AI Week: Back from the dead!
Hi! It’s been a while since I sent out a newsletter. Thank you for sticking with me! No excuses for the gap, but a couple of good reasons: A new job! Last...
AI Week May 21st: Parsing whalesong, stealing voices and Google I/O
In this AI week: AI and whalesong; OpenAI vs Scarlett Johanssen; Wait, did Google just doom the web?; making stop signs invisible to driverless cars; and more
AI Week May 13th: Geomagnetic storm, GPT-4o, and shooty robodogs
In this week's AI week: Self-driving tractors stalled by solar storm; GPT-4o and the human cost of RLHF; a musical interlude; pour one out for Stack Overflow; and robo-dogs with rifles.
AI week March 7th: Sparkles the robo-dog, FB sinking under waves of AI, & more
Hi! Natalka here with this week's AI Week. This week's issue is late because I had a busy day yesterday, doing things that either AI can't help with (yet?),...
AI Week for April 29th: AI-designed gene editor & flame-throwing robo-dogs
Hi! Natalka here with this week's AI Week. In this week's AI week: AI-designed gene editing proteins, flame-throwing robo-dogs, and so much more. Oh! And...
AI week April 22nd
Meme of the week: It runs on sandwiches Source: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/01/03/the-first-agi-meme-of-2024-look-what-they-need-to-mimic-a-fraction-of-...
AI Week for Apr 15: Synthetic songs and data, pink slime, and LLMentalists
What to play with this week: Udio Udio music generation opened up a free public beta this week. Udio | Make your musicDiscover, create, and share music with...
AI week Apr 8th: Eclipse edition! Hairy mutants, AI targeting, and more
AI Week for April 8, 2024 Happy Eclipse Day! If you're in North America, there was a solar eclipse this afternoon. We're a few hours from the path of...
AI Week Mar 25: Pysanka-style
Happy week-before-Easter! Next Monday is a holiday in Canada (Easter Monday), so I won't be sending out AI Week. Our family isn't religious, but we do...
AI week Mar 18: One year of GPT-4; skirting the guardrails; science fraud
Welcome to this week's AI Week! In this issue: Happy 1st birthday to GPT-4 Updates What to play with this week Skirting the guardrails This week's...
AI Week Mar 12: Why we don't trust AI; the Iron Triangle; On meaning
Welcome to this week's AI Week! I'm glad to have you with me. It's spring break here in Ottawa, and the beginning of DST in North America (yes, already......
AI Week Mar 4: Surrealism, suicide drones, and fakes
Superfast image generation, drones, self-driving cars, fakes, OpenAI's bad week, and more.
AI Week Feb 26: All the AI Fails, plus Enormous Rat Balls
Hooray! This week's AI Week is here! This past week saw some very interesting generative-AI fails that I've been itching to share with you. #9 of my 10...
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AI Week Feb 19th: Time Bear and chocolate cake with snails, plus AI in war
Happy Monday end-of-the-day! It was a holiday here in Ontario, so this week's AI Week is going to be brief. It would be even briefer, but a ton of...
AI Week Feb 12th: Does ChatGPT understand what it's saying?
Hi! In this week's AI week: Does ChatGPT understand what it's saying? (1000 words, about a 7-minute read) What elephant? But first, we need to talk about Sam...
AI week Feb 5: AI translation's last mile problem
Hi! This week's newsletter is a little bit different. I'm going to deep-dive on machine translation: how it works, how it doesn't, and its impacts on...
AI week Jan 28th: How the bad guys are using AI
Hi! Thanks for joining me for this week's AI week. This issue is going to highlight some of the ways bad actors are already using AI, and ways they're...
AI Week Jan 22nd: AGI ambitions, poisoned AIs and comics
In this week's AI Week: ChatGPT's take on science illustration What's next for AI? (AGI / LBMs / LAMs) Comics Section: Penny Arcade and SMBC take on AI...
AI week Jan 15th: Zombie George Carlin, shiny CES, and shady GPTs
In this week's AI Week: Where's Waldo? Zombie George Carlin A longread and a free read: Content moderation "I apologize, but I cannot complete this task"...
AI Week Jan 8th: What does 100010111001001 look like?
In this week's AI Week: Lawsuits 'n' more What does 100010111001001 look like? ChatGPT app store Some things not to do with ChatGPT Microsoft Copilot gets...