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AI and Warfare
As the world has descended into a darker place, so governments still feel the need to use AI to assist them. Now Large Language Models and other AI systems are being used to help summarise intelligence reports, process satellite imagery and maps, and even suggest plans for battlefields. This is…
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AI Fakery in the News
Through my work in AI and the media I am sometimes asked to comment on the veracity of stories in the news by BBC Verify. It's becoming increasingly difficult to identify manipulated images, but with a little investigation you can usually detect when it is not as it should be.…
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Humans Are NOT The Most Intelligent Species
I chatted to Reuben Adams for a podcast recently. He asked me a bunch of things and I probably talked for too long. But the thing he seemed to pick up on most was our discussion of intelligence. To him humans are the most intelligent species on the planet. I…
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The Consciousness Company
AI is making the news. This astonishing technology is enabling some Nobel-prize-worthy new scientific breakthroughs. AI also makes the news for the wrong reasons – it’s being used to create clickbait, deepfakes, pornography, election misinformation,… and companies that help supply data may be exploitative and harmful. But in reality, none…
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EcoGrade at thesqua.re
I've been advising thesqua.re for a while now on matters relating to data and AI. Most recently our lengthy project on sustainability is now coming to fruition. In the business accommodation rental market there's a real need to understand the carbon and general sustainability implications of your stay, which might…
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Quote for petapixel.com
I was asked recently to explain why generative AI systems are so bad at text. Well, I don't think they will be for much longer but for now here's an explanation. https://petapixel.com/2024/03/06/why-ai-image-generators-struggle-to-get-text-right/
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GPT4 and other animals
Another week and another article on the latest AI developments, quoting me again. This time it's the release of GPT4 (which seems to be GPT3.5 with a few extra clever bits added on). These large language models are trained on a huge amount of data from the Internet. It gives…
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