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🇨🇳 #China: A Chinese developer has showcased a 3D-printed arthropod robot capable of both flight and underwater movement, while being able to launch small rockets.
Repost from Ditto Nation
The Society of Authors collected survey data from 800 of its members and found that 26% of illustrators and 36% of translators had already lost work due to generative AI. This tracks completely with anecdotal data from my own reporting.
Not good.
https://t.co/xYENjXT3Di
This story is horrific, and basically confirms every one of the fears we had back in October when we knew the IDF was using AI—it's error-prone, there's scant human oversight, and it facilitates the mass rubber stamping of targets, of mass killing.
https://t.co/LnwPGVUFAn
Current chatbots can pass the Turing Test, right?
A lot of people have claimed this, but Cameron Jones (@camrobjones) and Benjamin Bergen of UCSD actually tested the claim!
(Spoiler: The answer is "no, they don't pass.")
https://t.co/k2dZXx9vpY
Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum
Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious … https://t.co/kehtoc4dMV