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  • Your Smartphone Camera’s Deep, Dark, AI Secret

    As viral art apps from Stable Diffusion, to Midjourney, to DALL-E 2, stoke fears about machines stealing human creativity, it’s worth remembering we’ve been training AI to enhance our creative skills longer than you may realize. Every snapshot you’ve taken with your smartphone camera in the last decade relied on artificial intelligence – the same

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  • AI Generated Videos, In Minutes!

    Years ago, when we bought our first Google Home unit (as soon as it was available), I described the technology as “magic”. I demonstrated it to my kids, pointing out the fact that you could ask the Assistant for the weather, or to explain something, or translate from one language to another. You could ask

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  • The Quill vs. The Algorithm: Can Writers and AI Coexist?

    As I write this, the WGA, the Writers Guild of America, has been on strike for three months; the strike started May 2, 2023. Just over a month later, the union, which represents screenwriters who work on movies and television (including streaming media), was joined on the picket line by another union, SAG-AFTRA, which is

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