From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
From Today, Creativity Is Dead!A common theme in the concerns about generative AI is that it will replace human-generated art and end creativity as we know it.daguerreotype...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 23, 2023 at 11:28 AM
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Most of us who work on search focus on its engineering or product aspects. But I feel it’s valuable to also look at search philosophically. I’m no expert on philosophy...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 19, 2023 at 11:13 AM
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This morning, I had the opportunity to present an invited talk at Walmart’s AI Summit. Not surprisingly, a lot of folks were excited about the potential of ChatGPT...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 5, 2023 at 04:23 PM
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Since Medium decided to allow AI-generated content as long as it’s clearly disclosed as such, I decided to give it a whirl.Prompt EngineeringMy first prompt was...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 26, 2023 at 08:25 PM
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Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2023 is off to a great start for you.Are you excited to kick off the new year by learning more about search?If so, you’re in luck...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 9, 2023 at 09:01 AM
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | January 5, 2023 at 06:22 AM
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I’m old enough to remember when the web was new, and honest enough to admit that I was a skeptic at the time. Fortunately, I was wrong, and I owe my career to the...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 28, 2022 at 09:02 AM