Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 (Simon Williams, Blog)
AI & Journalism Links
This started out as a spreadsheet. Now it's a blog. And a Newsletter.
Signs and Portents. Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like (Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing)
Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots (Joe Tidy, BBC)
Cleo Abram: Creating videos with AI (Google, YouTube)
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI’s global order (Jasmina Tacheva, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Big Data & Society)
A Camera, Not an Engine. Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality (Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm Studio)
Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever (Karen Weise, Cade Metz, Nico Grant, Mike Isaac, NYTimes)
When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen (Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism)
Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning (Andy Baio, Waxy)
How 10 News Industry Leaders Use ChatGPT in Their Personal Lives (Nikita Roy, Newsroom Robots)
Losing Alice. For the last two years, Sheila Heti has been writing to—and with—a chatbot. But what happens when the software gets updated? (Claire L. Evans, Pioneer Works)
AI and Trust (Bruce Schneier, Schneier on Security)
Prompt Structure in Conversations with Generative AI (Raluca Budiu, Feifei Liu, Amy Zhang, Emma Cionca, Nielsen Norman Group)