There are upsides to working with a neural net that trained on a huge collection of internet images and text. One is that, instead of ominous grey geometric blobs when it doesn’t understand your prompt (there is a free interactive demo of AttnGAN here and…

New AI tools CLIP+VQ-GAN can create impressive works of art based on just a few words of input.

The pandemic has opened the door to data collection and tracking on an unimaginable scale.

Unintentional bias in AI has warranted a lot of public criticism recently. However, we often don’t talk enough about the intentional bias that shows up in an alarming amount of fourth wave in…

Github Copilot will do more harm to beginners than it benefits. It is taking away the creativity and possibility of code optimization.

A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos.

In early 2021 I signed up for the GPT-3 beta program to see how good it is. A few days later I had co-authored Aum Golly — a book of AI…

Google, Nvidia, and others are training algorithms in the dark arts of designing semiconductors—some of which will be used to run artificial intelligence programs.

Large language models could give us instant answers, but at a cost to trust. Stanford scholars propose an alternative.