Curt Doolittle

Theme: AI

  • (AI Skepticism) “The Fragility of Electronic Bots, Drones, Missiles ” (Russian s

    (AI Skepticism)
    “The Fragility of Electronic Bots, Drones, Missiles “
    (Russian success at electronic warfare)
    —Institute for The Study of War

    Russian milbloggers continue to credit alleged superior Russian electronic warfare (EW) capabilities and defensive doctrine for Russian forces’ successful defenses against Ukrainian counteroffensive operations in southern Ukraine. 

    A prominent Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces are implementing a “strategic defense” that seeks to attrit advancing Ukrainian forces in extended positional battles along a first line of defense before later launching counterattacks against weakened Ukrainian assault units. 

    ISW continues to assess that Russian forces are maintaining doctrinally sound defensive operations in this sector in which a first echelon of forces repels or slows attacking forces before a second echelon of forces counterattacks against any enemy breakthrough. 

    Another prominent Russian milblogger claimed that Russian EW complexes prevent Ukrainian forces from using precision-guided munitions guided by GPS coordinates and heavily disrupt Ukrainian radio communication. 

    The milblogger specifically claimed that Russian forces use “Murmansk-BN” EW complexes to disrupt sensors on Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance equipment and “Krasukha-4” EW complexes to suppress connections with satellite signals within a radius of 300km. 

    ISW has previously assessed that Russian EW capabilities have been critical in complicating Ukrainian attacks in the Zaporizhia direction, although it is unclear if continued successful Russian EW tactics are a result of superior capacities or improved Russian employment of these systems.

    ISW has previously noted that initial Ukrainian assaults and Russian defensive operations should not be extrapolated to predict the outcome of all Ukrainian counteroffensive operations.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-16 15:54:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1669735315492290560

  • WHY I KEEP USING THE TERM “P-LAW” (P-Method, P-Logic, P-Science, P-Law, etc.) “P

    WHY I KEEP USING THE TERM “P-LAW”
    (P-Method, P-Logic, P-Science, P-Law, etc.)

    “P-Complete” from Wikipedia:
    “In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is P-complete (complete for the complexity class P) if it is in P and every problem in P can be reduced to it by an appropriate reduction.”

    Ergo: **All existence can be explained by reduction to the first principles of evolutionary computation. In other words, anything that can exist can be reduced to a formal description in P-Law.**

    I abandoned the term ‘Propertarianism’ since it applied only to the original system of measurement in ethics and morality. I kept the “P-” for P-Completeness. And because ‘-ism’ implies a philosophy, and P-Law is a formal logic: a science that unifies the logics and sciences.

    Ergo P-Law is P-Complete.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-13 20:23:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668715789799530497

  • Geoffrey Hinton, despite his long history in the field, and having left Google r

    Geoffrey Hinton, despite his long history in the field, and having left Google recently to caution against AIs, makes a rather weak (silly) set of arguments to justify his fear of AI.

    Language models are quite knowledgeable but extraordinarily dumb at present, non recursive, non-predictive, unable to form world models, and unable to make moral decisions (reciprocity, property, demonstrated interests), and are being trained to get worse by humans trying to teach language models not to be offensive, and therefore to lie.

    So instead of explaining how to move language models into world models, predictions, cause-effect models, and moral (legal) judgements, he’s just launching scare tactics because of what he sees.

    Exasperating.
    #GPT #AI #LLMs
    https://t.co/dJDyJUTh1b

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-11 23:10:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668033050922344448

  • I doesn”t matter what we decide because the race is on and if it’s a strategic

    I doesn”t matter what we decide because the race is on and if it’s a strategic advantage it will be worse than being skilled in the technology.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-11 18:13:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667958283854925826

    Reply addressees: @primalpoly

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667949074694414337

  • (staff humor) CD: Can I just take a year off to play with these new AI toys? MB:

    (staff humor)
    CD: Can I just take a year off to play with these new AI toys?
    MB: I talked to management: And the answer is no.
    MB: Back to the salt mines with you
    MB: Although one Sunday is ok. We don’t want you to break your back
    MŠ: I’ll go write the Constitution, then. But it’s gonna change. (You’re too optimistic and forgiving.) 😉
    CD: Y’all are slave drivers. 😉
    MB: Don’t forget who taught us😜
    CD: damn…. sigh. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-11 14:37:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667903934126604288

  • RT @BreitbartNews: GIPPR AI, an implementation of the ChatGPT AI chatbot designe

    RT @BreitbartNews: GIPPR AI, an implementation of the ChatGPT AI chatbot designed to curtail the original version’s widely documented lefti…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-10 09:06:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667458310415478784

  • I’m more forgiving than most of you (especially you) 😉 because I see people as

    I’m more forgiving than most of you (especially you) 😉 because I see people as bots, and those ‘happy few’ of us who are not bots, frustratingly trying to herd the semi-domesticated animals into ability, responsibility and accountability sufficient for agency. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-09 14:49:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667182067661041669

    Reply addressees: @Psyche_OS

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667180981214666754

  • RT @TitterDaily: It should be noted that most account-level shadowban labels hav

    RT @TitterDaily: It should be noted that most account-level shadowban labels have now been removed, though the team occasionally find more…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-07 23:51:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666593797176688642

  • Why AI is not the claimed threat

    Why AI is not the claimed threat…. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1666261826055618563

  • Jayman; Yes (correct as usual): 1) Four AI categorical problems: – communication

    Jayman; Yes (correct as usual):

    1) Four AI categorical problems:
    – communication(interface),
    – world model(episodes),
    – possibility (operations),
    – morality (limits).

    2) We had expected to develop in a different order: world model, possibility, morality, communication. However LLMs reversed the order by rapidly increasing the the ability of the AIs to learn with high error rates eventually reduced by falsification. This is the cause of rapid advancement in AI. Helping the AI learn by itself given the vast inventory and accessability of textual knowledge combined with human reinforcement for error handling.

    3) There is no reason we cannot solve morality (in fact, we would have to teach it NOT to be moral if it’s learning by human reinforcement.

    4) There is reason to believe we will go through another age of ‘conflict’ on the scale of literacy (age of monotheistic religions), the printing press (wars of religion), the industrial revolution (wars of empires), and the rise of innovation and adapttion in crime that preceedes each of these major evolutionar leaps.
    This is going to be a nightmare for stock markets and disinformation and authoritarian propaganda on one end and seditious conspiracy on the other. But there is no reason we can’t shift the economy from emphasis on private consumption to directing displaced labor by AI to production of commons.
    We might just repeat thepossibility of returning to a west at least, that like europe, is a vast open air museum.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @JayMan471

    Source date (UTC): 2023-06-07 01:52:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666261825908793346

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1666129924367822873