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The ‘Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy’ was produced by a generative adversarial network that was fed a data set of 15,000 portraits spanning six centuries.Image: Christie’s/PicrilMaybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?Chloe Preece, ESCP Business School and Hafize Çelik, University of BathIs computational creativity possible? The recent hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E and many others, raises new questions about whether creativity is a uniquely human skill. Some…

Image: PaizoSix months after the fallout Wizards of the Coast experienced because of its mishandling of Dungeons & Dragons’ Open Game License, Paizo, another TTRPG publisher (known for Pathfinder and Starfinder) has released the third—and what it hopes will be the final—draft of the Open RPG Creative License. Paizo doesn’t own the license, nor is this a license just for Paizo’s work. Much like the OGL or the Creative Commons, it will be a freely available license.Gillian Jacobs Reacting to Her D&D Character Sheet…

Photo: Amir Sajjad (Shutterstock)Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes small, minimally outfitted theaters. But black box is also an important term in the world of artificial intelligence.AI black boxes refer to AI systems with internal workings that are invisible to the user. You can feed them input and get output, but you cannot examine the…

Image: Stokkete (Shutterstock)ChatGPT’s Creator Buddies Up to Congress | Future TechAdvancements in human capital management systems, more strategic and data-driven human resource and talent management practices, and increased attention to bias are all factors that are changing how people are hired, developed, promoted and fired.I teach and work in talent management and leadership development. I’ve used these programs and practices in the real world and continue to learn and research how these practices are changing.…

AI chatbots and image generators run on thousands of computers housed in data centers like this Google facility in Oregon.Photo: Tony Webster/Wikimedia, CC BY-SAMaybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?Generative AI is the hot new technology behind chatbots and image generators. But how hot is it making the planet?As an AI researcher, I often worry about the energy costs of building artificial intelligence models. The more powerful the AI, the more energy it takes. What does the emergence of increasingly more powerful…

Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)Robinhood App Lays Off 9% of StaffArtificial Intelligence-powered tools, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to revolutionize the efficiency, effectiveness and speed of the work humans do. And this is true in financial markets as much as in sectors like health care, manufacturing and pretty much every other aspect of our lives.I’ve been researching financial markets and algorithmic trading for 14 years. While AI offers lots of benefits, the growing use of these technologies in…

Image: PeskyMonkey (Shutterstock)The Weirdest Thing Taylor Lautner Was Asked to Sign | io9 InterviewThe term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. But as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, steam-powered mills threatened the livelihood of thousands of artisanal textile workers.Faced with an industrialized future that threatened their jobs and…

Photo: John Moore (Getty Images)First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeThe famous first image of a black hole just got two times sharper. A research team used artificial intelligence to dramatically improve upon its first image from 2019, which now shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy as darker and bigger than the first image depicted.I’m an astronomer who studies and has written about cosmology, black holes and exoplanets. Astronomers have been using AI for decades. In fact, in 1990, astronomers…

The author’s 1998 head-tracking algorithm used skin color to distinguish a face from the background of an image.Photo: Source: John MacCormick, CC BY-NDMaybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today.The dangers of bias and errors in AI algorithms are now well known. Why, then, has there been a flurry of blunders by tech companies in recent months, especially in the world…

Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock)DJ Right Winger Booted, Facebook Bites Twitter, and Four Day Work Weeks Work | Editor PicksThere has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the the Internet Watch Foundation.Social media sites and chatrooms are the most common methods used to facilitate contact with kids, and abuse occurs both online and offline. Increasingly, predators are using advances in technology to engage in…