Tag: software studies
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Today we’re announcing the Summer of Protocols research grants. Check out the biographies of the 12 Core Researchers and 22 Affiliate Researchers. They will be working together over the summer… more ›
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Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training, millions or billions of parameters are updated to make the model better at tasks,… more ›
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Blockchain technology, an institutional innovation, has been a growing research area in recent years, especially within the information system literature. If it brings along opportunities for entrepreneurs, there is no… more ›
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Scientists, historians and economists have long studied the optimal conditions that create a Cambrian explosion of innovation. In generative AI, we have reached a modern marvel, our generation’s space race.… more ›
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On CivitAI, a site for sharing image generating AI models, users can browse thousands of models that can produce any kind of pornographic scenario they can dream of, trained on… more ›
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Prompt engineering has taken the generative AI world by storm. https://hbr.org/2023/06/ai-prompt-engineering-isnt-the-future 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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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 ›