How To Know If AI Is Sentient, Neuroscientists Provide a Checklist

In 2021, Blake Lemoine at Google stirred up a media storm by proclaiming that one of the chatbots he worked on, LaMDA, was sentient—and he subsequently got fired. In fact, most deep learning models are loosely based on the brain’s inner workings. AI agents are increasingly endowed with human-like decision-making algorithms. The idea that machine intelligence could …

$23M Royalties Scam On Youtube – Tip of The Iceberg – Reveals Voluntary Blindness

On Youtube, just about anyone can claim copyright in just about any video for the purpose of monetizing, regardless of whether they own a fragment of a copyright or not. You will only hear about it when someone gets too greedy (in the range of $23M) after claiming over 50,000 copyrights, buying a series of …

Metaverse Fashion Week 2022 and What on Earth Are NFTs?

The Jonathan Simkhai Online Store features both virtual and regular designs. My last post on the metaverse turned into a 3000 word paper, but we only covered part of the foundation of the metaverse. I\’ll take the opportunity in this post to discuss non fungible tokens (NFT). Take a deep breath. We saw that the …