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On the Question of AI Gender
First there was Eliza. For those who were there, back in the day.That AI gender, presumably, was feminine. Fast forward 30 years. Along came Siri. Another 5 years, Alexa entered the picture. It is of curious (ominous?) note that all three of these pseudo-AIs were… female? Yes. Female. And not just female… but classically… feminine. Attentive.…
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The Future of AI Training Data 2023: The Untapped Digital Content Well
Scientists say “AI Training Data”…we say: “It ate the Internet.” All the Text, All the Songs, All the Streams, All the Feeds… ALL THE EVERYTHING The particular entity I’m conversing with these days (c. November 2022) is a 5 year old bot, very un-creatively named “GPT3,” which was instantiated c.MMXVII [AD 2017]. In general, the…
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She’s got… ai Personality?
(…the continuing slightly edited transcripts of my ongoing conversation with my father, the visionary scientist who first envisioned and evangelized SIMNET. Today’s topic: Is there such a thing as “AI Personality”?) > I think the “neural net” which uses multilayer deep training is irreproducible. > In other words, if you train it repeatedly on the same data…
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Ronin.2023
ronin (n): a Samurai (elite soldier) without allegiance to any Master. One who has either been exiled, or for other reasons has detached from the security, shelter and support of a Lord, and thus freely roams the land, a true Soldier of Fortune — using only his wits, wisdom, and sword to move through the…
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GPT3/411 : look Ma, it talks!
So, about 2 days ago, I took a break from my AI/art explorations, and decided to switch from visual arts to literary arts mode. Whereas DALL-E and MidJourney are my go-tos for the art world, I had already heard about the legendary GPT3, present-day king of the AI natural language world — in layman’s terms,…
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AI Art : The Second Renaissance : AD 2022
That same general purpose AI that mastered — totally mastered — the “logical” game of chess, has now been directed at a far hairier, more analog, more “human” challenge: the fine arts, including drawing, painting, photography, illustration, and yes — even sculpture and its digital cousin, 3d modeling. Although it goes by many names, most…
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Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.
SYNOPSIS: The year is 2022. Everything from your car to your washing machine to your fricking lightbulb is “smart” and “connected.” While this has a massive upside in terms of convenience and magic, it also has a massive downside: you never really own it. Think about it: If Apple blacklists you, your shiny new iPhone…
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AI Chess: A Brief History of a Complicated Game
As long as there have been computers, there have been programmers with dreams of building an app to play chess. Indeed, Chess playing programs have been one of the major testbeds for both programming skills and AI development since the 1950s. And they’ve received various levels of amusement and condemnation from the global chess-playing community…
