Are Small Businesses Evil For Using Evil AI?
We’ve heard a lot about how new AI products are being foisted upon virtually every workplace. Doesn’t seem like it’s
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Nuclear Power Is Actually Not Bad. Microsoft is Bad.
Constellation just announced a deal that the generation utility will restart the surviving Three Mile Island reactor, which was shut down in 2019. That’s good news. The more complicated news is that Microsoft is buying all of that power for its data centers and artificial intelligence, both of which continue to consume staggering amounts of electricity– which they buy for far cheaper than what we peasants must pay.
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Midjourney Parameters: Style & Chaos In Speculative Urbanism
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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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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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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Automate: The Day The Robots Took Over
It was a robot party at Huntington Place last week. I got to see a lot of machines showing off.
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Midjourney: The Imagination of the Sane, the Insane, and the Unseen
Imagining a better light switch may well first require imagining a better outlet. Or not. We’ll see.
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A Smart Speaker With ChatGPT, or, The Alexa We Were Promised
The introduction of the Amazon Echo in 2014 promised to transform the domestic experience forever. It’s barely usable. Where is ChatGPT?
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ChatGPT Fabricated A Plausible, But Incorrect, Biography Of Me.
In December, science and mathematics journalist Charles Seife was disturbed to learn that he, according to OpenAI’s new natural language
Read MoreBook Review: Leading with AI and Analytics
Nat reviews a new book, Leading with AI and Analytics: Build Your Data Science IQ to Drive Business Value, by Eric Anderson and Florian Zettelmeyer of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.
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