A Musician And His AIGenerative AI has the power to cause great harm to musicians’ revenues, says the musician who has a computer-generated version of himself…3d ago3d ago
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?Dec 2Dec 2
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…Nov 25Nov 25
Once AI Controls the Past…We talk about what AI might do to the future without noting that it’s already taking control of our past.Nov 11Nov 11
Pooh-Pooh AI At Our Own RiskAI pioneer Yann LeCun says that fears of the existential peril of AI are “complete B.S.” and that, in so many words, we’d be fools not to…Nov 4Nov 4
AI & The Tradition of RegretAI researcher Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize earlier this month for his work pioneering the neural networks that help make AI possible.Oct 21Oct 21
Bigger AIs Aren’t Better AIsTurns out that when large language models (“LLMS”) get larger, they get better at certain tasks and worse on others.Oct 14Oct 14
AI And The Dancing MushroomIt sounds like the title of a Roald Dahl story, but researchers have devised a robot that moves in response to the wishes of a mushroom.Oct 7Oct 7
California Just Folded On Regulating AICalifornia’s governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed the nation’s most thoughtful and comprehensive AI safety bill, opting instead to “partner”…Sep 30Sep 30
