Artificial Intelligence essays and experiments

These are various essays and experiments I have done with AI. Two highlights are my illustrated essays on Ethics and AI and Work and AI.

On misremembering and AI hallucinations
artificial intelligence
In the wonderful 2001 film Monster’s Ball there is a scene where Hank (played by Billy Bob Thornton, one of my favorite actors) has an argument with Leticia (played by Halle…
Jul 10, 2024

Self-prompting - leveraging your mental cockney builder
artificial intelligence
life
essay
When I am doing DIY jobs at home, I have a cockney1 builder who gives me useful tips in his Bob Hoskins accent2. He generally tells me that the way I’m approaching a job is…
Jul 6, 2024

The WEIRD bias in generative AI responses
artificial intelligence
history
essay
Diagram of the structure of the human eye by al-Haytham
Jul 5, 2024

Comparing ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini
essay
productivity
artificial intelligence
In this experiment I compare the generative AI platforms below. I have awarded them stars based on their overall responses to similar or identical prompts.
Jul 4, 2024

Using OSX Shortcuts to copy Perplexity.ai responses to markdown apps (Bear, Quarto)
productivity
artificial intelligence
“I … am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”
Jun 20, 2024

Processing a podcast transcript with the ChatGPT API
artificial intelligence
chatgpt
python
I was going to use Python and the ChatGPT API to cut up a podcast transcript and process it. But I discovered I could just cut and paste the whole transcript (over 9k words)…
Feb 21, 2024

Connecting to ChatGPT via the API in Python
artificial intelligence
chatgpt
python
I connected to ChatGPT using the API in Python. I ran a couple of tests, which cost $0.01 to process.
Next step - take data from a database, process it, return results to…
Jan 17, 2024

AI is coming for your job
artificial intelligence
visual essay
essay
creativity
The news has been full of it lately - Artificial Intelligence is coming for your job1! Within a few years, Artificial Intelligence is going to make you unemployed, and…
May 10, 2023

The Moral Machine - Could AI Outshine Us in Ethical Decision-Making?
artificial intelligence
ethics
visual essay
essay
creativity
There has been a lot of hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth about the dangers of AI. Artificial Intelligence is going to be the end of us all, apparently. But is this…
May 5, 2023

Discussion about Swarm Intelligence
public speaking
video
artificial intelligence
A discussion between Gonzalo Guarner and myself about Swarm Intelligence — from what it is to terraforming Mars with nano bots. We talk about metaheuristics, John von…
Mar 30, 2023

Notes from the course Neural Networks and Deep Learning
artificial intelligence
deep learning
study notes
The title graphic for this page I created with Stable Diffusion, using the text as a prompt which included illustrations by santiago ramon y cajal. Santiago Ramón y Cajal was…
Mar 29, 2023

More experiments with Stable Diffusion
creativity
artificial intelligence
Stable Diffusion V2 was released this week (Dec ’22), so I decided to do some experimentation with it. To do this I used the ImaginAIry Python code by Bryce Drennan. I also…
Dec 30, 2022

Experiments with Stable Diffusion
artificial intelligence
creativity
I created these images using the Stability Photoshop Plugin by the wonderful Christian Cantrell, with images generated utilizing the Dreamstudio service. It’s a paid-for…
Dec 3, 2022
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