Hundreds of Theatres Show Apocalyptic-Yet-Optimistic New Movie, 'The AI Doc' (yahoo.com) 14
Hundreds of theatres are now showing a new documentary called The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist. Variety calls it "playful and heady,"edited "with a spirit of ADHD alertness." The New York Times suggests it "tries to cover so much that it ends up being more confusing than clarifying, but parts are fascinating."
But the Los Angeles Times calls it an "aggravating soup of information and opinion that wants to move at the speed of machine thought." So while co-director Daniel Roher asks whether he should bring a child into a world with AI, "Perhaps more urgently, should Roher have made an AI doc that treats us like children?" First, he parades all the safety doomers, seeming to believe their warnings that an unfeeling superintelligence is upon us and we can't trust it. Then, sufficiently disturbed, he hauls in the AI cheerleaders, a suspiciously positive gang who can envision only medical miracles and grindless lives in which we're all full-time artists. Only then, after this simplistic setup where platitudes reign, do we get the section in which the subject is treated like the brave (and grave) new world it is: geopolitically fraught, economically tenuous and a playground for billionaires.
Why couldn't the complexity have been the dialogue from the beginning, instead of the play-dumb cartoon "The AI Doc" feels like for so long? Maybe Roher believes this is what our increasingly gullible, truth-challenged citizenry needs from an explanatory doc: a flashy, kindhearted reminder that we're the change we need to be.
Read more reactions here and here. Mashable warns the documentary's director "will ultimately craft a journey that feels like a panic attack in real time. In the end, you may not feel better about mankind's chances against the rise of AI. But you'll likely feel less helpless in the future before us all."
They also point out that the film "shares some ways its audience can more actively be apart of the conversation, and provides a link to the film's website for engagement," where 6,948 people have now signed up for its newsletter. ("Demand a seat at the table," urges its signup button, under a warning that "Government and AI companies are designing our future without us. We need to reclaim our voice in shaping the future of AI...")
But the Los Angeles Times calls it an "aggravating soup of information and opinion that wants to move at the speed of machine thought." So while co-director Daniel Roher asks whether he should bring a child into a world with AI, "Perhaps more urgently, should Roher have made an AI doc that treats us like children?" First, he parades all the safety doomers, seeming to believe their warnings that an unfeeling superintelligence is upon us and we can't trust it. Then, sufficiently disturbed, he hauls in the AI cheerleaders, a suspiciously positive gang who can envision only medical miracles and grindless lives in which we're all full-time artists. Only then, after this simplistic setup where platitudes reign, do we get the section in which the subject is treated like the brave (and grave) new world it is: geopolitically fraught, economically tenuous and a playground for billionaires.
Why couldn't the complexity have been the dialogue from the beginning, instead of the play-dumb cartoon "The AI Doc" feels like for so long? Maybe Roher believes this is what our increasingly gullible, truth-challenged citizenry needs from an explanatory doc: a flashy, kindhearted reminder that we're the change we need to be.
Read more reactions here and here. Mashable warns the documentary's director "will ultimately craft a journey that feels like a panic attack in real time. In the end, you may not feel better about mankind's chances against the rise of AI. But you'll likely feel less helpless in the future before us all."
They also point out that the film "shares some ways its audience can more actively be apart of the conversation, and provides a link to the film's website for engagement," where 6,948 people have now signed up for its newsletter. ("Demand a seat at the table," urges its signup button, under a warning that "Government and AI companies are designing our future without us. We need to reclaim our voice in shaping the future of AI...")
Topy at the speed of thought? (Score:2)
This movie explains the situation well.. (Score:5, Interesting)
for your non tech industry associates and relatives.
The conclusion will hopefully start a lot of discussions and activism to prevent the dystopia path, the chaos path or extinction path.
Like this deep more complete one [youtube.com] or the Schoolhouse afterschool special version [youtube.com].
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> They assume that AI is some kind of sentient technology with personal and unpredictable goals that are inevitably in opposition to humanity's goals.
It isn't, of course. But when humans manipulate it, blindly trust or obey it, and absolve themselves of responsibility for the outcomes because "the AI did it" ... then for all intent and purpose, it may as well be.
"Its" goals are unpredictable because it's functionally random. They are in direct opposition to humanity's goals because it is the tool of a sm
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I asked an AI: Why do LLMs hallucinate? (Score:2)
Here was the answer:
Large Language Models (LLMs) hallucinate due to several fundamental design characteristics and limitations:
**Training Data Issues:**
- **Inaccurate information in training data**: LLMs learn from vast amounts of text that may contain errors, biases, or outdated information
- **Confidence without verification**: They generate responses based on patterns in training data rather than factual accuracy
- **Synonym substitution**: They can replace words with semantically similar ones, potentially
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This just showed up so I thought I'd follow up on your stupidity.
https://www.wired.com/story/op... [wired.com]
lul.
=Smidge=
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This movie is funded by a bunch of people making a bunch of money off the AI bullshittery.
Are they (the bunch) making as much $$$ as the 5 AI US CEOs racing to create an alien intelligence that they nor their engineers fully understand?
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My kind of propaganda! (Score:1)
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Obvious and stupid.
Just like "Social Media." That is really based on "personal realities" for each user created by algorithms that the current AI are largely based on.
Look at all the people that has injured. Now they win court cases. And countries smarter than the US are regulating it.
Good to raise awareness on AI future (Score:3)
Guillermo Q
Robin G
make The Culture movie/series? (Score:3)