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Jed Kolko, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs of the…

AI models are trained on data, and better data helps make better models.…

In the latest of the genre I-followed-AI-advice-blindly-here-is-what-I-got, Ceylan Yeğinsu for the New York…

It’s gotten relatively easy to replace mouth movements in video and to generate…

For The Pudding, Russell Samora and Michelle Pera-McGhee gave generative AI a serious…

Generative AI things are often unsettling, but the playful uses I’m into. Dries…

The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…

Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded…

Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…

It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…

It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent…

Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the…

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman provide evidence that Perplexity, an AI-based…

Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from…

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.…

A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis…

In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and…

Stephen Wolfram gets into modeling biological evolution:
Why does biological evolution work? And,…

You might’ve heard a little something about AI these past few months. If…

It continues to get easier to take someone’s face and put that person…