Blogs about Artificial intelligence

Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October!Longtime AI Weirdness readers may recognize some of these. That's because this is a throwback list, all …

Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a fundamental dimensionality reduction technique using in Machine Learning. The general goal is to transform a -dimensional problem into a -dimensional one, where is smaller than . This can …

A dataset of 187 thousand high resolution face images from movie trailers! Download it from huggingface. # Before the advent of giant web scale image datasets FFHQ used to be considered a big dataset full …

It’s that time of summer holiday again: reading and reflecting on books read in the past year, having blogged reviews on and off since 2012. For this year, I’ve selected only two books, but I’ll …

This is a version of the opening statement I contributed to the panel “Evolving Perspectives on AI and Design” at the Design & AI symposium that was part of Dutch Design Week 2024. I had …

More than 30 earths could fit between the earth and the moon. Our elementary school models of the solar system really undersell how big space is. The problem is, space is too big and human …

There are lots of models that are as good as OpenAI's Sora now.

Like the internet or a magical sidekick, chatbots are reorganizing knowledge to be more interactive and more accessible. … Continue reading →

I made today a small experimental upgrade to the “Grabbit-1” prototype all-wood robot grabber hand thing. For lack of a better name, I’m calling it the grabbit-flapper-1. More images and a video at the Imgur …

There are those who define as AGI (or ASI) as technology that will "outperform humans at most economically valuable work". Ok, but then this work will simply cease to be so economically valuable, and humans …

Image credit: https://unsplash.com/@cathrynlavery It’s been a busy year, so here is a round up of the non-academic writing and podcasts I did in 2024:Writing“Who’s afraid of “killer robots”? Why human decision making remains the central …