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ChatGPT is better used for playacting than playing at finding facts. (Photo: Pixabay/Pexels) By Jonathan May, University of Southern California It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. Presidents, so I figured I’d help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried asking for a list of books about Abraham Lincoln and it did a pretty good job: When I asked ChatGPT if it was sure I was not lying, it claimed that it’s just an “AI language model” and doesn’t have the ability to verify accuracy. However it modified that claim by saying, “I can only provide information based on the training data I have been provided, and it appears that the book ‘William Henry Harrison: His Life and Times’ was written by Paul C. Nagel and published in 1977.” Read More This is not true. Words, not facts It may seem from this interaction that ChatGPT was given a library of facts, including incorrect claims about … [Read more...] about ChatGPT is great – you’re just using it wrong

A still from the Netflix anime 'The Dog & The Boy' (Image: NetflixJP/Twitter) Netflix is facing backlash for using AI-generated artwork in its anime The Dog & The Boy rather than paying human artists. The controversy comes at a time when the art community is concerned about the rise of AI putting their jobs at risk, besides the contentious issue of copyright theft by AI image generators. Netflix ’s justification for using artificial intelligence to paint the backgrounds in The Dog & The Boy – that there is a shortage of labour in the anime industry – did not go down well on social media. The controversy snowballed when Netflix Japan shared a tweet announcing “As an experimental effort to help the anime industry, which has a labour shortage, we used image generation technology for the background images of all three-minute video cuts!” Netflix アニメ・クリエイターズ・ベース×技術開発のrinna株式会社×WIT STUDIOによる共同プロジェクトアニメ『犬と少年』のショートムービー。 … [Read more...] about Netflix slammed for using AI artwork in anime instead of paying an animator

The Auburn Tigers reportedly have a coronavirus issue. According to AL.com , the Tigers canceled their Thursday practice because of a team issue with coronavirus . A team source told AL.com that the team has “several positive” coronavirus tests. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) In the previous rounds of testing, Auburn had been clean of the virus. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Auburn Football (@auburnfootball) on Aug 25, 2020 at 8:41am PDT Well, this isn’t what you want to hear at all as we near the end of August. In fact, this is a really bad situation. We’re about a month away from SEC football games starting. Now, I’m not saying you should panic, but Auburn shutting things down because of coronavirus isn’t a good sign. View this post on Instagram A post shared by … [Read more...] about REPORT: Auburn Cancels Practice Because Of Coronavirus

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Online content is meant to inspire, engage and inform. More importantly, its goal is to put a business on its target audience’s radar. Even if an informative blog post doesn’t immediately convert readers into customers, the information stays in the back of their minds. Consumers will see the company as a helpful resource, perhaps prompting them to consider its offerings down the road. While digital content might be a good way for companies to reach increasingly savvy audiences, producing it takes significant effort. A lot more goes into social media posts, online articles and website pages than meets the eye. Businesses need a well-executed strategy, plus talented content creators with a bent for research and a bit of technical expertise. At the end of the day, though, creative people are only human, and the job’s demands can become overwhelming. That’s when content teams should get some help from AI tools in handling the … [Read more...] about How Businesses Can Use AI To Improve Their Content Strategy In 2023

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Recently, I was invited to the reopening of the IMAX theatre in the Science Museum in London , newly dubbed The Ronson Theatre. This location is now special as it’s one of only a few IMAX cinemas in the world to be able to show both IMAX Laser Digital projections – in full height 1.43 aspect ratio, while also having the option to show IMAX 70mm film prints , making it, in a technical sense at least, one of the best cinemas in the world for picture quality. Sadly, with all the restrictions this great feature has been curtailed by the increase in restrictions due to you know what, focusing the cinemas to shut its door again. Let’s hope that once the vaccine is more widely deployed, cinemas around the world will have a chance to reopen and the industry to recover. For all its technical wizardry, as its part of the Science Museum its primary remit it to show science-based and educational films so it was fitting that for … [Read more...] about Behind The Curtain At The London Science Museum IMAX

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin In the closing months of 2020 as the horrid lockdowns related to the coronavirus began to ease, the American people started to live again. With restaurants in some cities re-opened for – gasp – actual dining, husbands and wives even started going out to dinner again. Amid this substantial exhale, the cost of babyitting services soared. Not only could babysitters charge more per hour, they could demand more perks while on the job. Was this indicative of “inflation”? Not remotely. If parents are paying more for babysitters, then logic dictates they have fewer dollars for nights out at dinner. Economics is about trade-offs, though you wouldn’t know it from reading the newspapers. A recent Wall Street Journal headline went like this: “Pay Gains Shrink In New Sign Of Easing Inflation.” The assumption made in the headline and in the front-page article’s body was that more money in people’s pockets as it were had been … [Read more...] about Opposite What Economists Believe, Rising Wages Signal Easing Inflation