Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Saturday, March 22, 2025

The Atlantic Making Waves

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Kudos to The Atlantic for providing a search tool so authors can type their name into a search bar and find out if they are included automat...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Brain Cell Computers

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Human brain cells are being used in experimental "biological computers": Biological Computer Made of Human Brain Cells A compa...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

AI-Generated Persons

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I've read more than one near-future story about people dealing with bereavement through interaction with computer simulations of the dec...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Pros and Cons of AI for Authors

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Is AI good or bad for authors? AI (artificial intelligence) is such a broad term, and the technology included under its umbrella -- from lit...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Robotic Companions

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A robotic device called ElliQ, which functions as an AI "companion" for older people, is now available for purchase by the general...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

AI as a Bubble

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes AI as a "tech bubble." What Kind of Bubble Is AI? Although I had a vague idea...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Decoding Brain Waves

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Can a computer program read thoughts? An experimental project uses AI as a "brain decoder," in combination with brain scans, to ...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Character Brainstorming with AI

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Here's a WRITER'S DIGEST article about how an author might use ChatGPT as an aid to composition without actually having the program ...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

AI Compositions and Their Influence on Letters as Signals

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In Cory Doctorow's latest column, he brings up a potential unintended byproduct of overusing "large language models," aka chat...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Gray Goo Doomsday?

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Could runaway nanobots take over the planet? "Gray goo is a term used to describe a lifeless world completely occupied by self-replic...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Internet Knows All

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This week I acquired a new HP computer to replace my old Dell, which had started unpredictably freezing up at least once per day. Installing...
Thursday, June 08, 2023

Existential Threat?

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As you may have seen in the news lately, dozens of experts in artificial intelligence have supported a manifesto claiming AI could threaten ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

How Will AI Transform Childhood?

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According to columnist Tyler Cowen, "In the future, middle-class kids will learn from, play with and grow attached to their own persona...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

Creative AI?

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There's been a lot of news in the media lately about AI programs that generate text or images. One of the e-mail lists I subscribe to re...
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Thursday, July 21, 2022

The Future of Elections

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Earlier this week, we voted in the primary election in this state. Thinking about voting reminded me of a story I read many years ago (and d...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Can AI Be a Bad Influence?

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In a computer language-learning experiment in 2016, a chat program designed to mimic the conversational style of teenage girls devolved into...
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Thursday, August 19, 2021

Mind-Reading Technology

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Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco have developed a computer program to translate the brain waves of a 36-year-old ...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Woebot

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"Virtual help agents" have been developed to perform many support tasks such as counseling refugees and aiding people to access di...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

More on AI

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column continues his topic from last month, the sharp divide between the artificial intelligence of contemp...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

More on Robots

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If convenient, try to pick up a copy of the September 2020 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, which should still be in stores at this time. The feature ar...