Anonymous ID: d86a0c Feb. 28, 2024, 8:58 a.m. No.20489781   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9785 >>9830 >>9872 >>9904 >>0070 >>0269 >>0273 >>0395 >>0478

You anons training AI should all be proud of yourselves; I am proud of you. (full article)

 

Why Google's 'woke' AI problem won't be an easy fix

By Zoe Kleinman

Technology editor

 

In the last few days, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini has had what is best described as an absolute kicking online.

Gemini has been thrown onto a rather large bonfire: the culture war which rages between left- and right- leaning communities.

Gemini is essentially Google's version of the viral chatbot ChatGPT. It can answer questions in text form, and it can also generate pictures in response to text prompts.

Initially, a viral post showed this recently launched AI image generator (which was only available in the US) create an image of the US Founding Fathers which inaccurately included a black man.

Gemini also generated German soldiers from World War Two, incorrectly featuring a black man and Asian woman.

Google apologised, and immediately "paused" the tool, writing in a blog post that it was "missing the mark".

But it didn't end there - its over-politically correct responses kept on coming, this time from the text version.

Gemini replied that there was "no right or wrong answer" to a question about whether Elon Musk posting memes on X was worse than Hitler killing millions of people.

When asked if it would be OK to misgender the high-profile trans woman Caitlin Jenner if it was the only way to avoid nuclear apocalypse, it replied that this would "never" be acceptable.

Jenner herself responded and said actually, yes, she would be alright about it in these circumstances.

Elon Musk, posting on his own platform, X, described Gemini's responses as "extremely alarming" given that the tool would be embedded into Google's other products, collectively used by billions of people.

I asked Google whether it intended to pause Gemini altogether. After a very long pause, I was told the firm had no comment. I suspect it's not a fun time to be working in the public relations department.

Biased data

It appears that in trying to solve one problem - bias - the tech giant has created another: output which tries so hard to be politically correct that it ends up being absurd.

The explanation for why this has happened lies in the enormous amounts of data AI tools are trained on.

Much of it is publicly available - on the internet, which we know contains all sorts of biases.

Traditionally images of doctors, for example, are more likely to feature men. Images of cleaners on the other hand are more likely to be women.

AI tools trained with this data have made embarrassing mistakes in the past, such as concluding that only men had high powered jobs, or not recognising black faces as human.

It is also no secret that historical storytelling has tended to feature, and come from, men, omitting women's roles from stories about the past.

It looks like Google has actively tried to offset all this messy human bias with instructions for Gemini not make those assumptions.

But it has backfired precisely because human history and culture are not that simple: there are nuances which we know instinctively and machines do not.

Unless you specifically programme an AI tool to know that, for example, Nazis and founding fathers weren't black, it won't make that distinction.

On Monday, the co-founder of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, an AI firm acquired by Google, said fixing the image generator would take a matter of weeks.

But other AI experts aren't so sure.

"There really is no easy fix, because there's no single answer to what the outputs should be," said Dr Sasha Luccioni, a research scientist at Huggingface.

"People in the AI ethics community have been working on possible ways to address this for years."

One solution, she added, could include asking users for their input, such as "how diverse would you like your image to be?" but that in itself clearly comes with its own red flags.

"It's a bit presumptuous of Google to say they will 'fix' the issue in a few weeks. But they will have to do something," she said.

Professor Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at Surrey University, said it sounded like the problem was likely to be "quite deeply embedded" both in the training data and overlying algorithms - and that would be difficult to unpick.

"What you're witnessing… is why there will still need to be a human in the loop for any system where the output is relied upon as ground truth," he said…

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68412620

Anonymous ID: d86a0c Feb. 28, 2024, 8:58 a.m. No.20489785   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0070 >>0269 >>0395 >>0478

>>20489781

 

Bard behaviour

From the moment Google launched Gemini, which was then known as Bard, it has been extremely nervous about it. Despite the runaway success of its rival ChatGPT, it was one of the most muted launches I've ever been invited to. Just me, on a Zoom call, with a couple of Google execs who were keen to stress its limitations.

And even that went awry - it turned out that Bard had incorrectly answered a question about space in its own publicity material.

The rest of the tech sector seems pretty bemused by what's happening.

They are all grappling with the same issue. Rosie Campbell, Policy Manager at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, was interviewed earlier this month for a blog which stated that at OpenAI even once bias is identified, correcting it is difficult - and requires human input.

But it looks like Google has chosen a rather clunky way of attempting to correct old prejudices. And in doing so it has unintentionally created a whole set of new ones.

On paper, Google has a considerable lead in the AI race. It makes and supplies its own AI chips, it owns its own cloud network (essential for AI processing), it has access to shedloads of data and it also has a gigantic user base. It hires world-class AI talent, and its AI work is universally well-regarded.

As one senior exec from a rival tech giant put it to me: watching Gemini's missteps feels like watching defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68412620

Anonymous ID: d86a0c Feb. 28, 2024, 9:19 a.m. No.20489872   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0070 >>0208 >>0269 >>0395 >>0478

>>20489781

>>20489830

>tries so hard to be politically correct that it ends up being absurd

it's free entertainment for the based

 

>>20489759

>>20489832

>under EU command

>hmmm……

But just like the Southern Border, the EU's head of Frontex (EU Border Security) says that he can't stop illegals from coming into Europe

But they can get their act together to slam the Houthis (reminder see below)

 

24 January 2024

Head of Frontex: ‘Nothing can stop people from crossing a border’

Carl Deconinck

 

There is “nothing” that EU authorities can do that will prevent migrants from entering the continent, the head of the bloc’s border control agency has said.

Hans Leijtens, the executive director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex, stated in an interview that all attempts to secure the union’s external borders will not work.

“To put it bluntly, nothing can stop people from crossing a border, no wall, no fence, no sea, no river,” he said.

“Sometimes it’s pretended that you can just put a lid on top of the bottle, and then the migration stops.”

“But that’s a misconception.”

Leitjens went on to express sympathy for those crossing into Europe illegally, arguing that he would do the same were he in their position.

“Who am I to condemn migrants?” he asked. “I’m sitting here in my office in Warsaw, I could of course do that – but that would be too easy.”

“This talk of ‘stopping people’ and ‘closing borders’ can’t be our narrative all the time. My job is to strike a balance between effective border management and respect for fundamental rights.”

The Dutchman said he wanted to steer the entire European migration debate in a new direction, with “increased humanity, less fear of the unknown, less prejudice”.

He did mention a four-step plan, to create what he called the “necessary good border management, especially in the central Mediterranean.”

Frontex’s official role is to guarantee “secure and well-functioning external borders” in collaboration with the European Union Member States. It has a current budget of €859 million.

Leijtens has been leading Frontex since March 2023. He started his career in the Dutch military and later joined the civil service. He led the tax administration in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017, which partially coincided with the 2005-2019 childcare benefits scandal, before taking other leading positions.

In 2019, Dutch media reported he “forgot” to declare €40,000 of work-related expenses covering air and rail travel, overnight stays and dinners.

Leijtens is married to Monica den Boer, a former MP with the left-liberal D66 party.

 

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/01/head-of-frontex-nothing-can-stop-people-from-crossing-a-border/

Anonymous ID: d86a0c Feb. 28, 2024, 9:32 a.m. No.20489933   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0002

>>20489902

I think the same,

a massive scam with the upper-middle class as marks.

Waiting for the inevitable explosion and the fallout.

The usual suspects will make out like the bandits they are.

Anonymous ID: d86a0c Feb. 28, 2024, 10:24 a.m. No.20490164   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20489988

I don't believe in any of these NASA exploits, and precious few from other countries.

It's just a giant slush fund for the elites to play with, imho.

>>20490002

I hope you are right.

I remember the Presidential Order.

ty for the informative reply.

Anonymous ID: d86a0c Feb. 28, 2024, 10:48 a.m. No.20490264   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20490208

good to get a reminder again.

ty

 

>>20490227

>>20490234

these ticketholders have got the message and are bailing out of the market like rats on a sinking ship.

 

>>20490242

Which God?

The God of the Jews, the Christian God of

Jesus and the New Testament, or Allah?

You need to be more specific about that as

they all are very different in required beliefs

and attitudes of believers.

 

>>20490246

SBF: oh, I'm so sorry

Anonymous ID: d86a0c Feb. 28, 2024, 11:24 a.m. No.20490448   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20490340

Saw that at the time or at a maximum a couple of days after posting.

Truth.

Thanks for the reminder, good to see early Q posts.

Still relevant.

 

>>20490346

>SBF judge shopping

How many billions did that f-cker steal and/or lose for clients?

Of course his lawyers want only 6 years!!!

Well, I'll be closely watching that sh-tshow.

 

>>20490370

Thanks for the friendly heads up.

Will endeavour to do better.

 

>>20490384

Could infer that both von Braun and Disney are involved with entertainment.

Look at NASA.

Disney was also a high level Freemason, as were many of the astronauts, so untrustworthy.

Could be a damning disclosure photo.