Why Black Founders Continue To Not Be Funded in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, Now. Silicon Valley’s lack of diversity has long been something that people have highlighted as well as worked on improving, but this has continued to be an issue. Venture capital firms have continued for decades to fund and
GANs and Audio Synthesis
Introduction Ever since the release of OpenAI’s immensely popular ChatGPT software, AI-generated content has been taking popular culture by storm. The public now has easy access to text generation through ChatGPT, and image generation using other recent software. People have taken
The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Reproduction: Proust, Vermeer, and Cézanne, and GPT-4
Top image: Hobbs, Tyler, and Wist, Dandelion. QQL #43. With the release of GPT-4, I am finally ready to concede that A.I. can perform most tasks better than humans. From acing the SAT to finding potential exploits in Ethereum Smart Contracts,
Explain Yourself. Current Trends in Model Explainability
Photo by Dan Cristian Pădureț on Pexels.com As we build bigger and more powerful machine learning (ML) models, we also create increasingly darker black box models. If you were to ask the scientists behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 how a certain
The LatAm Fintech Revolution
Last holiday season, my family and I visited a local ice cream store in a rural town in Colombia and were offered the option to pay with a direct bank transfer on my Bancolombia app. When living in Brazil this
AI Widening the Gap between Humanities and STEM Worlds
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com For the first time in my college career, last semester, I enrolled in no Computer Science classes as a Computer Science concentrator. My evening d-hall office hours and weekly problem sets yielded to readings and
Why BeReal will BeGone
Throughout my high school days, I'd kick off my mornings with Casey Neistat's daily vlog while munching on breakfast. This daily ritual offered me a chance to delve into Neistat's take on social media and its all-encompassing sway on our
Introducing Web3 ‘Do-to-Earn’ as the New Norm for User Engagement
Introduction Every social media platform faces a fundamental challenge: How do you maintain genuine user engagement?[1] For a select group of dedicated internet users the thrill of consuming content, sharing their own content, and having a ‘share of voice’ on the gigantic world
AI in the Criminal Justice System
In the courtroom, you are presented two options: either have an algorithmic, data-driven tool evaluate your readiness for release from jail, or a stranger with years of experience and preparation decide your fate. Both choices could lead to the wrong