Tag: ai
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Aimee, a short story
–Thursday, March 31, 2039– “That was brilliant!”, Aimee said. “Simple convolutional neural nets they can build and train themselves. They loved it! The look on their faces when you threw the colorful jellybeans in with the Lego bricks just after they finished training their classifiers. And when they realized they could just add another layer…
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Electric Monks: AI User Agents and Agency in the AIPocalypse
I’ll begin this rant with a tiny bit of history: look at the HTTP(S) headers a modern Web browser sends with its requests, and you’ll notice that for historical reasons it refers to itself by an odd name: not a browser, not a program, not an App, but a user-agent. While the term may have…
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Creepy government project…
Title: Virtual Dialogue Application for Families of Deployed Service Members Objective: To develop a highly interactive PC or web-based application to allow family members to verbally interact with “virtual” renditions of deployed Service Members. This RFP from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD09-H03) floated across my desk the other day. After reading the…