Artificial Intelligence

2024-10-07

Introducing canvas: A new interface for OpenAI’s ChatGPT that’s designed for better “collaboration” when coding or writing.

2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.

2024-09-28: Honestly it’s probably a losing battle, but if you want to try then organisations like CNN and …

2024-09-19: New phones aren't all that more exciting despite what Google claims

2024-09-18

Using LLMs to Simplify your Writing: Using LLMs as a personal writing editor seems like one of their more benign uses if you’re happy to fact-check the results - and this idea is one my colleagues probably wish I’d take up.

Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model: OpenAI’s typical levels of actual openness surfacing again as they threaten to ban anyone asking their new model why it says the things it does.

2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million

2024-09-05: 📄 Reading the Pivot to AI blog.

2024-08-14: Is there anything more ‘US politics in 2024’ than this? While the real Trump-Musk Space …

2024-08-04: I wasn’t wrong about the torment nexus AI plastic necklace company called ‘Friend’ …

2024-08-01: 📚 Finished reading The Future by Naomi Alderman.

2024-07-31: An AI company reinvents the concept of a 'friend'

2024-07-24: We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and …

2024-07-23: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It Paul Ford writes entertainingly about generative …

2024-07-16: 404 Media reveals the “Face Fraud” marketplace, wherein for a few dollars you can buy a …

2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'

2024-06-27: 404 reports that: Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that …

2024-06-19: (At least) one of the UK's general election candidates is an AI chatbot

2024-06-12: The cutting edge AI-bots couldn't say who won the 2020 US Presidential election

2024-05-28: Seems it is impossible to delete your old Google Gemini chatbot chats if you have a Google business …

2024-05-21: OpenAI's latest model - why are we trying so hard to make these products sound so human?

2024-05-13: Publishers are receiving a deluge of AI-generated dross

2024-05-09: 📺 (Re)watching Westworld.

2024-05-06: Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs now has a AI-generated 'digital person' as a spokesperson

2024-04-20: The source of the 'AI experts think there's a 10% chance that AI will destroy humanity' statistic