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When AI Can’t Count: A Hilarious Look at the Math Skills of Text-to-Image Models
Ever asked ChatGPT to solve a math problem and gotten a hilariously wrong answer? Well, it turns out text-to-image AI models aren’t much better at basic arithmetic. In fact, they might be worse – imagine asking a student to draw exactly seven apples, and they confidently hand you a picture with four… or maybe twelve……
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The New Free Lunch Is Over: Parallels Between CPU Evolution and AI Development
In 2005, Herb Sutter published a seminal article titled “The Free Lunch Is Over,” which marked a fundamental shift in software development. The article discussed how developers could no longer rely on CPU clock speed improvements to automatically make their programs run faster. Nearly two decades later, we’re witnessing a similar inflection point in artificial…
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From Single Minds to Collective Intelligence: The Evolution of AI Systems
In his philosophical novel “Sophie’s World,” Jostein Gaarder presents a thought-provoking observation about the paradox of human consciousness: the idea that if our brains were simple enough for us to understand them completely, we would be too simple to grasp that understanding. “Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand,…
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The Top 10 Unsolved Challenges in AI: A 2024 Retrospective
As we approach the end of 2024, the field of artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a breathtaking pace. While we’ve witnessed remarkable breakthroughs this year, from increasingly sophisticated language models to advances in multimodal AI systems, several fundamental challenges remain unsolved. This article examines the top ten challenges that continue to shape the frontier…
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From Flatline to Frontline: How Gibson’s Digital Ghosts Became Scientific Reality
When William Gibson wrote about the “Dixie Flatline” in his 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer, he imagined a digital consciousness – a saved recording of a deceased hacker’s personality that could be consulted for expertise and insights. The character, based on the late McCoy Pauley, was a “ROM construct,” a digital ghost that retained the memories, skills,…
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