A reminder of how far we've come in just a few years: This AI-generated painting sold at auction in 2019 for $432,500
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ChatGPT as Ultimate Friend: AI Companionship and Emotional Support
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For some, ChatGPT will be the ultimate best friend: always available, no drama, no judgment, just understanding and support.
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What If Internet Shutdown: Week Without Global Connectivity
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What if we just turned off the internet for a week?
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ChatGPT’s Attention Problem: Irony of Focus in AI Era
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#ChatGPT and #GPT3 are awesome. But the are distracting. How cosmically ironic that the paper that started all this transformer stuff was titled "Attention Is All You Need". Yes it is true, after #GPT has robbed us of our ability to focus, attention is all we need. Funny, right?
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Tim Urban Discusses Modern Discourse and Politics Book
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Here's my conversation with Tim Urban (
@waitbutwhy
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youtube.com/watch?v=GkZz2I
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Midjourney AI Misinterprets Rock Image as The Rock
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Indeed, in most stories that people shared, there were instances in which the technology spewed misinformation or otherwise failed. My favorite: architect Nidhi Hegde fed Midjourney an image of a rock & asked it to “make the rock gold.” It spit out a golden torso of @TheRock
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Innovation and Technology Days for Animation and Video Games
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¡Y AÚN HAY MÁS! Los días posteriores [03 Mar. – 04 Mar.] se celebrará unas jornadas con charlas sobre innovación y nuevas tecnologías para animación y videojuegos. Y ahí tendréis también una ponencia mía 🙂 ¡Pillad entradas! https://
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Next Lab Generation hosts creative audiovisual AI hackathon event
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Desde Next Lab Generation están impulsando una charla y evento para pasar al siguiente nivel en el uso de nuevas tecnologías en procesos creativos audiovisuales! Los días [28 Feb. – 01 Mar.] tendréis una charla formativa y el hackathon no competitivo
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Human Responsibility Behind AI Disappointments and Disillusionments
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It’s not AI, it’s us Humans The internet is rife with tales of disappointment, disillusionment, and gaslighting by Microsoft Bing and ChatGPT-kind of conversational AI systems. Artists, journalists, technologists, and activists ar…
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Role models reflecting diversity in tech leadership
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So well articulated Estela @EstelaMandela thank you, so pleased this resonated – absolutely concur on respect for difference + shining a light on role models in tech that reflect this too – seeing someone 'like you' in all the forms that can take, can make all the difference, S
