The Financial Times has a great article on Renate Nyborg @renate
's work on @meeno_official , written by @madhumita29
. The article is paywalled, but I appreciate Renate (as well as Harvard's @ronivey
)'s leadership speaking about the dangers of the AI fake girlfriend/boyfriend
CULTURE
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AI Fake Girlfriend Dangers: Leadership Warning
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DOES: From Graffiti Virtuoso to AI-Driven Paper Collage Artist
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DOES is originally a virtuoso Graffiti artist who also has been making intricate paper collages over the last couple years and has a very handmade style. His art is best appreciated up close. The last 10 months have been an exercise in what I think is the essential problem of
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Paper Pixels: AI Reimagines Handmade Artistic Style
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Very excited to be releasing Paper Pixels with the amazing @Digitaldoes!
— Gene Kogan (@genekogan) 6 avril 2024
This project was made possible by @Streetlab_io who brought us together all the way back in June 2023 with a simple idea for me to "reimagine" DOES's eclectic handmade style with AI.
No problem I thought,… pic.twitter.com/m53kvvGk7KVery excited to be releasing Paper Pixels with the amazing @Digitaldoes
! This project was made possible by @Streetlab_io who brought us together all the way back in June 2023 with a simple idea for me to "reimagine" DOES's eclectic handmade style with AI. No problem I thought, -
AI-Generated Images Lack Aesthetic Quality and Emotional Impact
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100% en phase ! Sans compter le côté cringe de plusieurs photos. Je n’ai jamais compris pourquoi les gens s’extasiaient sur les photos générées par les IA. Elles sont loin d’être abouties esthétiquement et ne me provoque aucune émotion .
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Shared Attention Enables Collective Coordination and Knowledge Transfer
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People create fictitious entities, eg France, and are able through shared attention to teach others about these entities. Billions of people coordinate thanks to this. Shared attention also allows children to learn declarative knowledge, eg “what’s this blue thing dad?” Do our
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Phone Addiction Myth: Vipassana Retreat Reveals Easier Detox
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"CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT MY PHONE!” is a common reaction when people hear about Vipassana. However, to my surprise, giving up the phone was the easiest part. Once it's gone, you rarely miss it. I guess it reaffirms that we didn’t evolve to incessantly stare at a rectangular device.
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AI Ethics for Data Journalism: Handling Sensitive Source Material
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I think I may be particularly sensitive to this because I want to apply this stuff to data journalism, and the sources journalists work with frequently contain unpleasant material
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Workday Global DEI Report Highlights Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
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Check out the report here – http://
workday.com/global-dei-rep
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John Carpenter’s Dark Star: 50 Years Later and AI Dialog
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John Carpenter's first movie ($60k budget) was released 50 years (and a few days) ago. Dark Star. "Talk to the bomb." "Teach it phenomenology." Echoes of 2001. The bomb's dialog could today be generated by an LLM, I think, coupling together sort of related ideas from philosophy
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Technological Innovation: iPhone versus Atomic Bomb Comparison
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What about an iPhone or the atomic bomb?