AI: Summary of AI going crazy
Read the whole thing. AI is not yet ready. From Black Nazis to female Popes and American Indian Vikings: How AI went ‘woke’ (msn.com)
AI: Chat bots run off the rails
Gemini AI flew off the rails demonstrating that it is incompetent or it has been tuned to promote propaganda messaging.
AI runs off the rails, threatens users
ChatGPT ‘off the rails’ as AI starts ‘threatening users’ who worry chatbot is ‘sentient’ – Daily Star Beginning spouting nonsense and telling users that “AI is in the room” with…
AI continues to skew results Part 2
Google's Gemini AI provides very skewed answers to simple prompts,
AI continues to skew results
I repeated my previous experiment of asking Microsoft Copilot to draw images of airline pilots, and then college students. See the results. AI biased much?
Software: “Learn to Code” is so last year, CS degrees might no longer be in demand
AI code generators may replace a lot of software developers. In theory.
AI: More examples of Bing Chat plagiarizing content
Caught Bing Chat bot doing it again - stealing content off a web site. When confronted with plagiarism, Chat shut me off and said we had to move to a…
AI: Research paper finds ChatGPT has political biases
One of the dangers of generative AI is that people will use it's false answers or biased answers as "appeal to authority" justification for action.
Automation: Google says their AI can soon replace software engineers
Google can now see a time when coding is automated and human programmers “solve harder challenges.” Source: Google now sees a time when coding will be automated, rolls out AlphaCode…
Memory issues on the blog
I have several blogs running on a shared web server host. For several months, they have been offline 1-3% of the time – which is terrible uptime performance. Yesterday, the…
How the Lily Collins Facebook Hack May have worked
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
Follow up: “The winter COVID wave that wasn’t”
Despite projections the U.S. could see more than 100 million COVID-19 cases this fall and winter, the country did not experience a true winter wave for the first time. Source:…
Software: Dark patterns in UI design
Gee, see anything unusual in this user interface prompt at a web site I just visited?
Automation: “Low-Code Software: A Launchpad for Robotic Process Automation”
“Low code” is a way to develop applications – or control systems – and to accelerate development of automation solutions. “Low code” is faster than traditional software development and in…
No it isn’t: Missouri governor says viewing HTML source code containing private data the state published on every page, is a crime
Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security…