Wednesday, March 8, 2023

AI Uber Alles


The hidden pattern machine:
Artificial intelligence reduces a 100,000-equation quantum physics problem to only four equations
Oct 2022, phys.org

Quantum mechanically entangled electrons must be dealt with all at once rather than one at a time, making the computational challenge exponentially harder.

Until you have a machine that "has the power to discover hidden patterns."

via the Simons Foundation:  Domenico Di Sante et al, Deep Learning the Functional Renormalization Group, Physical Review Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.136402


And yet the human is still the model:
Mimicking human sleep as a way to prevent catastrophic forgetting in AI systems
Nov 2022, phys.org

To overcome the problem of catastrophic forgetting, the researchers added code that mimicked REM sleep in the human brain.

via University of California and Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences: Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks by forming a joint synaptic weight representation, PLOS Computational Biology (2022). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010628

This is how it happens:
ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware
Jan 2023, Ars Technica

AI does more things:
No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you
Dec 2022, Ars Technica

First of all it’s not supposed to do this, it’s supposed to be a chat bot; you’re supposed to talk to it. But then we realized that instead of talking to it, we can give it instructions, and make it do things in the virtual world that go far beyond chatting. It was never even taught how to use computer code or recognize it, this all happened by mistake. And that’s how these things happen. 

via OpenAI: ChatGPT - Optimizing Language Model Is for Dialogue, Dec 2022. 

Post Script:
I like how we refer to the output as hallucinations, which for the unaware is a direct result of the DeepDream explosion circa 2016.


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