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What are these videos supposed to do? I watched few of them and it does nothing for me? if it is targetting visual regions of brain and I have aphantasia (I cannot visualize anything in my mind) is that connected?
It's so cool that you have an MRI handy to check such things.
This is already happening at scale by the social media feed algorithms. We don't need generated content to accomplish this. In a sea of user created content, plenty of it is already at peak activation.
Optimizing for engagement is a categorically different goal than optimizing for lighting up a specific part of someone's brain.
The title reads a lot like the lab logs you'd find in a horror game. But for the paper itself, it seems they're using genetic optimization over predefined keywords. Wonder what would happen if they did gradient descent on the latent space directly. Is brain stimulation just not a good domain for GD?
The largest LLMs right now are at best 1% the number of parameters of a human brain.
"At best" if synapses are one parameter each, real ones are probably more than that, but nobody's entirely sure yet.
How can one work on that and not consider that they're pure evil?
This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms: - They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos. - But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect. - Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to…
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Am I the only one who is avoiding even clicking the link just in case?
It is like screen saver moving patterns or corridors with a strange field of view zooming effect. Nothing special compared to purpose made screen savers.
Half joking, half paranoid.
This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms: - They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos. - But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect. - Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to…
This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms: - They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos. - But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect. - Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to…
We have not yet seen* the kind of large-scale, individually targeted psychological manipulation that cloud AI products can deliver. And I have no doubt the likes of Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will show us, if we give them enough time.
* I suppose the GPT-4o sycophancy/AI psychosis crisis was a preview, but that was just blunt “engagement” tuning.
If future generations of researchers will wonder why IRB reviews became mandatory for computer science, studies like this will be the answer.
Seriously, some people don't seem to realize the point at which they are becoming Fritz Haber.