MachineMachine /stream - search for version https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Ocarina of Time versus GTA VI]]> http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/213475

It's official: Nintendo is releasing a 'reborn' version of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (OOT) for the Switch 2.

Often considered the greatest, and certainly the most generously reviewed game of all time, Nintendo have long been rumoured to be reimagining the game for the 3rd time, now almost 30 years after its original release. Speculation is rife as to whether the new Ocarina of Time will release on, or close to, its original US release date of 21st November 1998, a date which this year aligns almost precisely with the release of the most expensive entertainment product ever created: Rockstar's GTA VI. As the game industry clears its calendars to make way for Rockstar's entertainment Goliath, perhaps only Nintendo is brave (or stupid) enough to adopt the roll of the plucky David.

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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:09 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/213475
<![CDATA[MeFi: Another step towards children making LEGO AI autonomous killer drones]]> http://www.metafilter.com/211724/Another-step-towards-children-making-LEGO-AI-autonomous-killer-drones

BBC: Lego has unveiled Smart Bricks - tech-filled versions of its small building blocks - which it says will bring sets to life with sound, light and reaction to movement. However, the new product range is causing unease among play experts, who say it risks undermining what makes Lego special for children in an increasingly digital world. Wired: Smart Play revolves around Lego's patented sensor- and tech-packed brick. It's the same size as a standard 2 x 4 Lego brick, but it is capable of connecting to compatible Smart Minifigures and Smart Tags and interacting with them in real time. By pairing these components, kids big and small can create context-appropriate sounds and light effects as they play with the Danish company's toys.

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Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:43:36 -0800 http://www.metafilter.com/211724/Another-step-towards-children-making-LEGO-AI-autonomous-killer-drones
<![CDATA[AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science]]> https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-trained-on-ai-gibberish/

Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the existing internet which has led some to fear there may not be enough new data left to train future iterations.

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Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:32:48 -0700 https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-trained-on-ai-gibberish/
<![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[DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by people]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01883-4?error=cookies_not_supported&code=8a8cb2b7-276b-44ed-b1c7-a2ede118f720

You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three times as fast as human-generated versions.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:13 -0700 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01883-4?error=cookies_not_supported&code=8a8cb2b7-276b-44ed-b1c7-a2ede118f720
<![CDATA[How This A.I. Draws Anything You Describe [DALL-E 2]]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ

Art takes a unique combination of skill, creativity the very human element of aesthetic taste. But what if the visual arts also fall to AI. In this episode we discuss Dall-E 2, a powerful text to image generator that's set to shake things up.

A.I. Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0iVR8sl9TiXmZUgZSZOpGFouuFNieqgP

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--- About ColdFusion --- ColdFusion is an Australian based online media company independently run by Dagogo Altraide since 2009. Topics cover anything in science, technology, history and business in a calm and relaxed environment.

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Sources:

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf

https://fortune.com/2022/04/06/openai-dall-e-2-photorealistic-images-from-text-descriptions/

https://www.engadget.com/open-a-is-dall-e-2-produces-fantastical-images-of-most-anything-you-can-imagine-170056814.html

https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-open-ai-dall-e-2-images-111840375.html

https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-images-from-prompts-using-clip-and-stylegan-1f9ed495ddda

My Music Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkpFfEMF0eMJlh9xXj2lMw

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Ben Böhmer - Flug & Fall

Kidnap Kid - Moments (feat. Leo Stannard)

Hammock - Wasted We Stared at the Ceiling

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Producer: Dagogo Altraide

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Fri, 22 Apr 2022 06:07:45 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ
<![CDATA["MICHAELSOFT BINBOWS" isn't what you think it is]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzAAjzbV5g

Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to https://keeps.com/nickrobinson to learn more and get 50% off your first order of hair loss treatment. Check out the bonus features playlist - with deleted scenes, director's commentary and more: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGFiGO64XRnjhzze6RlQxWnpcbCJwrubX

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Sun, 16 May 2021 10:00:16 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzAAjzbV5g
<![CDATA[PRINCE'S FIRST EVER VIDEO INTERVIEW (1985) Full Unedited]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKjSTm2blE

I don't own this. 7 years after his first album, Prince agreed to record his first ever video interview on October 27th, 1985, which was broadcast later that same year (on November 13th, 1985 on MTV). I've never seen the full unedited version anywhere online. Enjoy.

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Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:52:37 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKjSTm2blE
<![CDATA[Zuboff is a PSYOP]]> https://huffduffer.com/therourke/584849

Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission.

Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal capitalism. Surveillance is not the scapegoat that needs to be sacrificed so we can maintain a good version of consumption and commodification. We let you in on a little secret—one that Zuboff’s work is designed to obscure—the real horrors have been coming from inside capitalism all along.

Morozov’s article on Zuboff’s bad analysis of surveillance capitalism: https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov

Monthly Review article with good analysis of surveillance capitalism: https://monthlyreview.org/2014/07/01/surveillance-capitalism/

Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl). Thanks to Laura for voice work on the cold open.

=== Original video: https://m.soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/4-zuboff-is-a-psyop Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Tue Aug 25 23:39:54 2020 Available for 30 days after download

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Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:40:42 -0700 https://huffduffer.com/therourke/584849
<![CDATA[The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | My Name Is Prince: On Race, Identity & The End Of The Love Symbol]]> https://thequietus.com/articles/28270-prince-love-symbol-name-change-anniversary

Twenty years after Prince abandoned the Love Symbol to reclaim his own name, Soma Ghosh explores what lay behind this subversion of gender and racial identity May 2020 marks two decades since Prince reclaimed his real name after living as a symbol for seven years.

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Fri, 22 May 2020 11:13:25 -0700 https://thequietus.com/articles/28270-prince-love-symbol-name-change-anniversary
<![CDATA[The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | My Name Is Prince: On Race, Identity & The End Of The Love Symbol]]> https://thequietus.com/articles/28270-prince-love-symbol-name-change-anniversary

Twenty years after Prince abandoned the Love Symbol to reclaim his own name, Soma Ghosh explores what lay behind this subversion of gender and racial identity May 2020 marks two decades since Prince reclaimed his real name after living as a symbol for seven years.

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Fri, 22 May 2020 04:13:25 -0700 https://thequietus.com/articles/28270-prince-love-symbol-name-change-anniversary
<![CDATA[Never Gonna Give You Up, but an AI attempts to continuously generate more of the song]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgNpm8cTE8

So this neural network is called Jukebox, by OpenAI, which basically generates songs that don't exist. Also bonus AI upscaled gifs of Rick Astley, which definitely doesn't make him look like Satan spawn.

Never Gonna Give You Up (AI Versions): https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787729588 https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787732303 https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787735267 https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787733749 https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787730953

[Blog] https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ [Sample Explorer] https://jukebox.openai.com/ [Source Code] https://github.com/openai/jukebox/ (You can generate your own songs, but you need a pretty beefy computer, some programming knowledge, and a lot of time and patience) [AI Upscaler] https://topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/ (There's a 30-day trial if you don't feel like paying for it)

Wow, this is the most views I've gotten on a video, like, ever. It even surpasses videos on my other channel.

[PLEASE READ THE CHANNEL DESCRIPTION]

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Fri, 01 May 2020 07:03:13 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgNpm8cTE8
<![CDATA[Climate and Collapse: Only through the insurrection of civil societies will we avoid the worst]]> https://www.activisme.fr/climate-and-collapse/

Translation of an interview of Christophe Bonneuil, French historian and research director at the CNRS, by Ivan Du Roy for BastaMag, published on October 16th, 2018. [PDF version]

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Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:59:17 -0700 https://www.activisme.fr/climate-and-collapse/
<![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro and the perversion of liberalism]]> https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/10/27/jair-bolsonaro-and-the-perversion-of-liberalism

IN JULY, AT a convention of his small and inaptly named Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro unveiled his star hire.

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Fri, 26 Oct 2018 19:51:04 -0700 https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/10/27/jair-bolsonaro-and-the-perversion-of-liberalism
<![CDATA[CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of Resistance: Figuring the Cyborg Activist]]> http://culturesofenergy.com/new-materialism-environmental-justice-and-digital-sites-of-resistance-figuring-the-cyborg-activist/

Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

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Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:31:20 -0700 http://culturesofenergy.com/new-materialism-environmental-justice-and-digital-sites-of-resistance-figuring-the-cyborg-activist/
<![CDATA[How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero? | Great Wall of Numbers]]> https://www.ofnumbers.com/2018/08/26/how-much-electricity-is-consumed-by-bitcoin-bitcoin-cash-ethereum-litecoin-and-monero/

I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers. The first part of this post is a slightly modified version of that thread.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:33:35 -0700 https://www.ofnumbers.com/2018/08/26/how-much-electricity-is-consumed-by-bitcoin-bitcoin-cash-ethereum-litecoin-and-monero/
<![CDATA[Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U [OFFICIAL VIDEO]]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGA0azFdCs

The following is previously unseen rehearsal footage of Prince & The Revolution from the summer of 1984.

It was in this very room at Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie, Minnesota that Prince created and committed to tape one of his most beloved and iconic compositions, which six years later would become a worldwide hit for Sinead O’Connor.

Prince’s original studio version of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ is presented here for the first time.

Video directed by Andrea Gelardin and Ruth Hogben.

Listen now on all streaming services: https://lnk.to/NC2UMP

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Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:01:43 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGA0azFdCs
<![CDATA[Glitch Feminism: An Interview With Legacy Russell]]> http://www.berfrois.com/2018/02/glitch-feminism-an-interview-with-legacy-russell/

Legacy Russell is a writer, artist and cultural producer. Her first book Glitch Feminism is forthcoming from Verso. A version of this interview first appeared in the chapter “Distracted to Attention: On Digital Reading” in The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online (OR Books, 2017).

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Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:03:11 -0700 http://www.berfrois.com/2018/02/glitch-feminism-an-interview-with-legacy-russell/
<![CDATA[Overcoming Us vs. Them]]> http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/why-your-brain-hates-other-people-rp

As a kid, I saw the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes. As a future primatologist, I was mesmerized. Years later I discovered an anecdote about its filming: At lunchtime, the people playing chimps and those playing gorillas ate in separate groups.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:43:32 -0800 http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/why-your-brain-hates-other-people-rp
<![CDATA[Mating with Neandertals reintroduced ‘lost’ DNA into modern humans | Science News]]> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mating-neandertals-reintroduced-lost-dna-modern-humans

ORLANDO, Fla. — Interbreeding with Neandertals restored some genetic heirlooms that modern humans left behind in the ancient exodus from Africa, new research suggests. Those heirlooms are versions of genes, or alleles, that were present in humans’ and Neandertals’ shared ancestors.

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Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:50:28 -0700 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mating-neandertals-reintroduced-lost-dna-modern-humans