Software That Writes Itself: Tau and the Future of Decentralized AI

Our relationship with AI is troubled. We watch movies like The Terminator and The Matrix and harbor deep suspicions about artificial intelligence. We crack jokes about Skynet and worry about AI taking over the world. Yet AI is everywhere now, and generative AI tools like Jasper AI are already worth billions. AI isn’t going anywhere,

I Read the Whisper Paper So You Don’t Have To. A Deep Dive into OpenAI’s New ASR Model

Image generated by the author with OpenAI’s DALL-E2 “Catch me outside! How about that?” The words appeared beneath Danielle Bregoli during her meme-worthy Dr. Phil interview. Unlike most of the internet, Whisper understood her. Whisper is OpenAI’s new, open-source Automatic Speech Recognition System (ASR). Released in late September, Whisper can understand thick accents, pick up

Can AI Write a Story? The History of AI-Written Novels

National Novel Generation Month is coming up! Every November, NaNoGenMo participants challenge themselves to generate a novel in a month. NaNoGenMo started in 2013, but AI-written stories have a long history. Programmers began coaxing novels from their machines decades ago, often with bizarre results. Let’s gear up for NaNoGenMo by exploring the weird and wonderful history of AI-authored novels.