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December 8, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- AI-powered Health Care is only for poor people.
- The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) discovers that its AI model to detect fraud in universal credit applications is biased.
- Salesforce pitches itself as "supplier of digital labor".
- A Chart to Look Smart
- People can't distinguish AI-generated poetry from human-made poetry and prefer the former.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what Ferrero, Los Angeles Times, and AQR Capital Management are doing with AI.
- The Tools of the Trade
- OpenAI o1, Meta LLaMA 3.3, and other me-too LLMs.
- Hunyuan Video in APW 12.0 EA6 for ComfyUI.
- The Way We Work Now
- Misinformation experts misinform harder with AI.
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December 1, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- The US Department of Defense decides that it's silly to pay for commercial LLMs.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what IMAX, Panasonic, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) are doing with AI.
- The Tools of the Trade
- How FLUX Redux transforms image generation.
- It turns out AI can generate remarkable diagrams and mindmaps.
- The Way We Work Now
- How to offer unlimited answers to strangers for $9.99 a month.
- The University of South Australia returns to viva voce debates.
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November 24, 2024
- Editorial
- Digital Beings and Synthetic Worlds
- Prompting
- Anthropic releases a very helpful Prompt Improver.
- The Tools of the Trade
- ChatGPT can now read macOS terminal apps or IDEs.
- The Way We Work Now
- WSJ's Key Points are now summarized with AI
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November 10, 2024
- Editorial
- How You Look at AI Forges Your Path Forward.
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- The acrobatics AI startup executives make to avoid admitting AI's impact on jobs.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what Amazon and Wendy's are doing with AI.
- The Tools of the Trade
- Video Generation Starts to Make Some Progress.
- The Way We Work Now
- Professional Artist Uses AI Just Like I Do. His Network Leads to an Exhibition.
- How Do You Feel?
- Polish Radio Station Fires Hosts to Interview Dead Nobel Laureate with AI
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November 3, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- GitHub's roadmap to writing code in natural language starts with fast prototyping.
- OpenAI hints at the future of GPT and O models.
- OpenAI and Microsoft's paths keep diverging.
- Prompting
- Dall-E 3, PixelWave 0.3, and the importance of prompting.
- The Way We Work Now
- LinkedIn launches an AI Recruiter.
- How Do You Feel?
- Robert Downey Jr is ready to sue future generations of media producers.
- Margaret Atwood: If I were 30 and in the arts, I'd be worried.
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October 26, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- OpenAI hires a Chief Economist.
- Adobe tells artists to embrace AI or perish.
- The US Department of Defense wants undetectable synthetic users.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what Chipotle and NHS are doing with AI.
- Prompting
- Prompts as Product Requirements Document.
- The Tools of the Trade
- Claude controlling your computer is not as fantastic as it sounds.
- Google releases its AI text watermarking technology as an open source project, but...
- How Do You Feel?
- Former Stability AI executive has a change of heart.
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October 20, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- UK employers receive the highest number of applications in more than 30 years. It's AI, of course.
- Of course, Anthropic is looking for more funding.
- Of course, OpenAI and Microsoft's relationship is souring.
- Prompting
- Two years later, prompting skills remain critical.
- The Tools of the Trade
- My recommended style LoRAs for FLUX.
- The Way We Work Now
- Adult entertainers start creating synthetic clones of themselves.
- Honest students have to work extra hard to prove they don't use AI.
- How Do You Feel?
- Penguin Random House formalizes its anti-AI policy.
- Australian students are quite touchy when AI is in their exams.
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October 13, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- We'll have to work only until 2026, according to Anthropic CEO.
- How Microsoft is muddying the water with CoPilot
- The Tools of the Trade
- Maybe you can use LLaMA 3.1 405B without buying a supercomputer.
- The bizarre way ChatGPT puts information about you in its memory.
- The Way We Work Now
- Wimbledon retires 147-year-old job: the line judge.
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October 5, 2024
- Editorial
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Contrarian MIT economist suggests AI can do too little to impact economy.
- The perpetual garbage generator is getting faster.
- Prompting
- How to give back ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode the voice of Scarlett Johansson.
- The Tools of the Trade
- AP Workflow 11.0 for ComfyUI is now available.
- Whisper now transcribes language 8x-50x faster than real time.
- How OpenAI instructs GTP-4 to use the new Canvas UI.
- The Way We Work Now
- UK social workers have started using AI for day-to-day activities.
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September 26, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- AI-powered lie detectors are a bad idea.
- Teacher-less school to open in UK.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- Generative AI adoption surpasses early PC and internet usage.
- The Tools of the Trade
- OpenAI o1 is better.
- Google NotebookLM is the third most extraordinary use of AI I've seen so far.
- The Way We Work Now
- Indian filmmaker ditches musicians for AI-generated music.
- Lionsgate Studios signs deal with Runway to train AI model on its movies and shows.
- Australian child protection agency used ChatGPT a bit too much.
- How Do You Feel?
- SAG-AFTRA secured protection against AI for 80 video games.
- Sam Altman wants you to believe (and be distracted).
