Cinema virtual

A IA está a evoluir mais depressa do que se previa. Não vale a pena demonizá-la. Veio para ficar. Vai eliminar muitos postos de trabalho, e criar muitos outros. Sem a IA, a Ucrânia já teria sido esmagada pelos psicopatas russos de Moscovo. Uma das empresas que tem ajudado os ucranianos a combater os navios de guerra, aviões, ninhos de artilharia e infantaria da Rússia, chama-se Palantir. É norte americana. O seu co-fundador e CEO é um judeu americano chamado Alexander Caedmon Karp.

AI Can Now Replace Any Actor In A Film
Jim Clyde Monge
Jan 22, 2025

Lights, camera... algorithm?

The silver screen is no longer the exclusive domain of flesh-and-blood actors, all thanks to the recent advancements in AI. Nowadays, it’s remarkably easy to generate videos where actors do or say things they never did or take a film clip and replace the actor’s face with someone else’s.

Tencent’s open-source AI video generator, Hunyuan, has just integrated Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) support. With LoRA, you can train custom styles, characters, and movements, making your AI videos unique and personalised.

Hunyuan was launched in December 2024 and quickly impressed the AI community with its 95.7% visual quality score, outperforming many of its competitors. Now, with LORA integration, it’s even more powerful. This free, open-source AI video generator packs the punch of pricey options like OpenAI’s Sora, which can cost you as much as $200 per month.

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Democracy Maps

My future global human society model is Democracy Maps. It is a new hybrid reality built by social humans assisted by AI.

Given the United States' authoritarian drift, Europe must think quickly about developing its autonomy in cyberspace. The USA will have its own Internet, China already has its own, and Europe must create a proprietary one with original algorithms, namely developing European-based social networks and a European AI (EAI), with its ethics and culture different, as we know, from the American and Chinese ones.

As the joke goes, if China cuts off water to Macau, Macau must cut off water to China. 

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Recently published (Tue 18 Feb 2025)

Uma nova singularidade a caminho?

When A.I. Passes This Test, Look Out
By Kevin Roose
Reporting from San Francisco
The New York Times

Jan. 23, 2025

If you’re looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans in the world are struggling to create tests that A.I. systems can’t pass.

For years, A.I. systems were measured by giving new models a variety of standardized benchmark tests. Many of these tests consisted of challenging, S.A.T.-caliber problems in areas like math, science and logic. Comparing the models’ scores over time served as a rough measure of A.I. progress.

But A.I. systems eventually got too good at those tests, so new, harder tests were created — often with the types of questions graduate students might encounter on their exams.

Those tests aren’t in good shape, either. New models from companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have been getting high scores on many Ph.D.-level challenges, limiting those tests’ usefulness and leading to a chilling question: Are A.I. systems getting too smart for us to measure?

A IA avança rapidamente. Em breve estaremos a discutir a transição dos atuais modelos de governança e representação democráticas para novos regimes constitucionais onde a IA iluminará pela via cognitiva os tradicionais poderes Legislativo, Judicial e Executivo, assim designados por Montesquieu no século XVIII.

DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organization) é uma das experiências de governança democrática descentralizada em curso, a qual assenta no paradigma blockchain. Entretanto, surgiram conceitos novos para designar possíveis futuros no domínio das organizações, como ALGOCRACIA e CIBEROCRACIA. 

Eu próprio avancei uma ideia-modelo assente nos atuais e universalmente disponíveis ciber-poderes (redes computacionais, bases de dados online, redes sociais, blockchain, data-mining, etc.) a que chamei DEMOCRACY MAPS (October, 2012). Estes mapas de democracia dariam forma e representação a todos os paradigmas, sistemas e organizações do poder humano (sexual, social, económico, cultural e bélico), por forma a que os processos de decisão individual e coletivo pudessem dar um salto de singularidade na espécie humana assistida pelas máquinas materiais e imateriais por si criadas.

Vale a pena ir conhecendo este novo mundo...