Generating research papers reveals our clichés
A few weeks ago Meta released Galactica, a language model that generates scientific papers based on a prompt you type in. They put it online and invited people to try it out, but had to remove it...
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ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values
Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot released by OpenAI, and I’ve been fascinated by how much it does well and how it still gets a lot wrong. ChatGPT is a...
View ArticleHow to use ChatGPT to get past writer’s block
Having your own words processed and restated can help you improve your thinking and your writing. That’s one reason why talking with someone about your ideas can help you clarify your thoughts....
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Do people flock to talks about ChatGPT because they are scared?
Whenever I give talks about ChatGPT and LLMs, whether to ninth graders, businesses or journalists, I meet people who are hungry for information, who really want to understand this new technology. I’ve...
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Making music using data analysis in R
I’m at the Piksel festival listening to Thomas Levine’s artist talk about his data visualisations – or uh, sonifications – in R. He made data music from the iris dataset that is used in so many R...
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Four visual registers for imaginaries of machine vision
I’m thrilled to announce another publication from our European Research Council (ERC)-funded research project on Machine Vision: Gabriele de Setaand Anya Shchetvina‘s paper analysing how Chinese AI...
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Visiting OpenAI
Last night I attended the OpenAI Forum Welcome Reception at OpenAI’s new offices in San Francisco. The Forum is a recently launched initiative from OpenAI that is meant to be “a community designed to...
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My book on Machine Vision is out!
Finally I can share what I’ve been working on! I absolutely loved writing this book, taking the time to dig deep into histories, ideas and theories that I think really help understand how machine...
View ArticleTriple book talk: Watch James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me discuss our 2023...
Thanks to everyone who came to the triple book talk of three recent books on machine vision by James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me, and thanks for excellent questions. Several people have emailed to...
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Wikidata as research tool
This is a first draft that I’m using for a quick demo to my colleagues at CDN today. I’ll go through and organise it better within the next few days. – Jill 14.02.2024 In 2022 I learned about FAIR...
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