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Why AI Can’t Create Like We Can

Human beings are endowed with a unique creative force, so why let AI have all the fun?

AI belongs to this world of necessity and it is bound by the inputs we give it: code, training data, prompts. It has no imagination.

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#12! AI Is Going To Solve All Our Problems Soon!

In our countdown for the Top Twelve AI Hypes of 2020

First, before we get started: The AI industry has been making real progress. But with real progress comes real hype. That figures. We spent all year covering the real progress. Now that we are all kicking up our feet, we are going to send up some of the hype. We used to only have 10 top hypes but now we have 12. If progress continues at this pace, we might end up with 59 by 2050… Anyway, our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed fellow computer nerds, members of our Brain Trust, Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway on their picks last Saturday. And here’s #12! The article itself is actually an admission rather than a hype but let’s Read More ›

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Who built AI? You did, mostly

Along with millions of others, you are providing free training data

For AI to work you need data. The most innovative players in the AI space have learned how to get users to willingly and gladly provide them with data for free.

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