Thursday, December 05, 2024
Robots With Facial Expressions
Monday, December 02, 2024
Fano And Huffman
A fun historical tidbit on information theory.
In 1951, Robert M. Fano, a professor at MIT, assigned his information theory students a deceptively simple-sounding problem as a final term paper: find the most efficient way to represent numbers, letters, or symbols using binary code.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) November 27, 2024
What he didn't reveal was that this was an… pic.twitter.com/xYiQP41wzc
More information on Huffman's breakthrough here.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Holiday Hiatus
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Deep Learning Origins
Monday, November 25, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
AI Agents
"Move over chatbots, AI agents are the next big thing. What are they?"
The new AI agents include the Interpreter agent that allows for real-time interpretation in up to nine languages in Microsoft Teams meetings. The Interpreter agent, which will be in preview early next year, gives meeting participants the ability to speak and listen to meetings in the language of their choice. The agent can also simulate a participant's voice.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Musk On AI
Elon Musk predicts upcoming AI developments, per @amitisinvesting on Twitter/X:
$TSLA
— amit (@amitisinvesting) November 19, 2024
ELON MUSK MADE SOME NEW STATEMENTS TODAY IN A VIDEO HE POSTED TO X WHILE PLAYING VIDEO GAMES:
1. "2026, at the latest, we'll have AGI."
2. "Optimus is really going to be next level. It will be able to pick up your kids from school, it can be schools for your kids."
3.… pic.twitter.com/FENd2MeVZw
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Crypto-Friendly Government
School Deepfake Scandal
"Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school"
An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after parents forced leaders to either resign or face a lawsuit potentially seeking criminal penalties and accusing the school of skipping mandatory reporting of the harmful images.