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AI as Glorified Photocopier

This morning when I was opening windows to try to cool a Minergie building that was designed for cold winters that no longer exist I had a thought. That thought was that AI is nothing but a glorified photocopier.

What I mean by this is that at the moment AI companies are buying tens of thousands, if not millions of books, removing the spine, scanning the books and then pulping the remains. In so doing Ai companies are hoovering enormous amounts of data and destroying books that could be donated to libraries, schools, universities and more.

That they do this with books is one thing, but it’s likely that they are doing this with other intellectual property, such as CDs, DVDs and more. Remember, everything has a “no unauthorised copying, lending” and more warning, and yet AI is doing this on an industrial scale.

Ai has no comprehension of a conversation, or anything else. If I say “I want to run to meet new people and it’s hard to choose which event will have more return on investment” AI will give coaching advice that has no link to what requires emotional intelligence, rather than guesswork.

Ai is not even guessing, it’s pattern recognition. If “this” then “that”, but without understanding what this, and that is.

I saw a headline or two that said that young people hate AI generated crap, and that it’s a turn off. I agree with them. There is a very simple reason for it. It’s formulaic, often kitsch, and more than anything else, it’s empty of depth. I see groups use AI to generate “What, when, where, why, how” posters and they all look the same.

No human is an island, but neither is. Everything is derivative of what has come before it but with AI it might be great at imitating an artist, but it will be a while before it generates its own. The Gimli situation is a key example. People like the style and asked AI to gimlify an image. It works well but it is disingenuous. It is a filter, rather than an artistic rendering. It has no creative process, but rather an algorithmic one.

When AI generates an image, or video it is rendering an image from hundreds, if not thens of thousands of images that it has ingested so it is “stealing” from hundreds of people at once. It took data, tokenised it, and then returns those tokens as a derivative “photocopy” of sorts.

Since AI is a probability engine it does not see, hear, or understand what is being asked to do, or what it is doing. If I say “Draw a duck riding a bike it finds ducks, and bikes, but it doesn’t look at Donald Duck comics for ducks riding bikes, and generate something realistic. That’s because it doesn’t imagine such a scene. It sees a human bike shape, and renders that, but it doesn’t render duck feet. It doesn’t render human hands or limbs well.

AI can’t even, or couldn’t, recognise typographic text, and that is very simple to see, for humans, but not so easy to reflect. That’s why handwriting training takes weeks, months, or even years, and why we start with pencils, before moving to pens.

In the case of AI plagiarising it is clear when the style for Gimli, Disney or others is copied, but with photorealistic images the challenge is greater because an AI generated photorealistic image might have used hundreds, or thousands of images to render so it is hard to determine copyright ownership.

One of the key issues with AI when used to generate photos, books, blog posts and more is that it floods the market with even more noise to filter through to get to read something new and interesting.

It might take 6 prompts to write a novel now and a few minutes but books take hours to read, so we’re generating in seconds something that takes hours to read. AI generating podcasts have no value, for humans, because they’re slow and time consuming to get through.

Anything generated by AI, in Europe needs to be labelled as such, in order for people to avoid it. It’s not about stigma, it’s about humanism.

Two decades ago we worried about content farms creating collections of blog posts to game search engines. Today the problem is amplified by AI because AI can generate blog posts, podcasts, books, images and more and saturate social networks automatically.

Linkedin allows people to flag AI content and more networks should do the same. Human generated content has value. AI generated content doesn’t.

As I have said before, if you use AI to generate content, then, with a similar premise I could generate the same content without using a middle person. That’s why AI should be used for processing big data, but not for generating content for human beings.

I want original content rather than the AI equivalent of an algorithmically altered photocopy.

Fascinating analysis of the #Korean stock market, #derivative blowups and how the #aibubble might look as it pops. #PatrickBoyle

The World's Best Stock Market Is Also Crashing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJtL9MBVj48

Issue 23 of #Fodongo should be here next week. In the meantime, enjoy this #derivative #comic by @jcolag

https://fodongo.ca/coll/LaRana/bonanza/bon_01_01.html

You should make your own La Rana comic or illustration too! You'll get a digital book if you do :) More info: https://fodongo.ca/coll/LaRana/bonanza/bonanza.html

#bonanza #zine #freeculture #larana

Measure And Derivative A Unified Approach by G.E. Shilov; B.L. Gurevich

This volume is intended as a textbook for students of
mathematics and physics, at the graduate or advanced
undergraduate level. It should also be intelligible to
readers with a good background in advanced calculus
and sufficient “mathematical maturity.”
The phrase “unified approach” in the title of the book
refers to the consistent use of the Daniell scheme, which
starts from the concept of an elementary integral defined
(axiomatically) on a family of elementary functions. In
the Introduction we explain in detail why we prefer
this approach to others, in particular to the Lebesgue-
Radon-Frechet approach, which starts from axiomatic
measure theory.

Revised English Edition
Translated and Edited by Richard A. Silverman

You can get the book here and here.

#1966 #derivative #higherMathematics #integral #lebesgueIntegral #LeviSTheorem #mathematics #measureTheory #physics #RiemannIntegral #sovietLiterature #StieltjesIntegral #theoryOfIntegral

#mastoprompt
#derivative
The finance team all said that to live
I should purchase a packaged deriv'tive
By just my blank stare
They guessed I don't care
And started to get quite combative.

The notation df/dx for the derivative was introduced by Leibniz in 1675. After 95 years, the notation f'(x) for the first derivative was used by Joseph Lagrange.

#mathematics #derivative #calculus

In the fall of 1972, when campaigning for a second term in office, 🇺🇸 U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing, which has been noted as "the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection."

This means that the "jerk (3rd derivative)" of the price level is negative.

Equivalently, the "jerk" of purchasing power is positive.

In other words, the "acceleration" of inflation is negative.

\[I(t)=\alpha^2\dfrac{\mathrm dP(t)}{\mathrm dt}=-\beta^2\dfrac{\mathrm d\Pi(t)}{\mathrm dt}>0\]

\[\dfrac{\mathrm dI(t)}{\mathrm dt}=\alpha^2\dfrac{\mathrm d^2P(t)}{\mathrm dt^2}=-\beta^2\dfrac{\mathrm d^2\Pi(t)}{\mathrm dt^2}>0\]
\[\dfrac{\mathrm d^2I(t)}{\mathrm dt^2}=\alpha^2\dfrac{\mathrm d^3P(t)}{\mathrm dt^3}=-\beta^2\dfrac{\mathrm d^3\Pi(t)}{\mathrm dt^3}<0\]

where, \(I(t)\), \(P(t)\), and \(\Pi(t)\) are inflation (rate), price level (function), and purchasing power of money (or simply value of money) at time \(t\) respectively. And \(\alpha^2\) and \(\beta^2\) are positive real constants.

Read an article here:
Mathematics Is an Edifice, Not a Toolbox
https://ams.org/notices/199610/page2.pdf

#US #USA #UShistory #USpresident #Nixon #RichardNixon #ThirdDerivative #Derivative #Economics #Economic #EconomicExample #Jerk #Acceleration #Inflation #Deflation #Price #PurchasingPower

My wife was working through finding the derivative of the #exponential #function #exp(x) from first principles.I was made aware that she hadn’t actually seen why the number e=2.7128… was the #base the of the function and that that’s what you need to start with. In fact, that means one must actually start by finding the first differential of a general #logarithm and find #e from there. Once you’ve find the #Derivative of #lln, the #derivative of the #ExponentialFunction is straightforward. (1/2)

One day, one decomposition
A099309: #Numbers n whose k-th arithmetic derivative is nonzero for all k. Complement of A099308

3D graph, threejs - webGL ➡️ https://decompwlj.com/3Dgraph/A099309.html
2D graph, first 500 terms ➡️ https://decompwlj.com/2Dgraph500terms/A099309.html

#decompwlj #maths #mathematics #OEIS #javascript #php #3D #numbers #arithmetic #derivative #nonzero #graph #threejs #webGL

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#starwars #Disney #meh #mid #scifi #boring #derivative #smirk #unhappy #meme #memes

Declining But Dominant: WBTC Maintains Market Lead Over BTCB, RBTC, LBTC, and Other Derivatives - The Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) protocol, initiated by Bitgo in 2019, holds the title o... - https://news.bitcoin.com/declining-but-dominant-wbtc-maintains-market-lead-over-btcb-rbtc-lbtc-and-other-derivatives/ #wrappedbitcoins #cryptocurrency #digitalassets #derivative #marketcap #altcoins #ethereum #/r/btc #crypto #bitgo #btcb #defi #lbtc #wbtc

The Calculus Grapher simulation allows students to explore, examine, and discover connections between the graphs of a function and its integral, first derivative, and second derivative.

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/calculus-grapher
#Derivative #Integral #math

Just released: Calculus Derivatives and Differentiation Cheat Sheet by CROSSANT

Download it free at http://www.cheatography.com/crossant/cheat-sheets/calculus-derivatives-and-differentiation/?utm_source=mastodon

Here's their description of it: Derivatives rules and common derivatives from Single-Variable Calculus. Most important rules/derivatives are bolded.

@cheatsheets #CheatSheet #CheatSheets #calculus #df #dx #derivative #dy

@CEDO One more reason to quickly draft legislation that would mandate public scrutiny of #AI training models before they are released.

This scrutiny would have to extend to the training data, in order to identify potential #copyright infringement and #derivative works.

Research is great, but public deployment should be a different matter.

@Br3nda
Perhaps once again we will see an election campaign that includes a third #derivative!

We haven’t seen that since Nixon in 1972!

If some certain sauce is an artistic work, it is going to be lost after a few hours after its creation. You say "Yummy!" and destroying a work.

Actually, just an original storage of the work would be lost, but not the very work. Every time a #saucier creates this #sauce again it is a #derivative work. It would be hard to determine the connection between a new sauce and an original, but this is just a technical problem, not #legal.

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#derivative : a word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change

- Italian: derivato

- Portuguese: derivada

- Spanish: derivado

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