The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity Summary This piece reports on new research (originally from Quanta Magazine) that explains why image-generating diffusion models often produce surprisingly creative outputs. Instead of…
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp Summary This hands-on guide from The Register walks through using Llama.cpp to run large language models locally on…
Making Cash Off ‘AI Slop’: the Surreal Video Business Taking Over the Web Summary The Washington Post piece (syndicated via MSN and highlighted on Slashdot) examines the rise of low-effort,…
Nvidia Release Massive AI-Ready Open European Language Dataset and Tools Summary Nvidia has published Granary, a large open-source multilingual speech corpus and accompanying models and tools to accelerate high-quality automatic…
James Cameron Struggles With Real-World Horrors for ‘Terminator 7’ and New Hiroshima Movie Summary Filmmaker James Cameron says he’s finding it hard to write a new Terminator film because present-day…
YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’: Is Social Media Embracing AI-Generated Content? Summary The Atlantic reported that some YouTube creators noticed their uploaded videos had been “subtly augmented” after upload. YouTube told…
The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity Summary This article reports on new research showing that the apparent creativity of image-generating diffusion models (used by tools such as DALL·E and Stable…
Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty Summary Google published a report claiming its Gemini apps use roughly 0.24 watt‑hours of electricity and 0.26 millilitres of water per…
AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Summary Researchers from Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI warn that synchronous AI training workloads create severe, oscillating power demand that can be visible at…
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp Summary Llama.cpp is an open-source, command-line model runner that lets you download, run, quantise and serve many modern…
