Imagining cities and their infrastructure using artificial intelligence, and playing around with some of the weirder parameters in Midjourney to see what we can squeeze out of the generative AI platform.
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For one of the first times ever, the state’s road agency is proposing narrowing a major arterial street and producing a dedicated bus lane. Sort of.
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The F-150 Electric is a heavier, faster version of the F-150 Acoustic. Will this sell with the F-150 loyalists because of this? Or, will it alienate car buyers who are looking for something different in an EV?
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Is it that big a deal to rename a multi-billion dollar brand? Most experts say yes. Why’s he doing it, then? It probably goes beyond a brief history of the use of the letter ‘x’ in brand development. But why not learn about this weird letter?
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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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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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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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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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News came out this week about a lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. The company is being sued by
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It was a robot party at Huntington Place last week. I got to see a lot of machines showing off.
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