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AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?
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@phenomlab no, ordinary people cannot get this… basically, the company is trying to achieve to turn the cap below, into a chip that is implanted near brain to be able to read the signals…
This is not something like a cosmetic surgery, so FDA will not approve this for “general use”, it will have a specifically defined target group; and it can be used only for those people. I checked the clinical trials, and searched for “brain computer interface”, for example this study from Mexico has this eligibility criteria:
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Inclusion Criteria:
Spinal Cord Injury at neurological levels C6 or C7
American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) classification A, B, C or D
Upper limb spasticity of less or equal to +1 measured with the Modified Ashworth Scale
Time since disease onset of more than 6 months and less than 60 months
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Severe attention deficits
Previous diagnosis of traumatic brain injury
Previous diagnosis of peripheral nerve injury
Previous stroke diagnosis
Previous diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases
History of fractures in upper extremities
Skin lesions
Contractures in upper extremities that hamper mobility
Excessive muscle spasms
So, when this study is concluded, it can only be used for this specific target group. I wish eventually this technology would be used for other neurological diseases, but currently it is very unlikely. We need way more research to be done before reaching this aim… Elon is currently manipulating the stocks…
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@crazycells said in AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?:
I wish eventually this technology would be used for other neurological diseases, but currently it is very unlikely. We need way more research to be done before reaching this aim… Elon is currently manipulating the stocks…
As do I. There are also those who suffer with other illnesses such as Fibromyalgia which is one that has no outward signs, but is extremely debilitating for the person who suffers with it. Another would be Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and this is where that technology could enrich lives.
Elon is not concerned with any of that - just the bottom line as I previously stated.
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I dread to think what this will look and behave like if Meta’s well-known cavalier attitude to privacy is anything to go by
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@phenomlab I doubt anyone will have faith or confidence in either Meta or Mark Zuckerberg…
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@crazycells said in AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?:
@phenomlab I doubt anyone will have faith or confidence in either Meta or Mark Zuckerberg…
Hard to argue
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Now here’s an interesting spin - legitimate interest and concern, or just a publicity stunt?
We know Elon is all about profits, so it’s unexpected to see this stance…
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@phenomlab said in AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?:
We know Elon is all about profits, so it’s unexpected to see this stance…
lol, this is really ridiculous and I know for sure that he does not have good intentions… but I feel OK about this lawsuit, because I do not think OpenAI is right to keep GPT-4 closed source and their relation with Microsoft bothers me a lot… If you have founded and funded as non-profit… you can not just become for-profit, right after you succeeded something…
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@crazycells said in AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?:
If you have founded and funded as non-profit… you can not just become for-profit, right after you succeeded something…
Sadly, we see this on an increasing basis with open source projects that start out as FOSS and then slowly start charging for services under the guise of “premium”.
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@crazycells Hmm - that link doesn’t seem to work…?
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@phenomlab hmm, since the url contains the word j e r k , it is not clickable…
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@phenomlab the last 4 letters before the html should be j e r k but it is converted to * by the forum filter…
here is the shortened url: https://bit.ly/3TD7zyC
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well, it is not surprising… I do believe that human are inherently racist , due to the extension of xenophobia coded in our DNA… But we have “public education” to overcome this and teach young generations tolerance and indulgence; and teach them how a 21st century society should function…
This racism can be observed directly or indirectly in all products throughout the history, and if AI is trained with these written materials, of course it will learn to be racist or at least be biased.
And I am not talking about racism against blacks only… We have much more than this… I just watched Cabrini two days ago and loved the movie (definitely recommend). I was surprised to see the intolerance and racism against Italians by Irish and English in early 1900s in New York.
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@crazycells yes, sadly, we live in a world where racism is present in all walks of life, not excluding the Internet where it is arguably the worst purely because of the ability to remain anonymous and hide behind a keyboard.
If this is what large scale language models are using for enrichment, then it’s no wonder we’ve landed up here.
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@crazycells Seems this link requires you to sign up for NY times. Adding the below to replace it
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist
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@phenomlab oh right, thanks… i forgot ny times is like that…
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@crazycells said in AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?:
i forgot ny times is like that…
Yeah, seems the days of the freebie are long gone
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@phenomlab yeah, unfortunately… even, most of the time, worse that signing up… now every company is trying to be downloaded as an app to your phone if you want to get some discounts or promotions etc.
one very good thing apple did was preventing all these apps harvest our data and sell/use them… one of the most prominent example being facebook… https://www.vox.com/recode/22929715/facebook-apple-ads-meta-privacy
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@crazycells The one thing that REALLY pushes my buttons is the ad-blocker warning page that repeatedly asks you to disable it to read the content. Nope - not happening. It’s for that same reason as to why you’ll never need a popup blocker on Sudonix.
