Generative AI Now Encroaching On Music

While it might not seem like it to a novice, music turns out to be a highly mathematical endeavor with precise ratios between chords and notes as well as overall structure of rhythm and timing. Thi…

Learn AI Via Spreadsheet

While we’ve been known to use and abuse spreadsheets in the past, we haven’t taken it to the level of [Spreadsheets Are All You Need]. The site provides a spreadsheet version of an &#82…

Air Canada’s Chatbot: Why RAG Is Better Than An LLM For Facts

Recently Air Canada was in the news regarding the outcome of Moffatt v. Air Canada, in which Air Canada was forced to pay restitution to Mr. Moffatt after the latter had been disadvantaged by advic…

On-click Install local AI Applications Using Pinokio

Pinokio is billed as an autonomous virtual computer, which could mean anything really, but don’t click away just yet, because this is one heck of a project. AI enthusiast [cocktail peanut] (a…

Reggaeton-Be-Gone Disconnects Obnoxious Bluetooth Speakers

If you’re currently living outside of a Spanish-speaking country, it’s possible you’ve only heard of the music genre Reggaeton in passing, if at all. In places with large Spanish …

The ELIZA Archaeology Project: Uncovering The Original ELIZA

Since ELIZA was created by [Joseph Weizenbaum] in the 1960s, its success had led to many variations and ports being written over the intervening decades. The goal of the ELIZA Archaeology Project b…

A Straightforward AI Voice Assistant, On A Pi

With AI being all the rage at the moment it’s been somewhat annoying that using a large language model (LLM) without significant amounts of computing power meant surrendering to an online ser…

»Geboren für die großen Chancen«: Eine positive Vision unserer Zukunft

Von »Datafizierung« und anderen Revolutionen. Ullrich Fichtner traut der Menschheit im Umgang mit diesen Herausforderungen einiges zu. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Geboren für die großen Chancen von Ullrich Fichtner)

Meet GOODY-2, The World’s Most Responsible (And Least Helpful) AI

AI guardrails and safety features are as important to get right as they are difficult to implement in a way that satisfies everyone. This means safety features tend to err on the side of caution. S…

AI’s Existence Is All It Takes To Be Accused Of Being One

New technologies bring with them the threat of change. AI tools are one of the latest such developments. But as is often the case, when technological threats show up, they end up looking awfully hu…

This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes

A neural network that taught itself to recognize objects using the filmed experiences of a single infant could offer new insights into how humans learn.

»Democracy Dies in Darkness«: Im Maschinenraum des Journalismus

Wie unabhängig sind Nachrichtenagenturen? Dieses informative und gut lesbare Buch beleuchtet die Welt des Agenturjournalismus. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu „Democracy Dies in Darkness“ von Clemens Pig)

Human-Written Or Machine-Generated: Finding Intelligence In Language Models

What is the essential element which separates a text written by a human being from a text which has been generated by an algorithm, when said algorithm uses a massive database of human-written text…