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Mozilla Lets Folks Turn AI LLMs Into Single-File Executables
LLMs (Large Language Models) for local use are usually distributed as a set of weights in a multi-gigabyte file. These cannot be directly used on their own, which generally makes them harder to...
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Making Visual Anagrams, With Help From Machine Learning
[Daniel Geng] and others have an interesting system of generating multi-view optical illusions, or visual anagrams. Such images have more than one “correct” view and visual interpretation. What’s more,...
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Can Google’s New AI Read Your Datasheets for You?
We’ve seen a lot of AI tools lately, and, of course, we know they aren’t really smart, but they sure fool people into thinking they are actually intelligent. Of course, these programs can only pick...
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Multi-View Wire Art Meets Generative AI
DreamWire is a system for generating multi-view wire art using machine learning techniques to help generate the patterns required. The 3-dimensional wire pattern in the center creates images of...
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Audio Synthesizer Hooked Up With ChatGPT Interface
ChatGPT is being asked to handle all kinds of weird tasks, from determining whether written text was created by an AI, to answering homework questions, and much more. It’s good at some of these tasks,...
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AI Pet Door Rejects Dead Mice
If you have pet with a little access door to the outside world, and that pet happens to be a cat, you’re likely on the receiving end of all kinds of lifeless little lagniappes. Don’t worry, it’s CES...
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Adding AI to NPCs is Easy, Doing it Well is Hard
Adding natural language interfaces to software is easier than ever, and that led [creikey] to prototype a game that hinges on communicating with NPCs. The prototype went through multiple iterations...
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Bringing The Voice Assistant Home
For many, the voice assistants are helpful listeners. Just shout to the void, and a timer will be set, or Led Zepplin will start playing. For some, the lack of flexibility and reliance on cloud...
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AI Binoculars Know More About Birds Than You
2024 is the year of adding Artificial Intelligence to everything. Now, even a pleasant walk in the woods is getting a dose of AI: optics manufacturer Swarovski has announced the AX Visio, a binocular...
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Creators Can Fight Back Against AI With Nightshade
If an artist were to make use of a piece of intellectual property owned by a large tech company, they risk facing legal action. Yet many creators are unhappy that those same tech companies are using...
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AI on the Hunt for Better Batteries
While certain dystopian visions of the future have humans power the grid for AIs, Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) set a machine learning system on the path of better solid...
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Human-Written Or Machine-Generated: Finding Intelligence In Language Models
What is the essential element which separates a text written by a human being from a text which has been generated by an algorithm, when said algorithm uses a massive database of human-written texts as...
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AI’s Existence Is All It Takes To Be Accused Of Being One
New technologies bring with them the threat of change. AI tools are one of the latest such developments. But as is often the case, when technological threats show up, they end up looking awfully human....
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Meet GOODY-2, the World’s Most Responsible (And Least Helpful) AI
AI guardrails and safety features are as important to get right as they are difficult to implement in a way that satisfies everyone. This means safety features tend to err on the side of caution. Side...
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A Straightforward AI Voice Assistant, On a Pi
With AI being all the rage at the moment it’s been somewhat annoying that using a large language model (LLM) without significant amounts of computing power meant surrendering to an online service run...
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On-click install local AI applications using pinokio
Pinokio is billed as an autonomous virtual computer, which could mean anything really, but don’t click away just yet, because this is one heck of a project. AI enthusiast [cocktail peanut] (and other...
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Air Canada’s Chatbot: Why RAG is Better Than an LLM For Facts
Recently Air Canada was in the news regarding the outcome of Moffatt v. Air Canada, in which Air Canada was forced to pay restitution to Mr. Moffatt after the latter had been disadvantaged by advice...
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Learn AI via Spreadsheet
While we’ve been known to use and abuse spreadsheets in the past, we haven’t taken it to the level of [Spreadsheets Are All You Need]. The site provides a spreadsheet version of an “AI” system much...
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Generative AI Now Encroaching on Music
While it might not seem like it to a novice, music turns out to be a highly mathematical endeavor with precise ratios between chords and notes as well as overall structure of rhythm and timing. This is...
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A Low-Cost ROM Programmer With an AI Twist
There are 0x10 ways to look at ROM programmers: they’re either relatively low-cost tools that let you quickly get about the business of programming vintage ROMs and get back to your retrocomputing...
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