In a recent exchange on The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert pressed iconic director Steven Spielberg to weigh in on the ever-evolving world of AI-generated art. Spielberg expressed his love for it, saying that he believes any time a person uses digital tools to express themselves and convey a message is fantastic. It was a rational and thoughtful response that mimicked those of Samuel Morse regarding photography in the 1840s. Colbert, however, wasn't satisfied with a measured answer. He pushed Spielberg further, suggesting that AI art was beginning to look more like a replacement for human creativity.

Fears about new technology replacing human labor and causing overall unemployment have raged across industrialized societies for hundreds of years, despite a nearly continual rise in both jobs and wages in capitalist economies. The jobs apocalypse is always right around the corner; just ask the Luddites. We had two such anti-technology jobs moral panics in the last 20 years -- "outsourcing" enabled by the Internet in the 2000's, and "robots" in the 2010's. The result was the best national and global economy in human history in pre-COVID 2019, with the most jobs at the highest wages ever. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

On the last day of February, NYU professor Gary Marcus published an essay entitled "The threat of automated misinformation is only getting worse." He warned about the easiness with which you can create misinformation backed by fake references using Bing "with the right invocations." Shawn Oakley, dubbed by Marcus as a "jailbreaking expert" said that "standard techniques" suffice to make it work, providing evidence that the threat of automatic AI-generated misinformation at scale is increasing. Marcus shared his findings on Twitter and FoundersFund's Mike Solana responded: My interpretation of Solana's sarcastic tweets is that claiming that an AI model is a dangerous tool for misinformation (or, more generally, harm of some kind) isn't a good argument if you've consciously broken its filters--he implies the problem isn't the tool's nature but your misuse, and thus you're to blame and not the company that created the tool. His "analogy" between Bing Chat and a text editor misses the point (i.e., language models can generate human-sounding misinformation at scale--you can't do that with Microsoft Word but can with Microsoft Bing) but, even if Marcus is right, there's some truth in Solana's implied stance.

Histology image classification plays a critical role in the early detection of cancer. Pathological diagnosis relies heavily on digitised histology slides, and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be highly successful in this area. However, tissue classification remains a challenge due to the large size of digitised samples and the lack of contextual information. To address this issue, we present a novel CNN model called Multi-level Context and Uncertainty aware (MCUa) dynamic deep learning ensemble model. The MCUa model comprises several multi-level context-aware models that learn the spatial dependency between image patches in a layer-wise manner.

How are feature selection and feature importance related? This is a question I came upon often when doing research, but it's also a practical question when doing machine learning. They are, however, complementary and if you get feature selection right, you can boost interpretability. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I've done a lot of research in the field of machine learning interpretability, especially about permutation feature importance.

I was recently recommended to watch an interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky created by YouTubers and all-round crypto smart guys David and Ryan from "Bankless", a crypto and blockchain education company. Here's the link if you have a spare two hours, it's an equally scary and fascinating watch: I used to obsessively watch Bankless videos back in 2021 during the last crypto/NFT boom, but since the bear market of 2022 set in, I kind of lost some of my mojo for crypto. Anyhow, this video, was a dramatic departure from the Bankless crew's regular weekly roundup of the crypto markets, where they get deep into the weeds of the latest developments in the space. Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.

In this article I'm going to share with you a flexible text prompt to feed into an AI Chat application that will generate random Midjourney Prompts for any subject you choose. Prompt Hackers is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I can be pretty lazy sometimes. There, I said it, but don't tell my wife (although after 35 years, she probably already knows).

A black and white stylized illustration of a guitar player in front of a wall of amplifiers, with smoke rising up behind them, as if they are playing a concert at an underground club. The player's outfit and guitar should be sleek and stylish, while the amplifiers are large and imposing, creating a sense of raw power. Use a combination of line drawings and shading to create a graphic novel-style image, with a pop of bright red on the guitar to add emphasis.

An unsurprising side-effect of ChatGPT going viral is that generative AI has become an attractor for people who care about it exclusively as a means to gain money, social media presence, or business opportunities: The new class of AI influencers. Let me start by making it clear that I don't think there's anything wrong with using what's hot to grow a business. As the space of AI influencers grows, they give the field more visibility to people who would've never heard of it otherwise (as incredible as it sounds, most people are unaware of how AI is changing the world). That's great--more people knowing about AI means fewer consequences due to ignorance. AI influencers' incentives to talk, write, and inform about AI are not always aligned with people's desire to know what AI is, how it works, or what makes sense to use it for.

The release of ChatGPT in the past few weeks has been met with curiosity and controversy. Everything we're taught to master through consciousness and learning. I set out to write and illustrate a children's book. A simple story presented with original artwork, all created using AI. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.