Artificial Intelligence and the data workers’ inquiry: Why AI isn’t it revolutionary? An analysis by Pavlick and Netzpolitik
It’s difficult to find the work of people who label artificial intelligence or remove harmful content from social media platforms. She helps expose the industry’s working conditions as the principal investigator of the Data Workers’ Inquiry. 10 min read on Netzpolitik.org.
An Economist analysis says there is not much of an effect on anything beyond America’s west coast. Most businesses do not use artificial intelligence and applications such as personalising offers for customers are. There are no signs of workers being replaced by AI systems, nor is there evidence of a major increase in people’s productivity due to AI support. The analysis suggests that for now, the growth of the technology is not revolutionary.
There is a deep divide between those who see in Artificial Intelligence a human-level reasoning and those who think it is just complex math. “It’s offensive to some people to suggest that human intelligence could be re-created through these kinds of mechanisms,” says computer scientist Ellie Pavlick. There are people with a little bit of a God complex. It is offensive to them to suggest that they can’t do it.
Source: AI & robotics briefing: What is AI, really?
What Artificial Intelligence Really is: Detecting Chemical Composition of Staining by Machine-Learning a Salpeter Whale
A machine-learning program can tell you the compound that is most damaging to your skin. To train the system, researchers painstakingly photographed 7,500 dried drops of 42 salt solutions, including regular table salt (top centre). “Crystal structures are complicated and our salt stains are kind of messy, so we were amazed at how well our method was able to cut through this and extract compositions from photos alone,” says chemist and study co-author Oliver Steinbock. (Chemistry World | 4 min read)
The software being tested in Uganda will allow nurses to determine how far along a pregnant woman is, instead of having to call on a specialist sonographer. People are more likely to come in for scans early on when there is a chance to see their baby. Daniel Lukakamwa says that people are willing to join the study. An early medical checkup is key to reducing stillbirths and complications later in the pregnancy, he points out.
This week, Lauren Goode tells us about her recent news story on a bot that was easily tricked into lying and saying it was a human. And WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave tells us how AI watchdogs and government regulators are trying to prevent natural-sounding chatbots from misrepresenting themselves.
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) structure their communication in ways similar to how humans form language: sound units combine into words and words combine into sentences. There are thousands of whales with up to 40 rapid-fire clicks. They found almost 10 times as many codas as previously described. The researchers constructed a whale phonetic alphabet that shows how sounds create codas and how subtle variations can carry additional information. I am able to say what I want in human language. ” explains machine-learning researcher and study co-author Pratyusha Sharma. “It’s the same word, but to understand the meaning you have to listen to the whole sound.”
scholars are divided on what artificial intelligence really is and what is it capable of Artificial intelligence helps to understand sperm whales alphabet and predictions of chemical composition of salt stains.
How Do Voice Bots Sound When They Aren’t? An Empirical Study of Human-Washing Robots in the 21st Century
Our lives have become more complex because of Voice assistants. Maybe you have a question or want to do a task that you talk to a virtual assistant. If you book a service appointment at your car dealership, or call your pharmacy, you might have to talk to a voice bot back and forth. You may even get frustrated and start pleading with the robot on the other end of the line to connect you with a real human.
The voiceBots are starting to sound like actual humans, with little quirks in their voice, and occasionally flirtatious words, though they are also starting to sound a lot like actual humans. Can you trust a bot that insists it is actually human when it says it is not, because it blurs the lines between truth and fiction?
Lauren likes The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. Again. Paresh recommends subscribing to your great local journalism newsletter or Substack to stay informed about important local issues. Mike recommends Winter Journal, a memoir by Paul Auster.
Source: The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’
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