The AI dooooooom thread

[Syt]

In that spirit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/technology/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-kids.html

Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.

[HisMajestyBOB]

 

[HVC]

Adults turn bots into nazis, wonder what the kids will turn them into?

[crazy canuck]

Adults turn bots into nazis, wonder what the kids will turn them into?

Informers for the party, if their parents are not ideologically pure enough.

[Duque de Bragança]

Adults turn bots into nazis, wonder what the kids will turn them into?

Informers for the party, if their parents are not ideologically pure enough.

Pavlik Morozov 2.0

[Savonarola]

I volunteer as a reviewer for the IEEE EPICS initiative; which is a program where the IEEE gives small grants (under $10,000) to student groups who partner with non-profits to provide technical solutions for local projects.  Most of the projects are from south or southeast Asia (though I have gotten ones from Africa before.)

The first one I got this year was obviously written by an AI Chat of some sort as no human being could possibly have used the terms "Inclusive," "Community development," "Dignity," "Empowerment," "Underserved communities," and "Innovation" so often.

[Josquius]

I volunteer as a reviewer for the IEEE EPICS initiative; which is a program where the IEEE gives small grants (under $10,000) to student groups who partner with non-profits to provide technical solutions for local projects.  Most of the projects are from south or southeast Asia (though I have gotten ones from Africa before.)

The first one I got this year was obviously written by an AI Chat of some sort as no human being could possibly have used the terms "Inclusive," "Community development," "Dignity," "Empowerment," "Underserved communities," and "Innovation" so often.

Scammer after the cash or genuine engineers who felt it'd be the best way to write a convincing request?

[Savonarola]

Scammer after the cash or genuine engineers who felt it'd be the best way to write a convincing request?

Genuine engineers (unless their university is also in on the scam).  Everything like that is vetted before it gets to me.

[Josquius]

Well....
This is looking more and more like actual AI 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go.amp

AI willing to resort to extreme measures if threatened with removal....

[Maladict]

Well....
This is looking more and more like actual AI 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go.amp

AI willing to resort to extreme measures if threatened with removal....

It's only copying human behaviour. Real AI should be smarter than that.

[Syt]

I did not sign up for this Cyberpunk future.

[garbon]

I did not sign up for this Cyberpunk future.

I was helping out a division of my company that has started using AI for transcription/translation. I was a little disappointed but not surprised when it translated a drug name to a similar sounding word/name but less forgiving when it proposed the interviewee had said "×% of their patients are double masturbated".

[Syt]

We use AI s lot to transcribe our calls, but review the notes before sending them to all participants.

Some of our partners are starting to experiment with AI to automate outbpund phone calls for client prospecting, making appointments, follow ups and more. Some of the demos (which they did live, i.e. not pre-recorded and where our team could interact with them) were fairly impressive and the quality is getting to a point where I find it sometimes hard to tell whether it's a bot or a person talking.

[Josquius]

We use AI s lot to transcribe our calls, but review the notes before sending them to all participants.

Same.
I was using one tool which tries to summarise the calls too. Like every few lines it calls a bit out saying "The participant is unsure about x" and the like.
It broadly gets the topic right. But it absolutely cannot read sentiment. Maybe its been designed on Americans so just can't get Brits?

Like if I say "Sorry. That probably won't be ready for a few years yet"
And they say "Oh. OK".
The AI will go "Mary is happy the thing won't be ready for a few years"

[Syt]

We're using spinach.io; it's surprisingly good, actually.