Yes, We Still Have To Talk About Elon Musk’s Media Relations Response.
Twitter’s media relations team has been dissolved and replaced by a bot that sends out a poop emoji to inquiring journalists.
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
Prose Rife With Burstiness & Perplexity: AI & Its Jargon
Artificial intelligence models can generate outputs we can understand from conversational input. But how does an AI narc on itself? We look at a couple of the rationales for why one author says that an AI detector “thought” that the US Constitution and the Book of Genesis were almost certainly written by AI– and unpack some more details about the mysterious innerds of the model.
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Green Stormwater Infrastructure Is A Win For Everyone
Gather round, children, for Handbuilt story hour. A few years ago at the Michigan Transportation Bonanza, an all-day forum in
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How ChatGPT Saved Me While Traveling
Hiking up an Icelandic glacier is already pretty daunting, but it can be made a bit less daunting with an AI assistant. It can’t help you climb, but it can explain some missing puzzle pieces.
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Two Things Making The Internet Unusable In 2023
The tech sector is trying to both expand the use of artificial intelligence while clinging on to the dying days of an epic business cycle. Both are contributing to making the internet, IoT, and any consumer product even remotely connected to the internet, increasingly unusable, increasingly resource-intensive, and increasingly frustrating.
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TED Countdown Detroit: Sustainability’s Problem With Elitism and Respectability Politics
Al Gore, McKinsey alums, and half of the Ivy League descends on Detroit this week to tell the peasants about sustainability and decarbonization. Just kidding, it’s a for-profit, invite-only event that costs $4,000– no peasants will be invited.
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“The Old And The Wealthy Will Help Us Grow The State!” – Gretchen Whitmer
The Governor’s office released its list of members of a new state board aimed at reversing population loss in the MItten. The board is generally very wealthy and very old.
Read MoreWhat My First Music Festival Taught Me About Substance Abuse In America.
In June, I attended Electric Forest, a several-days-long marathon of electronic music in northwest Michigan. While I’d attach some caveats
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Unpacking AI Training Biases in Midjourney
Artificial intelligence can produce imagery of whatever you ask it for. The question is: How accurate is the AI’s interpretation? In some cases, it sounds like it’s based more on the prejudices and stereotypes held by the people who design and train the model. That’s a big problem.
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OpenAI Lawsuit: A Dubious Argument On A Monumentally Complex Question
News came out this week about a lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. The company is being sued by
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