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Recent Publications (Page 18)
Karaitiana Taiuru: Indigenous AI
An interview with Māori Data Sovereignty expert, Karaitiana Taiuru about indigenous peoples and AI.
How to Use Generative AI, Part 5: Weave
Weave by Levering the Technology's Combinatorial Power. Part 5 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
The Intimacy Economy Has Arrived
OpenAI and Google Usher in The Intimacy Economy, Reasons You'll Need an AI Assistant—Even if You Don't Want One, Is AI The Cure for Male Loneliness, and more!
The Reasons You'll Need an AI Assistant—Even if You Don't Want One
We are witnessing the emergence of agentic and ubiquitous AI systems that will reshape the digital world. We will see vastly more machine content than human content: nothing will be comprehensible without a machine interpreting it for us. By machines, for machines is the new paradigm.
Is AI the "Cure for Male Loneliness"?
While considering the potential risks and implications of OpenAI releasing an AI voice that appears designed to draw people in, I found an interesting r/artificialinteligence Reddit thread of people sharing their preference for talking with AI over other humans.
AI Systems are Discovering a Shared Model of the World. It's called "reality."
A recent paper entitled The Platonic Representation Hypothesis supports the idea that widespread use of singular algorithms might actually be simplifying hte world. Large-scale AI models, such as GPT-4, are all starting to learn the same representations of human digitized reality.
Artificiality Reacts: Google I/O 2024
Join the conversation as we discuss the significance of Google's new Gemini, Project Astra, TPUs, and the implications across security and education.
Artificiality Reacts: OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT-4o
Join the conversation as we explore the implications of ChatGPT4o's new features, data gathering, emotionally engaging interactions, and the potential risks associated with emotional recognition technology.
Apple's Creative Crush
Apple's iPad Ad Disaster, AI Agents Webinar, Improving Your Prompts with Iterative Reasoning Techniques, AI & Accountability, and more!
AI and Accountability
I believe that accountability becomes more pronounced in the era of AI. While the accountability dynamics between humans and machines may differ, humans will invariably assert that if someone had access to such advanced AI capabilities, they had the means to make more informed decisions.
Improve Your Prompts with Iterative Reasoning Techniques
Proposing a new method to improve the reasoning abilities of LLMs, the paper makes a significant contribution by demonstrating a new approach that is both effective and efficient. We also pull ideas from the science with specific ideas to improve your own prompting.
Research Webinar: AI Agents
This month's topic is Agentic AI aka AI Agents, a relatively new type of AI system that can pursue complex goals using capabilities to perceive, reason, and act.