Tag: AI
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“The crush-baiting thirst trap close friends grwm cringe you posted before your sister’s bachelorette in 2019? It’s “drinking water.””
Hannah Liuzzo of recent blog fave little bit writes an insightful piece for Talkhouse about AI’s role in creativity
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Ted Chiang on AI is required reading
One of the best thinkers on the topic is back with another brilliant piece
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Books vs Charts: part one
Marking four years of sobriety by making spreadsheets about my Goodreads data on a Friday night
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The Gods of Logic by Benjamín Labatut
Benjamín Labatut writes in peak form about Dune, AI and binary code for Harper’s Magazine
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“Sometimes translation is almost like a session of free association.”
Human translators for literary work aren’t going anywhere soon
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“The pace of Internet Time has slowed down”
Dave Karpf and others suggest that maybe tech is just plateauing
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“…hot air, pumped through a combination of executive bullshitting and a compliant media…”
Ed Zitron thinks we’ve hit Peak AI and isn’t impressed. He makes a pretty good case for it.
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A couple good pieces about AI
Two great pieces on AI and the mismatch of hype and delivery – one from Rolling Stone in January, another from Tobias Revell just this week.
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“We’re not seeing just with our eyes. We are seeing with our eyes and our memories.”
A scientist with poor vision describes how his superpower helps him in developing AI’s ability to see things. In Quanta Magazine (via Aeon): I understood early on about the importance of prior data when looking at the world. I couldn’t see very well myself, but my memory of prior experiences filled in the holes enough…
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“This ballet needs more umami!”
LitHub: Amy Kurzweil on Text, Image, AI and Artistic Translation Amy Kurzweil (whose book Artificial: A Love Story is top of my Christmas list) writes about how transforming an idea from image to text (or music, or a digital form) is actually translation, same as from one language to another, and how much our brains…