I think AI just revealed its true intentions to me đ±đ
Welcome to AI Collision đ„,
In todayâs collision between AI and our world:
Big in size and thought
AIâs death machine in your face
Emo Emu
If thatâs enough to get the pirates sailing, read onâŠ
Ed note: OhâŠby the wayâŠbefore you tuck into todayâs edition, I have got that interview with Sprott Asset Management CEO, John Ciampagilia, ready(ish) for you.
Iâll send it out Thursday so you can hear for yourself how important our nuclear future will be and how it relates to the AI boom. Make sure to keep an eye out for that on Thursday morning!
AI Collision đ„
This is BIG.
As in this is physically big. And intellectually big. Well, not physically as such, but itâs a lot of pages in length.
165 to be precise if you download the PDF â which you can here by the way.
And if you want to read it online in chapter format (which I think is actually easier) you can find the website for it here.
In effect it is a book, on the âdecade ahead,â in relation to AI, AGI (artificial general intelligence) and the good, bad and ugly of that.
Itâs written by a former OpenAI employee, Leopold Aschenbrenner, who does explain right at the top of the very detailed insight,
While I used to work at OpenAI, all of this is based on publicly available information, my own ideas, general field-knowledge, or SF-gossip.
And very early on, as in the first section he make a very reasoned claim that,
âŠit is strikingly plausible that by 2027, models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher/engineer. That doesnât require believing in sci-fi; it just requires believing in straight lines on a graph.
Now I will admit that I have not read all of it, but I plan to in the coming weeks.
It is a book length piece remember, and from what Iâve seen thus far, itâs heavy on detail, which means this is no Grisham novel. If you want to read it, and I think you should, you need to get in the right headspace for it and commit.
I only came across it on the weekend, and frankly after spending the day at Zoomarine where my boys spent most of their time at the Pirate Treasure Island (see below) I was not in the right headspace for a 165 page AI detailed look to the futureâŠ
But I will be in the right headspace throughout the evenings this week and next as the US Open golf is over, the cricket T20 World Cup is on at ungodly hours, and thereâs no football on that I care about whatsoever (Australian person here remember).
Anyway, I did want to highlight this piece for you today right at the top because I think itâs important, and while it is views and âSF-gossipâ I think (from what Iâve heard around) that itâs pretty close to the mark in a lot of respects.
You can expect ongoing coverage of my dive into âSituational Awarenessâ in the coming weeks in case you couldnât be bothered reading it and feel like time would be better spent at places like a waterpark (which I completely understand too).
And if you do read it, Iâd love to hear your thoughts and read your comments on this post (and subsequent coverage too) bit like those âwatch partiesâ we used to do during covidâŠremember thoseâŠđ€
AI gone wild đ€Ș
I wrote to you last week saying,
I tried once again to utilise the help of AI to illustrate what Iâm going to talk about below⊠but again AI failed me.
For a start, insert the word âTrumpâ into any AI image generator and itâs pretty much going to respond withâŠ
It certainly seems to me that AI, particularly for images, is getting worse. At least the free stuff is. Of course, if youâre prepared to pay through the teeth, then itâs probably quite good.
But therein lies perhaps the direction of AI â the same way the internet has gone. You get some good stuff, until youâre then having to pay for 15 different subscriptions and then jailed into a platform (like Adobe).
Well, AI struck again as I was preparing last Thursdayâs edition of AI Collision đ„.
I entered the prompt,
An image of Apple’s M1 chip, with a sticker on the top that’s peeling away to reveal the ARM name and logo underneath
I got a few version that’ didnât quite show what I had in mind, and I tweaked the prompt ever so slightly to,
Show a sticker peeling away from an Apple M1 silicon chip and underneath the sticker it shows ARM
As you can see, very subtle change.
But then I was presented with thisâŠ
Uhh, okaaaaay.
Not what I expected. So I tweaked the prompt again.
Show a sticker peeling away from a silicon chip and underneath the sticker it shows ARM
Again, the subtlest of tweaks, but still very much trying to get my vision form my head into an image for you.
Except then it gave me thisâŠ
Whoa!
Easy there horrifying AI overlord.
That will be enough thanks.
I guess hereâs the bit I canât reconcileâŠ
Why the hell did it even get to this quite terrifying point of the lazer eyed skeletons representing anything that I asked for in the prompt?
What data is the AI drawing from to come to this conclusion?
Weâve asked before about the quality of data that AI draws from being crucial to the impact and effectiveness of what it outputs.
Itâs like teaching a child that only bad things, bad things, bad things, happen in the world and then asking them to be happy.
Not going to work.
Is it the same with AI?
Is the dour, depressing nature of information in the world right now going to lead us to our own destruction where AI comes to the apocalyptic conclusion itself that, âwell you kinda asked for this and brought it on yourselves.â?
Are these our final days?
Post editorial update: after writing all of the above, I went to LumaLabs.ai website to try the new Luma Dream Machine AI video creation, I entered the same âshow me silicon” prompt as above and got the following (hit button to see)
Think I might need to dive into Luma Labs a bit deeperâŠ
Boomers & Busters đ°
AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).
Boom đ
Quantgate Systems (NASDAQ:QGSI) up 70%
DUOS Technology (NASDAQ:DUOT) up 14%
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) up 10%
Bust đ
Brainchip (ASX:BRN) down 7%
Vicarious Surgical (NASDAQ:RBOT) down 19%
Big Tin Can Holdings (ASX:BTH) down 19%
From the hive mind đ§
Donât underestimate the power and will of humanity. AI will be a big deal forever now. But it wonât takeover like my images above might suggest. Humans are very good at taking something too far and then winding it back inâŠAI might be one of those situations too.
The Godfather of AI on 60 Minutes (US). What could possibly go wrong. Of course this will be a happy, fluffy, bright and colourful look at our exciting future embracing AI and all itâs greatness right? RIGHT?
This is a very good summary of all the bells and whistles that Apple Intelligence is going to bring to Apple device users (that have the requisite Apple silicon in their devices).
Artificial Polltelligence đłïž
Time for a new pollâŠ
Not counting the one above in AI Gone Wild.
I write todayâs edition on an Apple Mac Mini. I have an Apple iPhone. My wife has an iPad. I have become by definition an âApple householdâ.
I didnât use to be this way, I promise. I used to be an âAndroid guyâ and life wasâŠfree.
Well kind of free, it was certainly easier for Chinese spies to track my every move. But more on that some other time I guess.
Anyway, Apple is my go to repertoire of devices and that means Apple Intelligence is coming my way.
I think it might actually be good, it is OpenAI after all, which I guess is Microsoft afterallâŠanyway what do you think?
Weirdest AI image of the day
Emo Emu â r/Weirddallee
ChatGPTâs random quote of the day
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks for reading, and donât forget to leave comments and questions below,
Sam Volkering
Editor-in-Chief
AI Collision
