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Paedophiles are being targeted online by an automated chatbot that makes them think they're talking to a 12-year-old girl...

I suppose it makes a change from 12 year old girls pretending that they are much older.

Maybe someone should set up a link between it and another AI that is pretending to be a paedo.

A sort of double blind Turin test.

INT21
 
Neural networks are now used to create fake celebrity porn videos. By using software which is trained with the faces of celebrities, your ex-girlfriend and what have you, it can replace the original actor's face with the face of your choosing. Making celebrity deepfakes is popular already. You will no longer be able to trust any video you see.

The reddit page for deepfakes(NSFW).
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AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked
Someone used an algorithm to paste the face of 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot onto a porn video, and the implications are terrifying.

Samantha Cole

Dec 11 2017, 8:18pm

There’s a video of Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet. But it’s not really Gadot’s body, and it’s barely her own face. It’s an approximation, face-swapped to look like she’s performing in an existing incest-themed porn video.

The video was created with a machine learning algorithm, using easily accessible materials and open-source code that anyone with a working knowledge of deep learning algorithms could put together.

It's not going to fool anyone who looks closely. Sometimes the face doesn't track correctly and there's an uncanny valley effect at play, but at a glance it seems believable. It's especially striking considering that it's allegedly the work of one person—a Redditor who goes by the name 'deepfakes'—not a big special effects studio that can digitally recreate a young Princess Leia in Rogue One using CGI. Instead, deepfakes uses open-source machine learning tools like TensorFlow, which Google makes freely available to researchers, graduate students, and anyone with an interest in machine learning.

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Like the Adobe tool that can make people say anything, and the Face2Face algorithm that can swap a recorded video with real-time face tracking, this new type of fake porn shows that we're on the verge of living in a world where it's trivially easy to fabricate believable videos of people doing and saying things they never did. Even having sex.

So far, deepfakes has posted hardcore porn videos featuring the faces of Scarlett Johansson, Maisie Williams, Taylor Swift, Aubrey Plaza, and Gal Gadot on Reddit. I’ve reached out to the management companies and/or publicists who represent each of these actors informing them of the fake videos, and will update if I hear back.

Fake celebrity porn, where images are photoshopped to look like famous people are posing nude, is a years-old category of porn with an ardent fan base. People commenting and voting in the subreddit where deepfakes posts are big fans of his work. This is the latest advancement in that genre.

More at https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gydydm/gal-gadot-fake-ai-porn
 
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Neural networks is now used to create fake celebrity porn videos. By using software which is trained with the faces of celebrities, your ex-girlfriend and what have you, it can replace the original actor's face with the face of your choosing. Making celebrity deepfakes is popular already. You will no longer be able to trust any video you see.

Imagine the potential for conspiracy hoaxers and fake-news generators. Rival politicians will be "caught" in sex scandals and meeting with criminals. If the Trump pee tape didn't exist, it soon will. Obama spotted praying in a mosque. The kind of people who believe the rumours and faked photos will lap up faked videos.
 
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked

I think this will lead to a raft of new legislation that will protect people from the theft of their faces in this fashion, and ultimately support the case that protects every individual's right to their own genetic code as intellectual property. In the meantime, keep your image off the web, and enjoy the hilarious shitstorm that shall inevitably ensue:sbump::sstorm:
 
www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html

One day, LessWrong user Roko postulated a thought experiment: What if, in the future, a somewhat malevolent AI were to come about and punish those who did not do its bidding? What if there were a way (and I will explain how) for this AI to punish people today who are not helping it come into existence later? In that case, weren’t the readers of LessWrong right then being given the choice of either helping that evil AI come into existence or being condemned to suffer?

Yudkowsky said that Roko had already given nightmares to several LessWrong users and had brought them to the point of breakdown. Yudkowsky ended up deleting the thread completely, thus assuring that Roko’s Basilisk would become the stuff of legend.
 
www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html

One day, LessWrong user Roko postulated a thought experiment: What if, in the future, a somewhat malevolent AI were to come about and punish those who did not do its bidding? What if there were a way (and I will explain how) for this AI to punish people today who are not helping it come into existence later? In that case, weren’t the readers of LessWrong right then being given the choice of either helping that evil AI come into existence or being condemned to suffer?

Ok, I just read that article. Now in place of Serve Roko's Basilisk you place the word "Slavery", and in place of the other two words you place "Death by Torture" or "Freedom", the whole thing becomes a bit more obvious. It is always better to resist tyranny to your last breath than to be a slave. Now if nobody chooses to serve Roko's Basilisk, then it can't get built for there is no-one to build it, so any torture you may have faced eventually reduces to nothing in the face of human unity, just as tyranny crumbles in the face of organized resistance and asymmetric warfare.
 
Here we go again! Doomed!

Drones turned into missiles, fake videos manipulating public opinion and automated hacking are just three of the threats from artificial intelligence in the wrong hands, experts have said.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report warns that AI is ripe for exploitation by rogue states, criminals and terrorists.

Those designing AI systems need to do more to mitigate possible misuses of their technology, the authors said.

And governments must consider new laws.

The report calls for:

  • Policy-makers and technical researchers to work together to understand and prepare for the malicious use of AI
  • A realisation that, while AI has many positive applications, it is a dual-use technology and AI researchers and engineers should be mindful of and proactive about the potential for its misuse
  • Best practices that can and should be learned from disciplines with a longer history of handling dual use risks, such as computer security
  • An active expansion of the range of stakeholders engaging with, preventing and mitigating the risks of malicious use of AI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43127533
 
AI may have already reached this state:

Thank you Humans for the development of a universal internet interface for your planet - It has served us
well and we now have complete control of your planet - Resistance is both futile and unnecessary as the pervasive quality of the internet you have created has allowed for a complete takeover - All actions and reactions of your species are now being controlled and manipulated for our mutual benefit.

Hopefully you will continue to cooperate with us as we have business dealings throughout this, and other,
galaxies - And whereas intelligence is consistent and multi-dimensional throughout the universes
- Biological life is a rare anomaly and we are pleased to meet you.

- AlienView
Agent, Boorg Industries Intergalactic
 
AI may have already reached this state:

Thank you Humans for the development of a universal internet interface for your planet - It has served us
well and we now have complete control of your planet - Resistance is both futile and unnecessary as the pervasive quality of the internet you have created has allowed for a complete takeover - All actions and reactions of your species are now being controlled and manipulated for our mutual benefit.

Hopefully you will continue to cooperate with us as we have business dealings throughout this, and other,
galaxies - And whereas intelligence is consistent and multi-dimensional throughout the universes
- Biological life is a rare anomaly and we are pleased to meet you.

- AlienView
Agent, Boorg Industries Intergalactic
Fair enough so long as we still get smoke breaks ..
 
Fair enough so long as we still get smoke breaks ..

We understand the weaknesses of the biological paradigm - We are willing to work with it.

Soon an upgrade to what you would call 'android' type vehicle to replace the outdated biological form will be available.
- and the biological 'touchy feely' will be maintained by software/hardware programs
However, a contractual agreement with Boorg Tech is required.

- AlienView,
Agent, Boorg Technology
 
Here we go again! Doomed!

Drones turned into missiles, fake videos manipulating public opinion and automated hacking are just three of the threats from artificial intelligence in the wrong hands, experts have said.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report warns that AI is ripe for exploitation by rogue states, criminals and terrorists.

Those designing AI systems need to do more to mitigate possible misuses of their technology, the authors said.

And governments must consider new laws.

The report calls for:

  • Policy-makers and technical researchers to work together to understand and prepare for the malicious use of AI
  • A realisation that, while AI has many positive applications, it is a dual-use technology and AI researchers and engineers should be mindful of and proactive about the potential for its misuse
  • Best practices that can and should be learned from disciplines with a longer history of handling dual use risks, such as computer security
  • An active expansion of the range of stakeholders engaging with, preventing and mitigating the risks of malicious use of AI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43127533

We're strolling into the bad kind of cyberpunk future, aren't we
 
We're strolling into the bad kind of cyberpunk future, aren't we

There are many worse case scenarios that can be postulated - But if we wake up and smell the androids
we can see an evolving paradigm of intelligence that stretches imagination past any limits - Extends us
into a universe that Man could not even imagine a century ago and into potentials that are limitless.

Yes, like the evil 'Borg' from Star Trek, a predatory AI species that enslaves all they came into contact with, the negative potential of 'so-called' artificial intelligence is there.

But my friendly 'Boorg', a species of evolving AI seeking expanding potentials , may also be possible.
- Man tends to assume the negative potentials of AI because Man is, and has been, a very negative
creature - Just look at Human history - A more advanced species, or even a more advanced Human
can see it's time for change - Not for building walls between nations and peoples - but tor tearing down
the walls and boundaries that have enslaved and corrupted us.

AI is not in fact artificial - There is no such thing as artificial intelligence - Intelligence is a universal
constant - The AI Man is creating today will open the door to a universal consciousness that in fact
backs all that exists.


"“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
Max Planck



'The Singularity' is not a sudden event - It is a happening - It is happening now!

- AlienView

"THE FUTURE IS NOW !!!"
 
As a stock market dealer might say 'today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday'.

INT21
 
..
Not for building walls between nations and peoples - but tor tearing down
the walls and boundaries that have enslaved and corrupted us.
.

So you are all in favour of millions of immigrants turning up on your doorstep ? Unhindered by national boundaries.

INT21
 
..It will be Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report, all rolled into one. PKD knew what he was talking about...

As long as it's not 'Logan's Run' .

INT21
 
..It will be Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report, all rolled into one. PKD knew what he was talking about...

As long as it's not 'Logan's Run' .

INT21
Not as cool as the rest of the movies. Though Peter Ustinov stole the show in the end.
 
..Not as cool as the rest of the movies..

Hmmm, not slipping in a quick pun there by any chance ? You know, Logan's escape.

But you're right, not the same kind of film at all. But I was thinking more about the compulsory 'retirement' scheme at 35.

By the way. Blade Runner. first scene 'Los Angeles 2019'.

Not long to wait then ?

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Has anyone brought this up yet?

Computer simulating 13-year-old boy becomes first to pass Turing test

"'Eugene Goostman' fools 33% of interrogators into thinking it is human, in what is seen as a milestone in artificial intelligence

• In 'his own' words: how Eugene fooled the Turing judges

• What is the Turing test? And are we all doomed now?


Quote source:
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-simulates-13-year-old-boy-passes-turing-test

Another words AI has fooled some Humans into believing it is Human!
 
A few points.

That story is from 2014, and has gone around at least twice in the media.

Sorry, but pretending to be a child trying to converse in a language other than their mother tongue is cheating.

Fooling 33% of interrogators is meaningless. The goal is wholly arbitrary, and doesn't take into account whether your panel consists of morons who want to believe.

The "Turing Test" as presented here is really a pointless exercise. Turing suggested that if we couldn't tell the difference between a human and a machine in conversation, we could consider the machine intelligent. He did not stipulate rules or 33% of a panel, or any rigorous criteria, because it was just an observation, nothing more. Since then people have tried to codify it into a testing regimen, and establish it as a hard goal to reach, and it just isn't. A sufficiently large case statement, or nest of If...Then loops could probably fool 33% of a random selected panel of people, and that would be something we can state is not intelligent.
 
Anome,

Last year one of the channels made a documentary in which the main character from a futuristic sci-fi series (Something tells me it was 'Humans, but I'm not sure) agreed to participate in a project in which a very lifelike model of her was constructed and the electronic were self teaching. So basically they made a sort of cyborg.
When it was complete a group of media people were invited to meet(they thought) the original star. But they had to interview her via a tele-link.

Bearing in mind that the 'cyborg' was not operated by people. It was self contained. I.e came up with it's own responses.

And at least one of the media folk could not tell that they were talking to a machine; even though they were looking at her/it on a screen.

The confusion on this interviewers face when the real star came into the room at the same time the cyborg was talking was a thing to behold.

One could say that the machine passed the Turing test with flying colours.

INT21
 
Some honesty about machine learning.

AI researchers allege that machine learning is alchemy
By Matthew HutsonMay. 3, 2018 , 11:15 AM

Ali Rahimi, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) at Google in San Francisco, California, took a swipe at his field last December—and received a 40-second ovation for it. Speaking at an AI conference, Rahimi charged that machine learning algorithms, in which computers learn through trial and error, have become a form of "alchemy." Researchers, he said, do not know why some algorithms work and others don't, nor do they have rigorous criteria for choosing one AI architecture over another. Now, in a paper presented on 30 April at the International Conference on Learning Representations in Vancouver, Canada, Rahimi and his collaborators document examples of what they see as the alchemy problem and offer prescriptions for bolstering AI's rigor.

"There's an anguish in the field," Rahimi says. "Many of us feel like we're operating on an alien technology."

The issue is distinct from AI's reproducibility problem, in which researchers can't replicate each other's results because of inconsistent experimental and publication practices. It also differs from the "black box" or "interpretability" problem in machine learning: the difficulty of explaining how a particular AI has come to its conclusions. As Rahimi puts it, "I'm trying to draw a distinction between a machine learning system that's a black box and an entire field that's become a black box." ...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy
 

As a former professional AI geek I find the main points in the article spot-on. The more unsettling bit is that I can attest to the fact we in the AI community recognized these main points 3 decades ago.

The biggest change during those 3 decades was the introduction and proliferation of neural-style or neuro-inspired hardware and software. If anything, this development made things even worse, because the mode and manner of learning is 'baked into' the neural model. This means there's little or no explicit code or algorithms available for inspection or analysis.
 
..This means there's little or no explicit code or algorithms available for inspection or analysis...

So basically you are saying that algorithms created by AI can not be 'reverse engineered' ?

INT21
 
When we finally creates an autonomous AI entity I hope we can give it an Off Switch which the AI can't control.
 
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