AI Art Panic

If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art need tagged as such? Should it be allowed at all? There’s the whole Deviant Art situation (ArsTechnica). It’s all sorta messy right now, so let’s talk about it. Read More

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Amazon’s ‘Create with Alexa’ highlights the intersection of AI and creativity

‘Create with Alexa,’ an AI-powered storytelling buddy, helps kids create immersive and unique stories to add some fun to your child’s bedtime routine

Bedtime stories have always been essential to a child’s bedtime routine. It’s a time for a child to expand their imagination and vocabulary and is the perfect opportunity for a child and parent to bond. 

On Monday, Amazon introduced a new way to experience bedtime stories. Create with Alexa is a new feature your child can use on a supported Echo Show device to create immersive bedtime stories with the help of artificial intelligence. Read More

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OpenAI upgrades GPT-3, stunning with rhyming poetry and lyrics

On Monday, OpenAI announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, that reportedly improves on its predecessors by handling more complex instructions and producing longer-form content. Almost immediately, people discovered that it could also generate rhyming songs, limericks, and poetry at a level GPT-3 could not previously produce.

On Hacker News, commenters expressed amazement after convincing GPT-3 to write a short rhyming poem explaining Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Another commenter asked GPT-3 to re-write the poem in the style of John Keats, and it obliged, dropping lines like “Mass doth affect the shape of time.” Read More

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