Tag: software studies
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Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it’s not your kid’s iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and you’re using PLATO. Far from its comparatively… more ›
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Computer science has a long history — going back to before there even was computer science — of implementing neural networks, but for the most part these have been simulations of neural… more ›
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And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One… more ›
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I’m sitting in frontof a computer, looking at its graphical user interface with overlapping windows on a high-resolution screen. I interact with the computer by pointing and clicking with a… more ›
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My section was “The Twitter Value Proposition”, and after admitting that yes, you can find out what people are eating for lunch on Twitter, I stated “The truth is you… more ›
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We’ll see thousands of kinds of AI driven businesses in the coming years doing things totally impossible with regular code. Expect to see musical hit generators, on the fly video… more ›
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A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They… more ›
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The Connected Standards Alliance and its members took to Amsterdam Thursday to showcase Matter, a newly-released universal smart home standard that promises to simplify the connected home. https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/matter-takes-shape-with-launches-from-amazon-samsung-and-more/ more ›
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But there is a reason we’ve taken a step back at Stability AI and chose not to release version 1.5 as quickly as we released earlier checkpoints. https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai more ›
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The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture — by blockbuster movies like “The Terminator” and their doomsday scenarios of machines going rogue and destroying… more ›