Blogs about Artificial intelligence

There's an anonymous facebook posting that's been making the rounds, in which a studio art director tried to hire AI prompters to make art, only to discover that they were completely unable to carry out …

We all have some problem we are trying to solve. First off, if you can convert the problem to text, or increasingly pdfs, images, video, etc., then you might be able to use AI for …

Back in the GAN days most of my time was spent playing with famous models like StyleGAN and pix2pix. But another of my favourite models, which was much less well known, was Swapping Autoencoder, a …

Visiting HydroSciences Montpellier on the EU-funded STARWARS project on AI for stormwater and wastewater data management, I was invited to give a seminar at the research institute. On any topic, but, yeah, they’re all hydrologists. …

Below are the abstract and slides for my contribution to the TILTing Perspectives 2024 panel “The mutual shaping of democratic practices & AI,” moderated by Merel Noorman. Slides democratizing-ai-through-continuous-adaptability-the-role-of-devops-tilting-perspectives-2024Download Abstract Contestability This presentation delves into …

If your Dataset class looks something like class MyDataset(Dataset): # ... boilerplate ... def __getitem__(self, idx): item = self.data[idx] return item['anchor'], item['positive'], item['negative'] your collate function should be def collate_fn(data): anchors, pos, neg = zip(*data) …

A roundup of recent developments from the world of open-source language models.

Apple, OpenAI, and Anthropic have three different answers.

Haven’t finished his Art of Controversy yet, but it’s a quick fun read and has some genuinely fun nuggets like this, which are still/perhaps even more relevant today: Stratagem 8This trick consists in making your …

There are those who believe that advanced AI poses a threat to humanity. The argument is that when AI systems become intelligent enough, they may hurt humanity in ways that we cannot foresee, and because …

A summary of a recent talk I gave on AI ethics and governance in an Australian Context. Image credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/geometric-shape-digital-wallpaper-oyXis2kALVg Ethics and governance is currently at the forefront of many discussions around AI. I see …