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    More AI Remixing

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    My favorite thing about AI art is that the results are throw-aways. You are not asking a real artist to pour weeks of work and years of skill into something that is, basically, a joke.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 21, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
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    Unrelated

    Let me introduce you to Roberto Ferri.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
    • 4 Comments

    Another AI Prediction Coming True

    I remember many times when opinions have flown about AI being incapable of adequately simulating a human. The famous Turing Test is one example, but I remember a decade ago having a discussion with a fellow film buff about the eventuality that game engines would allow machinima to replace human actors.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 2, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
    • 16 Comments

    I Love When AI Go All-Conquering

    Seriously, sometimes we humans and our AI friends completely fail to get on the same page.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 28, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 7 Comments

    Lying to AI

    An AI doesn’t matter, right? It’s just garbage in/garbage out, there’s no moral value to it except what I choose to define. Right?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 8, 2023
    • AI, Philosophy, Politics
    • 4 Comments

    AI 20 Questions

    Now, I suppose the question is “what is a typical number of questions it would take a human to get this?”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 3, 2023
    • AI
    • 21 Comments

    An Experiment in AI

    Is humor a sign of intelligence?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 2, 2023
    • AI
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    Want To Scare Some Republican Donors?

    Just start talking about how the IRS needs to look into using AI to review every single tax return, fairly, evenly, dispassionately, against an expert system that encodes current tax law and a knowledge of popular techniques for tax fraud, and that the AI will flag and rank questionable returns, which will be reviewed in rank order. [See also: Mano Singham]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 5, 2023
    • AI, Spies Spying on Things, Things That Delight Me
    • 9 Comments

    The Perils of Literal AI

    I went to Hong Kong twice in the early 00s, and the second time I decided to have one of Hong Kong’s legendary tailors clone me a copy of my dad’s vintage 1940s Hart Schaffner and Marx tuxedo. (spoiler: it came out great)

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 1, 2023
    • AI, Art
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    Forced Error

    I am forced to edit the immortal words of Shelley:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 21, 2023
    • AI, Art
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