#Intelligent World AI

[you10tubesworld]

Discover the world of Generative AI with Ronald van Loon, a renowned AI & IoT Influencer, and Sean Stauth, a global AI and AutoML expert. Discover how data can be transformed into actionable insights using the power of Generative AI. This video provides a comprehensive playbook for anyone looking to harness the potential of AI in their domain. Special thanks to Qlik for their invaluable contributions. Stay connected for more AI revelations.

[humanconditionpoetry]

Heads Up on AI for Google Users.

Hello Everyone, I recently got an email in my account that Gemini(Google's Gen AI) will be active whether or not you want to for tablets and phones. Make sure to have your Gemini in your Account Turned off in your profile and Phones - They give steps into how.

Seriously, can not help, but think that this is related to the "Big Beautiful Bill "and it's unregulated AI usage for 10 years...I am so done with AI 🙄!

I do not wish to see any of my fellow writers and artist have their work stolen unexpectedly, in addition - it is also feels like spying.

Please Reblog this Post to get the message out there, especially for Android Users.

Update: Since I am learning more: If the Situation was not bad enough as it is. Utilities can sometimes include note-taking apps!

[mostly-natm]

Star Trek TNG/A.I. Artificial Intelligence crossover where the planet that A.I. takes place on is a replicate earth, and the Enterprise discovers David instead of the creatures at the end of the movie!

Data is phenomenal with kids, which really makes me want to see him interacting with and guiding an android child*, especially one of a different make and model to himself! David was created to be a forever child, so it would be interesting to see how Data would process meeting a being like himself who is in a childhood purgatory, when he never got a childhood himself.

*Lal counts, but I still think his experiences with David would be unique!

[xtishax]

i'm just so tired. tired of keeping up with every new thing that ai can do. every new technological change happening. every new crisis the planet is facing as a result of 'innovation'. every time i have to re-learn the dynamics, rules and workings of the modern world and society. it's all too much and happening too fast. let's all just calm down.

[apocky13]

Buhbuhbuhbuhhhhh

Something, lost the trail...

Triclops...

Omni...

Beholders, Panopticon,

Djinn, can't read minds, context clues,

Blackmail, implications, deep fakes and AI,

Scapegoats,

Obvious Plants, Memory, Suggestion, Hypnosis,

Allegations, self fulfilling prophesy, allegedly,

Profiling, existential profiling, Minority Report.

[djquimoso]

Artwork from the collection "Goddess."

[beheamothscreamoth]

Quick question for the Touchstarved fandom!! As much as we love Ais calling us 'Sparrow,' I have to ask - if you had to decide, what other bird nickname do you think he would call you/your MC? :O

For example, Ais would my Unnamed MC Daniella 'bluebird,' while he'd call my Alchemist MC Edgar 'crow' (and another OC I'm planning, Shinju, 'woodpecker!')

[relaxedstyles]

[eroartworks]

Do you like mascular and elven woman? 😚

[skull-pun]

I just...

I just don't know anymore.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Get him younglings!

Star Wars Cinematic World

[in4newz]

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[affairsmastery]

Google has revised its 2018 AI principles, removing explicit bans on developing AI for weapons, harmful surveillance, or technologies violating human rights. The updated guidelines, announced Tuesday, emphasize "appropriate human oversight" and alignment with "widely accepted principles of international law and human rights."

This shift comes amid growing geopolitical AI competition and marks a stark departure from Google’s earlier stance, which was adopted after employee protests against its involvement in a military drone program. While executives claim the changes aim to balance innovation with responsibility, critics, including Google employees, warn the move risks prioritizing profit over ethics.

As AI becomes increasingly central to global power struggles, Google’s pivot raises critical questions about the role of tech giants in shaping the future of warfare and surveillance.

[worlds-of-imaginations]

Prehistoric treasure.

The last primeval forests on Earth are a true treasure trove of medicines and a haven for countless creatures. the most famous area of ​​old forests is the Amazon, where a dramatic fight is taking place today to preserve this treasure for future generations of animals and people.

[river-taxbird]

The Four Horsemen of the Digital Apocalypse

Blockchain. Artificial Intelligence. Internet of Things. Big Data.

Do these terms sound familiar? You have probably been hearing some or all of them non stop for years. "They are the future. You don't want to be left behind, do you?"

While these topics, particularly crypto and AI, have been the subject of tech hype bubbles and inescapable on social media, there is actually something deeper and weirder going on if you scratch below the surface.

I am getting ready to apply for my PhD in financial technology, and in the academic business studies literature (Which is barely a science, but sometimes in academia you need to wade into the trash can.) any discussion of digital transformation or the process by which companies adopt IT seem to have a very specific idea about the future of technology, and it's always the same list, that list being, blockchain, AI, IoT, and Big Data. Sometimes the list changes with additions and substitutions, like the metaverse, advanced robotics, or gene editing, but there is this pervasive idea that the future of technology is fixed, and the list includes tech that goes from questionable to outright fraudulent, so where is this pervasive idea in the academic literature that has been bleeding into the wider culture coming from? What the hell is going on?

The answer is, it all comes from one guy. That guy is Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum. Now there are a lot of conspiracies about the WEF and I don't really care about them, but the basic facts are it is a think tank that lobbies for sustainable capitalist agendas, and they famously hold a meeting every year where billionaires get together and talk about how bad they feel that they are destroying the planet and promise to do better. I am not here to pass judgement on the WEF. I don't buy into any of the conspiracies, there are plenty of real reasons to criticize them, and I am not going into that.

Basically, Schwab wrote a book titled the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In his model, the first three so-called industrial revolutions are:

1. The industrial revolution we all know about. Factories and mass production basically didn't exist before this. Using steam and water power allowed the transition from hand production to mass production, and accelerated the shift towards capitalism.

2. Electrification, allowing for light and machines for more efficient production lines. Phones for instant long distance communication. It allowed for much faster transfer of information and speed of production in factories.

3. Computing. The Space Age. Computing was introduced for industrial applications in the 50s, meaning previously problems that needed a specific machine engineered to solve them could now be solved in software by writing code, and certain problems would have been too big to solve without computing. Legend has it, Turing convinced the UK government to fund the building of the first computer by promising it could run chemical simulations to improve plastic production. Later, the introduction of home computing and the internet drastically affecting people's lives and their ability to access information.

That's fine, I will give him that. To me, they all represent changes in the means of production and the flow of information, but the Fourth Industrial revolution, Schwab argues, is how the technology of the 21st century is going to revolutionize business and capitalism, the way the first three did before. The technology in question being AI, Blockchain, IoT, and Big Data analytics. Buzzword, Buzzword, Buzzword.

The kicker though? Schwab based the Fourth Industrial revolution on a series of meetings he had, and did not construct it with any academic rigor or evidence. The meetings were with "numerous conversations I have had with business, government and civil society leaders, as well as technology pioneers and young people." (P.10 of the book) Despite apparently having two phds so presumably being capable of research, it seems like he just had a bunch of meetings where the techbros of the mid 2010s fed him a bunch of buzzwords, and got overly excited and wrote a book about it. And now, a generation of academics and researchers have uncritically taken that book as read, filled the business studies academic literature with the idea that these technologies are inevitably the future, and now that is permeating into the wider business ecosystem.

There are plenty of criticisms out there about the fourth industrial revolution as an idea, but I will just give the simplest one that I thought immediately as soon as I heard about the idea. How are any of the technologies listed in the fourth industrial revolution categorically different from computing? Are they actually changing the means of production and flow of information to a comparable degree to the previous revolutions, to such an extent as to be considered a new revolution entirely? The previous so called industrial revolutions were all huge paradigm shifts, and I do not see how a few new weird, questionable, and unreliable applications of computing count as a new paradigm shift.

What benefits will these new technologies actually bring? Who will they benefit? Do the researchers know? Does Schwab know? Does anyone know? I certainly don't, and despite reading a bunch of papers that are treating it as the inevitable future, I have not seen them offering any explanation.

There are plenty of other criticisms, and I found a nice summary from ICT Works here, it is a revolutionary view of history, an elite view of history, is based in great man theory, and most importantly, the fourth industrial revolution is a self fulfilling prophecy. One rich asshole wrote a book about some tech he got excited about, and now a generation are trying to build the world around it. The future is not fixed, we do not need to accept these technologies, and I have to believe a better technological world is possible instead of this capitalist infinite growth tech economy as big tech reckons with its midlife crisis, and how to make the internet sustainable as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook, the most monopolistic and despotic tech companies in the world, are running out of new innovations and new markets to monopolize. The reason the big five are jumping on the fourth industrial revolution buzzwords as hard as they are is because they have run out of real, tangible innovations, and therefore run out of potential to grow.

[djquimoso]

Artwork from the collection "Goddess."