Your AI Shopping List At CES?
Many of the 4,500 exhibitors at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show will talk about AI, according to the annual event’s organizer. Only there won’t be any AI gizmos on display, since AI isn’t some “thing” we consumers can or will
Remembering The World Before AI
As we approach the end of 2024, I’m spending some time committing to memory what it was like to live without AI. Granted, it’s not possible, at least not completely, since AI is already present in our countertop and digital
Where’s The AI Regulation That Matters?
It turns out that regulations and expressions of governmental sentiment about AI aren’t only toothless, but they miss entire areas of development that should matter to all of us. Consider recursive self-improvement. Recursive self-improvement is the ability of a machine
A Musician And His AI
Generative AI has the power to cause great harm to musicians’ revenues, says the musician who has a computer-generated version of himself performing every night in London and thereafter sending him revenue checks. The musician is Björn Ulvaeus, a founding
Will An AI Monkey Ever Replicate Shakespeare?
Is hoping for consciousness to emerge from an ever-more complicated AI like waiting for a monkey to create a verbatim copy of Hamlet? I think it might be, though the toffs building and profiting from AI believe otherwise. Fei-Fei Li,
AI is a Tulip Crossed With An Edsel?
Assume for a moment that every naysayer is exactly right, and AI is the biggest, dumbest economic and social bubble in history of big, dumb bubbles. Its promises are part tulip and part Edsel. A fad mated with a clunker.
AI Moves In On Poetry
Not only can AI write in the style of famous poets, but it can also improve on their work, according to this story. Researchers at the University of Pittsburg asked ChatGPT-3.5 to create poems that would appear to have come