Feral Minds. We still don’t understand the role language plays in consciousness. The future of AI may upend what little we know. (John Last, Noema)
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AI as a Strong Signals Machine. A guide to Generative AI for non-machine learning people (Katharina Köth, Medium)
There are too many chatbots (Pranav Dixit, Vox)
Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment (Daron Acemoglu, Wired)
What are embeddings? (Vicki Boykis, Blog)
NLP using libraries from the Hugging Face ecosystem (HuggingFace, YouTube)
Signs and Portents. Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like (Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing)
Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 (Simon Williams, Blog)
Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots (Joe Tidy, BBC)
Cleo Abram: Creating videos with AI (Google, YouTube)
A Camera, Not an Engine. Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality (Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm Studio)
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI’s global order (Jasmina Tacheva, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Big Data & Society)
Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever (Karen Weise, Cade Metz, Nico Grant, Mike Isaac, NYTimes)
