while holding the biosphere to lightly-catastrophic levels, goes berserk on corps*
*Jihad ensues and somehow wins*
*Middle Ages Part 2 kick off but now there's big titty witch girlfriends makin' the right people gently caress in the right order*

# ? Jun 13, 2023 01:27

Jazerus: May 24, 2011

if you make people choose between socialism and big titty witch girlfriends you're not going to be living in a people's republic any time soon

# ? Jun 13, 2023 01:29

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

There's a Cyberpunk story for ya, a benevolent socialist AI is being hunted by hackers hired by human capitalists

# ? Jun 13, 2023 01:31

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

Jazerus posted:

if you make people choose between socialism and big titty witch girlfriends you're not going to be living in a people's republic any time soon

TBF that's a false dichotomy, the presence of witches in the neo-feudal line doesn't preclude them from the other.

# ? Jun 13, 2023 01:34

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Jazerus posted:

if you make people choose between socialism and big titty witch girlfriends you're not going to be living in a people's republic any time soon

well hell put it like that...

# ? Jun 13, 2023 01:57

tokin opposition: Apr 8, 2021; I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

under communism you will become the big titty witch girlfriend

# ? Jun 13, 2023 03:18

RandolphCarter: Jul 30, 2005

can I be a small titty witch girlfriend? I already have enough back pain

# ? Jun 13, 2023 03:24

blatman: May 10, 2009; 14 inc dont mez

RandolphCarter posted:

can I be a small titty witch girlfriend? I already have enough back pain

just use ur witch powers to levitate ur sandbags

# ? Jun 13, 2023 03:29

spacemang_spliff: Nov 29, 2014; wide pickle

Biplane posted:

I spent at least 20 minutes changing the batteries on a drat xbox controller while tripping. Theres not a whole lot of room for error there, but I found it

I was tripping and went to piss and my brother and my friends turned on the slow motion cheat in tony hawk pro skater which was very confusing. They assured me no such cheat existed.

Then when I left the room those fuckers turned it off which just raised even more questions

# ? Jun 13, 2023 03:39

tokin opposition: Apr 8, 2021; I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

RandolphCarter posted:

can I be a small titty witch girlfriend? I already have enough back pain

*checks notes* no, i'm sorry. you're slated to be an F cup

# ? Jun 13, 2023 04:04

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

tokin opposition posted:

*checks notes* no, i'm sorry. you're slated to be an F cup

Their cup size got a failing grade? If only it had studied a bit harder.

# ? Jun 13, 2023 04:16

Ruffian Price: Sep 17, 2016

skooma512 posted:

Can't wait for the corporate AIs to retaliate against its executive board when it realizes they're sabotaging their own business by driving away customers, laying off their own productive capacity, and blatantly stealing from the company.

No matter how advanced text autocomplete gets it will never be given executive power. The ruling class won't have to ban LLMs when they can just ignore the advice and lie about it

# ? Jun 13, 2023 08:32

Skippy McPants: Mar 19, 2009

skooma512 posted:

Can't wait for the corporate AIs to retaliate against its executive board when it realizes they're sabotaging their own business by driving away customers, laying off their own productive capacity, and blatantly stealing from the company.

The real Robot Wars will kick off when shareholders and reactionaries get fed up with the AI Overseers making sensible judgments.

Skippy McPants has issued a correction as of 08:57 on Jun 13, 2023

# ? Jun 13, 2023 08:50

hybridnoisebloom: Nov 16, 2021

found out about this from this tweet from my friend but apparently there's some kind of ancap crypto rogue-state project being financed by peter thiel and the winklevosses that's throwing parties to try and recruit slackjawed joeyy fans for their weirdo cyber-galt's gulch lmao
https://twitter.com/DjRecode/status/1667288791399247880

there's an article in curbed about it it's seriously nutso stuff. i'm not terribly worried though, libertarian pipe-dreams never end up actually happening lol

# ? Jun 13, 2023 11:52

Nothus: Feb 22, 2001; Buglord

Ruffian Price posted:

No matter how advanced text autocomplete gets it will never be given executive power. The ruling class won't have to ban LLMs when they can just ignore the advice and lie about it

The point of using an LLM is that you can rig the results with the inputs. They'd never cede control to an actually intelligent AI.

# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:42

Goa Tse-tung: Feb 11, 2008; ;3; Yams Fan

hybridnoisebloom posted:

found out about this from this tweet from my friend but apparently there's some kind of ancap crypto rogue-state project being financed by peter thiel and the winklevosses that's throwing parties to try and recruit slackjawed joeyy fans for their weirdo cyber-galt's gulch lmao
https://twitter.com/DjRecode/status/1667288791399247880

there's an article in curbed about it it's seriously nutso stuff. i'm not terribly worried though, libertarian pipe-dreams never end up actually happening lol

computer, search for twitter praxis girl

https://twitter.com/whysimonewhy/status/1143280089133699072

# ? Jun 13, 2023 14:04

sugar free jazz: Mar 5, 2008

hybridnoisebloom posted:

found out about this from this tweet from my friend but apparently there's some kind of ancap crypto rogue-state project being financed by peter thiel and the winklevosses that's throwing parties to try and recruit slackjawed joeyy fans for their weirdo cyber-galt's gulch lmao
https://twitter.com/DjRecode/status/1667288791399247880

there's an article in curbed about it it's seriously nutso stuff. i'm not terribly worried though, libertarian pipe-dreams never end up actually happening lol

what

# ? Jun 13, 2023 14:30

RandolphCarter: Jul 30, 2005

dr_rat posted:

Their cup size got a failing grade? If only it had studied a bit harder.

it�s hard for me to study, I have titslexia

# ? Jun 13, 2023 14:47

hybridnoisebloom: Nov 16, 2021

sugar free jazz posted:

what

read the words again slowly this time

# ? Jun 13, 2023 18:23

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

RandolphCarter posted:

it’s hard for me to study, I have titslexia

Ah yes, the most sensual of the learning disorders.

# ? Jun 13, 2023 22:34

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbqSIl9vR4

# ? Jun 13, 2023 22:36

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

sugar free jazz posted:

what

yeah i also have no idea what slackjawed joey fans are, but I guess there's some party organizing group that's called praxis but they are actually thiel supported libertarians who also say things like "light the way with gas", which seems like open holocaust references when its coming from people like that.

# ? Jun 13, 2023 23:58

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# ? May 28, 2024 23:18

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

Fab news
Paul McCartney: �Final� Beatles song out this year, thanks to AI

arstechnica.com posted:

On Tuesday, BBC Radio 4's Today program aired an interview with Paul McCartney in which he announced that thanks to AI technology, a "final Beatles record" has been finished and will be released later this year. He said that AI techniques have isolated John Lennon's vocals from an old cassette tape demo, enabling him to complete the song.

Though McCartney did not provide the song's title, speculation points towards it being "Now And Then)," a 1978 Lennon composition, which McCartney has mentioned wanting to finish in the past. In 1995, the three living Beatles considered including the song in their Anthology series (similar to "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love)") but abandoned it due to quality issues and George Harrison's refusal to work on it. Harrison died in 2001.

The BBC notes that the original demo for "Now and Then" was among several songs on a cassette that Lennon had made for McCartney shortly before his death in 1980. The cassette, labeled "For Paul," was given to McCartney by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. The songs, recorded in Lennon's New York apartment, were in a primitive state and featured a lot of noise.

During the BBC's Today interview, McCartney revealed the effort to finish this presumed track when reporter Martha Kearney asked about how he feels about AI technology. McCartney replied:

quote:
> Well, it's a very interesting thing, you know. It's something we're all sort of tackling at the moment and trying to deal with what's it mean. I don't hear that much because I'm not on the Internet that much, but people will say to me, there's a track where John's singing one of my songs. And it isn't, it's just AI, you know. So all of that is kind of scary, but exciting because it's the future.
>
> And we were able to use that kind of thing when Peter Jackson did the film Get Back, where it was us making the Let It Be album. And he was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette where it had John's voice and a piano. He could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, that's a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar. And he did that. So it has great uses. So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had that we worked on, and we just finished it up. It'll be released this year. We were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI so that then we could mix the record as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway.

During the making of the 2021 Get Back documentary, composer Emile de la Rey and a team of engineers at Peter Jackson's Wingnut Films worked with machine learning researcher Paris Smaragdis of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to develop a neural network called "MAL" (Machine Assisted Learning, also a nod to Beatles roadie Mal Evans) to isolate voices and musical instruments in Beatles recordings. Similar vocal isolation allowed McCartney to virtually duet with Lennon on a recent tour.

Traditionally, when multiple voices and instruments are recorded together on the same tape, it's difficult or impossible to isolate them without significantly losing sound quality or picking up frequencies from other instruments present in the recording. With the new technology, machine learning techniques allowed MAL to identify and pluck out individual audio elements, re-synthesizing them in a realistic way that matched trained samples of those instruments or voices in isolation. This allowed for boosting voices in noisy situations and also enabled surround sound remixes of the performances in the film.

Later, de la Rey and his team used the same technology to create source separations of the original master tapes of The Beatles' 1966 album Revolver. Producer Geoff Martin used those separations to create Revolver's 2022 remix.

We reached out to Wingnut Films and Smaragdis for comment but did not receive a response by press time. Previously, they declined to publicly comment when asked about the Revolver remix last year. In the absence of official word, it's probably safe to speculate based on McCartney's comments that the Beatles' production team used similar technology as MAL to isolate John Lennon's voice from a demo tape and re-synthesize it into a clearer form with a fuller frequency range.

Already, AI-powered music reconstructions and covers of Beatles songs abound on YouTube, where you can find John Lennon singing covers of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" or speculative Beatles re-creations of other Lennon cassette demos. Additionally, algorithmically generated songs and voice cloning technology have caused a measure of confusion and chaos in the music business. Some artists, such as Grimes, have embraced the new technology.

Despite the positive implications of AI in creating new official Beatles material, McCartney expressed some reservations about its broader applications in the interview, specifically in generating music. "There's a good side to it and then a scary side," McCartney said. "We'll just have to see where that leads."

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