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Yeah, I had not looked into it but I assumed that CIA and american tech workers were most likely involved in some way. Once all is said and done I highly doubt that anyone is going to be held accountable unfortunately, even if the ICJ case gets traction after the war. It will probably be just like the American torture scandal from Iraq War days, with a few underlings getting prosecuted.

Have not checked this thread in a while, figure someone may already have commented on this, and also that this would fit just as easily in the artificial intelligence thread, but it is Mossad/IDF's artificial intelligence program(s) for target selection in Gaza. The name of the main program is named Lavender. There are two other programs, one is called Gospel and the other one has the sinister name 'Where's Daddy' (this one apparently used to target men and their families together in their home (to drop so-called 'dumb' or non-precision bombs, provided by biden admin on the homes of these ppl). I posted before of the Palestinian professor and poet Refaat Alareer, who was sheltering in a UN safe zone before leaving to stay with his family (he apparently knew that he had a target on his back and did not want to put anyone in the safe zone at risk). IDF bombed his sister's house, killing both of them and his sister's children I believe. Here is the article from +972 magazine: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ Both governments, Israel and America, have been asked on the record about this program. Not sure what Israel said, but I saw a clip of John Kirby at White House press conference say he would 'look into it' - did not confirm existence of this program. From reading the article, it sounds like the purpose was to analyze facial recognition and other identity markers of palestinians in gaza and then to rank hamas targets on a 0 to 100 scale of high ranking (must kill) to lower ranking. The point also seems to avoid engaging combatants or anyone directly on the battlefield, but to wait until they return to their residence so as to kill the whole family (I guess that in this way the IDF kills two birds with one stone: they kill as many people as possible while also making sure that the progeny of any hamas member or even non-combatant does not become radicalized and continue the fight against Israel). I am too ignorant on AI to understand how exactly these programs work, but it seems like it is just image recognition, location data, and processing power that are the key things, using all of these to develop kill lists and then determine where and when to strike so as to kill as many people as possible. The article is very long and contains an interview with the journalist who wrote it.

This arguably how it all started: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai I forget which of his documentaries it is, but Adam Curtis has a section on this guy and how he first tried the chatbot therapist on his secretary. She apparently asked him to leave the room after she got started so that she could talk more openly (to the computer).

No question. She is such a key character, though, and one of the things I really like about The Sopranos, how the social structure of the mafia is essentially matriarchal, despite all the male violence. Like when someone from Tony's crew really has contempt for another person from another crew, they call them a 'motherless fuck' Also that moment when Paulie hallucinates seeing the Virgin Mary at the Bing.

Although I have a lot of learning to do on this topic, I do not think that AI will ever be successful in becoming self-aware or intelligent in the same way that a real person is. What is called 'intelligence' in the current buzzword fascination of 'artificial intelligence' is really just some techbro's (or a cadre of the most influential and wealthy techbros), it is just some techbro's understanding of intelligence (and their ability to implement it through software with the aid of all kinds of other tools, I'd imagine mathematics plays a big part, for instance). What this software provides so far, from the samples I've listened to, it just sounds like decent canned music or muzak - in other words stale, sterile, cheap imitation. I really like the point you make about these issue, debates, and questions prompting people to reflect more on their taste and what they like about music instead of just passively listening. When it comes to Aphex or any of the big electronic acts, I agree that the innovation, story, and artist (and above all, maybe, their taste and technical mastery of both their instruments and the recording process) is what drives my fascination and appreciation for the music. Like when I listen to a song like this one below in headphones, I feel pretty confident that it might not even be possible for a machine to recreate, or even come close really, such music on its own. Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of the human ear and later of music have played a part in the decisions that were made to create even a short throwaway track like this. Even the peculiarity of how the synths are tuned, the rate and depth of the vibrato on the different voices, the mixing choices that led to a very interesting stereo spread that seems to move around during the duration of the track. Sure you can get some kind of cheap muzak imitation of this easy, but imo it will always pale in comparison to the thing itself, the human made music.

teh juice has died reportedly, cancer.

I tried using the app but in the search bar I called it a cunt and asked it to play some Aphex Acid. Error message came back saying my language was 'vulgar' and it could not process. Fuck you computer! What the heck! Just gonna listen to the human version instead

RIP Calvin LeBrun aka Mister Cee. Legendary DJ & Hip Hop producer for Biggie Smalls and Big Daddy Kane. August 17, 1966 - April 10, 2024.

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