2. Artificial Intelligence for the Metaverse Artificial Intelligence is evolving so fast that it is difficult to keep track. It is not just evolving in terms of capability but, possibly even more important, in terms of: tools to create AI, with the effort (and cost!) of training Ai through LLM …
Read More »Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – III
Metaverse(s) characteristics If the ones discussed in the previous post had some characteristics of a metaverse, to the point of being proto-metaverses, in the last two – three years we have seen the rise of spaces (and applications) that are much more in line with with the present idea of …
Read More »AI flanking jobs. I – business consultants
Amidst concerns that Generative AI may substitute white collars in several types of jobs I am seeing some companies leveraging on Generative AI as a tool to deliver better services and investing in training their staff to make use of it. This seems to be the case in the recent …
Read More »Defining an ethic for AI
This week I attended the AI talks organized by Anitec Assinform, part of a series on Artificial Intelligence, this one focusing on ethics. The ethical aspects are both important and difficult to address. Even once addressed (i.e. an ethical framework has been agreed within a given community of users) it …
Read More »Would you trust AI for your health?
Artificial Intelligence is an integral part of Healthcare in most Countries. Most of the time it is not perceived since it is embedded in equipment. As of January 2023 the FDA has approved 520 AI based algorithms for use in healthcare, most related to medical images (like interpretation in radiology …
Read More »Imagining a new searching paradigm – I
Yesterday I was asked to share my views on the use of artificial intelligence in the area of information search. This was prompted by the quest of IEEE for better services to their members. IEEE is most likely the owner of the largest technical literature in the engineering domain with …
Read More »Getting younger with AI
Disney has been at the forefront of technologies and tools, starting from mechanical ones, to simplify the process of creating animation movies. This required creating many many drawings, each one slightly different from the previous that once placed in sequence would generate the character motion. Computers have simplified the process …
Read More »The many ways of “training” AI
If you are not good at drawing but you have an idea of what image you would like to create you can try out some of the websites that let you access AI -artificial intelligence- and have it drawing for you. You just input a text telling what you are …
Read More »A barking cat ….
Have you ever seen a barking cat? May be not, so it might be difficult for you to imagine one. Not so, apparently, for AI! Actually, you can have some fun trying out StableDiffusion 2, the OpenAI software that convert any text into images (4 at the time but you …
Read More »Watch out, AI is watching and learning from you
YouTUbe contains a tremendous amount of video clips on any imaginable subject. You can use them to learn basically anything. I, for one, have been using YouTube clips to learn to play piano. It might not be as good as having a human teacher by your side but it works …
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