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
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
Lessons from the Facebook Files: PR Fire and Political Repression
Addressing the Harvard Institute of Politics’ JFK Jr. Forum, Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz, describes, “Facebook is deeply partisan …. in favor of Facebook.” In September of this year, Horowitz spearheaded the Facebook Files, Wall Street Journal's investigation of leaked internal
RMRK and The Future of Utility NFTs
The meteoric rise, and subsequent fall, of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has been accompanied by the necessary debate of their intrinsic value. Amidst the hype and social commentary, mainstream adoption of the new asset class focuses primarily on the utility of
Ask AI: The New(ish) Normal
I asked GPT-3 what the Newish Normal is, and here's what it answered: Q: What is the New Normal? A: It is what it is. The new normal has changed since the 2008 economic crisis, so your idea of the "new normal"
Psychology in the Online Marketplace
Through the many measures taken in response to it, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed to the world the important role an online marketplace can play in our lives, especially as we progress towards a post-Covid future. Although online shopping is
The Virtual Renaissance
Photo by silvia maidagan on Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a great social disorder that many call the “new normal.” Society has finally fully embraced technology: all commerce displaced by virtual retailers, all communication performed via social media,
Zoom After the Pandemic
(image source: https://pixabay.com/images/id-5064083/) We’ll always look back on 2020 and 2021 and remember the Zoom calls, but perhaps not know why it was always Zoom and not some other platform. We’ll look back and remember our “Zoom fatigue,” but perhaps not
How Will Virtual Workplaces Evolve After the Pandemic?
The image of a typical workplace has been seared into our minds. It looks a lot like Michael Scott’s kingdom in The Office: some vending machines, a reception desk, a whole lot of cubicles, a coffee break area, laminate tables,
Why We Don’t Have Real-life “Avengers” (yet): The Technology Problem in Emergency Response
Why don’t our firefighters have iron man suits? What’s stopping the innovation in robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies from reaching first responders? This article goes over some of the roadblocks making it difficult for new technology to get into