Posts by I&I

BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries

Re: so does the bbc

Hallucinated response?

Assuming your context was politics, then I guess – rightly or wrongly? – you are alleging intentional (goal oriented) bias (I am not here interested in the precise allegation). Main point: Intentional bias ≠ hallucination — different concepts. Conflating them => human hallucination?

In greater detail:

Regardless of domain (e.g. politics in general), intentional bias, if true (anywhere), is a distinct concept from that of the (poorly named) "hallucination" behaviour of LLMs (and of many people). The hallucination of an LLM (driven mainly by solving for "hopefully sufficiently optimal" statistical consistency) being akin to an emergent apparent/hypothetical natural property of data (e.g. as discovered via exploratory data mining, prior to validation). Sometimes such results turn out to be "fool's gold".

I am not here interested in (any) politics, just the concepts and terminology regarding the (particularly LLM-illustrated) "hallucination" phenomenon.

So do its (human) readers

Just like (human) consumers (of news) then…

I have experienced several occasions telling people a web address was ".co.uk", really emphasising it was not ".com", but still they later complained "it" (the ".com" variant) didn't work. Their internalised "info bending" presumably because (at the time) every TV advertised product or service had a ".com" address, thereby vastly weighting most consumers' expectations towards that.

Many people prefer complaining to listening and thinking.

Another time I presented a satirical newspaper article (about "plans" to build London's 3rd airport on the Regent's Park zoo site, demolished) to my (then) B&B landlady. The newspaper's name, in large bold print, was "Not The Times". I teasingly held my thumb over the word "Not", briefly basked in her triggered angry response, then gleefully removed said obstruction, stating "It's ok, because it's Not the Times!". But no smile resulted, just further anger at the apparent (to her) prospect – like an EV with no braking (of any kind).

Then multiple placement students and contractors claiming to understand requirements or to be proficient in domains and languages… For some of them, this isn't even a conscious process, their belief systems get meshed in.

Even happens among highly educated responsible professionals.

Could LLMs be viewed as a (blemish-enhancing) "mirror" of humanity's intellectual failings? (Yes, mine too).

Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs

Backside power delivery…

(Is also what Nodes 18A and 14A have)

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

So regardless of known error, some of the crappest applicants got accepted (so as not to hurt their feelings?). Does that increase the chance of patients' loved ones feelings becoming fatally hurt?

First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence

A Ham Doppler Picture

Radio enthusiast Doppler traces and interpretation discussions https://twitter.com/uhf_satcom/status/1650921508728975361?s=46&t=bnU8YXX5UOSjU_ydZhj8lw

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

Re: security concerns

Harwich?

UK watchdog slaps 'misleading' Voda ad: Gigafast... maybe so – but not for £23

Re: 1/3:3/1

When I was a boy (before the age-change), offshore Pirate Radio transmitters carried warping devices (proper valves) to ensure the wavelength rhymed with the station name.

(and people would curl up in bed with their trannies!...)

Re: 1/3:3/1

And something in Sèvres

1/3:3/1

By way of comparison, “Terahertz” in Wikipedia “...consists of electromagnetic waves within the ITU-designated band of frequencies from 0.3 to 3 terahertz (THz)”.

(...while rural Blighty is lucky if it gets shortwave; not that I’m feeling grudgy or anything...)

Megabit in a Gigabit world

Gah... can only dream of that in rural Hampshire where fibre can only reach as “high” as 20MBps sorry 0.02Gbps. Discounting (very frequent) drop-outs, that is.

Humanity gazes into the abyss to get its first glimpse of a black hole

Re: imaging a black hole directly is somewhat tricky:

Is space quantum-foamy grey? How do BH (with Hawking radiation) compare against that? “Black” is so binary.

Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch

Mare Map

https://hiveminer.com/Tags/mare%2Cserenatis

Re: crashed minutes before landing?

“Serenity Bits”

Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion

Assuage

Yes! Pack your bags! Blossoming planetary system strikingly similar to ours found by boffins

Just tunnel-through to >c, where mass goes imaginary, regains finiteness and, with further increasing velocity, reduces in magnitude (à la or au tachyon). Use an attraction-engine ;-)

Never thought we'd ever utter these words, but... can anyone recommend a spin doctor for NASA?

Possible surface detail effects including capillary, local hotspots. Fractal fun.

Shrinking (by compression) ? Interesting equilibrium then (beyond “ballet dancer”). Combined gravity and mucky material effects against centrifugal. That should sort things out.

Science says death metal fans delightful and intelligent people, great at dinner parties

Best for deep thoughtful creative coding: Country & western. Just enough musicality to lubricate the mind but not enough to distract it.

SpaceX Crew Dragon: Launched and docked. Now, about that splashdown...

Has to be destroyed otherwise it can’t be written off “the books”. If someone was to find a use for it, that would conflict. The pen is, after all, mightier than reality.

Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'

Re: So are we starting a pool?

Great plot line for “The Archers”

Decoding the President, because someone has to: Did Trump just blow up concerted US effort to ban Chinese 5G kit?

Re: @RealFakeDonaldTrump

AI is a mind-lever, as opposed to an independent consciousness. Beware not the pawnish Terminators but (the mindset of) the chiefs of Skynet.

Push-AI gets programmed (eg by rules or training data/regimes). But pull-AI (adapt-to-thrive bots) in the political world becomes whatever thrives best in that world. Like scaremongering and threat-creation. Like human politicians, just amplified. Oh, we already have one.

Bored bloke takes control of British Army 'psyops' unit's Twitter

Re: The Best of British

Are they a bloke?

Re: If the 77th brigade are what they say they are, surely...

One Night in Bangkok

Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation

Re: "What if terrorists ..."

(c) ...don’t read The Reg ?

“The dose dropped to nothing five or more feet from the buckets”. Wow, that really is impressive... ;-)

Surrey Uni mans the space harpoons, and NASA buys more seats on Russian rockets

Re: brake

Ionosphere - traditionally exploited for over-horizon radio from long to short wave and even itself modulated by high power transmissions - extends far above the ISS.

You got a smart speaker but you're worried about privacy. First off, why'd you buy one? Secondly, check out Project Alias

Re: Why not just

“...seen to be”

As in Three Mile Island incident PORV indicator

(“yes, you’ve flipped the switch”).

Man drives 6,000 miles to prove Uncle Sam's cellphone coverage maps are wrong – and, boy, did he manage it

While driving on certain roads an hour or so away from Anaheim (S. Cal.), I was advised by a local priest (stopped at an intersection) that driving “too slowly” (like at or below the legal limit) could get you shot.

In which case the evidence needs to be bulletproof.

“Trust but Verify”

China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere

Run, Yutu (2), run

(Then if it had dug “that hole” it could indeed “forget the sun” - temperature variations)

(Repeat)

Americans are just fine with facial recognition technology – as long as they get shorter queues

Re: Tech ignorance

...or FR system sees shop shrinking (rapidly, with distance)

Re: Tech ignorance

Shoplifter-recognition (specialised), including (in)ability to see face at all, outfit, gait, browsing patterns, gestures (including parting ones as they rapidly get smaller with distance).

Beyond face recognition...

(Initially meant the heavy interpretation

...but to “end on a lighter note”, envision numerous deodorant ads “following” an unwashed through a shopping mall)

Re: Something Ben Franklin Said

Ban-Policing: “Facial Recognition Recognition”.

It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos

Hey there’s a thought... crowd funded landing... subscription/donation rate shooting up as the ground approaches...

Final stage of landing seemed a bit sudden/heavy - e.g. compared to the classic “Eagle” (Apollo) one.

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free

Re: Easily solved

The king’s new wall

Re: the Eagle Nebula dubbed the Pillars of Creation

Colour mapping can be a grey area

SpaceX's Crew Dragon shows up at pad 39A, nearly 8 years after the last Shuttle left

Drag-On

Two interpretations come to mind

China's loose Chang'e: Probe lands on far side of the Moon in science first, says state media

Reassert our (humanity’s) potential. Partly quenches thirst of this Apollo child.

Who's watching you from an unmarked van while you shop in London? Cops with facial recog tech

Not only “Big Brother”

All sorts of “little brothers & sisters” too. Some gangs have huge budgets. Do we really want asymmetry? World doesn’t stand still.

Virgin Galactic test flight reaches space for the first time, lugging NASA cargo in place of tourists

Terminological inexactitudes

Outer space? Inner space? How about “middle space”? At least the branding is on a hyperbolic trajectory. Brilliant vision, teamwork, perseverance, tech and achievement regardless.

NASA names the date for the first commercial crew demo flight

Send in Zeroid Dicks Hewitt !

Or Sgt.Mag. Zero.

Or any decent Windsor Davies sim.

“The Naked Time”

An episode of Star Trek - the original series - where Riley continually broadcasts his maddeningly infuriatingly bad rendition of “Kathleen” ship-wide.

Re: Bomb 20

“Mah Nà Mah Nà...” (song)

Ad Infinitum

Where to implant my employee microchip? I have the ideal location

Re: Poor Reliability.. better idea

In “The Man From UNCLE” (original tv series) the employees at HQ each wore a triangular badge. Some had them pointing upwards, others down. Promotion prospects?

Chinese teen braniacs are being trained to build new AI weapons

Long-term sustainable formal-knowledge management has been solved ?

Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME

What? Boats?

Re: Jesus

Classic Ella Fitzgerald song?

Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints

“Self described” ?

Now we’re getiing into proper AI

(providing it did it from feeling)