Tag: AI
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Slate: Professors Fighting AI Essays
In an article that comes across like a sci-fi short story written in the style of an essay Nikki Usher a professor worried about the potential impacts of generative AI on education reflects on the experience of encountering a paper ‘written’ by an AI. Professors Are Grappling With an Excruciating Assignment
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Oliver Bateman: GPT-4 Couldn’t Resurrect My Dad
“The article tells the story of a man who, after his father’s death, turned to GPT-4, an advanced language model, to analyze his father’s thousands of emails and try to generate new ones in his father’s voice.” So starts the ChatGPT summary of an article by Oliver Bateman, a digital pal of mine, who did…
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Rick Beato Talks About How AI Will Impact Music
I am not a musician. I am however fascinated by generative AI as a technology, and by the way it will impact the economy. I don’t believe a super intelligent AI will end humanity, I think dumb AI will create havoc. Rick Beato broke down how AI, with impressive, but hardly godlike systems is already…
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Rolling Stone: Why Striking Hollywood Writers Fear an AI Future
For Rolling Stone Miles Klee & Krystie Lee Yandoli have the best writeup I’ve seen to date on the AI aspect of the Writers Guild of America strike. Why Striking Hollywood Writers Fear an AI Future
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Learn To Prompt, Google’s AI Can Code
Google gives Bard the ability to generate and debug code
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Italy Is Not Killing ChatGPT
Italy temporarily banned ChatGPT following a data breach on March 20th. According to OpenAI, the breach allowed some users to view information of other users, including name, email address, and the last four digits of some credit card numbers. Now ChatGPT can come back with some rules. If you listen to tech bros, Italy is…
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Yes ChatGPT Lies
I’ve published well over 5,000 words about ChatGPT getting things wrong. In one article ChatGPT gave me the wrong date and title for a blog post about a Neil Gaiman novel. I know it’s wrong because Gaiman responded to me with a link to the correct post. In another article I wrote about ChatGPT source…
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AI Is Answering HARO Queries
It’s me, the AI will wreck online search guy, and this story by Julia Pugachevsky for Insider is the boldest and most BS use of AI for marketing I’ve ever seen. The AI responded to a help a reporter out query, faked being a cancer survivor and asked for links from the publication. I interviewed…
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TikTok, Drugs, Congress, and Monopoly
Very few accusations are unique to TikTok. But, to the extent that members of congress know about data brokers, I assume they feel the U.S. data brokers’ selling lists of all the closeted gay people, with cancer, taking anti depressants in Kentucky are good and clean. But first party data collection by the Chinese Communist…
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AI Will Break Online Search
AI is going to give super powers to Blackhat SEO, breaking online search as we know it. RIP magic box at the top of the browser where we all reflexively type “how to [blank]”, “[blank] near me”, “best [blank] Reddit”, and anything else we seek a semi-reliable answer to at any given moment. Online search…
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Human-AI Interaction Is A Partnership Based on Blind Trust
People express a lot of fear when it comes to AI. Some worry AI will grow superhuman and kill us all. Others are concerned that AI lead automation will displace over 100 million workers and devastate the economy. Honestly, either may happen because the simple truth of AI is that when machines learn, humans lose control. Currently, self-learning AI…
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Apocalyptic Myths And The Horrible Reality Of AI
A mythology of artificial super intelligence has dominated the conversation about AI since the 80s. Constant media coverage of AI as if it’s a dark and threatening abyss likely to usher in an apocalypse is impacting how AI is developed, clouding the discourse when people bring up real flaws in the current generation of AIs.
