From Exploration to Ubiquity — Generative AI has a long history going back to the 1960s, but 2022 can be regarded as the year of the AI Great Awakening. Act One I remember when I first saw DALL-E 2 in April of 2022, and it was like an epiphany, I knew something big was about to happen…

The Ethical and Emotional Impacts of AI Interaction — Understanding how AI chatbots interact with us can often be mysterious. What we are discovering, which is also the strangest part about AI, is that chatbots respond best when treated as if they were human. In a recent report from Google about utilizing LLMs as optimizers, the findings suggest that…

A User-Centric Approach to AI Integration — While AI generative text has taken the world by storm with the release of ChatGPT last November, text hasn’t been the only AI phenomenon. AI image creation with the likes of Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney have captivated the AI art world, and are shaping the future of digital artistry. …

Deep Faking The Past With Generative AI — During my time studying photography in school, I loved exploring antique photographic methods and techniques. It’s amazing how much effort went into mixing chemicals and patiently playing with exposure time. Working in the darkroom was just as much a skilled craft as taking pictures with a camera. Traditional photography is…

The Significance Of Meta’s New Smart Glasses — What is significant about Meta’s release of the new Ray Ban Smart Glasses is that this is the beginning of LLMs (large language models) being pushed out to real-world physical objects. Not only do the glasses take pics, go live stream, and play audio but you’ll be able to interact…

A Strategic Alliance That Advances Both Companies — As tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta make substantial strides in the generative AI race, Amazon has found itself in a peculiar position. Amazon doesn’t have a stellar AI research lab like Google or Meta does. There are no innovative research papers coming out of Amazon, and their…

The Inevitable Rise of Generative AI in Business — While ChatGPT may have been the gateway drug, generative AI tools are now proliferating rapidly in the workplace. Of course, you don’t have to go to ChatGPT to get your AI fix, it is likely a part of the daily office production tools that you are already using. And if…

Rapid Progress And Murky Copyright Laws — In the past year, AI has produced over 15 billion AI-generated images. To provide some context, it took photographers 150 years to reach 15 billion photographs. AI did it in one year. And that number is likely to be much higher, as it doesn’t account for the rogue open-source image…

Music Industry Braces for AI Storm as YouTube Courts Labels — The music industry is no stranger to disruption. In the late '90s/early 2000s, the Napster movement was a significant threat to the music industry, and record companies scrambled to adapt and find new ways to monetize music in the Internet age. The MP3 file format made it possible for anyone…