MachineMachine /stream - search for process https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[ChatGPT: 30 Year History | How AI Learned to Talk]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg

This video explores the journey of AI language models, from their modest beginnings through the development of OpenAI's GPT models. Our journey takes us through the key moments in generative neural network research involved in next word prediction. We delve into the early experiments with tiny language models in the 1980s, highlighting significant contributions by researchers like Jordan, who introduced Recurrent Neural Networks, and Elman, whose work on learning word boundaries revolutionized our understanding of language processing. It leaves us with a question: what is thought? Is simulated thought, thought? Featuring Noam Chomsky Douglas Hofstadter Michael I. Jordan Jeffrey Elman Geoffrey Hinton Ilya Sutskever Andrej Karpathy Yann LeCun and more. (Sam altman)

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00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - hofstader's thoughts on chatGPT 01:00 - recap of supervised learning 01:55 - first paper on sequential learning 02:55 - first use of state units (RNN) 04:33 - first observation of word boundary detection 05:30 - first observation of word clustering 07:16 - first "large" language model Hinton/Sutskever 10:10 - sentiment neuron (Ilya | OpenAI) 12:30 - transformer explaination 15:50 - GPT-1 17:00 - GPT-2 17:55 - GPT-3 18:20 - In-context learning 19:40 - ChatGPT 21:10 - tool use 23:25 - philosophical question: what is thought?

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Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:53:24 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
<![CDATA[[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

This is a 1 hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models: the core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What they are, where they are headed, comparisons and analogies to present-day operating systems, and some of the security-related challenges of this new computing paradigm. As of November 2023 (this field moves fast!).

Context: This video is based on the slides of a talk I gave recently at the AI Security Summit. The talk was not recorded but a lot of people came to me after and told me they liked it. Seeing as I had already put in one long weekend of work to make the slides, I decided to just tune them a bit, record this round 2 of the talk and upload it here on YouTube. Pardon the random background, that's my hotel room during the thanksgiving break.

Few things I wish I said (I'll add items here as they come up): - The dreams and hallucinations do not get fixed with finetuning. Finetuning just "directs" the dreams into "helpful assistant dreams". Always be careful with what LLMs tell you, especially if they are telling you something from memory alone. That said, similar to a human, if the LLM used browsing or retrieval and the answer made its way into the "working memory" of its context window, you can trust the LLM a bit more to process that information into the final answer. But TLDR right now, do not trust what LLMs say or do. For example, in the tools section, I'd always recommend double-checking the math/code the LLM did. - How does the LLM use a tool like the browser? It emits special words, e.g. |BROWSER|. When the code "above" that is inferencing the LLM detects these words it captures the output that follows, sends it off to a tool, comes back with the result and continues the generation. How does the LLM know to emit these special words? Finetuning datasets teach it how and when to browse, by example. And/or the instructions for tool use can also be automatically placed in the context window (in the “system message”). - You might also enjoy my 2015 blog post "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks". The way we obtain base models today is pretty much identical on a high level, except the RNN is swapped for a Transformer. http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ - What is in the run.c file? A bit more full-featured 1000-line version hre: https://github.com/karpathy/llama2.c/blob/master/run.c

Chapters: Part 1: LLMs 00:00:00 Intro: Large Language Model (LLM) talk 00:00:20 LLM Inference 00:04:17 LLM Training 00:08:58 LLM dreams 00:11:22 How do they work? 00:14:14 Finetuning into an Assistant 00:17:52 Summary so far 00:21:05 Appendix: Comparisons, Labeling docs, RLHF, Synthetic data, Leaderboard Part 2: Future of LLMs 00:25:43 LLM Scaling Laws 00:27:43 Tool Use (Browser, Calculator, Interpreter, DALL-E) 00:33:32 Multimodality (Vision, Audio) 00:35:00 Thinking, System 1/2 00:38:02 Self-improvement, LLM AlphaGo 00:40:45 LLM Customization, GPTs store 00:42:15 LLM OS Part 3: LLM Security 00:45:43 LLM Security Intro 00:46:14 Jailbreaks 00:51:30 Prompt Injection 00:56:23 Data poisoning 00:58:37 LLM Security conclusions End 00:59:23 Outro

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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:27:48 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
<![CDATA[John Carpenter: We Wouldn’t Stand a Chance Against “The Thing”]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ

Stephen is delighted to welcome one of his favorite directors, the Master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Watch as they discuss his 1982 classic film, “The Thing,” and stick around for a peek into Carpenter’s directing process for his latest project, “Suburban Screams.”

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Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:35:00 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ
<![CDATA[Game Studies - A Practiced Practice: Speedrunning Through Space With de Certeau and Virilio]]> https://gamestudies.org/1401/articles/scullyblaker

This paper discusses the emergent gameplay practice known as speedrunning, or the process of completing a game as quickly as possible without the use of cheats or cheat devices, and its relation to games as narrative spaces.

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Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:52:16 -0700 https://gamestudies.org/1401/articles/scullyblaker
<![CDATA[ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/

Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:52:43 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/
<![CDATA[ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/

Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:52:43 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/
<![CDATA[MeFi: It's not a glitch with the video, it's datamoshing (SLYT)]]> http://www.metafilter.com/195632/Its-not-a-glitch-with-the-video-its-datamoshing-SLYT

"Datamoshing is a technique of damaging video clips to create a glitch effect wherein frames that should change don't. It's most noticeable between cuts and across motion. Datamoshing is the process of corrupting, removing or replacing I-frames, causing P-frames to be applied to the wrong picture."

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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:13:31 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/195632/Its-not-a-glitch-with-the-video-its-datamoshing-SLYT
<![CDATA[MiSTer FPGA in 2022: A Primer Guide to Retro Gaming's Hardware Emulator / MY LIFE IN GAMING]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhT6YYRH1EI

Coury and Try go over what it's like to get started with the MiSTer FPGA project in 2022 - the parts you need, the processes required to set it up, what you need to do to get great audio and video, and what kinds of fun things you can do with the many console, computer, handheld, and arcade cores! You might just see that it isn't nearly as hard as you thought it was!

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► Chapters 00:00 - Opening 1:55 - Part 1: MiSTer Overview 6:45 - Part 2: Core Focus: Atari Consoles, ColecoVision and other Pre-NES Consoles 12:06 - Part 3: Building your MiSTer 19:26 - Part 4: Core Focus: NES and Super NES 27:38 - Part 5: Setting up the SD Card 33:34 - Part 6: Core Focus: PC-Engine/Turbografx-16 & Neo Geo 44:18 - Part 7: MiSTer OS, Input Options and other Odds 'n Ends 53:51 - Part 8: Universal MiSTer Settings, Editing the .ini File 01:05:16 - Part 9: Core Focus: Sega Master System, Game Gear, Genesis/Mega Drive and Sega CD 01:20:16 - Part 10: MiSTer Audio and Video Settings 01:37:07 - Part 11: Core Preview: MiSTer PlayStation 1 01:43:32 - Part 12: Core Focus: 486 PC, Commodore 64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Sharp X68000 02:10:07 - Part 13: Core Focus: Game Boy / Color, Game Boy Advance, WonderSwan, Atari Lynx 02:25:25 - Part 14: Core Focus: Capcom CPS-1 & CPS-2, Sega System-16 and more Classic Arcade Games 02:37:02 - Ending


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Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:00:35 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhT6YYRH1EI
<![CDATA[A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/database-humans-messing-with-evolution/

Charles Darwin thought of evolution as an incremental process, like the patient creep of glaciers or the march of continental plates.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:32 -0800 https://www.wired.com/story/database-humans-messing-with-evolution/
<![CDATA[A Critique of Memes and Meme Culture]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXvnA8P1k0

This video critiques memes. It doesn't aim at judging which memes are based and which are cringe, nor at declaring this or that meme to be dead, but rather at explaining and critiquing the concept of the meme, starting with the original meaning as Richard Dawkins defined it.

Relevant Titles

The Memeing of Mark Fisher by Mike Watson https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336

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Zero Books Manifesto:

The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.

Zero Books aims to work against this trend.

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Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:29:26 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXvnA8P1k0
<![CDATA[Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid]]> https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/kosyah/can_anyone_suggest_me_a_book_wherein_a_character/

I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so its not as damning/consequential. Personally I'm more interested in seeing a transformation unfold slowly (over months or years) as you get to see more of the character's thought processes as the transformation happens. You get to see their emotional turmoil, denial and their struggle to come to terms with their inevitable fate It doesn't have to be some sort of supernatural/magical transformation. it could be something manufactured like the altering of the dna or body modification. I'd prefer it though if the transformation was unwilling. But basically I'm more interested in the ongoing process of the transformation itself rather than the aftermath. submitted by /u/dgotan22 to r/printSF [link] [comments]

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Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:03:02 -0800 https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/kosyah/can_anyone_suggest_me_a_book_wherein_a_character/
<![CDATA[Humanity's Origin Story Just Got More Complicated | Gizmodo UK]]> https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/04/humanitys-origin-story-just-got-more-complicated/

Human evolution was messy, with multiple human species living and interbreeding at the same time, in a convoluted process that eventually led to us. Such is the emerging narrative in anthropology, and it’s a theory now bolstered by three fascinating new studies.

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Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:18:10 -0700 https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/04/humanitys-origin-story-just-got-more-complicated/
<![CDATA[How To Install a FunnyPlaying IPS V2 LCD Display, On A Gameboy Advance!]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lktsJNV32O8

Today, we take the broken down, non-functioning Gameboy Advance that we repaired and reshelled about six months ago, to the next level! In this video, we go in depth in the process of installing a FunnyPlaying, IPS V2 display, into a Gameboy Advance!

This video covers the process in pretty extensive detail, going through the process of disassembly, shell trimming, alignment, ribbon management, and brightness control management; all to give you the confidence to tackle this project yourself! The overall process isn't too hard, and the results are well worth the effort!

Have any questions after watching the video? Please leave them in the comments. I want to help make your Gameboy Advance screen replacement a success, so if you have any concerns or uncertainties about the process, I'd love to help answer any questions you have.

Thanks for watching!

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Sat, 29 Feb 2020 14:00:05 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lktsJNV32O8
<![CDATA[Survivorship bias - Wikipedia]]> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in several different ways.

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Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:37:24 -0800 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
<![CDATA[How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox]]> https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation

No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very few minds.

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Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:02:17 -0800 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation
<![CDATA[Homo Ludens - About Video Game Design and the Meaning of Play]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsazaCxMYtY

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6-11 Framework: https://www.academia.edu/1571687/THE_6-11_FRAMEWORK_A_NEW_METHODOLOGY_FOR_GAME_ANALYSIS_AND_DESIGN

Huizinga, Johan, Homo Ludens. A study of the play-element in culture, http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/1474/homo_ludens_johan_huizinga_routledge_1949_.pdf

Dillon, Roberto, On the Way to Fun. An Emotion-Based Approach to Successful Game Design, https://www.amazon.com/Way-Fun-Emotion-Based-Approach-Successful/dp/1568815824

Kotte, Andreas, Theaterwissenschaft. Eine Einführung, https://tinyurl.com/y43bdvj4

Jung, C. G., and Joan Chodorow, Jung on Active Imagination, https://tinyurl.com/y627n6gp

Music: "The Process" by LAKEY INSPIRED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daWvummA8ZQ

"Pokemon Gym" by Mikel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DVpys50LVE

"Hopes & Dreams" by Jonas Munk Lindbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNp4_pFkM5Q

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Wed, 06 Nov 2019 04:00:06 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsazaCxMYtY
<![CDATA[introducing Media Art — jonCates (2019) - jonCates - Medium]]> https://medium.com/@joncates/introducing-media-art-joncates-2019-2de25929aa99

jonCatesAug 21 · 7 min readover the last 15 years of my full-time teaching, i’ve collected, compiled, and processed a number of different ways and approaches for introducing students to Media Art in terms of the aestheticonceptechniques and the theorypractices.

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Thu, 22 Aug 2019 05:47:41 -0700 https://medium.com/@joncates/introducing-media-art-joncates-2019-2de25929aa99
<![CDATA[PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism]]> http://research.gold.ac.uk/26601/

Post-humanism is best understood as several overlapping and interrelated fields coming out of the traditions of anti-humanism, post-colonialism, and feminist discourse. But the term remains contested, both by those who wish to overturn, or even destroy, the ‘humanism’ after that decisive hyphen (post-humanists), and those engaged in the project of maximising their chance of merging with technologies, and reaching a supposed point of transition, when the current ‘human’ has been augmented, upgraded, and surpassed (transhumanists). For both those who wish to move beyond ‘humanism’, and those who wish to transcend ‘the human’, there remains a significant, shared, problem: the supposed originary separations, between information and matter, culture and nature, mankind and machine, singular and plural, that post-humanism seeks to problematise, and transhumanism often problematically ignores, lead to the delineation of ‘the human’ as a single, universalised figure. This universalism erases the pattern of difference, which post-humanists see as both the solution to, and the problem of, the human paradigm. This thesis recognises this problem as an ongoing one, and one which – for those who seek to establish posthumanism as a critical field of enquiry – can never be claimed to be finally overcome, lest the same problem of universalism rear its head again.

To tackle this problem, this thesis also enters into the complex liminal space where the terms ‘human’ and ‘humanism’ confuse and interrupt one another, but rather than delineate the same boundaries (as transhumanists have done), or lay claim over certain territories of the discourse (as post-humanists have done), this thesis implicates itself, myself, and yourself in the relational becoming posthuman of which we, and it, are co-constituted. My claim being, that critical posthumanism must be the action it infers onto the world of which it is not only part, but in mutual co-constitution with.The Practice of Posthumanism claims that critical posthumanism must be enacted in practice, and stages itself as an example of that process, through a hybrid theoretical and practice-based becoming. It argues that posthumanism is necessarily a vibrant, lively process being undergone, and as such, that it cannot be narrativized or referred to discursively without collapsing that process back into a static, universalised delineation once again. It must remain in practice, and as such, this thesis enacts the process of which it itself is a principle paradigm.After establishing the critical field termed ‘posthumanism’ through analyses of associated discourses such as humanism and transhumanism, each of the four written chapters and hybrid conclusion/portfolio of work is enacted through a ‘figure’ which speaks to certain monstrous dilemmas posed by thinkers of the posthuman. These five figures are: The Phantom Zone, Crusoe’s Island, The Thing, The Collapse of The Hoard, and The 3D Printer (#Additivism). Each figure – echoing Donna Haraway – ‘resets the stage for possible pasts and futures’ by calling into question the fictional/theoretical ground upon which it is predicated. Considered together, the dissertation and conclusion/portfolio of work, position critical posthumanism as a hybrid ‘other’, my claim being that only through representing the human as and through an ongoing process (ontogenesis rather than ontology) can posthumanism re-conceptualise the ‘norms’ deeply embedded within the fields it confronts.The practice of critical posthumanism this thesis undertakes is inherently a political project, displacing and disrupting the power dynamics which are co-opted in the hierarchical structuring of individuals within ‘society’, of categories within ‘nature’, of differences which are universalised in the name of the ‘human’, as well as the ways in which theory delineates itself into rigid fields of study. By confounding articulations of the human in fiction, theory, science, media, and art, this practice in practice enacts its own ongoing, ontogenetic becoming; the continual changing of itself, necessary to avoid a collapse into new absolutes and universals.

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Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:56:23 -0700 http://research.gold.ac.uk/26601/
<![CDATA[Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation]]> https://points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and-epistemological-fragmentation-56aa3c509c6b

Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be not-yet-knowledgeable. But what if ignorance is strategically manufactured? What if the tools of knowledge production are perverted to enable ignorance? In 1995, Robert Proctor and Iain Boal coined the term “agnotology” to describe the strategic and purposeful production of ignorance. In an edited volume called Agnotology, Proctor and Londa Schiebinger collect essays detailing how agnotology is achieved. Whether we’re talking about the erasure of history or the undoing of scientific knowledge, agnotology is a tool of oppression by the powerful.

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Tue, 14 May 2019 22:58:07 -0700 https://points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and-epistemological-fragmentation-56aa3c509c6b
<![CDATA[Casting Code: Reflections on 3D Printing Blog The letterhead of...]]> http://additivism.org/post/175542677283

Casting Code: Reflections on 3D Printing Blog The letterhead of Henri Lebossé announces that his firm uses a ‘mathematically perfected process’ and a ‘special machine’ for ‘reducing and enlarging objects of “art and industry”’.

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Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:17:37 -0700 http://additivism.org/post/175542677283