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Automate: The Day The Robots Took Over

May 30, 2023May 26, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, artificial intelligence, automate, citizen robotics, cobo, cobot, ergonomic, ergonomics, factorio, fanuc, foxconn, foxconn iai, gotion, hong kong, luo yang, manufacturing, michigan, robots, shenzhen, warehouses, warehousing

It was a robot party at Huntington Place last week. I got to see a lot of machines showing off.

midjourney ai rendering of a light switch

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Midjourney: The Imagination of the Sane, the Insane, and the Unseen

May 23, 2023May 23, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, AI platforms, artificial intelligence, chatgpt, decorator switch, generalized artificial intelligence, generative AI, gpt, Leviton, leviton decora, light switches, midjourney, midjourney ai, midjourney parameters, midjourney prompts, prompt engineering, prompts

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

April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, ai training, amazon echo, artificial intelligence, chatgpt, echo, generative pretrained transformer, gpt, gpt4, machine learning, machine learning models, testing, validation

The introduction of the Amazon Echo in 2014 promised to transform the domestic experience forever. It’s barely usable. Where is ChatGPT?

midjourney ai rendering of a walkable neighborhood cityscape

Art & Design Artificial Intelligence

I asked Midjourney To Imagine The Ideal City. It Was… Weird.

April 7, 2023April 6, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments artificial intelligence, chatgpt, imagination, imagination of the city, midjourney, midjourney ai

Shortly after beginning my foray into the world of Midjourney AI, I came to a not terribly surprising revelation: A

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ChatGPT Fabricated A Plausible, But Incorrect, Biography Of Me.

March 19, 2023March 19, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, ai ethics, artificial intelligence, charles seife, chatgpt, ethics in ai, gpt, nlp, openai, science

In December, science and mathematics journalist Charles Seife was disturbed to learn that he, according to OpenAI’s new natural language

Urban Planning Mobility

Book Review – Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

February 4, 2021February 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, anthony townsend, ArgoAI, artificial intelligence, Autonomous, autonomous vehicles, AV, AV tech, AVs, BRT, car culture, cars, connected cities, connected vehicles, cruise automation, distribution, driving, Ford, fulfillment, fulfillment centers, GM, infrastructure, infrastructure deficit, infrastructure spending, integrated, jeff bezos, jeff bezos skull keg party, lidar, machine learning, microsprawl, public transit, self-driving, self-driving car, self-driving cars, smart cities, smart city, tech bro, tech bros, transit, trucks

Can autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.

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Book Review: Leading with AI and Analytics

January 5, 2021January 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, AI & analytics, AIA, analytics, artificial intelligence, b-school, business analytics, business intelligence, Business School, Data Science, Data Science IQ, data scientist, decision tree, decision trees, DSIQ, eric anderson, florian zettelmeyer, gradient boosting, kellogg, kellogg school, kellogg school of management, machine learning, management theory, MBA, multiple regression, neural network, northwestern, northwestern university, OLAP, OLTP, predictive analytics, qualitative, quantitative, R, random forest, regression, SQL, statistics, XGBoost, zettelmeyer

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.