One less widely known feature of OpenAI's large language model chatbot, ChatGPT, is that if you become a paying subscriber then you can create your own bots that are attuned to be good at doing specific types of task. OpenAI also provides you with a few examples that they created, which include the one I'm … Continue reading Using ChatGPT’s Data Analysis bot to analyse your data
Tag: Artificial intelligence
The ongoing battle between human creators and AI trainers
In order for the current generation of generative AI tools - large language model chatbots, art generators et al - to work they must first undergo an extensive training process whereby they are fed a huge number of examples of the sort of content they will be later expected to produce. Per Wikipedia, the basic … Continue reading The ongoing battle between human creators and AI trainers
The risks of using generative AI when writing code
I've been nearly as fixated as much of the rest of the online world is with artificial intelligence over the last few months. Particularly the large language models (LLMs) out there, ChatGPT being the most famous example. Whilst the hype seems to be dying down a little - it's been a while since I've seen … Continue reading The risks of using generative AI when writing code
Are AIs developing unpredictable new abilities, or are we just measuring them badly?
One of the things that make people nervous, awestruck, or both about the development and release of recent AI models is the prospect of them developing "emergent abilities". The terminology here can be complicated. Different people mean different things by "emergent abilities". Here in the context of large language models (LLMs), we're talking about the … Continue reading Are AIs developing unpredictable new abilities, or are we just measuring them badly?
The Follower – an art project highlighting another way your data can be used to surveil you
Dries Depoorter's art project 'The Follower' is a clever use of publicly available video and image data and a fun glimpse into the how those "casual" Instagram shots are really taken. It's also a somewhat harrowing warning about what information us members of the public are unknowingly sharing in a world where tools can process … Continue reading The Follower – an art project highlighting another way your data can be used to surveil you
Should artificial intelligences win art competitions?
Vice reports that the Colorado State Fair's fine art competition has been won by a person called Jason Allen, who submitted this AI-generated piece of art. I do quite like the picture, but, as you might expect, it's created a bit of uproar amongst some artists of a more traditional nature. One of the more … Continue reading Should artificial intelligences win art competitions?
Should an AI’s opinion of your personality affect whether you get a job?
Source: Retorio At first glance, that question may feel like a perfect example of Betteridge's law of headlines, the adage which states that if a headline ends in a question mark then one can usually assume the answer is no. That might well be the case here, but it doesn't seem like it's stopping some … Continue reading Should an AI’s opinion of your personality affect whether you get a job?
Help decide who self-driving cars should kill
Automated self-driving cars are surely on their way. Given the direction of technological development, this seems a safe enough prediction to make - at least when taking the coward's option of not specifying a time frame. A self-driving car is, after all, a data processor, and we like to think that we're getting better at dealing … Continue reading Help decide who self-driving cars should kill
An AI beat the human world Go champion – is the end of the world nigh?
On March 15th 2016, the next event in the increasingly imminent robot takeover of the world took place. A computerised artificial intelligence known as "AlphaGo" beat a human at a board game, in a decisive 4:1 victory. This doesn't feel particularly new - after all, a computer called Deep Blue beat the world chess Champion … Continue reading An AI beat the human world Go champion – is the end of the world nigh?
Dabbling with Data 