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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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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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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Dreaming In Isometric: Variations on Midjourney Prompts
I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Midjourney, a generative AI platform that produces images based on text prompts (and
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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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Radiators Vs. Forced Air: Who Will Triumph In Efficiency?
A recent Twitter debate prompted me to think about whether we can’t come up with a better metric to compare the efficiencies of heating systems using radically different methods of thermal transfer. As you can probably guess, there is a better way– but it’s not easy to figure out.
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I asked Midjourney To Imagine The Ideal City. It Was… Weird.
Shortly after beginning my foray into the world of Midjourney AI, I came to a not terribly surprising revelation: A
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Can Utilities Be Held Financially Liable For Outages?
In the aftermath of recent power outages that saw as much as 20% of the population of the state of Michigan without power, this article outlines some ideas on what specific things we should be asking about or thinking about in trying to hold utilities accountable.
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