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WaterFriendsIV t1_jahkrcc wrote

I haven't been a fan of AI since seeing some of the first deep fakes of famous people saying things they obviously didn't say. How can society ensure that AI is used for good and not evil?

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahm2oz wrote

Great question. Unfortunately deepfakes have gotten even better lately, to the point where people are using them to do things like fake celebrity endorsements. I think the cat's out of the bag and short of banning everyone from owning GPUs, there's not much we can do to stop things like deepfakes. Interestingly enough, requiring licenses for powerful GPUs was one of the proposals put forward by OpenAI, I can't find the document right now, so if someone has a link that would be appreciated.

I share the same opinion of Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, who says that the best course of action is to make sure everyone has access to the tools, and educating people on how to use them and where the dangers are. I know it's not a magical solution, but I think the risks are even bigger if we don't build AI out in the open.

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beer_bukkake t1_jahq23r wrote

Is there a way to forensically determine whether a video is real or deepfake? If so, is this the beginning of a cat-and-mouse game?

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Gh0st1y t1_jai19ah wrote

Not reliably, and it will only get worse.

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beer_bukkake t1_jai3i36 wrote

I predict a future where politicians are documented doing terrible shit and they just claim deepfake

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Gh0st1y t1_jai154p wrote

We cant, but we can normalize public key cryptography and make it commonplace for people to sign their content.

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Patthelatino t1_jahmx7f wrote

Salut Andrei!

I have 2 questions for you!

  1. As a software developer, have you integrated any AI in your workflow that has positively affected your work? Have you tried the AI bot on github?

  2. What would you recommend to non-tech teams (hr, sales, marketing, etc) in order to start integrating AI into their workflow so that they can also use them and expand their knowledge?

Thank you,

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahoaai wrote

Salut!

Yes, I use Github Copilot on a daily basis and I couldn't live without it. Every developer I've spoken to in real life shares the same opinion (it's so good that people are paying for it out of pocket, not even waiting for their companies to buy it for them). Haven't seen this much adoption of a product by programmers since the early days of Slack.

Jasper is pretty good for copyrighting, it's built on GPT-3 but has a lot of extra functionality. I know some product and marketing people who are using ChatGPT for things that they view "low-importance" commercial boilerplate, pages like "Our mission", etc.

The most important tip when using ChatGPT (or Bing chat) is to specify the agent that you want to instantiate. Think of these chat bots as Simulators - they can be simulate both a good copyrighter and a bad one with similar difficulty, so it's important to specify that you want a good one :) I'm oversimplifying a bit, but remember that the chatbot doesn't know what world it's in and you need to help it help you, if that makes sense.

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HHS2019 t1_jahmyx8 wrote

What was the most socially disturbing tool or application you encountered?

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HHS2019 t1_jahnac2 wrote

What AI tools do you recommend to help people learn (additional) languages?

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CharlesTheBob t1_jahonze wrote

As a designer in both industrial design and UX design, I’ve seen talk in the community expressing everything from fear of being replaced by AI to brushing off AI as a “neat gimmick” (both opinions I think are quite misinformed). IMO, AI is going to be incredibly impactful in this field, and the best thing for designers to do is find out how best to integrate it into their workflow.

My current issue with tools I’ve seen is lack of control. The results seem too unpredictable at this point. Are there any AI tools right now that allow a better degree of intentionality on part of the designer? For example, I’m thinking if an industrial designer wants to sketch a new backpack concept - they draw the general shape/outline of what they want, then feed a moodboard or reference images into the tool, and it spits out versions of a backpack that follow the outline as a guide but with the material and aesthetic from the reference images. Then if they don’t like a specific area, they highlight it and can make specific modifications.

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahr9t0 wrote

Great point. It does seem like many people are either quick to dismiss AI tools, or call for banning them (which are sort of opposite views), especially in the art community. And I can see why we might feel threatened, art has been a uniquely human activity and until recently it didn't seem like machines would be able to do it.

Recently, there has been significant progress in the Stable Diffusion community using ControlNet, which allows you to shape the subject however you want. Here's a nice demo of what I'm talking about.

Another very useful tool that increases productivity when generating art is outpainting, which allows you to generate plausible continuations of images. Works reasonably well and of course you decide what to generate.

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jmanhalo2 t1_jahr2r4 wrote

Thanks for putting in time and effort to explore 2000 different AI’s!

Is there any kind of advanced smart home assistant yet?

I’ve had google home and alexa but they are very direct as in: ask a specific question = get a specific answer. I want a more conversation type AI, where I can ask them to reword an answer or be more specific if needed. Maybe i’m just dreaming to have a Jarvis in my house, but I know it will happen eventually. Just want to know if we have one yet.

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahux5a wrote

If you're willing to put in some effort, there are guides on how to use ChatGPT as your home assistant. Not sure I would trust it though. If you can wait a few months, the existing home assistants will get much much better, as none of them are currently using anything close to the state of the art AI tech (especially Siri).

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jmanhalo2 t1_jaiqr9z wrote

Thank you for your input, i’m going to look into it! I do believe your right, the current home assistants seem dated in their AI tech compared to what’s available today. It’s evolving so fast so it’s understandable. I am very much looking forward to the next generation of home assistants!

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PerfectMoobs t1_jahlxfe wrote

What's a job you can fully automate right now? Or what's the closest. I assume affiliate marketing or something.

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahn2up wrote

I was talking to someone the other day about this. There are some tasks that AIs can do better than the average human and one of them is audio transcription. OpenAI Whisper is incredibly good at transcribing audio in multiple languages, even when the sound is pretty bad. It's really, really impressive. So it can already be used as a sort of "gig worker", where you give it the audio and it outputs the text (there are already a myriad of self-hosted solutions so you don't need to run the model yourself).

But if you're referring to the job in terms of everything it includes, things like working with your team, interacting with your boss, doing various real world tasks, we're not quite there yet. This might change in a year or two though. Also, some (perhaps an increasing amount of) jobs are reducible to gigs, so in those cases it's more clear cut.

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PalmTreeDeprived t1_jahqj13 wrote

As an accessibility-minded web builder, I hate reviewing video transcripts and adding grammar, capitalization, and punctuation and finding errors. Whisper sounds Interesting if it does that!

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Ashcar7 t1_jahoa69 wrote

What has been your favorite AI you have discovered so far?

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahp6nm wrote

My favorite one has been Rewind (no affiliation to them). Unfortunately it's Mac only. It's basically a rewind button + search bar for everything you see on your screen and everything that gets picked up by your microphone. Everything happens locally and it's pretty fast, but I had to disable it because my poor Macbook Air couldn't handle it. I'm sure it will improve in time.

So in my case, if I'm trying to reproduce a bug and I forgot what I did, I just swipe to rewind and play it back. Also being able to search every text that ever appeared on your screen is pretty insane. If you had told me 2 years ago that this would be possible today I wouldn't have believed you. That's why when someone tells me how AI can't do this or that, my answer is to check back in 2 weeks.

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HHS2019 t1_jahpdsi wrote

What methods are in place to reduce the possibility that students or authors use AI and present it as their original work?

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahspy2 wrote

There are several tools out there, the most well known one being Originality (full list here). OpenAI is also working on tools to fingerprint content generated through their tools. Ultimately, I don't think this is a winnable battle (students can do multiple rounds of rewriting with different tools until the fingerprint is gone). But hopefully I'm wrong. If not, the best way to handle it is to update our education system to incorporate the new tools, just like we did when calculators came along. I remember my math teacher saying "You won't always have a calculator in your pocket!". That didn't age well.

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Zolden t1_jahog24 wrote

Is AI always powered by neural network based computations? Or some tools use different approaches?

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HHS2019 t1_jahp1kp wrote

Did you come across any tools that attempted to mimic a type of humour (stylistic - like, observational; or cultural - British)? How successful were they?

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ClayeySilt t1_jahpdp3 wrote

Good morning!

I'm an earth scientist and though we wrote most of our own data for our projects, I'd be very keen to hear your thoughts on how you feel it will change aggregating pre-existing data for research purposes. Or just science in general.

Also if I wanted to use the tool in my everyday research I'm currently doing, what would you recommend?

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wulfnstein85 t1_jahqs9k wrote

That's a nice list of AI's, but how can we know which one are trustworthy?

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pedrito_elcabra t1_jahtcpd wrote

None. You cannot trust AI, by definition. AI does not understand the concept of trust.

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HHS2019 t1_jahlk8a wrote

What are the best free AI apps for art creation?

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Diosa_Ex_Machina t1_jahp2p8 wrote

If you were to start a side hustle using AI tooks, what would it be and which tools would you use?

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ry007opyt OP t1_jahq63e wrote

Great question! I see that your username has Spanish in it, so if you know a foreign language my best tip for you is to choose an AI that you like from There's An AI For That and build the equivalent in that language. There is a total lack of non-English AI tools and most of the demand is international.

Next best tip is to pick a super simple language generation use case (like "excuses generator") and fine-tune GPT-3 on 100 good examples on it. Most people are not bothering to fine-tune but it makes all the difference. Remember the Linkedin viral post generator? Something like that. You can use a free SEO tool like Ubersuggest to find niche ideas, and this way you'll keep getting SEO traffic once the initial buzz is over (I don't think search engines and SEO will die anytime soon).

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wfoody t1_jahpqpj wrote

Big fan of your site, great work!

Have you considered doing a best of or recommend section?

Maybe a top 3 tools for each category. The amount of tools for each section is getting out of control.

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PrecursorNL t1_jahs5zo wrote

Are there any AIs being developed that track your work as an artist and can imitate your work? Let me specify: say I'm working on a piece of music inside a DAW (digital audio workstation) and I'm clicking around adding sounds or editing etc, would there be an AI that could 'learn' the moves I do and then at some point be free to start doing some work? I'd love to see what it would come up with.. same for programs like Photoshop for instance. I think it could be really inspiring

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FandomMenace t1_jai78bw wrote

Can you point out some ai tools for music generation or perhaps music transcription (notation or midi)?

Please repost this in the other sub.

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squidsquidsquid t1_jahowp4 wrote

How do I keep AI out of my life as much as possible?

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