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Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?

“Professing Criticism” proceeds on the basis that, in order to decipher the present and to prepare for the future, one…

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A news site used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster.

Artificial intelligence has been deployed to handle facial recognition, recommend movies, and auto-complete your typing. The news that CNET had…

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‘Nope,’ He Says, Body Isn’t His

The story goes like this: A man goes to a morgue in Galilee, RI to look at a body that…

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People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly

"To begin our hoax scenario, we intended to build participants' trust in the machine by pretending that it could decode…

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Media Bias Chart (liberal, moderate, conservative; news, analysis, slanted but responsible commentary, and partisan nonsense) Ad Fontes Media

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The stair railings on my #blender3d #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser need some realigning. Some engineer will doubtless face a brutal disciplinary snubbing at the Officers' Club. #design #aesthetics

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From this station on the bridge, the exposition officer can relay whatever random bit of information the plot requires, thanks to the multiple brass readouts on the curved wood consoles. #blender3dart #blender3d #steampunk #neovictorian

https://youtu.be/_E-3E7Q3LSs Get a load of the upholstery on that chair! This is a 3D visualization of the bridge of the…

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Google engineers mined the text adventure game “Zork” for AI image prompts

YouTube commenter Bob Hepple writes, "Two minds about this. On the one hand - wow! OTOH - my mental imagery…

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Now that I have polished so many details, I’m working on more selective lighting. #steampunk #neovictorian #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move that may mark the beginning of…