[FRIAM] Charlie Stross keynote to 34th Chaos Communcation Congress

[Roger Critchlow]

>From ACM Tech Notes today, confirming Marcus' observation:

*How an AI 'Cat-and-Mouse Game' Generates Believable Fake Photos*


*The New York TimesCade Metz; Keith CollinsJanuary 2, 2018*

Researchers at NVIDIA say they have developed an artificial intelligence
(AI) system that analyzes thousands of celebrity photos, infers common
patterns, and generates new images that are closely similar. They note the
underlying idea of the project is to expedite and enhance the creation of
computer interfaces, games, and other media, eventually enabling software
to rapidly generate realistic imagery. The engineers set up two generative
adversarial networks--one to produce the images and another to ascertain
the images' authenticity. "The computer learns to generate these images by
playing a cat-and-mouse game against itself," says NVIDIA's Jaakko
Lehtinen. However, Tim Hwang with the Ethics and Governance of Artificial
Intelligence Fund sees a negative aspect to this form of technological
progress. "The concern is that these techniques will rise to the point
where it becomes very difficult to discern truth from falsity," he warns.
"You might believe that accelerates problems we already have."

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:53 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a fantastic idea.  I have transcripts of some EA Poe stories.  I
> could randomly pepper them with ", alexa, " and set the reader on repeat.
> Set the credit card budget to $100 and sporadically change the shipping
> address to a round robin of friends.  I suppose if you wanted to recreate
> the bubble-realities of facebook or twitter, you could just have the reader
> read a regularly scrolling set of web pages.  That would be a good way to
> inject a little disinfo into the personality profilers.  Hell, I should
> probably already be doing that with Google Search.  We could spice it up by
> having some queries go through FF, some through Chrome, some through lynx,
> and perhaps even keep a Tor browser up.  I have a couple of different
> versions of the Bible transcribed, too.  Maybe I could convince them I'm a
> Protestant!
>
> On 01/03/2018 08:41 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> > Hmm or what happens if it simply mis-hears something and thinks music or
> somerthing was talking to it? Does it ask somehing like Is that music
> playing? or Were you trying to talk to ask me something?
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
>
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