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Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 10 - 10) Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic "model collapse".
But how realistic are these predictions? And what is model collapse anyway? Discussed in 2023, but popularised more recently, "model collapse" refers to a hypothetical scenario where future AI systems get progressively dumber due to the increase of AI-generated data on the internet. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 10 - 10) When a research team led by Amrit Kirpalani, a medical educator at Western University in Ontario, Canada, evaluated ChatGPT’s performance in diagnosing medical cases back in August 2024, one of the things that surprised them was the AI’s propensity to give well-structured, eloquent but blatantly wrong answers. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 10 - 10) OpenAI announced this week that it has raised $6.6 billion in new funding and that the company is now valued at $157 billion overall. This is quite a feat for an organization that reportedly burns through $7 billion a year-far more cash than it brings in-but it makes sense when you realize that OpenAI’s primary product isn’t technology. It’s stories. |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 29) "In his recent blog post, Altman paints a transformative picture of the future with superintelligent AI at its core. As we enter what he terms the "Intelligence Age," the impact on education is imminent.
Altman seems confident in his writing that recent developments are ushering in a era of "unprecedented prosperity and progress." In order to prepare students for success in this new era, we may need to rethink current educational approaches." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 29) "STOCKHOLM/SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - In the early years, getting AI models like ChatGPT or its rival Cohere to spit out human-like responses required vast teams of low-cost workers helping models distinguish basic facts such as if an image was of a car or a carrot.
But more sophisticated updates to AI models in the fiercely competitive arena are now demanding a rapidly expanding network of human trainers who have specialized knowledge -- from historians to scientists, some with doctorate degrees. "A year ago, we could get away with hiring undergraduates, to just generally teach AI on how to improve," said Cohere co-founder Ivan Zhang, talking about its internal human trainers. "Now we have licensed physicians teaching the models how to behave in medical environments, or financial analysts or accountants."" | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "OpenAI launched with a famously altruistic mission: to help humanity by developing artificial general intelligence. But along the way, it became one of the best-funded companies in Silicon Valley. Now, the tension between those two facts is coming to a head.
Weeks after releasing a new model it claims can "reason," OpenAI is barreling toward dropping its nonprofit status, some of its most senior employees are leaving, and CEO Sam Altman -- who was once briefly ousted over apparent trust concerns -- is solidifying his position as one of the most powerful people in tech." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang contends that AI's benefits for the power grid and society ultimately will offset its massive energy suck.
Why it matters: AI's rise is fueling fears in the power sector and the climate community about grid reliability and meeting greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "As the company looks for more outside investors, documents reviewed by The New York Times show consumer fascination with ChatGPT and a serious need for more cash. ... OpenAI, the San Francisco start-up behind ChatGPT, has been telling investors that it is making billions from its chatbot and that it expects to make a lot more in the coming years. But it has not been quite so clear about how much it is losing." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "ChatGPT has been met with both anxiety and a sense of optimism. While there has been a lot of discussion about what is happening in universities, there has been less attention given to schools.
We have been looking at trials of AI in schools in South Australia. Here’s what we found." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "The university sector in Aotearoa New Zealand is at a tipping point due to chronic underfunding, shifting enrolments and increasing costs from inflation. In response, the government has established two working groups to assess the health of the sector and provide recommendations for the future.
Meanwhile, universities find themselves increasingly beholden to the education technology (EdTech) industry, which claims to improve student learning by selling hardware and software - often built with artificial intelligence (AI)." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "A new kind of literary curation will be the defining skill for the next era of human creativity." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "Meta has big ambitions for using AI to help creators, and it showed two impressive demos of what that could look like onstage at Connect today."
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Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "Big tech has led to a sudden surge in U.S. electricity demand for data centers needed to expand technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Nuclear energy, which is nearly carbon-free and broadly considered more reliable than energy sources like solar and wind, has become a popular option for technology companies with uninterrupted power needs and climate pledges.
'Nuclear plants are the only energy sources that can consistently deliver on that promise,' Constellation Chief Executive Officer Joe Dominguez said in a statement. " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "Have you noticed certain words and phrases popping up everywhere lately?
Phrases such as "delve into" and "navigate the landscape" seem to feature in everything from social media posts to news articles and academic publications. They may sound fancy, but their overuse can make a text feel monotonous and repetitive." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "If these companies were one country, their actual emissions would rank them as the 33rd biggest emitter in the world." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "In the near future, I want you to learn how to ride this new horse of artificial intelligence (AI) rather than be left behind with the old one. Let me explain the revolutionary changes approaching our lives. "
[Pullman would add that the car also transformed landscapes -- highways and suburbs -- and helped foster racism, classism, and colonialism] | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "If you care about the environment, think twice about using AI. Generative artificial intelligence uses 30 times more energy than a traditional search engine, warns researcher Sasha Luccioni, on a mission to raise awareness about the environmental impact of the hot new technology." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 28) "Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly sophisticated. In a thought-provoking paper published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Thomas Fuchs argues that true understanding and empathy require the subjectivity that is inherent to living beings, cautioning against the blurring lines between real and simulated interactions.
A robot may be able to engage in conversation that mirrors one's emotions and respond with uncanny human-like behavior, but it's just that-it's almost natural." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 26) "OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned series of "reasoning" models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can. It's being released alongside o1-mini, a smaller, cheaper version. " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 26) "Mira Murati, the chief technology officer, and two others are leaving as leaders including Sam Altman work to transform the start-up." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 26) "Microsoft is launching a new feature called "correction" that builds on the company's efforts to combat AI inaccuracies. Customers using Microsoft Azure to power their AI systems can now use the capability to automatically detect and rewrite incorrect content in AI outputs." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 26) "Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 26) "Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 26) "OpenAI's new model, called o1, appears to think and ponder as you use it. But is it thinking? Or pondering? And what does it mean if it is? Would that make it worth the risks, which appear to be both greater and more plausible than ever? How do you balance the risks of destroying humanity with the possibility of improving it? This is the thing about talking about artificial intelligence: it has this nasty penchant of getting all existential on you." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 24) "Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs's head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn't need "typically ends badly."" | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 24) "On The Vergecast: Steven Johnson tells us about NotebookLM, the AI-assisted future of learning, and how to teach an AI bot to tell the truth." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 24) "I've had a glimpse of how AI will change the world, and it’s filling me with both fear and wonder in equal measure.
The source of my consternation is Google NotebookLM. NotebookLM takes an article, blog post, or web page, and with just one click produces an audio file of a conversation between two people about it that sounds so natural and realistic that there is no way you’d believe you weren't listening to two real people talking." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 24) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 24) "What tech companies have claimed so far about the energy costs of building enormous AI models may have been incredibly misleading. Or, depending on your perspective, they lied to you.
The Guardian reports that the actual emissions made by data centers owned by AI leaders including Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple, are about 662 percent higher than what they've officially reported." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 19) "Unlike previous models that are well suited for language tasks like writing and editing, OpenAI o1 is focused on multistep "reasoning," the type of process required for advanced mathematics, coding, or other STEM-based questions. It uses a "chain of thought" technique, according to OpenAI. "It learns to recognize and correct its mistakes. It learns to break down tricky steps into simpler ones. It learns to try a different approach when the current one isn't working," the company wrote in a blog post on its website." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 19) "We are still largely in the dark about how these things work-and "we" includes the developers of such tools. OpenAI has said this ability to reason is a big thing - the company has even trotted out a questionable claim that o1 is its most dangerous model yet (see here for how that's sometimes more marketing spiel than anything). Those who have tried probing the limits of the o1 model seem to agree with their point about the reasoning, but less so with the danger part." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) ..."The thing about the false endorsement to which she's responding, though, is that it probably didn't need to be refuted. " |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) "Students should avoid ChatGPT because learning to write is learning to think." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) "More than 4,000 artists have called on the government to create a levy on smartphone sales to fund visual art in the face of cuts, studio closures and the rise of generative AI." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) "For several hours a week, I write for a technology company worth billions of dollars. Alongside me are published novelists, rising academics and several other freelance journalists. The workload is flexible, the pay better than we are used to, and the assignments never run out. But what we write will never be read by anyone outside the company.
That's because we aren't even writing for people. We are writing for an AI." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) "An online writing community was set aflame this week after National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, said it wouldn’t take a stance on the use of A.I." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) "Companies are "struggling" to find value in the generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) projects they have undertaken and one-third of initiatives will end up getting abandoned, according to a recent report by analyst Gartner." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) "Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic "model collapse".
But how realistic are these predictions? And what is model collapse anyway? Discussed in 2023, but popularised more recently, "model collapse" refers to a hypothetical scenario where future AI systems get progressively dumber due to the increase of AI-generated data on the internet." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 12) "A mere week after ChatGPT appeared in November 2022, The Atlantic declared that "The College Essay Is Dead." Two school years later, Jensen is done with mourning and ready to move on. The tall, affable English professor co-runs a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project on generative-AI literacy for humanities instructors, and he has been incorporating large language models into ASU's English courses. Jensen is one of a new breed of faculty who want to embrace generative AI even as they also seek to control its temptations. He believes strongly in the value of traditional writing but also in the potential of AI to facilitate education in a new way-in ASU's case, one that improves access to higher education." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 03) "The experience at Alorica — and at other companies, including furniture retailer IKEA — suggests that AI may not prove to be the job killer that many people fear. Instead, the technology might turn out to be more like breakthroughs of the past — the steam engine, electricity, the Internet: That is, eliminate some jobs while creating others. And probably making workers more productive in general, to the eventual benefit of themselves, their employers and the economy." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 09 - 03) "A third group of students had access to a revised version of ChatGPT that functioned more like a tutor. This chatbot was programmed to provide hints without directly divulging the answer. The students who used it did spectacularly better on the practice problems, solving 127% more of them correctly compared with students who did their practice work without any high-tech aids. But on a test afterwards, these AI-tutored students did no better. Students who just did their practice problems the old fashioned way --on their own — matched their test scores." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) "Make no mistake: she still thinks understanding how to write software is a useful skill. But learning how to think about problems and ask the right questions might be better preparation for a tech career in the future, Bailey suggested: "It's becoming much, much more a scenario where this magic is kind of happening in the margins between computer science and some other disciplines."" | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) " "The bill, which has been a flashpoint for debate in Silicon Valley and beyond, would obligate AI companies operating in California to implement a number of precautions before they train a sophisticated foundation model. Those include making it possible to quickly and fully shut the model down, ensuring the model is protected against "unsafe post-training modifications," and maintaining a testing procedure to evaluate whether a model or its derivatives is especially at risk of “causing or enabling a critical harm." " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) "Listen as Ms. Sittenfeld sits down with the Opinion editor Susannah Meadows to talk about what they learned after pitting her writing against artificial intelligence, and hear excerpts from both stories to decide for yourself which is the more compelling read." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) "Researchers are using cutting-edge AI models to "read" ancient scrolls superheated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, which covered much of the Bay of Naples in ash--including the now-famous towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Though the work to decode the scrolls began centuries before the artificial intelligence revolution emerged, myriad new technologies are making that work easier and faster than ever before." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) "Cursor is part development environment, part AI chatbot and unlike tools like GitHub Copilot it can more or less do all of the work for you, transforming a simple idea into functional code in minutes." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) Generative AI models aren't actually humanlike. They have no intelligence or personality -- they're simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence. But like interns at a tyrannical workplace, they do follow instructions without complaint -- including initial "system prompts" that prime the models with their basic qualities and what they should and shouldn't do.
Every generative AI vendor, from OpenAI to Anthropic, uses system prompts to prevent (or at least try to prevent) models from behaving badly, and to steer the general tone and sentiment of the models' replies. For instance, a prompt might tell a model it should be polite but never apologetic, or to be honest about the fact that it can’t know everything. |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) "Fast forward almost two years and we must ask—has AI lived up to expectations?
According to a report by the U.S. Census Bureau, there are some indications that AI may not be the game-changer it was promised to be. Let's explore five key takeaways from the report and what leaders like you can do to be more strategic about AI adoption." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) Generative artificial intelligence has no role in the walled garden of teaching a student how to write. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 31) "There's no better way to build an audience than writing online. Creating the habit of showing up and hitting publish will serve you well for everything in your professional future. But there’s a wrong way to produce. Without studying the data and learning how to improve, your words won't hit the mark. Don't get stale. Don't let people switch off. Take your online writing to a whole new level and be forever proud of everything you share." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 15) "Comedians are increasingly experimenting with the technology to write scripts and brainstorm ideas, including Anesti Danelis. Earlier this year, the Canadian asked popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to write him a show." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 15) "In today's column, I continue my ongoing analysis of the latest advances and breakthroughs in AI, see my extensive posted coverage at the link here, and focus in this discussion on the challenges associated with various forms of reasoning that are mathematically and computationally undertaken via modern-day generative AI and large language models (LLM). Specifically, I will do a deep dive into inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 15) AMSTERDAM, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Dutch-based copyright enforcement group BREIN has taken down a large language dataset that was being offered for use in training AI models, the organization said on Tuesday.
The dataset included information collected without permission from tens of thousands of books, news sites, and Dutch language subtitles harvested from "countless" films and TV series, BREIN said in a statement. |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 15) "This paper investigates the potential of ChatGPT for helping humans tackle problems that require creativity. Across five experiments, we asked participants to use ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) to generate creative ideas for various everyday and innovation-related problems, including choosing a creative gift for a teenager, making a toy, repurposing unused items and designing an innovative dining table. We found that using ChatGPT increased the creativity of the generated ideas compared with not using any technology or using a conventional Web search (Google). This effect remained robust regardless of whether the problem required consideration of many (versus few) constraints and whether it was viewed as requiring empathetic concern. Furthermore, ChatGPT was most effective at generating incrementally (versus radically) new ideas. Process evidence suggests that the positive influence of ChatGPT can be attributed to its capability to combine remotely related concepts into a cohesive form, leading to a more articulate presentation of ideas." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 15) ChatGPT creator OpenAI has developed internal tools for watermarking and tracking AI-generated content with 99.9 percent accuracy, the Wall Street Journal reports — but is refusing to release it.
Effective tools for flagging AI-generated text could be useful in any number of situations, from cracking down on cheating students to sorting through the AI-generated sludge filling the web. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 11) "An infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis. Another showing human legs with way too many bones. An introduction that starts: "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic".
These are a few of the most egregious examples of artificial intelligence that have recently made their way into scientific journals, shining a light on the wave of AI-generated text and images washing over the academic publishing industry." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 11) "In the age of artificial intelligence, prompt engineering is an important new skill for harnessing the full potential of large language models (LLMs). This is the art of crafting complex inputs to extract relevant, useful outputs from AI models like ChatGPT. While many LLMs are designed to be friendly to non-technical users, and respond well to natural-sounding conversational prompts, advanced prompt engineering techniques offer another powerful level of control. These techniques are useful for individual users, and absolutely essential for developers seeking to build sophisticated AI-powered applications....Prompt Poet potentially offers a look at the future direction of prompt context management across Google’s AI projects, such as Gemini."
| Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 05) We are only in what I'd call "Act 1" of the gen AI story. Previously unimaginable amounts of data and compute have created models that demonstrate (a key word) what gen AI can deliver. However, these early experiments have also brought compromises, exceptions, cost concerns and, yes, errors. After all, fast-evolving technologies are inherently fragile at the start.
However, we must ensure we don't remain mired in Act 1. Much more work remains on the pragmatics of operationalizing gen AI. This work -- what I'd call "Act 2" -- may be less glamourous, but it is no less essential to the success of this technology. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 05) "... Not only is AI coming for human creativity, the "Dear Sydney" ad suggests—but it won't even leave space for the charming imperfections of a child's fan letter to an athlete. Instead, AI will provide the template, just as it will likely provide the template for the athlete's response, leading to a nightmare scenario in which huge swathes of human communication have the "human" part stripped right out...." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 05) "San Francisco-based AI company Writer launched two specialized large language models (LLMs) tailored specifically for the healthcare and financial services industries on Wednesday, potentially reshaping how these highly regulated sectors adopt artificial intelligence." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 08 - 05) "In today's column, I am continuing my ongoing coverage of prompt engineering strategies and tactics that aid in getting the most out of using generative AI apps such as ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, Gemini, Claude, etc. The focus this time will be on the importance of a technical aspect known as "temperature" and "temperature settings" which involve important parameter adjustments that can be made in some generative AI apps." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 30) "California's "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act" (a.k.a. SB-1047) has led to a flurry of headlines and debate concerning the overall "safety" of large artificial intelligence models. But critics are concerned that the bill's overblown focus on existential threats by future AI models could severely limit research and development for more prosaic, non-threatening AI uses today." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 28) Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly sophisticated. In a thought-provoking paper published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Thomas Fuchs argues that true understanding and empathy require the subjectivity that is inherent to living beings, cautioning against the blurring lines between real and simulated interactions.
A robot may be able to engage in conversation that mirrors one's emotions and respond with uncanny human-like behavior, but it's just that–it's almost natural. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) "It's like studying the brain: really, really hard. They're doing it anyway." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) " OpenAI will reportedly announce an artificial intelligence-powered search engine for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT on Monday, a much hyped and speculated feature that would ratchet up competition with search giant Google as startups and Big Tech alike race to cash in on the tech world’s latest gold rush." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) Airtable, the $11 billion no-code platform unicorn, has unveiled Cobuilder, an AI-powered tool that generates customizable applications in seconds using natural language prompts. This launch could reshape the landscape of enterprise software development by allowing non-technical employees to build complex applications without coding knowledge. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) "A.I. is getting good at math -- and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) "Tech executives are acting like they own the world." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) The technique has been used throughout history, but now could be a tool in one of the biggest fights in artificial intelligence. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) "Google is dying. Google is unstoppable. Somehow, right now, it feels like both of those things are true. For the first time in more than a decade, there appear to be products that might actually threaten Google Search as the centerpiece of the web - including OpenAI's new SearchGPT. And yet Google Search continues to dominate the market and make truly unfathomable amounts of money. |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 27) "Earlier this month, a popular lifestyle magazine introduced a new "fashion and lifestyle editor" to its huge social media following. "Reem", who on first glance looked like a twentysomething woman who understood both fashion and lifestyle, was proudly announced as an "AI enhanced team member". That is, a fake person, generated by artificial intelligence. Reem would be making product recommendations to SheerLuxe’s followers - or, to put it another way, doing what SheerLuxe would otherwise pay a person to do. The reaction was entirely predictable: outrage, followed by a hastily issued apology. One suspects Reem may not become a staple of its editorial team." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 20) "Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 20) Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the programming landscape has entered a new era. By leveraging advanced natural language processing capabilities, beginners and experienced developers now have powerful tools to ease the coding process.
AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini transform how developers solve complex problems and learn new technologies. This is why, when OpenAI was first released GPT-4, many users tested its ability to create functional programs from scratch. The result? |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) "A study suggests that ideas generated by the AI system ChatGPT can help boost the creativity of writers who lack inherent flair – albeit at the expense of variety.
Prof Oliver Hauser, a co-author of the research from the University of Exeter, said the results pose a social dilemma." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) "Today we are in the middle of a hype cycle in which companies are racing to integrate artificial intelligence tools into products, transforming fields including logistics, manufacturing and healthcare. The global AI market was worth approximately $200 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow more than 20% each year to nearly $2 trillion by 2030. There are no exact numbers of how many workers participate globally in the industry, but the figure is in the millions. And if trends continue at their current rate, their number will expand dramatically." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) "This new tool offers an easier way for people to analyze complex tabular data." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) Supporters of artificial intelligence say it can serve as a muse, but critics doubt it -- they say that it does little more than remix existing work.
Now, new research suggests that elements of both arguments are right. AI might be able to help a person become more creative, but it risks decreasing creativity in society overall. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) "Researcher Jesse Dodge did some back-of-the-napkin math on the amount of energy AI chatbots use.
"One query to ChatGPT uses approximately as much electricity as could light one light bulb for about 20 minutes," he says. "So, you can imagine with millions of people using something like that every day, that adds up to a really large amount of electricity." " |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) "Lee Saedol was one of the world's top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. "It may not be a happy ending," he says." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it.
Anthropic released several new features on Tuesday to help developers create more useful applications with the startup’s language model, Claude, according to a company blog post. Developers can now use Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate, test and evaluate prompts, using prompt engineering techniques to create better inputs and improve Claude's answers for specialized tasks. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) A new artificial intelligence platform aimed at helping pastors preach their sermons more effectively is set to launch later this month.
Pulpit AI, created by Michael Whittle and Jake Sweetman, will be released officially on July 22 and will include both free and paid versions, according to both men. |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) "This special AI learned which parts of the brain to focus on, making the pictures it created even more accurate." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 14) "Artificial intelligence has been making headlines for its capabilities in various fields, but can it make us laugh? A recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that AI might have the upper hand in humor as well. The research shows that AI-generated humor was rated as equally funny or funnier than human-created jokes, even when pitted against professional satirists from The Onion." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 07 - 04) "Google's goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that its greenhouse gas emissions have climbed 48% over the past five years." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 25) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 25) "A new study showed people real restaurant reviews and ones produced by A.I. They couldn't tell the difference." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 25) "Popular AI tools such as GPT-4 generate fluent, human-like text and perform so well on various language tasks it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell if the person you're conversing with is human or a machine. " |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 24) "So how worried should we be about AI's electricity demands? Well, it's complicated. " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 20) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 20) "So far, generative AI has been mostly confined to chatbots like ChatGPT. Startups like Character.AI and Replika are seeing early traction by making chatbots more like companions. But what happens when you dump a bunch of AI characters into something that looks like Instagram and let them talk to each other?
That's the idea behind Butterflies, one of the most provocative -- and, at times, unsettling -- takes on social media that I've seen in quite a while." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 19) "Olin researchers Oren Reshef and Xiang Hui (along with a colleague from New York University, Luofeng Zhou) set out to quantify how AI tools have affected specific subsets of the labor market—writing-related and image-related freelance workers.
"There's a lot of uncertainty trying to predict what the effects of AI will be in 10 years, but AI could be very different in 10 years," said Reshef, an assistant professor of strategy. "We were thinking, 'Let's try to see empirically what the direct effect is in the very short run.'" | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 07) "Learn about the most popular machine learning models, understand how they work, and discover the best free courses to master them." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 07) "The web itself is being shoved into a great unknown." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 07) Studies show users are more likely to trust and cooperate with chatbots exhibiting social intelligence and personality traits. This could prove relevant in fields such as education, where studies have indicated AI chatbots can boost learning outcomes and motivation.
However, some commentators worry users may become overly attached to AI systems with human-like personalities or emotionally harmed by the one-way nature of human-computer interaction. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 07) "Called Stable Audio Open, the generative model takes a text description (e.g., "Rock beat played in a treated studio, session drumming on an acoustic kit") and outputs a recording up to 47 seconds in length. The model was trained using around 486,000 samples from free music libraries Freesound and the Free Music Archive." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 07) "Current and former OpenAI employees published an open letter describing concerns about the artificial intelligence industry's rapid advancement despite a lack of oversight and a lack of whistleblower protections.
"AI companies have strong financial incentives to avoid effective oversight," the employees wrote. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and other companies are at the helm of a generative AI arms race -- a market that is predicted to top $1 trillion in revenue within a decade." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 03) "While the barrier to entry for building AI products has been lowered, creating those effective beyond a demo remains a deceptively difficult endeavor.
We've identified some crucial, yet often neglected, lessons and methodologies informed by machine learning that are essential for developing products based on LLMs. Awareness of these concepts can give you a competitive advantage against most others in the field without requiring ML expertise! " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 03) "So what is AI, anyway? The best way to think of artificial intelligence is as software that approximates human thinking. It's not the same, nor is it better or worse, but even a rough copy of the way a person thinks can be useful for getting things done. Just don’t mistake it for actual intelligence!" | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 03) "The current AI boom is built around LLMs' impressive fluency with text, but the software can also use that facility to put a convincing gloss on untruths or errors. Using the technology to summarize online information promises can make search results easier to digest, but it is hazardous when online sources are contractionary or when people may use the information to make important decisions." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 03) "On Wednesday, Axios broke the news that OpenAI had signed deals with The Atlantic and Vox Media that will allow the ChatGPT maker to license their editorial content to further train its language models. But some of the publications' writers--and the unions that represent them--were surprised by the announcements and aren't happy about it. Already, two unions have released statements expressing "alarm" and "concern."" | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 03) According to OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman, ChatGPT has 100 million weekly users. Many of these are founders using the friendly (and now all-knowing) chatbot to supercharge their personal brand, adopt a winner's mindset, and outperform their competitors. But how do you know you're using the tool as effectively as possible? You're probably not. These unconventional pointers will ensure you're not missing out on that top tier of results. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 06 - 03) "When OpenAI unveiled the latest version of its immensely popular ChatGPT chatbot this month, it had a new voice possessing humanlike inflections and emotions. The online demonstration also featured the bot tutoring a child on solving a geometry problem.
To my chagrin, the demo turned out to be essentially a bait and switch. " |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 30) "Picture an AI that truly speaks your language -- and not just your words and syntax. Imagine an AI that understands context, nuance, and even humor.
This is no longer just a futuristic concept --it's the reality of ChatGPT." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 29) "Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 29) "Despite their performance, current AI models have major weaknesses: they require enormous resources and are indecipherable. Help may be on the way." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 29) "When OpenAI's new voice assistant said it was "doing fantastic" in a launch demo this month, Scarlett Johansson was not.
The Hollywood star said she was "shocked, angered and in disbelief" that the updated version of ChatGPT, which can listen to spoken prompts and respond verbally, had a voice "eerily similar" to hers." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 25) "This is the third in The Vanishing University, a four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. Here are parts one, two, and four." [published in 2017, 5 years before OpenAI's Hello world moment] | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 25) "A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to "scale language" by automating the work of writing. I asked one such company to try to replace me." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 25) "Companies are hiring highly educated gig workers to write training content for AI models.
The shift toward more sophisticated trainers comes as tech giants scramble for new data sources. AI could run out of data to learn from by 2026, one research institute has warned. " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 25) Jim Porter published this in 2018. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 22) "Why do large language models behave the way that they do? New research provides some clues." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 22) "Researchers at the A.I. company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 22) "The head of Google sat down with Decoder last week to talk about the biggest advancements in AI, the future of Google Search, and the fate of the web." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 22) "The European Union's AI Act is more comprehensive than the United States' light-touch voluntary compliance approach while China's approach aims to maintain social stability and state control." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 21) "What Herd provides here is much more than a darkly whimsical peek into a dystopian future of online dating. It's a window into a future in which people require layer upon layer of algorithmic mediation between them in order to carry out the most basic of human interactions: those involving romance, sex, friendship, comfort, food. Implicit in Herd's proclamation--that her app will "teach you how to date"-is the assumption that AI will soon understand proper human behavior in ways that human beings do not. " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 20) "... The most important benefits of these online spaces as described by our participants could be drastically undermined by responses coming from chatbots instead of people." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 20) "The "dead internet theory" has an explanation: AI and bot-generated content has surpassed the human-generated internet. But where did this idea come from, and does it have any basis in reality?" |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 20) "Researchers have discovered that OpenAI's latest generative pre-trained transformer models, commonly known as ChatGPT, can outperform humans in reasoning tasks. Published in Nature Computational Science, the study found that while early versions of these models exhibit intuitive but incorrect responses, similar to humans, ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 demonstrate a significant improvement in accuracy." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 17) "The group’s main demand is for a pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4—it’s calling for all countries to implement this measure, but specifically calls out the United States as the home of most leading AI labs. The group also wants all UN member states to sign a treaty that sets up an international AI safety agency with responsibility for granting new deployments of AI systems and training runs of large models. Their protests are taking place on the same day as OpenAI announced a new version of ChatGPT to make the chatbot act more like a human." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 17) "--Colorado and Connecticut lead AI regulation amid industry resistance, balancing innovation with safeguards. --Connecticut's ambitious legislation faces hurdles, while Colorado navigates pressure to follow suit. --Industry lobbying influences state-level AI regulation, raising concerns over stifling innovation." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 17) "... the real prize of human-level AI--or artificial general intelligence (AGI)--has yet to be achieved. Such a breakthrough would mean an AI that can carry out most economically productive work, engage with others, do science, build and maintain social networks, conduct politics, and carry out modern warfare. The main constraint for all these tasks today is cognition. Removing this constraint would be world-changing. Yet many across the globe's leading AI labs believe this technology could be a reality before the end of this decade." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 17) "It's difficult to overstate the magnitude and impact of the changes Google has been making to its search engine and overall product suite this month, some of which were laid out during Tuesday’s I/O 2024 conference. The reason is not just that parent company Alphabet is determined to shove some form of "artificial intelligence" and machine learning software into your Chrome browser and your phone calls and your photo galleries and your YouTube habits. It's that the central tool that powers and shapes the modern internet is about to permanently change--and it may make for an even worse search experience than that which has defined Google’s most recent era." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 17) "The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites, threatening millions of creators." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 17) "... amid the ever-quickening pace of action, some observers wonder if government is looking at the tech industry with the right perspective. A report shared first with DFD from the nonprofit Data & Society argues that in order for powerful AI to integrate successfully with humanity, it must actually feature… the humanities." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 16) " Both companies are competing to build a combination of ChatGPT and Search. Now, it's a matter of who can out-maneuver the other." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 15) "... The rollout threatens the survival of the millions of creators and publishers who rely on the service for traffic. Some experts argue the addition of AI will boost the tech giant's already tight grip on the internet, ultimately ushering in a system where information is provided by just a handful of large companies." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 15) "The company's new model, called GPT-4o (the o stands for "omni"), will let ChatGPT talk to users in a much more lifelike way -- detecting emotions in their voices, analyzing their facial expressions and changing its own tone and cadence depending on what a user wants. If you ask for a bedtime story, it can lower its voice to a whisper. If you need advice from a sassy friend, it can speak in a playful, sarcastic tone. It can even sing on command." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 13) "An alliance of tech giants, startups and venture capitalists are spending millions to convince Washington that fears of an AI apocalypse are overblown. So far, it's working." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 13) "Researchers find instances of systems double-crossing opponents, bluffing, pretending to be human and modifying behaviour in tests" |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 13) "In the 1970s, science fiction writer JG Ballard was intrigued by the growing capabilities of computers - so used one to compose poems. They were a first step on the road to ChatGPT." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 13) 5 ways to use Copilot in education | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 13) "AI visionary Fei-Fei Li thinks the public should instead worry about more immediate issues like AI-generated disinformation" |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 13) "OpenAI is reportedly working on a search feature for ChatGPT that could make the chatbot a veritable alternative to Google Search. According to Bloomberg, the company is currently developing the capability, which can scour the web for answers to your queries and spit out results complete with citations to their sources. ChatGPT could take information from Wikipedia or blog posts, for instance, and link to their original pages when you ask it questions." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 13) Artificial intelligence--rom machine learning that's already widely used today to the possible artificial general intelligence of the future--has the power to transform the way we live, work, and interact. AI tools are evolving quickly, and decisionmakers are grappling with how to maximize the potential benefits, minimize the short--and long-term risks, and plan for an uncertain future. RAND's rigorous and independent research can help. Our experts have been studying a wide range of questions about the effects and uses of AI: Which jobs are likely to be most affected? How might AI tools be used to support military decision making? What is required to ensure that algorithms don't worsen inequity? | Arts and Entertainment (2024 - 05 - 08) "Teachers are optimistic about ability of AI tools to help address burnout, per new Canva survey" |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 08) "Dotdash Meredith, publisher of People, Better Homes & Gardens, Investopedia, Food & Wine, and InStyle, signed a deal on Tuesday with OpenAI to use AI models for its ad-targeting product, D/Cipher. In turn, Dotdash Meredith will license its content to ChatGPT." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 08) "Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system set to replace a majority of human graders in the region." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 08) "It's astonishing that most professors, administrators and even donors don't see the proverbial train barreling down the tracks, perhaps like how climate deniers cannot calculate storms, rainfall, floods, droughts and unbearable summers. Maybe it’s just a repeat of the Luddite phenomenon that surrounds the adoption of all new technology. Who knows, but worse, many universities have actually banned GenAI which is a naive attempt to regulate a technology more compelling than the Internet and in so doing have actually provided encouragement to faculty and administrators to pretend that GenAI and its CustomGPT children are more of a threat than a service. Further, faculty who have not used GenAI to develop and deliver courses have already missed an extraordinary opportunity to improve the learning process for their students and increase the learning outcomes of their courses." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 07) "OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 07) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 06) |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 06) "... Just as the semiconductor industry has consolidated around a handful of companies able to afford the latest multi-billion-dollar chip fabrication plants, the AI field may soon be dominated by only the largest tech giants — and their partners -- able to foot the bill for developing the latest foundation LLM models like GPT-4 and Claude 3. " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 05 - 06) "Professors are shifting away from syntax and emphasizing higher-level skills" | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 28) "Consumers are already putting AI tools to use for both productivity and creativity. But what's next?" |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 28) "Artificial intelligence is already changing the world. But the full extent of its impact on how we live and work remains to be seen.
In the meantime, there are crucial questions to consider to help mitigate potential perils of AI on society -- and take advantage of the opportunities." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 24) The gigantic and costly industry Silicon Valley is building around generative AI is still struggling to explain the technology's utility.
Why it matters: AI chatbots and image generators are making headlines and fortunes, but a year and a half into their revolution, it remains tough to say exactly why we should all start using them. | Category (2024 - 04 - 24) "You're a genius, even if you don't feel like one. No one else has your combination of experience, skills and knowledge. Find your personal powers and use them forever. But where to look? Not everyone knows why they are here, what they were born to do, or how to use their ace cards. ChatGPT can help. With these prompts you'll uncover your unique strengths, figure out how to deploy them, and know the exact plan to move forward with." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 24) "I ... agree with the central premise of his argument that disruption caused by AI will be harnessed to prioritize profits over people. It will likely cause one of the largest and fastest labor displacements in human history." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 24) The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection.
But all of this is coming to an end. The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 24) "If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?" |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 24) "Outperforming humans is one thing, but its rapid rise has meant that AI has created some problems for itself – and we're nervous." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 24) "Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI's influence on society has never been more pronounced. This year, we have broadened our scope to more extensively cover essential trends such as technical advancements in AI, public perceptions of the technology, and the geopolitical dynamics surrounding its development. Featuring more original data than ever before, this edition introduces new estimates on AI training costs, detailed analyses of the responsible AI landscape, and an entirely new chapter dedicated to AI's impact on science and medicine." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 24) "Generative AI is famously data-hungry. The technology requires huge troves of digital information—text, photos, video, audio-to "learn" how to produce convincingly humanlike material. The most powerful large language models have effectively "read" just about everything; when it comes to content mined from the open web, this means that AI is especially well versed in English and a handful of other languages, to the exclusion of thousands more that people speak around the world." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 20) "Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, according to a new report. Rapid progress in the development of these systems also means that many common benchmarks and tests for assessing them are quickly becoming obsolete." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 20) " Meta's CEO is pushing for the company's assistant to be the most used chatbot in the world. He opens up about competing with other AI companies, model training, and why he bought all those GPUs when he did." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 20) "Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. " |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 20) "AI models become better at foretelling the future when asked to frame the prediction as a story about the past, boffins at Baylor University in Texas have found.
In a paper titled, "ChatGPT Can Predict the Future When It Tells Stories Set in the Future About the Past," Pham and Cunningham give away the final scene - that AI model prognostication can be effective in certain circumstances. Asking the chatbot for tales about future events rather than asking for direct predictions proved surprisingly effective, especially in forecasting Oscar winners." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 15) "Write a poem about a sunrise." I asked three AI chatbots—OpenAI's ChatGPT-4, Google’s Bard, and Anthropic's Claude—and myself -- an 8th grade human. I then surveyed a panel of 38 AI experts and 39 English experts to judge the results. Is AI smarter than an 8th grader?
And the survey says . . AI is not smarter than an 8th grader, at least not yet. The 8th grader won 1st place, and by a higher margin when judged by English experts. Bard, ChatGPT-4, and Claude came in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, respectively, both in writing quality and their ability to fool the judges into believing they were authored by a human. Most strikingly, English experts were far better at discerning which poems were written by AI, with 11 English experts vs. only 3 AI experts guessing the author (human vs. AI) of all four poems correctly. This points to a need for English experts to play a greater role in helping shape future versions of AI technology. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 14) AI CEO says people's obsession with reaching artificial general intelligence is 'about creating God' "Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch said the obsession with creating general AI is about "creating God."
The AI CEO doesn't believe Elon Musk and Sam Altman's predictions that AI will surpass human intelligence. Mensch warns of tech giants imposing AI standards that conflict with global culture and values." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 14) "A recent study has found that scientific citations generated by ChatGPT often do not correspond to real academic work. The study, published in the Canadian Psychological Association’s Mind Pad, found that "false citation rates" across various psychology subfields ranged from 6% to 60%. Surprisingly, these fabricated citations feature elements such as legitimate researchers' names and properly formatted digital object identifiers (DOIs), which could easily mislead both students and researchers." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 14) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 14) Artificial intelligence tools can replace much of Wall Street’s entry-level white-collar work, raising tough questions about the future of finance. |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 12) It used to be enough to mention AI on an earnings call for Wall Street to celebrate. But a more discerning reality is setting in.
Grand ambitions of AI technologies are propped up by gargantuan costs - from extreme demands on natural resources to immense hardware investments. Big Tech's enormous valuations seem less justified, butting up against the improbable state of affairs in AI development. If 2024 is the "show me" year, we're still waiting. | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 12) An Ezra Klein podcast:
"Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What would happen as you fed an artificial intelligence more and more data? He and his colleagues decided to study it, and they found that the A.I. didn’t just get better with more data; it got better exponentially. The curve of the A.I.’s capabilities rose slowly at first and then shot up like a hockey stick. " | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 04 - 12) "AI startup Anthropic says its language models have steadily and rapidly improved in their "persuasiveness," per new research the company posted Tuesday.
Why it matters: Persuasion -- a general skill with widespread social, commercial and political applications -- can foster disinformation and push people to act against their own interests, according to the paper's authors." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 03 - 19) Let's assume that you’re "teaching" a course. Now let's assume that you’re taking a course or have enrolled in a degree program. Let's also assume that you know something about generative AI (GenAI) which many professors and lot’s more students already do. Let's also assume that GenAI tools will become incredibly smarter, better and faster, which is the easiest prediction anyone can make.
If all of the above assumptions are true – and they obviously are - what happens to higher education? Have we missed something huge here? | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 03 - 17) Coding will become almost entirely automated, and UX designers will become the de facto front-end developer,” says David Brooks, senior VP and lead evangelist at Copado. “Instead of graphics tools like Figma to mock up UI, they will work with genAI tools to generate working UI prototypes in the company’s framework of choice.” | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 02 - 24) "There's an art to making the most from AI. Here's how to up your prompt-writing game." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 02 - 19) | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 02 - 17) "Bizarre, clearly inaccurate imagery created by Midjourney skated past peer-review at a well-known journal." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 02 - 16) "The future described in OpenAI's mission statement, in which autonomous systems "outperform humans at most economically valuable work," sounds like a hellscape to MIT economics professor David Autor.
A world where humans supply only generic, undifferentiated labor and wealth flows to AI system owners and rights holders would look something like "WALL-E" meets "Mad Max," he says. But it doesn't have to be that way. ..." |
Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 02 - 16) "There have been just a handful of moments over the centuries when we have experienced a huge shift in the skills our economy values most. We are entering one such moment now. Technical and data skills that have been highly sought after for decades appear to be among the most exposed to advances in artificial intelligence. But other skills, particularly the people skills that we have long undervalued as soft, will very likely remain the most durable. That is a hopeful sign that A.I. could usher in a world of work that is anchored more, not less, around human ability." | Artificial Intelligence (2024 - 01 - 31) Every author, in his or her individual way, is a meat-brained ChatGPT, “trained” on a lifetime’s reading of classics and copyright works. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 12 - 20) "Employers are increasingly looking for skills, and in the past year, AI skills and complementary people skills have been rising to the top, with demand coming from virtually every industry and spanning both technical and non-technical roles. In parallel, demand for people skills that complement AI is also rising. A majority (92%) of U.S. executives agree that people skills are more important than ever. " |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) When I first started using ChatGPT, I made one crucial mistake: I expected it to think rather than do.
I fed it poorly written, one-sentence prompts and expected some magical output.
Unfortunately, poor instructions led to poor results. To turn things around, I had to reframe my perspective. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) Artificial intelligence could soon be writing more company emails in Microsoft Outlook, as the company expands its rollout of AI tools for corporate users. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) Northwestern University engineers have developed a new nanoelectronic device that can perform accurate machine-learning classification tasks in the most energy-efficient manner yet. Using 100-fold less energy than current technologies, the device can crunch large amounts of data and perform artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in real time without beaming data to the cloud for analysis. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) I’ll bet that most people who have tried have found at least one useful way to integrate ChatGPT into their lives now. Much is written about the potential of AI to help us cure cancer or fight climate change. But I firmly believe its potential to help us in our day-to-day lives, redefining our relationship with technology, will be just as revolutionary.
Which is why it's always interesting to see new updates and capabilities added. The latest updates, however, are particularly thought-provoking. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) Overcoming ageism in our workplaces is the first step in adapting to a new world of work. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) Generative technology, such as ChatGPT, can transform commerce in a range of ways, including knowledge distribution, HR and training, code writing, legal, cybersecurity, treasury, marketing, customer interfaces, and service delivery, according to the report. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) Anton Korinek, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, tells the students he advises nowadays that they should really begin to master a flourishing technology expected to transform the field of economics. That technology is generative artificial intelligence, or “genAI” for short. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 13) The company says it will take responsibility for its training data and the output of its foundation models. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 12) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 12) Students will cheat with AI. But they also will begin to integrate AI into everything they do, raising new questions for educators. Students will want to understand why they are doing assignments that seem obsolete thanks to AI. They will want to use AI as a learning companion, a co-author, or a teammate. They will want to accomplish more than they did before, and also want answers about what AI means for their future learning paths. Schools will need to decide how to respond to this flood of questions.
The challenge of AI in education can feel abstract, so to understand a bit more about what is going to happen, I wanted to examine some common assignment types. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 11) With the adoption of LLMs, there’s a new concern gaining ground – the environmental impact of training these models. Believe it or not, the carbon footprints left behind from training large models run into hundreds of tonnes.
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Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 11) Training an advanced AI model takes time, money and high-quality data. It also takes energy -- a lot of it.
Between storing data in large-scale data centers and then using that data to train a machine learning or deep learning model, AI energy consumption is high. While an AI system may pay off monetarily, AI poses a problem environmentally. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 11) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 11) Google's use of AI alone could use up as much electricity as a small country - but that's an unlikely worst-case scenario, a new analysis finds. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 11) Microsoft, Google and others experiment with how to produce, market and charge for new tools. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 11) Microsoft loses around $20 per user per month on GitHub Copilot, according to the WSJ.
Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google are grappling with the challenge of turning AI products like ChatGPT into a profitable enterprise, reports The Wall Street Journal. While companies are heavily investing in AI tech that can generate business memos or code, the cost of running advanced AI models is proving to be a significant hurdle. Some services, like Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, drive significant operational losses. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) The bottom line is that AI may have incredible positive potential for humanity’s future, but I don’t think companies are doing a great job of communicating what that is. Where is the “why” — as in, why are we going through all the angst of building all of this? What is the current and future value of generative AI to individuals, workers, enterprises, and society at large? How do the benefits outweigh the risks? |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) Sure, you could just stick a ChatGPT sidebar in your browser. But what do we really want AI to do for us as we use the web? That’s the much harder question. (See Arc Ma) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) OpenAI has introduced a tool for artists to keep their images from training future AI programs. It may not make a difference. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) Some of the initial changes will be felt in day-to-day maneuvers and staffing structures. AI will mean that routine and basic code writing will be displaced and generated automatically. Consequently, manual programming and the roles of coders and developers will move to creative and more sophisticated tasks. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) What does the future of generative AI hold? Multi-modality will move a primitive ChatGPT demo to interpersonal collaboration, advanced robotics -- and maybe even the AI dream of continuous learning. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) A Harvard-led study has found that using generative AI helped hundreds of consultants working for the respected Boston Consulting Group (BCG) complete a range of tasks more often, more quickly, and at a higher quality than those who did not use AI. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) [This article is worth reading because it also contains links to further suggestions about prompt-crafting] (1) Enter your initial prompt. This is the initiating prompt that gets the generative AI to produce an answer or essay to whatever question or problem you want to have solved. (2) Look at the GenAI initial response to the prompt. This is the initial answer or response that the AI app provides to your prompt. (3) Establish suitable verification questions. Based on the generative AI output, come up with pertinent verification questions. (4) Ask GenAI the verification questions. Enter a prompt or series of prompts that ask the generative AI the identified verification questions. (5) Inspect the answers to the verification questions. Take a look at the answers to the verification questions, weighing them in light of what they might signify regarding the GenAI initial response. (6) Adjust or refine the initial answer accordingly. If the verification answers warrant doing so, go ahead and refine or adjust the initial answer as needed. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 10 - 04) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) he scientist behind a landmark letter calling for a pause in developing powerful artificial intelligence systems has said tech executives did not halt their work because they are locked in a "race to the bottom". |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) Generative AI – which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2 – supercharges what has come to be known as "digital necromancy", the conjuring of the dead from the digital traces they leave behind.
Debates around digital necromancy were first sparked in the 2010s by advances in video projection ("deep fake" technology) leading to the reanimation of Bruce Lee, Michael Jackson, and Tupac Shakur. It also led to posthumous film appearances by Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing, among others. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) One of the hardest parts of the news business is striking a balance between covering stories that seem important in the moment and covering stories that you know will truly matter in the future. And it’s hard because the most consequential things happening right now are often boring or difficult to explain. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) When looking for a job, you're likely applying to several positions at a time -- each requiring a uniquely hand-crafted application. Cover Letter Copilot has you covered. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that large language model (LLM) AI chatbots might excel beyond the average human in creative tasks, like brainstorming alternate uses for common items – a reflection of divergent thinking. However, individuals who scored the highest in these tasks still surpassed the top-performing chatbot results. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 21) DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation I had with him, he told me that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software and other people to get stuff done. He also calls for robust regulation—and doesn’t think that’ll be hard to achieve. | |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 12) A specter is haunting the landscape—the specter of generative AI. First came fears that student cheating would explode, plus that artists and actors would be unemployed. Then the ante was upped: Some of the very technology’s creators warned that AI’s potential risk to humanity as we know it was on par with pandemics and nuclear war. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 12) rom writers and teachers to bankers and lawyers, most jobs seem ripe to be replaced by artificial intelligence — with one notable exception. The only job that seems to be safe from the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tech is, oddly enough, the most expensive and easily automated role: CEO. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 12) 75% of people who use generative AI use it for work and 70% of Gen Z uses new generative AI technologies, according to a new 4,000-person survey by Salesforce, which has been integrating AI into its products for years. Also found: 68% of those who haven’t tried generative AI are Gen X or boomers. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 05) Writers and authors interested in learning more about how they can use large language models and artificial intelligence to enhance their writing skills. Might be interested in this new video on how to write a complete book using the Claude 2.0 AI. The Nerdy Novelist, a popular YouTube channel dedicated to the craft of writing, recently explored the potential of this AI tool in the creation of an entire book. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 05) A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 09 - 05) If companies want their employees to embrace the potential of generative AI, they're going to have to make sure those workers actually trust it won't cost them their jobs.
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Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 30) From its prominence in the tech world, you might think that everyone on the planet is using ChatGPT or some other AI tool for everything from automating their job to planning their garden. But recent Pew polling suggests the language model isn’t quite as popular or threatening as some would have you think. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 30) "I'd like some help composing tweets for my brand. They're going to be promotional tweets, and I want them to be really compelling. The primary target audience for the tweets is [describe audience]. One of their biggest concerns is [describe biggest pain point]. One of their biggest underutilised assets is [describe their underutilised assets]. Our solution is [explain your business]. Do you understand what I'm looking for? Don't create any tweets yet." | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 30) As announced in the Federal Register, the agency wants to answer three main questions: how AI models should use copyrighted data in training; whether AI-generated material can be copyrighted even without a human involved; and how copyright liability would work with AI. It also wants comments around AI possibly violating publicity rights but noted these are not technically copyright issues. The Copyright Office said if AI does mimic voices, likenesses, or art styles, it may impact state-mandated rules around publicity and unfair competition laws. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 30) Shares of Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) jumped on Tuesday, as the tech giant debuted a slew of new AI offerings for its Google Cloud and Workspace enterprise platforms. The news comes as part of Google’s annual Google Cloud Next event, which is being held in San Francisco. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 30) Even when things went right, the briefs weren't great. But often things went wrong. Social media users noted that odd phrases like "close encounters of the athletic kind" cropped up in story after story -- a phrase that doesn’t make sense to begin with but is even worse when repeated. And while the ethical standards of papers like the Columbus Dispatch say that "AI-generated content must be verified for accuracy and factuality before used in reporting," Axios reported that in at least one case, a story was published that had clear placeholders for "[[WINNING_TEAM_MASCOT]]." | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 30) At the time, the main purpose of these crawlers was to index information so results in search engines would improve. Google, Microsoft's Bing and other search engines have crawlers. They index content so it can be later served up as links to billions of potential consumers. This is the essential deal that created the flourishing web we know today: Creators share abundant information and exchange ideas online freely because they know consumers will visit and either see an ad, subscribe, or buy something.
Now, though, generative AI and large language models are changing the mission of web crawlers radically and rapidly. Instead of working to support content creators, these tools have been turned against them. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 29) The germ of truth in the “anyone can do it” narrative is that experts in a particular subject are often the best prompters for a defined task. They simply know the right questions to ask and can recognise value in the responses. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 29) IBM Corp. said it expects to pause hiring for jobs that artificial intelligence could do, indicating that the potentially groundbreaking technology is beginning to disrupt how humans work. | |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 29) Can ChatGPT help executives make better decisions? The large language model everyone has been talking about for months also has an eloquent answer to this question: "Yes, I can support you in management decisions by providing information, facts, analysis, and perspectives that can help you make an informed decision." ChatGPT immediately follows up with a limitation of its own competence. "However, it is important to note that my advice and recommendations are based on an algorithmic analysis of data and information, and you, as a human being, still have to make the final decision based on your experience, knowledge, and assessment of the situation." | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 29) From steam power to the internet, there has always been a lag between technology invention and adoption across industries and the economy. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 28) The secret to unlocking the full potential of ChatGPT lies in combining all the components – action, format, role, tone, audience, examples, and format – in a single prompt. This approach can yield a more comprehensive and satisfactory result, making ChatGPT an indispensable tool for writers. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 28) The choice between ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, and Claude 2.0 depends on your specific needs and preferences. The best bet is to try out everything that is on offer and see which provides the best results on the prompts that you provide. Remember all large language models provide results relative to the prompts they are given so writing a specific text prompt that is tailored to your exact requirements is paramount. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 28) AI is progressing at a rapid pace. If we don't build safe systems now, we never will, says Intel researcher Lama Nachman. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 25) "I view this possibility with a certain dreadful fascination." |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 25) Technology disruption typically affected blue-collar occupations. Now white-collar workers may feel the brunt of changes. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 25) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 25) Here's all the cool things you can do with Bing Chat in Edge. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 25) It is “the ultimate resume-writing cheat code,” career strategist Madelyn Machado previously told CNBC Make It. And there are various ways to you use it. You can ask the bot to optimize your resume for a given role, for example, or ask it to pull out keywords from a job description to include on your resume. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 20) "AI won't replace people—but people who use AI will replace people who don't," said IBM in the report. | |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 20) Generative AI tools are generating less interest than just a few months ago. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 16) Google's AI-powered version of Search, called Search Generative Experience, is getting a major update in the Google App and soon in the Chrome web browser. SGE will be able to summarize web pages and also show you definitions of words you may be unfamiliar with, Google said in a blog post Tuesday. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 16) The hackers had the blessing of the White House and leading A.I. companies, which want to learn about vulnerabilities before those with nefarious intentions do. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 16) The tech giant is evaluating tools that would use artificial intelligence to perform tasks that some of its researchers have said should be avoided. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 16) An anonymous source involved with the product — known as Gemini — recently provided new details on Google’s plans, as reported by The Information. Rather than simply compete with products such as ChatGPT, Google intends to surpass its competition with Gemini. The source specifies that it is focused on combining the text capabilities of its large language models (LLMs) and AI image generation to create a multifunctional product. This means that instead of only being able to generate text, like ChatGPT, Gemini would be able to create contextual images — but Google is reportedly looking into adding other features as well. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 14) So you've decided to try out artificial intelligence to help speed up your process. When it comes to AI and ChatGPT, the use cases are seemingly endless, but here are four ways to start to leverage ChatGPT for your resume. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 14) A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 14) ChatGPT, OpenAI's fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software programming questions more than half the time, according to a study from Purdue University. That said, the bot was convincing enough to fool a third of participants. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 13) When trying these prompts, have a specific situation in mind. Dig into a client challenge that’s been bugging you recently, explain an employee conundrum that you’d just love to solve, or visualize the future and get ahead of anything that’s likely to come up. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 13) NEW YORK -- For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer, urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.
At the same time, AI is a story to tell, and no longer just in science fiction. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 13) Other academics are considering more drastic action.
"I'm planning on going medieval on the students and going all the way back to oral exams," Christopher Bartel, a philosophy professor at Appalachian State University, said. "They can AI generate text all day long in their notes if they want, but if they have to be able to speak it, that's a different thing." | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 13) |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 13) IMNIT GEBRU DIDN'T set out to work in AI. At Stanford, she studied electrical engineering --getting both a bachelor’s and a master’s in the field. Then she became interested in image analysis, getting her Ph.D. in computer vision. When she moved over to AI, though, it was immediately clear that there was something very wrong.
"There were no Black people -- literally no Black people," says Gebru, who was born and raised in Ethiopia. "I would go to academic conferences in AI, and I would see four or five Black people out of five, six, seven thousand people internationally. I saw who was building the AI systems and their attitudes and their points of view. I saw what they were being used for, and I was like, 'Oh, my God, we have a problem.'" | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 12) Artificial intelligence could have a more significant impact on Britain than the Industrial Revolution, the deputy prime minister has said, but warned it could be used by hackers to access sensitive information from the government.
Oliver Dowden said AI could speed up productivity and perform boring aspects of jobs. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 12) Jane Friedman, who has authored multiple books and consulted about working in the writing and publishing industry, told CNN that an eagle-eyed reader looking for more of her work bought one of the fake titles on Amazon. The books had titles similar to the subjects she typically writes about, but the text read as if someone had used a generative AI model to imitate her style. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 07) hatGPT is making it possible to digitally resurrect the dead in the form of thanabots: chatbots trained on data of the deceased. A program called Project December already allows users to input information about a person and have a custom chatbot created for them based on that person. As Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft all store heaps of our digital communications, it's conceivable that they all could create and sell thanabots in the coming years. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 07) The arrival of Amazon reshaped the retail landscape for books. The rise of e-books threatened the printed word. And the boom in self publishing gave writers a path to success that left out traditional publishing houses. Each time, the book business was able to adapt.
Now, publishing is facing a new disruption that is likely to be far more wide-ranging and transformative: the rise of artificial intelligence. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 07) Design professionals are betting that without the spark of human creativity in the form of a prompt for the AI, the technology won’t be able to recreate what they do across product, advertising and marketing campaigns. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 07) Breaking down the jargon, an overview of the major players and staying up-to-date on the latest AI news | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 04) OpenAI is introducing several upgrades to ChatGPT, including suggested replies, keyboard shortcuts, and longer log-in durations.
Prompt examples are designed to make starting a new chat less intimidating for users.
Multi-file upload capabilities can aid in thorough analysis and extraction of insights. | Category (2023 - 08 - 04) Whatever your business, you need an elevator pitch. When someone asks what you do, it’s no use mumbling your way through vague information. They will quickly lose interest in you and your product, even if it could change their life. Communication is key. Your elevator pitch should be something you learn by heart and deliver with confidence. In a charismatic yet natural way, you impress an audience with your clear delivery. |
Category (2023 - 08 - 04) In many fields of business, someone else can enter right away and make just as much money and impact as those with years of experience. Your unique advantage is how quickly you can learn and evolve. With every new update, concept or insight within your industry, get hungry to grasp its essentials right away. Never stop learning. Know that unlocking a few nuggets of wisdom could mean your business catapults to the next level as soon as you apply them. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 04) Stack Overflow, an online community for software coders, has seen traffic fall since GPT-4 came out.
Some AI models that compete against Stack Overflow were partly trained on the company's data.
Its CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, says he's responding in two main ways. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 04) Despite the ease with which generative AI serves up content that would otherwise take humans hours to complete, a major concern remains: plagiarized text. This is particularly true with Google's ChatGPT rival, Bard, for which the search giant was recently slapped with a class-action lawsuit for allegedly stealing vast amounts of data from the web to train the AI tool. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 04) When ChatGPT was introduced last fall, it sent shockwaves through the technology industry and the larger world. Machine learning researchers had been experimenting with large language models (LLMs) for a few years by that point, but the general public had not been paying close attention and didn’t realize how powerful they had become.
Today, almost everyone has heard about LLMs, and tens of millions of people have tried them out. But not very many people understand how they work. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 04) About 1 in 5 American workers have a job with “high exposure” to artificial intelligence, according to Pew Research Center. It’s unclear if AI would enhance or displace these jobs.
Workers with the most exposure to AI like ChatGPT tend to be women, white or Asian, higher earners and have a college degree, Pew found. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 03) People have little protection or recourse when the technology creates and spreads falsehoods about them. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 08 - 03) ChatGPT is much better than humans at accurately identifying emotions in fictional textual scenarios A new study found that ChatGPT, an increasingly popular AI chatbot capable of natural language processing, greatly outperformed humans in emotional awareness tasks in a set of fictional textual scenarios. It was much better than typical people at estimating the emotions characters would likely experience. The paper was published in Frontiers in Psychology. | Category (2023 - 08 - 03) Despite the ease with which generative AI serves up content that would otherwise take humans hours to complete, a major concern remains: plagiarized text. This is particularly true with Google's ChatGPT rival, Bard, for which the search giant was recently slapped with a class-action lawsuit for allegedly stealing vast amounts of data from the web to train the AI tool. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 07 - 31) "People who use ChatGPT to help with writing tasks are more productive and produce higher-quality work than those who don’t, a study found." |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 07 - 31) Aside from stringing together human-like, fluid English language sentences, one of ChatGPT’s biggest skillsets seems to be getting things wrong. In the pursuit of generating passable paragraphs, the AI-program fabricates information and bungles facts like nobody’s business. Unfortunately, tech outlet CNET decided to make AI’s mistakes its business. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 07 - 31) You don’t need ChatGPT to create your entire resume, but it can certainly take it to the next level and keep you ahead of the competition. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 07 - 31) We polled 2,000 people about how they’re using AI, what they want it to do, and what scares them about it the most. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 07 - 23) "Seven companies—including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection—have committed to developing tech to clearly watermark AI-generated content. That will help make it safer to share AI-generated text, video, audio, and images without misleading others about the authenticity of that content, the Biden administration hopes." | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 07 - 16) "If much of the boilerplate text of form letters and weather reporting gets generated by ChatGPT, the differences between these dull but useful forms of communication and, say, the surprises found in a human-generated love letter or sonnet about a summer day could become easier to see—and more widely appreciated." | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 04 - 18) The AI-in-education market is expected to grow from approximately $2 billion in 2022 to more than $25 billion in 2030, with North America accounting for the largest share.
Artificial intelligence is expected to begin outperforming humans on most cognitive tasks this century, according to experts. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 04 - 18) Educational software company Chegg (CHGG.N) is trying to stay one step ahead of artificial intelligence. Its 8.2 million student subscribers could easily turn to free AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT as an alternative aid for homework and test prep. But the bot’s propensity to spit out false information and role in enabling cheating has led some schools to ban it. With its stock down 40% since ChatGPT’s November release, Chegg has a new plan to act as an intermediary between students and AI. Finding a way to put a friendly face on the technology might be a smart strategy for other at-risk industries. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 04 - 18) AI will offer designers new tools and capabilities to increase their efficiency and creativity. In this post, we’ll explore why AI won’t replace designers, but rather enhance their work.
This blog is an attempt to the personal mission of mine at gethired.design to build superpower designers who can become recession proof. So, let’s talk about how to embrace ChatGPT to become irreplaceable in your team. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 04 - 18) ChatGPT and artificial intelligence have the potential to revolutionize music by creating sounds and melodies beyond the abilities of human voices and musical instruments, tech experts say. However, machines may never replace human creativity.
"You’re going to have amateur creators, individuals who just love creating music in their homes, tinkering with AI music creation tools, just playing with it. Finally — one, two, maybe a dozen of those people are going to be able to create something that is super, super cool that then gets picked up by the general public." |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 04 - 18) The first wave of academic research applying ChatGPT to the world of finance is arriving — and judging by early results, the hype of the past few months is justified.
Two new papers have been published this month that deployed the artificial intelligence chatbot in market-relevant tasks — one in deciphering whether Federal Reserve statements were hawkish or dovish, and one in determining whether headlines were good or bad for a stock. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 31) Inside the labs that helps evaluate AI safety for models like GPT-4 | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 31) In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.
The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with the person who had shown me the demo, a brilliant programmer named Charles Simonyi, and we immediately started brainstorming about all the things we could do with such a user-friendly approach to computing. Charles eventually joined Microsoft, Windows became the backbone of Microsoft, and the thinking we did after that demo helped set the company’s agenda for the next 15 years.
The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI since 2016 and was impressed by their steady progress. In mid-2022 . . . |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 31) Italy temporarily blocked access to ChatGPT on Friday, and the country’s data privacy regulator said it would begin an investigation into the company behind the popular chatbot, OpenAI. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 31) Many sites get at least half their traffic from search engines. Fuller results generated by new chatbots could mean far fewer visitors.
The publishing industry has spent the past two decades struggling to adjust to the internet, as print circulation has plummeted and tech companies have gobbled up rivers of advertising revenue. Now come the chatbots. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 30) FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right. Its makers say that is the point. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 30) Elon Musk and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak are among the prominent technologists and artificial intelligence researchers who have signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of advanced A.I. systems. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 22) When ChatGPT exploded in popularity as a tool using artificial intelligence to draft complex texts, David Rozado decided to test its potential for bias. A data scientist in New Zealand, he subjected the chatbot to a series of quizzes, searching for signs of political orientation.
The results, published in a recent paper, were remarkably consistent across more than a dozen tests: “liberal,” “progressive,” “Democratic.” | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 22) Progress in artificial intelligence has been moving so unbelievably fast lately that the question is becoming unavoidable: How long until AI dominates our world to the point where we’re answering to it rather than it answering to us? |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 22) OpenAI's newest generative AI tool GPT-4 is more likely to spread misinformation — when prompted — than its predecessor GPT-3.5, according to a new report shared exclusively with Axios by NewsGuard, a service that uses trained journalists to rate news and information sites. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 22) That was my question as I saw Alandra Markman seated on the sidewalk with an old typewriter on a recent brisk Sunday morning at the West Seattle Farmers Market.
For the past 15 years, Markman has written on-demand original poems to public passersby and at private events. “Poetry Upon Request” reads the sign attached to his small wooden table. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 22) Since GPT-4 was released last week, many users have noticed its advanced coding abilities. GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest version of the large language model that ChatGPT is built on, has been able to code games like Pong and make simple apps after being given prompts written in conversational English. Naturally, this has led to widespread fear from a number of computer science students and software developers who are afraid that their jobs will soon be rendered obsolete by AI. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 22) Anthropic aims for "safer" and "less harmful" AI, but at a higher price. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 17) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 17) With these fears present in the AI community, OpenAI granted the group Alignment Research Center (ARC) early access to multiple versions of the GPT-4 model to conduct some tests. Specifically, ARC evaluated GPT-4's ability to make high-level plans, set up copies of itself, acquire resources, hide itself on a server, and conduct phishing attacks....The conclusion? "Preliminary assessments of GPT-4's abilities, conducted with no task-specific fine-tuning, found it ineffective at autonomously replicating, acquiring resources, and avoiding being shut down 'in the wild.'" |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 17) GPT-4 didn’t give me an existential crisis. But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately. And it has made me wonder whether that feeling will ever fade, or whether we’re going to be experiencing “future shock” — the term coined by the writer Alvin Toffler for the feeling that too much is changing, too quickly — for the rest of our lives. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) Notice that the OpenAI product ChatGPT is already influencing people emotionally through its rhetorical muscles.
Across all social media platforms, you can see folks being happy, sad, or even angry about ChatGPT’s responses. In fact, it wouldn’t be unfair to state that the bot evokes certain kinds of emotions almost instantly. That being said, a non-tech person might even think that one needs to be good at coding to navigate through the ChatGPT universe. However, it turns out, the text bot is more friendly with the group of people who know “how to use the right prompts.” | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) Glaze can protect images from AI art generators by applying subtle modifications. These are almost unnoticeable to the human eye but they confuse AI models and stop them from replicating the style... at least for now (see how to use DALL-E 2 if you're not up to speed on how text-to-image AI image generation works). |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) Love them or loathe them, AI art generators such as openAI’s Dall-E 2 are here to stay, and in the space of just a year or so the number of such programs has increased, and the quality of their output has improved dramatically.
These AI tools are still in their first iterations, but they’ve already made headlines for creating photorealistic images good enough to win competitions, although there’s also plenty that AI art generators can't do, and its hyperbole to suggest they’re ever going to fully replace photographers. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) It makes sense that LinkedIn would be the first major social network to push AI-generated content on its users. The Microsoft-owned company is weird. It’s corporate. It’s full of workfluencer posts and engagement bait that ranges in tone from management consultant bland to cheerfully psychotic. Happily, this is the same emotional spectrum on which AI tends to operate. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) First up, Edward Felton and colleagues at Princeton University try to identify the professions most likely to be affected by ChatGPT. They used a benchmark called the AI Occupational Exposure, which maps occupational tasks to the capabilities of various AI programs, to see which jobs are most vulnerable to chatbots with strong language skills.
The results suggest big changes may be ahead for those in some professions, including telemarketers, history teachers, and sociologists, while people with more physical occupations, such as brickmasons, dancers, and textile workers, may not need to worry about ChatGPT showing up at their place of work. But a second study suggests that people in language-centric jobs are not necessarily destined for replacement. Shakked Noy and Whitney Zhang, graduate students at MIT, looked at what happens when you put ChatGPT in the hands of office workers. They asked 444 college-educated professionals to complete a series of simple office tasks, including writing press releases and short reports, drafting emails, and creating analysis plans. Half of them got to use ChatGPT. The study found that people with access to the chatbot were able to complete the assigned tasks in 17 minutes, compared to an average 27 minutes for those without the bot, and that the quality of their work improved significantly. Participants who used ChatGPT also reported higher satisfaction with their work. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) Since its release, the public has been playing with ChatGPT and seeing what it can do, but how does ChatGPT actually work? While the details of its inner workings have not been published, we can piece together its functioning principles from recent research. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) While LLMs can produce formulaic and structured pieces of prose and poetry, these writings are highly uninspiring and dull. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is an LLM that generates new text after training with vast amounts of data. While teachers fear that the popularity of ChatGPT will be the end of take-home assignments and exams, a close examination of ChatGPT’s algorithm reveals its inability to produce creative and interesting human-like prose. This type of incompetency poses a fundamental question about the usefulness of technology in solving matters of business. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 12) Microsoft has boosted its Bing search engine, to which it recently added artificial intelligence-powered chat capabilities, by increasing the number of chats it can have with a user in a day from 100 to 120.
When Microsoft first introduced Bing’s new feature, which is based on the popular ChatGPT chatbot, there was a lot of initial excitement… but then Bing started behaving strangely. People noticed that Bing’s AI chatbot would start acting increasingly bizarrely the longer their conversations with it went on. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 04) Since chatgpt’s launch in November, a mini-industry has defied the broader slump in tech. Not a week goes by without someone unveiling a “generative” artificial intelligence (ai) based on “foundation” models—the vast and complex algorithms that give Chatgpt and other ais like it their wits. | LIKE PRETTY MUCH everyone (2023 - 03 - 04) ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI’s pockets? | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 04) “The first indicator that I was dealing with AI was that, despite the syntactic coherence of the essay, it made no sense.” |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 04) ked OpenAI's ChatGPT to write some college admissions essays and sent them to two expert tutors to review. Both said the essays passed for a real student's work and might even stand up at some less-selective colleges. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 04) LIKE PRETTY MUCH everyone else in the past few months, journalists have been trying out generative AI tools like ChatGPT to see whether they can help us do our jobs better. AI software can’t call sources and wheedle information out of them, but it can produce half-decent transcripts of those calls, and new generative AI tools can condense hundreds of pages of those transcripts into a summary.
Writing stories is another matter, though. A few publications have tried—sometimes with disastrous results. It turns out current AI tools are very good at churning out convincing (if formulaic) copy riddled with falsehoods. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 04) A growing number of school districts are banning artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT due to cheating concerns, but some experts believe schools should instead try using the software to their advantage. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 03 - 04) Lemoine's latest argument is somewhat more nuanced than his previous one. Now he's contending that a machine's ability to break from its training as a result of some kind of stressor is reason enough to conclude that the machine has achieved some level of sentience. A machine saying that it's stressed out is one thing — but acting stressed, he says, is another. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 25) Inspirational teachers of the future will be intelligent machines rather than humans, the influential head of one of Britain's most famous public schools predicts.
Within 10 years a technological revolution will sweep aside old notions of education and change the world forever, Sir Anthony Sheldon, master of Wellington College believes. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 24) The science fiction writer Adrian Tchaikovsky explores what an explosion of A.I.-produced content would mean for human society and the human spirit. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 22) The email stated at the bottom that it had been written using ChatGPT, an AI text generator. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 22) Laws protecting expression on online platforms do not apply to ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence platforms, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said Tuesday. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 22) Microsoft Bing's AI chatbot made headlines last week after several instances where it acted in unexpected ways. In one case, the AI chatbot told a New York Times columnist it was in love with him and attempted to convince him he was unhappy in his marriage. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 21) Writing content can be a time-consuming task, but with the advent of AI-powered writing tools, this process has become much more efficient. One such tool that has gained popularity is WriteSonic, an AI writing assistant that can turn text inputs into original and well-thought text sections or even entire articles. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 21) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, on Thursday said it is developing an upgrade to its viral chatbot that users can customize, as it works to address concerns about bias in artificial intelligence. | |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 21) As someone who’s spent more than a decade writing and building a personal brand around this one skill, I would be lying if I didn’t mention how it made me feel.
Along with writing, it has impacted 30+ other professions. AI will indeed replace most monotonous take, but it won’t replace creativity and innovation. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 19) As similar as these chatbots are, they also have some distinct differences. Here’s how ChatGPT and Google Bard measure up against one another. | |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 19) NYT correspondent’s conversation with Microsoft’s search engine leads to bizarre philosophical conversations that highlight the sense of speaking to a human | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 17) So if you're already chatting with Bing, you can get even more done by downloading Edge. I recommend you do it right away, as getting an Insider build of Edge running on your PC is far faster and more satisfying than the thumb-twiddling involved with waiting for access to the new Bing. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 17) The company knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems. But users have prodded surprising and unnerving interactions. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 17) While ChatGPT has been taking over social media conversations lately, it's far from the only AI out there. In fact, Bing just released a new one that's somehow much wilder than ChatGPT. Bing Chat, also known to developers as Sydney, is Bing's attempt at a chatbot to answer the questions of users. The problem is, this thing's a little too realistic, which makes conversations between Bing Chat and users either hilarious or deeply worrying. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 17) Are the robots responsible for what they say? | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 17) Two researchers have discovered a cluster of strange keywords that will break ChatGPT, OpenAI's convincing machine-learning chatbot, and nobody's quite sure why. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 15) In this article, I want to quickly demonstrate how technologies such as ChatGPT might be used as personal language learning assistants in the future. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 12) Images posted on social media are analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that decide what to amplify and what to suppress. Many of these algorithms, a Guardian investigation has found, have a gender bias, and may have been censoring and suppressing the reach of countless photos featuring women’s bodies. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 12) Seeing the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbots touted in dueling announcements this past week by Microsoft and Google drives home two major takeaways. First, the feeling of "wow, this definitely could change everything." And second, the realization that for chat-based search and related AI technologies to have an impact, we’re going to have to put a lot of faith in them and the companies they come from. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) "Until now, artificial intelligence could read and write, but could not understand the content. The new programs like ChatGPT will make many office jobs more efficient by helping to write invoices or letters. This will change our world," Gates told German business daily Handelsblatt in an interview. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) This artificial intelligence bot can answer questions, write essays and program computers. Now its technology is at the heart of Microsoft's search engine. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) Reuters reported on Tuesday that Cohere is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a funding round that could value the startup at more than $6 billion, in “the latest sign of the investment frenzy around generative AI.” And back in October 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cohere had reportedly been in talks with both Google and Nvidia about a possible investment. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) Use the best AI writers to create written content quickly | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) You can harness ChatGPT's advanced capabilities to help out with simple, everyday tasks. Here's how. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) Afew weeks ago, a founder told me it took three hours of endless clicking to find an AI-generated portrait of a Black woman. It reminded me, in some ways, of a speech I saw three years ago when Yasmin Green, the then-director of research and development for Jigsaw, spoke about how human bias seeps into the programming of AI. Her talk and this founder, miles away and years apart, are two pieces of the same puzzle. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) Researchers are exploring a curious phenomenon known as in-context learning, in which a large language model learns to accomplish a task after seeing only a few examples—despite the fact that it wasn't trained for that task. For instance, someone could feed the model several example sentences and their sentiments (positive or negative), then prompt it with a new sentence, and the model can give the correct sentiment.
"Usually, if you want to fine-tune these models, you need to collect domain-specific data and do some complex engineering. But now we can just feed it an input, five examples, and it accomplishes what we want. So in-context learning is a pretty exciting phenomenon," Akyürek says. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 11) |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 08) Amid the tech industry’s worst slump in decades, industry leaders are predicting an era built on new chatbots and other types of artificial intelligence. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 08)
| Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 08) Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 08) To find out how good ChatGPT really is — and if I'll have a job by this time next year — I decided to give it a test drive, attempting to get as close as possible to interviewing it in the way I would any other source. I asked it some questions and made a few requests, from how many jobs it might replace to testing out its songwriting chops. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 05) Since its launch in late November, ChatGPT seemed like a golden ticket for students looking to get out of take-home assignments.
The AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, can quickly generate human-sounding answers to homework prompts, like "write | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 05) The human brain could explain why AI programs are so good at writing grammatically superb nonsense. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 05) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 05) In the classroom of the future—if there still are any—it’s easy to imagine the endpoint of an arms race: an artificial intelligence that generates the day’s lessons and prompts, a student-deployed A.I. that will surreptitiously do the assignment, and | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 05) Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process. |
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Without cracking a single textbook, without spending a day in medical school, the co-author of a preprint study correctly answered enough practice questions that it would have passed the real US Medical Licensing Examination.
But the test-t | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 04) "very so often a technology captures the world’s imagination. The latest example, judging by the chatter in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street, in corner offices, newsrooms and classrooms around the world, is Chatgpt. In five days after its unveiling in | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 04) |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 04) | Arts and Entertainment (2023 - 02 - 03) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 03) "Even inside the company, the chatbot’s popularity has come as something of a shock." |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 03) "The tool, called MusicLM, is not the first AI music tool to launch. But the examples Google provides demonstrate musical creative ability based on a limited set of descriptive words." | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 03) A cautionary tale of how the next big thing might not be. A thought worth keeping in mind re chatgpt and the like. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 03) "A new third-party add-in for Microsoft Word, called Ghostwriter, allows users to query OpenAI’s ChatGPT in a Word sidebar and watch content generated by the natural language chatbot unfurl directly in the document they’re drafting." |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 03) 'Amazingly, ChatGPT gets hired at L3 when interviewed for a coding position,' reads a Google document, but ChatGPT itself says it can't replicate human creativity and problem-solving skills. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 03) "A.I. will probably give us fantastic tools that will help us outsource a lot of our current mental work. At the same time, A.I. will force us humans to double down on those talents and skills that only humans possess. The most important thing about | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 03) "irst of all, for those who aren’t aware or who haven’t used it yet, ChatGPT feels very comparable to inputting something into an empty Google Search box. But unlike the latter, which primarily offers links to sites around the web that can satisfy wh |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 02) The company unleashed ChatGPT, and a bevy of questions about copyright, academic honesty, and misinformation cam along with it. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 02) Chatbots and artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT that can almost instantly produce increasingly sophisticated written content are already being used to perform a variety of tasks, from writing high school assignments to generating legal docume | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 02 - 02) "The world of financial influencers promise viewers they can use ChatGPT to make big bucks with no effort. The schemes they suggest are dubious, but reveal how the AI chatbot might erode our online world." |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 29) "while many online chatbots on consumer websites today are irritatingly stupid, one should not take these as representing the state of the art. " | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 20) As a linguist who studies the effects of technology on how people read, write and think, I believe there are other, equally pressing concerns besides cheating. These include whether AI, more generally, threatens student writing skills, the value of w | Writing (2023 - 01 - 20) Instead of trying to “win” every argument you find yourself in, you could have more success if you look at arguments as opportunities to learn and grow. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) Huge if true: Stanford economics professor Erik Brynjolfsson does not think ChatGPT is coming for our extremely lucrative writing careers. Instead, he predicts that the AI technology will function as a "calculator for writing," cutting down on the "r | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) While many Americans were nursing hangovers on New Year's Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures.
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Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) It was easy to spot, and impossible to stop. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) It was easy to spot, and impossible to stop. |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) Tool for checking if prose has been AI generated | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 19) The tech site has been publishing articles written by AI and edited by humans since November, following other news outlets. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 07) "From the perspective of writing education, this kind of software is more than a little problematic. This software may well reduce writing, communication, and thinking abilities dramatically in future generations." |
Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 04) An AI site to assist college students with various tasks, resume writing, essay writing, python coding, and more. | Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 01 - 04) "AI is better at fooling humans than ever—and the consequences will be serious." | |
Writing (2023 - 01 - 04) "Learn best practices for creating an About Us page that tells your brand's story, connects with the audience, and builds trust." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 23) "As Twitter continues to circle the drain fueled by chaos from CEO Elon Musk, one user noticed something peculiar about tweet replies. After digging a little deeper, user Pieter Levels-who goes by @levelsio on the platform-found that some users are a | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 23) "Comic editors and artists unite in expressing their distaste of AI art, which has caused some to refuse submissions for publication and conventions." |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 23) "Reversing an earlier decision, the United States Copyright Office rules that a comic book made using A.I. art is ineligible for copyright protection." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 23) "Like many artists, I've looked in horror at generative image AI, a technology that is poised to eliminate humans from the field of illustration.
In minutes or hours, apps such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney can churn out polished, detaile | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 23) "Replika is a San Francisco-based software company that created an AI chatbot which aims to bring comfort to those who are looking for a friend to lend them an ear." |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 23) "Central bank governor Amir Yaron says emergence of artificial intelligence technologies will lead to changes in labor market, and must be embraced" | Writing (2022 - 12 - 23) "Creators on TikTok are fighting for a more diverse book world - and running into some deep-seated problems in the industry" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 22) "A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine." |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 22) "That's the future of bureaucracy: bots negotiating with each other," said Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, which is rolling out the service." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 22) "Sometimes it’s obvious when a picture or a piece of text has been created by an AI. But increasingly, the output these models generate can easily fool us into thinking it was made by a human. And large language models in particular are confident bul | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 22) "Our columnist went back to high school, this time bringing an AI chatbot to complete her assignments" |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 22) "OpenAI says programs like DALL-E 2 will 'democratize' art." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 22) "The world's response to the oracular artificial intelligence program called ChatGPT started with chuckles but has quickly moved on to shivers." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "Teachers must evolve to keep up with technology, prevent kids from leaning on AI, writing coach says" |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "This artificial intelligence bot can converse, write poetry and program computers. Be careful how much you trust it, though." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "The tool has impressed experts with its writing ability, proficiency at complex tasks and ease of use" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "New artificial intelligence tool can respond to a human question better than predecessors, say observers" |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "Researchers have developed a bot capable of the deceptions required to prosper in an online diplomacy game" | Category (2022 - 12 - 11) "AI chatbot ChatGPT has been trained to provide conversational answers to users’ queries. It’s fantastically talented but still prone to producing cogent waffle and misinformation." | Category (2022 - 12 - 11) "Disney researchers have created a new neural network that can alter the visual age of actors in TV or film, reports Gizmodo. The technology will allow TV or film producers to make actors appear older or younger using an automated process that will b |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "Teachers and parents can’t detect this new form of plagiarism. Tech companies could step in – if they had the will to do so" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "GPT-3 is already capable of answering questions of the sort used in essay topics and take home exams. It does not answer them well, but it answers them well enough to get a passing grade in many college courses and most high school courses. It is li | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "When large language models fall short, the consequences can be serious. Why is it so hard to acknowledge that?" |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 11) "A few weeks ago, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick told his MBA students to play around with GPT, an artificial intelligence model, and see if the technology could write an essay based on one of the topics discussed in his course. ..." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 07) "what if machines can take over a large chunk of what we have historically thought of as knowledge work? ... So quite a few knowledge jobs may be eminently replaceable." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 07) "The future is here and we don't like it one bit" |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 07) "For years, tech writers have been warning about how AI will eliminate the need for all kinds of human-staffed professions from truck driving to portfolio management.
Turns out, the AI bots are really coming for us." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 07) "How AI innovation is powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries."
By Chloe Xiang | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 06) "The black box problem is a profound mystery surrounding AI. It says that we may understand the input, we may understand the output, but the AI’s decision-making process which bridges these two is a black box we can’t seem to peer inside. " |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 06) "OpenAI's question-answering bot, ChatGPT, isn't smart enough for the team at Stack Overflow, who today announced a temporary ban on answers generated by the AI bot because of how frequently it's wrong. Stack Overflow said it was withholding a | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 06) "The essay, in particular the undergraduate essay, has been the center of humanistic pedagogy for generations. It is the way we teach children how to research, think, and write. That entire tradition is about to be disrupted from the ground up. " | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 06) "Early users have described the technology as an alternative to Google because it is capable of providing descriptions, answers and solutions to complex questions including ways to write code, and solve layout problems and optimisation queries.
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Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 01) "A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original. But it’s still not perfect."
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November 30, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 01) "Refinement to AI language model generates rhyming compositions in various styles."
BENJ EDWARDS - 11/29/2022, 5:49 PM | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 12 - 01) "Robots were once considered capable only of unimaginative, routine work. Today they write articles and create award-winning art."
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Category (2022 - 12 - 01) "A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original. But it’s still not perfect."
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November 30, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 23) "What’s New: As part of Intel's Responsible AI work, the company has productized FakeCatcher, a technology that can detect fake videos with a 96% accuracy rate. Intel’s deepfake detection platform is the world’s first real-time deepfake detector that | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 23) "Meta's Cicero can negotiate or persuade with natural language—just like a human.
BENJ EDWARDS - 11/22/2022, 6:32 PM" |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 19) Galactica language model generated convincing text about fact and nonsense alike. | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 16) "Applied large language model startups have exploded in the past year. Enormous advances in underlying language modeling technology, coupled with the early success of products like Github CoPilot, have led to a huge array of founders using LLMs to re | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 16) Overview of transformers and large language models. |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 16) Excellent explanation and discussion of large language models. | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 16) "From [the] perspective of an investor & previous early-stage operator in the space" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 05) "Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world's "1,000 most spoken languages." As a first step towards this goal, the company is unveiling an AI model trained on over 400 languages, which |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 05) "Wordcraft is a 'magic text editor' meant to inspire writers when crafting new stories, but it's not likely to replace your favorite authors anytime soon" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 11 - 05) "AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce them. " | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 30) "Every 14 years,” says Currier, “we get one of these Cambrian explosions. We had one around the internet in ’94. We had one around mobile phones in 2008. Now we’re having another one in 2022." |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 19) "One aspect of AI that is often overlooked is the role of the technical writer. Amidst the appeal of new technology, technical writers serve a vital role in development of AI applications, including chatbots, by being the subject experts most equippe | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 18) "Throughout the article, we’ve seen hard evidence that AI isn’t ready to create great technical content…yet. Good technical writing requires a combination of insight and hands-on experience that even the most sophisticated text generation AI tools li | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 17) "If you believe anything can and will be automated with artificial intelligence (AI), then you might not be surprised to know how many notable media organizations including The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, and Yahoo! Sp |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 17) "Text summarization is the problem of creating a short, accurate, and fluent summary of a longer text document.
Automatic text summarization methods are greatly needed to address the ever-growing amount of text data available online to both better | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 17) "A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers." | Artificial intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "Essays written by AI language tools like OpenAI's Playground are often hard to tell apart from text written by humans." |
Artificial intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) How software can help some grieve, perturb others | Artificial intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "GPT-3 can write essays, op-eds, Tweets, jokes (admittedly just dad jokes for now), dialogue, advertisements, text messages, and restaurant reviews, to give just a few examples. Each time you click the “submit” button, the machine learning algorithm | Artificial intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "AI image synthesis goes open source, with big implications." |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "AI should be a writing assistant, not an outsourcing solution" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "Machine-learning tools can correct grammar and advise on the style and tone of presentations — but they must be used with caution." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "Midjourney is just one of many AI programs capable of churning out art on demand in response to a text prompt, using machine learning algorithms that have digested millions of labeled images from the web or public data sets. After that training, the |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "In this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything, Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication at Stanford, explores this phenomenon and its positive and negative implications for how we communicate and how we understand our interact | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "On a rainy afternoon earlier this year, I logged into my OpenAI account and typed a simple instruction for the research company's artificial-intelligence algorithm, GPT-3: Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and add scientific referenc | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) This piece from the New York Times was published in March of 2015. Seven years is a long time in computer software evolution. |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "Recently, a researcher showed that he could create Deepfake text with artificial intelligence that is so real that US government officials did not know it was computer-generated, and accepted it as legitimate public comment...." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "Computers have learned to use language better than some people can, but they’ve picked up many of our bad habits as well. What’s to be done?" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 16) "Artificial intelligence generates a story about a robot trying to understand humanity" |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 07) Claims it can write an essay or outline about any given topic. ! | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 07) Why write if you don't have to? | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 10 - 07) I offered the word "rhetoric" as a subject and got back an opening paragraph that kind of blew my mind it was so good. |
Writing (2022 - 09 - 04) "While other future novelists were discussing iambic pentameter and leitmotifs, Gina Chen immersed herself in computer science." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 08 - 08) "Determining the way artificial intelligence is used and governed will be one of the century’s key political battlegrounds. Here’s what everyone needs to know" | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 08 - 08) "Robots can’t think or feel, despite what the researchers who build them want to believe." |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 08 - 05) "After capturing the imagination of tech insiders, the autonomous drawing tool is expanding to broader audiences and commercial uses." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 08 - 05) "That headline might seem a bit churlish, given the tremendous amount of energy, investment, and hype in the AI space, as well as undeniable evidence of technological progress. After all..." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 08 - 03) Instagram VS Reality. Is that a bot you're listening to? |
Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 07 - 30) "AI is great for rich and powerful people and for tech giants trying to boost profits. Otherwise, artificial intelligence and the automation it enables can be harmful, nonprofit Mozilla concluded in a report published Monday." | Artificial Intelligence (2022 - 07 - 30) | Artificial Intelligence (2021 - 11 - 29) Title says it all. |
Category (2021 - 11 - 29) Brief piece by a former PhD in English who used an artificial intelligence tool to play around with Shakespeare's corpus. | Artificial Intelligence (2021 - 11 - 29) Get a robot to write for you. | Artificial Intelligence (2021 - 11 - 29) Get a robot to write for you. |
Artificial Intelligence (2021 - 11 - 29) "When it comes to writing content, a significant number of businesses are relying on artificial intelligence (AI).
This content writing trend was unveiled by a new large-scale study conducted by Semrush, providers of content, SEO, PPC and social m | Artificial Intelligence (2021 - 11 - 29) "Given any text prompt like a phrase or a sentence, GPT-3 returns a text completion in natural language. Developers can “program” GPT-3 by showing it just a few examples or “prompts.” We’ve designed the API to be both simple for anyone to use but als | Politics (2021 - 10 - 06) For me, at least, this article underscores the rhetorical importance of sophisticated skepticism. |
Writing (2021 - 09 - 14) "Machine-written literature might offend your tastes but until the dawn of Romanticism most writers were just as formulaic" | Category (2021 - 09 - 03) An interesting and timely piece about contemporary rhetoric. | Misinformation (2021 - 06 - 25) Interview with two philosophers of science. |
Manipulation (2021 - 05 - 07) "Politicians of all stripes and the irrepressible Gretchen Wieners, a character from the cult film Mean Girls, have one surprising thing in common: they all want to make “fetch” happen. That is, in a world of high-stakes politics (high school or othe | Manipulation (2021 - 05 - 07) Title says it all. | |
Manipulation (2021 - 05 - 06) Cunningham's Law: "people generally don’t want to be helpful, but they do want to be the smartest person in the room." | Writing (2021 - 05 - 06) "GPT-3 hints at a world in which machines can generate language. The consequences are vertiginous. To spend ten minutes with Sudowrite is to recognize that the undergraduate essay, the basic pedagogical mode of all humanities, will soon be under seve | Manipulation (2021 - 05 - 06) An article about Newt Gingrich and political rhetoric. |
Technology (2021 - 03 - 19) "Loretta Staples, a U.I. designer in the 1980s and ’90s, had a front-row seat to the rise of personal computing." | History (2021 - 02 - 18) "The era of the Antonine Plague offers a reminder of what a powerful force nature has been throughout human history." | History (2021 - 02 - 14) "The field as is doesn’t deserve to persist. But scholars are hard at work improving it." |
Freedom of Speech (2021 - 02 - 14) Interesting example from parallel [or not] cases. | Technology (2021 - 02 - 11) "Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality televis | Technology (2021 - 02 - 11) "Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality televis |
Writing (2021 - 02 - 10) "According to an industry research organization Gartner, AI and related technology will automate production of 30% of all content found on the internet by 2022.
Some prose, poetry, reports, newsletters, opinion articles, reviews, slogans and scrip | Writing (2021 - 02 - 09) A delightfully light-hearted essay about punctuation (the semicolon) and life. | Ethos (2021 - 02 - 06) "In court, which has been my 'office' for 25 years, I am consistently reminded by jurors of what they notice and remember about the colorful characters paraded through a courtroom during trial, including lawyers and witnesses." |
Technology (2021 - 01 - 31) "In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in." | Writing (2021 - 01 - 20) If you didn't have a change to see Amanda Gorman recite her poem at Joeseph Biden's inauguration, you need to look it up. Ms. Gorman (22 years old) gave a great poem using rhetorical gestures that prove that rhetoric is alive and well. | |
Politics (2021 - 01 - 10) Not sure what to say about this piece; it was the assertion that The Oracle at Delphi was a political gambit that drew me in. | Artificial Intelligence (2020 - 09 - 14) A truly digital genre, the AI character. How do you write an ethos for an artificial intelligence entity? | Artificial Intelligence (2020 - 09 - 14) As the title suggests, a provocative article about machines replacing writers. Overstated, but not wrong. |
Artificial Intelligence (2020 - 09 - 14) A rebuttal to the Guardian piece about robots writing. | Writing (2020 - 09 - 14) "Creating content in a variety of formats will help you reach a wider audience. Here's a list of 100 types of content you can create, with examples." | |
Writing (2020 - 08 - 22) "A new system called GPT-3 is shocking experts with its ability to use and understand language as well as human beings do." | CSS (2020 - 05 - 09) A nice collection of design patterns with code to copy and paste | Writing (2020 - 04 - 29) "AI-powered copywriting technology may not be widely embraced, but it’s here. One of the firms pioneering the process is London-based Phrasee, launched in 2015." |
Writing (2020 - 04 - 21) The title is a bit clickbaity (a title with a number attracts users, suggests efficiency) and I'm not familiar with the site, but the advice is sound. | Social Networking (2020 - 04 - 07) Brief history of how advertising has changed in the last few years. | |
Design (2020 - 02 - 23) Fast, accurate, overview of User Interface Design fundamentals. | CSS (2020 - 02 - 12) There are many symbols you can use that require html code only. Here's a list of them. | Writing (2020 - 02 - 07) "Vikram Chandra, the author of Sacred Games, created Granthika to keep track of complex narratives. It could change the future of storytelling" |
Writing (2020 - 02 - 05) This piece caught my eye because I saw film crews downtown yesterday, as we often do, interesting approach. | Writing (2020 - 02 - 04) "Many content marketers feel a headline can be as important, if not more important, than the content itself. In fact, a study found that 59 percent of articles shared on social media weren’t even clicked on by the user in the first place." | Liberal Arts (2020 - 01 - 26) “After a decade, the value of the combination of specific and general learning begins to outperform the more specific learning,” |
Liberal Arts (2020 - 01 - 25) A blog post in which the author, "... walk[s] through a writing process and give[s] thanks for my liberal arts education." | Design (2020 - 01 - 20) This company sells websites in a box, so it's blog is really a shill. Still, there's some useful ideas here. | Content Creation (2020 - 01 - 16) Advice about keeping content providers on task. |
Writing (2020 - 01 - 16) "My writing sucked for a long time in diverse ways, with the occasional sentence or paragraph or maybe even mini-essay that was half decent and resonant with the promise of the actually good. . . ." | Writing (2020 - 01 - 15) "I tend to pare to the essentials during the editing process. I write twice, sometimes many times, the number of pages I need, and then condense the story to as economical a length as I can make it. This (sometimes) helps to . . . | Writing (2020 - 01 - 05) Some great advice about how to become a better writer, including, ironically, this:"There is a great deal to be learned from programs, courses, and teachers. But I suggest working equally hard, throughout your life, at learning new things on your own |
Social Networking (2019 - 12 - 30) Fake followers. Fake news. Foreign influence operations. The last decade revealed that much of what's online is not as it seems. | Writing (2019 - 12 - 29) As writing has been expanding online into the informal conversational domains where speech used to be primary, the generations who spent their formative years online started expanding writing’s muted | CSS (2019 - 12 - 18) Great interactive tool that lets you view how your content looks in different fonts and then give you the CSS code. |
Writing (2019 - 12 - 17) Rumor has it that the graphical user interface will soon be replaced by Seri- / Google Assistant- / Alexa-like conversational interfaces. | Writing (2019 - 12 - 16) Not sure if having a number and alliteration in a title is one of them. But that's a good idea too. | |
Writing (2019 - 11 - 05) Will writing be automated in the future? | Content Management (2019 - 11 - 01) What's your website for? | Artificial Intelligence (2019 - 03 - 25) The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse |
Arts and Entertainment (2019 - 03 - 25) Reddit video of rhetorical crow. | Artificial Intelligence (2019 - 03 - 25) | |
History (2019 - 02 - 17) A bit of internet history and gender relations across time. | Writing (2019 - 02 - 16) Slightly spooky piece about AI writing text so well, the authors of the script worry it could corrupt information channels. | Design (2019 - 02 - 11) Standard, and effective, advice about turning browsers into customers. |
Design (2019 - 02 - 11) Advice about how to use text on a hero screen. | Writing (2019 - 02 - 08) More and more writing is being done by computers, with editors providing oversight. | Usability (2019 - 01 - 12) Explains why separation of structure and content is important. |
Writing (2019 - 01 - 10) What if your license plate were digital instead of print? | Writing (2019 - 01 - 08) An effective critique of a misuse of statistics. Also an excellent example of reasonable ethos. | Writing (2019 - 01 - 03) Argues that people who design digital products and interfaces need to consider writing part of the job. |
Writing (2018 - 12 - 22) A wired article about book publishing in the current era. | Writing (2018 - 12 - 22) A wired article about book publishing in the current era. | Theory (2018 - 12 - 12) Welcome to the digital universe. Thanks for sharing. |
History (2018 - 12 - 11) Did you know a woman invented the word processor? I didn't until now. | Writing (2018 - 10 - 26) DeGrasse Tyson apparently collects old fashioned ink pens. He says that if you write with a quill, your natural rhythm will be 5 or 6 words to the sentence, enough time to scratch before having to re | Politics (2018 - 10 - 18) Meaning is to some extent in the eye of the reader. Texts can be biased but readers' biases may slant a text. |
Personas (2018 - 09 - 05) Article about tailoring messages for different audience sectors based on research about the people who live in those sectors. | ||
Job Search (2018 - 05 - 16) Makes the point that agility, the ability to change and adapt, to seek out and learn new things constantly, is the single most sought after trait in employees. | Politics (2018 - 03 - 09) Not an article but rather a database of incidents of gun violence. I have not yet looked at it closely, but I thought I would share it as it is a great example of the kind of thing your brief needs. | Politics (2018 - 03 - 09) A splendid example of what the semantics section of your brief might contain. This example is rhetorical advice to pro gun people, but it is exactly what the anti gun people should be thinking about a |
Politics (2018 - 02 - 17) Op-Ed written by a law professor expressing discouragement regarding the treatment she received from her university colleagues after publishing an article that blamed our current social condition the | Artificial Intelligence (2018 - 02 - 12) Story about augmented reality will blur the lines between fiction and reality, lies and the truth. | Gender politics (2018 - 02 - 12) |
Politics (2018 - 02 - 12) About efforts to alter the rules about conviction and disenfranchisement. | Politics (2018 - 02 - 12) The title sums it up nicely. | Politics (2018 - 02 - 02) I came across this Kaiser Family Foundation site with all manner of interesting statistics. |
Artificial Intelligence (2018 - 01 - 30) Some artificial intelligence researchers developed an algorithm that could identify a person's sexual orientation based only on an image of that person's face. Some people were outraged. This article | Politics (2018 - 01 - 30) Data regarding guns, domestic violence, restraining orders, and federal and state laws. | Politics (2018 - 01 - 30) An concrete example of how laws aren't applied equally. |
Politics (2018 - 01 - 30) A perhaps slanted assessment of a rise in minimum wage. | Higher Education (2018 - 01 - 30) Debate.org is a site devoted to public discussion of various subjects. | Politics (2018 - 01 - 10) A rant about the judicial system. |
Politics (2018 - 01 - 02) An argument against drinking untreated water, and an assertion that doing so is the latest fad of the rich. | Politics (2017 - 12 - 20) An example of a fairly measured rant. | Freedom of Speech (2017 - 12 - 08) A well informed argument about the first amendment. |
Economics (2017 - 11 - 29) A presentation of the arguments surrounding current discussions about minimum wage. | Artificial Intelligence (2017 - 11 - 29) Argues that AI will not take over the world because by the time it is capable of such power it will have become capable of moral decision making. | Gender politics (2017 - 11 - 29) Discussion about sexual harassment. |
Social Networking (2017 - 11 - 02) Article about how automated propaganda works or at least tries to influence public opinion. | DH (2017 - 10 - 26) Title pretty much covers it. | CSS (2017 - 10 - 26) Nice collection of menu examples you can copy and paste and play around with. |
Writing (2017 - 07 - 29) An argument for why writing skills are essential business skills. | Writing (2017 - 07 - 29) Ten vivid examples of why quality assurance matters when it comes to writing. | Writing (2017 - 07 - 29) Want a job? Learn to write better. |
Writing (2017 - 07 - 01) "This experiment tries to re-imagine word-processing software. It explores new forms of writing, that allow authors to shift their focus from creation to curation, and write more joyfully." | Writing (2016 - 09 - 03) Although not entirely relevant to digital writing, the brilliant simplicity of the prose in this piece is worth admiring slowly. | Writing (2016 - 09 - 03) Although not entirely relevant to digital writing, the brilliant simplicity of the prose in this piece is worth admiring slowly. |
Writing (2016 - 08 - 16) Interesting piece about the rhetoric of sports writing which brings up some interesting ideas about truth and narrative | Learning Theory (2016 - 08 - 16) Article about Carol Dweck\'s idea about mindset and learning. | |
Writing (2015 - 12 - 02) Commentary on the LAX shooter (who was white) and why so many domestic terrorists are white males. | Writing (2015 - 11 - 16) Apparently Zuckerberg challenges himself every year with a personal growth objective. Might be an interesting portfolio section. | |
New Tech (2015 - 10 - 24) An article about what digitalization is doing to libraries. Here is a quotation:
A new definition of the role of librarians could be drafted by diversifying their mandate, but such rest | Politics (2015 - 10 - 12) Here are some articles/videos I've come across in the past few months about Cultural Appropriation. This might help in your understanding of the Times article Dr. Pullman has asked us to read for the | Selfi (2015 - 10 - 09) A piece in the NYT like the one we did at GSU, but with more words and fewer pictures. |
CSS (2015 - 10 - 09) A tool for creating shapes out of text. Simple to use, but the code generated is complex and will take a bit of careful planning to use effectively. And, too, just because you can, doesn't mean you sh | Selfi (2015 - 10 - 08) NYT article about identity in the age of personal media. | New Tech (2015 - 10 - 06) An article about etiquette and phone use, observing that it's generally considered rude to look at your phone will with other people. |
Writing (2015 - 10 - 01) A rebuttal to "Politics and the English Language" | Writing (2015 - 09 - 22) Interesting short piece about logos and marketing focused on Reddit and Snoo | Selfi (2015 - 08 - 24) An interesting example of a the verbal selfi. Cook is a singer/songwriter with a colorful family history and this piece of writing lives off that. |
New Tech (2015 - 08 - 24) Not sure of the relevant category, but this thread from Reddit offers an interesting question to ponder | Tutorials () A news story about a Google website dedicated to teaching and learning about artificial intelligence. link to learn with Google AI |