Tag: AI
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With the rise of AI-generated video, there’s a new place on the Internet to check whether the cute puppy video your grandma posted on Facebook is real: the subreddit r/isthisAI. Participants there have not only been discussing the origin of videos, but they’ve also been dipping into philosophy of language. I recently spotted a debate…
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During the last several years, I’ve slowly been completing a copyediting certificate program. Part of the motivation for this additional training is that I realized editing is a skill that can benefit from training. A lot of academics think editing is just “proofreading,” by which they mean “catching typos” or fixing bibliographies. However, I’ve come…
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This week I, I took a trip to Dublin and viewed the Book of Kells and the Old Library at Trinity. In the exhibit, before visitors were funneled into the dark room that held the Book of Kells, I encountered a poem that made me think about current debates over artificial intelligence and also about…