Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

How to convince a large AI, according to smaller AIs

There are a lot of chatbot-based apps that are basically internet text generators with a bit of introductory stage-setting to nudge the interaction into "user talks to helpful chatbot" as opposed to literally any other dialog on the web. Not surprisingly, these are susceptible to a user resetting

Bonus: More of Ada's secret hacking strategies

Roses are red

I had so much fun getting GPT-3 to generate simple one-line Valentine's Day cards last year that this year I decided to see if I could generate cards with more complicated messages. I focused on the classic "roses are red, violets are blue" rhyme, figuring that

Bonus: more Valentine rhymes

Novelty Socks by AI

I like a fun sock. The more random the design, the better. What kinds of novelty sock ideas would we get if we used AI as a creativity aid?

It turns out they aren't too novel unless the AI is glitchy.

I collected 14 examples of socks I