Plenty of AI related entries in Nature this week (8 June 2023):
- Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and videos (until they cannot spot them)
- AI intensifies fight against paper mills (as a further hindrance rather than an ally)
- AI learns to write sorting software on its own, through deep learning (DeepMind’s AlphaCode) for program synthesis with no training data. At a huge learning cost (31 trillion programs were tested for AlphaDev-S!). This is not a new sorting algorithm but rather a more efficient way of programming it.
- an outlier with the Golden jubilee for the Black-Scholes equation (not placing any blame on said formula for the 2008 crash) or for the emergence of disconnected-from-economics high-frequency trading)
- people, not (Google search) algorithms, choose to engage with more partisan news (as the Deep State has not yet managed to infiltrate vaccines with nano chips…!)
- how to code with ChatGPT (with the stupid line that “the tools are not as intelligent as they seem”! Well they are not at all intelligent, just produce random code with Markovian memory, deserving the sobriquet of stochastic parrots and being helped by the fact that most codes available on-line and hence in their learning database is correct)