Tag: ai
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A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power. The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history… more ›
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On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott’s voice, and labels are trying to kill it. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wdj7/inside-the-discord-where-thousands-of-rogue-producers-are-making-ai-music more ›
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The generative AI boom is compute-bound. It has the unique property that adding more compute directly results in a better product. Usually, R&D investment is more directly tied to how… more ›
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You might want to write these words off as mere figures of speech, but in a way that’s the point. What is a chatbot other than a figure — a mask, a… more ›
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The last post hereabouts was a doozy. “AI EEEEEE!!” was my somewhat feverish take on AI, and I am still working through feedback from the piece, most insistently from my… more ›
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Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere, large language models ingested truly staggering amounts of data to train their models. That training data didn’t emerge from the ether: Some of it… more ›
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As a computer scientist, I don’t like the term “A.I.” In fact, I think it’s misleading—maybe even a little dangerous. Everybody’s already using the term, and it might seem a… more ›
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Nita Farahany is a professor at Duke University School of Law and the author of “The Battle for Your Brain.” Her work focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications… more ›
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In 1894, a Boston-based astronomer named Percivel Lowell found intelligent life on Mars. Looking through a telescope from his private observatory he observed dark straight lines running across the Martian… more ›