The past couple of years have been fueled entirely by vibes. Awash with nonsensical predictions and messianic claims that AI has come to deliver us from our tortured existence. Starting shortly after the launch of ChatGPT, internet prophets have claimed that we are merely six months away from major impacts and accompanying unemployment. GPT-5 was …
We are continually inundated with examples of silly errors and hallucinations from generative AI. At this point, it’s no secret to anyone on the planet that these systems fail, sometimes at rather high rates. These systems also have a tendency to make stuff up, which isn’t a good look when that data is used for …
I’ve been considering a frightening prospect. What if the next generation is known as The Slop Generation? A generation unaccustomed to the world before the inception of AI-generated slop. Despite successes or failures with generative AI, it seems the AI-generated cat is out of the slop bag with the power to warp artistic expressions and …
You might wonder why AI companies are working on seemingly simple and unimportant advancements in AI when there are much more significant problems to solve. Why would companies trying to create AGI get sidetracked by focusing on potentially already-solved problems? A couple of examples are OpenAI’s voice cloning, Google’s VLOGGER, and Microsoft’s VASA-1.This research, for …
Seems everything is clickbait these days. News sources are struggling for the scarce resource of attention. In this environment, a simple task becomes a revolution, and a mundane story gets a new life as a groundbreaking advancement. These titles and the resulting amplification by AI hustle bros provide fuel for the AI hype train, which …
In case you may have missed it on my social media, I made a few podcast appearances in the last month. I’ve been chatting with people about large language models, security, and the associated hype. The Perfect Storm I was on episode #39 the Perfect Storm Podcast talking about large language models and security issues, …
Chatbots have become the Bitcoin of 2023, but unlike the previous cryptocurrency craze, this feels like everyone is on board. Regardless of your professional background and expertise, it seems everyone is all in on chatbots. While we can debate the technical merits, capabilities, and future of these tools ad infinitum, one thing is for sure, …
Today, I wanted to write a quick post about something I continue seeing and getting asked about. Earlier this week, I was quoted on Dark Reading that I agreed with the NCSC that cybersecurity threats from ChatGPT were overhyped. So I get asked, if ChatGPT won’t supercharge attackers, then why do I keep seeing article …
On Valentines Day this year, I commented about the current AI boom and the paperclip maximizer, but I feel this topic deserves a bit more explanation. With all of the hype and mobilization caused by the ChatGPT demo, the warning about AI alignment is missing from news coverage and conversation. We are getting a preview …
Whether we want them or not, chatbots are coming to search engines. Google announced Bard and Microsoft implemented ChatGPT style integration with GPT-4 from OpenAI in Bing. Well, at least people are talking about Bing again, which hasn’t been mentioned in a conversation since its launch. All jokes aside, this begs the question, is search …