'What they can do, given that they’re trained on human language and designed to predict the most likely next word in a sequence, is brilliantly mimic human #consciousness. The risk, then, is not that machines might suffer, but that we might be fooled into thinking they can.

“There are hundreds of people who now have formed these attachment relations with #chatbots. They are treating them as conscious entities. I think that’s very dangerous. There are kids who come home from school, and before they tell their mom or dad what happened, they want to tell their Chatbot. Before we introduced machines that use the first person, I think we should have had a conversation, because that’s a huge step.”

The political context makes this #psychological minefield doubly perilous. “It will turn out to have been momentous that this technology has evolved during the reign of #DonaldTrump,” Pollan says. “He has essentially chosen not to #regulate it at all.”'

The #FoundationModels of AI (Transformer, LLM, call it whatever) are troublesome, not because they are deficient, but because they are endowed with #emergent behaviours that suddenly spring from 500-billion-plus trainable parameters and terabytes upon terabytes of human behavioural data. No human could grasp the aggregate meaning of that unanticipated, implicit, emergent behaviour. No human could divine the outcomes of their unforeseeable concoctions. Worse of all, all these models are inhered with biases and prejudices, both intentional and unintentional, that are embedded deep within these deep-learning models, whose untoward conducts are ever so subtle and complex as to be casually observable.

The invidious effects of these poorly-understood foundation models are insidious. By the time their detrimental behaviour becomes observable, it would be too late for society to countermand, for these models are already enmeshed within the social-political-economic fabric of the whole of humanity.

It is easy, for a lawyer like me, reflexively to shout, "#Regulate #AI". But in the present heady mix of delirium, confusion, delusion, and collusion, regulate exactly what and precisely how, pray tell.

Who will save society from AI?

Well, perhaps AI might....🤦‍♂️

Matrix multiplication is not inhered with empathy, conscience, judgement, elation, shame, and the like. Those are innately human characteristics, neither mechanical nor mathematical. Let us not surrender to the silicon-based machines the #ethical duty to be thinking, feeling carbon-based beings.

Just #clouds when I need to regulate - I look to the sky - take photos and the calm enters my body #audhd #regulate your own way #sky #photography

#regulate : to adjust by rule, method, or established mode

- French: règle

- German: regulieren

- Portuguese: regular

- Spanish: regula

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Recently, our #REGULATE team met in Schmitten (DE) for a writing retreat! We’re synthesizing insights on social-ecological groundwater regulation—exploring Patterns of Relation (POR) (everyday water practices) and Modes of Regulation (MOR) (norms, power, institutions) across case studies in Croatia, BiH, Germany, Spain & USA.
First manuscript draft: done! 🎉 Now refining for submission.
#WaterResearch #Telecoupling #SustainabilityScience #Groundwater

Sauer told justices the #tariffs are “regulatory tariffs.”

“They are not revenue-raising tariffs. The fact that they raise revenue is only incidental,” he said, arguing that #Trump was not exercising an authority to #tax but rather to #regulate foreign commerce.

But Trump has regularly touted the amount of money tariffs have purportedly brought in.

#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #economy

Vital #Taiwan market seeking upgrades
"GM of Gloria Tour, said some Taiwanese #tourists are concerned abt their children or family members visiting #Thailand bec of widespread consumption & misuse of #cannabis. Shi said 🇹🇭shld #regulate its cannabis consumption more properly & educate members of public.. also roll out campaigns & enforce #safety measures to deal w #scamcentre issue.. since 2-3 yrs ago, #Vietnam has become more popular w new products & cheaper prices than🇹🇭"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3113014/vital-taiwan-market-seeking-upgrades

#regulate : to adjust by rule, method, or established mode

- French: règle

- German: regulieren

- Portuguese: regular

- Spanish: regula

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What other crises before #governments ernestly #regulate #AI?🤦‍♂️

#AIpowered ‘nudify’ apps fuel deadly wave of blackmail
"Aft a Kentucky teen died by #suicide tis year, his parents discovered he'd received threaten'g texts demand'g $3000 to suppress an #AIgenerated nude #image of him.. Most of te sites rely on tech infrastructure fr #Google, #Amazon, & #Cloudflare to operate.. Save te #Children survey found tt 1in5 young people in Spain hv been #victims of #deepfake #nudes"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/3070616/ai-powered-nudify-apps-fuel-deadly-wave-of-blackmail

🌼#Flowers!🌼
Rong et al. describe how CYC2 genes synergistically #regulate the formation of #Asteraceae capitula, expanding our understanding of how duplicated #gene retention occurs during #plant #evolution.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13134
@WileyEcolEvol
#JSE #PlantSci #development #botany