Tag: software studies
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There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. And there is also deserved concern about such technologies’ material impact on jobs. But… more ›
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Is it possible to free ourselves from automation? The idea sounds fanciful, if not outright absurd. Industrial and technological development have reached a planetary level, and automation, as the general… more ›
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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 ›