Content tagged with "ai"

Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction
Book Review
November 13, 2019
72

“ More of an anthology, perhaps? This book fulfills it’s title, but it careens around weirdly in scope. It goes from very high-level to very low-level. I’m torn on it. It was helpful to prove the point that AI is really category, not a single technology. I’d give it a 3.5 if I could. ”

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Book Review
April 29, 2020
124

“A good primer to the field. Hits the right depth between technical and theoretical layers, including quite a bit on ethics. My takeaway is that we’re really, really far away from anything approaching what we think artificial intelligence was going to be. The key is that there’s a difference between…”

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Deane’s Library
Book Review
March 17, 2024
220

“I did not love this book. There’s a potential for a good book there, but it’s wrapped up in a very annoying writing style. The book is a look at the history of how we have automated text generation. The author goes back into ancient times, and moves forward to Eliza and Claude Shannon, then…”

On AI Comprehension…
LinkedIn Posts
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July 4, 2024
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On AI Summarization…
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June 28, 2024
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On Star Trek…
LinkedIn Posts
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February 2, 2024
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“Back in the mid-80s, ‘Star Trek IV’ was in theaters. It was a great movie about how the Enterprise had to go back in time to the mid-80s (the present-day for movie goers). The humor of the movie was mostly because the crew of the Enterprise had to survive in the 80s. It was a classic fish out of…”

On the Risks of Editorial AI…
LinkedIn Posts
Social Media Post
June 21, 2024
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Successfully incorporating AI into our editorial process requires us to identify and consider all the risks. Here are six of them.

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 27, 2024
169

“Bill Gates recommended this book. It’s not terrible, but not at all actionable, either. It’s a breathless prediction of what the future of AI, computing power, and gene editing will enable. The author paints a picture of amazing breakthoughs and things-we-cannot-image, etc. I don’t know what to do…”

The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 1, 2023
227

“This book tries to answer the question: will AI ever be able to emulate human creativity? It never really answers the question, but it’s still very, very interesting. Each chapter covers a different type of creativity: writing, music, art, etc. It’s full of examples and anecdotes about the advances…”