Can we untangle our humanity from the artificial intelligence ouroboros?
1 year, 3 months ago

Can we untangle our humanity from the artificial intelligence ouroboros?

Salon  

Every generative AI tool, from ChatGPT to Midjourney, is linked in the same unfortunate way. It's rich, then, that the answer to whether any particular version of generative AI is sophisticated enough now depends on whether it can produce something uniquely human, like poetry and art. With all the fumbling haste of AI's emergence, it's easy to laugh and deride companies like Microsoft when outlandish AI-generated tourist guides recommend food banks as a destination. And per Gartner's latest estimates, AI-ready hardware like semiconductors and high-performance graphics processors will reach $53.4 billion this year — an estimate updated from the firm's 2022 projection of $558 million, largely driven by the spread of generative AI. We know this because when that fresh human-created data isn't readily accessible to feed a large language model, some developers have turned to training new AI on another AI's output.

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What the coming age of AI natives portends
11 months, 3 weeks ago

What the coming age of AI natives portends

Hindustan Times  

Every year, the average Indian spends around 2,300 hours on their smartphone. In 2023, Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically, Generative AI captured the imagination of the world across domains, ranging from creativity to health care. Generative AI promises a future where humans will have the ability to automate mundane tasks and generate text, images, or models on the go. Interactive …

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)
1 year, 2 months ago

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace. “I hope it will be a model for a lot of other content-creation industries,” said Tom Davenport, a professor of information technology at Babson College and author of …

Generative AI and its interplay with law
1 year, 3 months ago

Generative AI and its interplay with law

Live Mint  

Generative artificial intelligence has redefined the standards of artificial intelligence, revolutionising sectors, industries, driving innovation and transforming our everyday work and play. Generative AI uses algorithms to produce novel textual, audio and visual content by responding to user cues and new audio, visual and textual media based on user prompts. Though generative AI, or AI, broadly delivers "human-like intelligence" at …

Apocalypse of Art: Gauging the Place of AI in Literature
1 year, 4 months ago

Apocalypse of Art: Gauging the Place of AI in Literature

The Quint  

However, the fundamental of AI-generated writing is the works of an enormous number of human authors provided to it as 'training data'. AI writing can be seen as a high level of plagiarism which cannot be regarded as 'literary material'. AI has made copyrights and their infringement a subjective and sensitive dimension — thereby calling for the establishment of an …

The ‘Manhattan Project’ Theory of Generative AI
1 year, 8 months ago

The ‘Manhattan Project’ Theory of Generative AI

Wired  

The pace of change in generative AI right now is insane. Image generation is advancing at a similarly frenetic pace: The latest release of MidJourney has given us the viral deepfake sensations of Donald’s Trump “arrest” and the Pope looking fly in a silver puffer jacket, which make it clear that you will soon have to treat every single image …

Will AI art make the human artist irrelevant?
1 year, 8 months ago

Will AI art make the human artist irrelevant?

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 06, 2023 11:00 IST - 13 MINS READ It all started innocuously enough, with Wombo, a text-to-image AI app that was all the rage in 2021. The Contagion group, supported by the University of Oxford, is an initiative which “explores how AI, music composition, and narrative theory intersect to help us think in more innovative ways about …

Why Generative AI is a house divided
1 year, 8 months ago

Why Generative AI is a house divided

Live Mint  

Generative AI has polarized artificial intelligence experts with some calling for a six-month moratorium on building new systems and others arguing against the idea on the grounds that the benefits of AI far outweigh perceived risks. But the exponential progress in generative AI models that are used to create new content appears to have alarmed many, ever since the launch …

AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable
1 year, 9 months ago

AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable

Wired  

The rise of generative AI models has led to equal amounts of clapping and handwringing. One worry is that, as Kevin Kelly put it, “artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans.” So where does that leave us? One famous study dubbed this the “end of history illusion”: People readily agree that their most strongly held tastes have …

AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?
2 years ago

AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?

The Hindu  

Experts thought that Artificial Intelligence would first automate the menial tasks. Today, AI is writing competent code, producing protein structures as well as product strategies, jotting down screenplays, reimagining our sorry bodies as ripped superhero avatars, generating film, playing music. AI systems inside Waymo cars map from current location, speed, relative position of surrounding vehicles, desired destination and related cues …

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