Attentive readers of the article I shared yesterday will have noticed Ted Chiang’s mention of a 2019 experiment in which “researchers taught rats how to… Read More »The Great Rodent Driving Experiment; or, Maserati
Many novelists have had the experience of being approached by someone convinced that they have a great idea for a novel, which they are willing… Read More »Ted Chiang: AI ain’t art
Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image model that will empower billions of people to create stunning art within seconds. It is a breakthrough in speed and… Read More »dr.ai.verless crocod.ai.l // Hype- Text Transfer Protocol
It makes sense that one of the jobs most amenable to automation by AI must be computer programming itself. For all their complicated (as opposed… Read More »OpenAI Codex; or, why you might not want to go all in on becoming a full-stack developer
Azeem Azhar: In your [Kate Crawford’s] book, you paint a picture of how AI creates a sense of “enchanted determinism” – it seems quite magical… Read More »Kate Crawford and Azeem Azhar on AI’s societal impact: positioning technology as servant
On 7th March I started a 21-day free trial with Contextly – “the most powerful content recommendation system for publishers,” used by sites I enjoy… Read More »Does Contextly make a difference to a small blog?
This morning I came across a great article by Joshua Sokol – Why Artificial Intelligence Like AlphaZero Has Trouble With the Real World – that… Read More »Learning environments: kind, wicked and… fiendish?