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20 Nov

“Task Failed Successfully”

“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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5 Jul

The Future Written Word

The year is 2072. The written word is everywhere, and AI authors most of it. Human authorship is not unknown, but it is an art now, not a skill. A writer is like the artisan, who works with woods...
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24 May

Power in Miniature: Algorithmic Tools in an AI World

(If you just want to see the code in action, jump down to the bottom). This post is shorter than I intended it to be, because I kept wrestling with it and in the end decided that for...
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22 May

Legitimate & Utterly Useless Fear of Generative AI

⚪ This document is certified 100% AI-free ⚪ (It’s kind of a joke, and also it’s not) It’s not really surprising, but I’ve seen — like everybody else — the concern over AI rising in proportion to the ascendance...
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23 Mar

Burning Diffuse from Both Ends

Part one of an unknown length series If you stumbled onto this article and expect to learn something of AI in a traditional fashion, you might spend your time better elsewhere (even if that’s another article on this blog). Usually...
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20 Feb

AI Coder Phantasm

The future of coding itself is at stake seems to be the message of many articles and discussions in recent months. Certainly anyone whose career lies in software development and related fields has reason to ponder the significant leaps...
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15 Jul

Is a Neural Network of Glass an AI?

A recent publication in the Optical Society’s journal of Photonics Research demonstrates how certain computing tasks (referred to in the article as “artificial neural computing”) may be performed using a specially prepared sheet of glass (“nanophotonic medium”). For this...
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