Tag: software studies

• The Great Fiction of AIThe strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fictionTwo Roads Diverged in a Tunnel, and I—I Printed Out a Semi-automated NovelUncanny NovelistsHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Author

  July 22, 2022

  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida,… more ›

• Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball

  July 20, 2022

  If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Let’s talk about the metaverse. https://www.theverge.com/23269170/what-is-the-metaverse-matthew-ball-interview-decoder-podcast more ›

• The DALL-Ery GALL-Ery • AI Artworks

  July 17, 2022

  The Ultimate guide to DALL·E 2: how to use it & how to get access Everything you might want to know about Open AI’s DALL•E 2, the revolutionary new AI… more ›

• More Artists Are Writing Songs in the Key of AI

  July 17, 2022

  Music written by teams, David Byrne once wrote, is arguably more accessible than that written by a sole composer. Collaborations, he mused, may result in more “universal” sentiments. But what… more ›

• The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

  July 16, 2022

  It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. t is one… more ›

• Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI

  July 10, 2022

  Building artificial intelligence (AI) that aligns with human values is an unsolved problem. Here we developed a human-in-the-loop research pipeline called Democratic AI, in which reinforcement learning is used to… more ›

• Why America Will Lose Semiconductors

  July 10, 2022

  The US has always been the world leader in semiconductors: design, manufacturing, and the tools to produce them. Semiconductors are the base of all technological innovation in computing and information… more ›

• European politicians duped into deepfake video calls with mayor of Kyiv

  June 26, 2022

  The mayors of several European capitals were duped into holding video calls with a deepfake of the Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, last week. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/european-leaders-deepfake-video-calls-mayor-of-kyiv-vitali-klitschko more ›

• China Targets Big Tech’s Algorithms as Crackdown Persists

  April 12, 2022

  China kicked off a formal campaign to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd., taking aim at the way social… more ›

• Reality Intrudes on a Utopian Crypto Vision

  March 10, 2022

  WASHINGTON — American CryptoFed is a new kind of company spawned by the advent of cryptocurrency — one that claims, in a way, not to be a company at all.… more ›