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05/12/2022

Professors, programmers and journalists could all be out of a job in just a few years, after the latest chatbot from the Elon Musk-founded OpenAI foundation stunned onlookers with its writing ability, proficiency at complex tasks, and ease of use.

The system, called ChatGPT, is the latest evolution of the GPT family of text-generating AIs. Two years ago, the team’s previous AI, GPT3, was able to generate an opinion piece for the Guardian, and ChatGPT has significant further capabilities.

In the days since it was released, academics have generated responses to exam queries that they say would result in full marks if submitted by an undergraduate, and programmers have used the tool to solve coding challenges in obscure programming languages in a matter of seconds – before writing limericks explaining the functionality.

Dan Gillmor, a journalism professor at Arizona State University, asked the AI to handle one of the assignments he gives his students: writing a letter to a relative giving advice regarding online security and privacy. “If you’re unsure about the legitimacy of a website or email, you can do a quick search to see if others have reported it as being a scam,” the AI advised in part.

“I would have given this a good grade,” Gillmor said. “Academia has some very serious issues to confront.”

Latest chatbot from Elon Musk-founded OpenAI can identify incorrect premises and refuse to answer inappropriate requests

17/10/2022

A key problem with using text to speech (TTS) services like Amazon Polly is the foreign accent it renders certain words. One such word is Cebu, which systems often pronounce as “say bu.” TTS services have improved exponentially from the robotic quality of years back into something closer to bein...

14/09/2022

How should the text appear in your data visualizations? The possibilities are endless: There are millions of typefaces out there (Arial, Times New Roman, Lato, …) belonging to different categories (serif, sans-serif, condensed, wide, …). Many of these typefaces come in different fonts (thin, bold, …). And then they are so many extra ways of adjusting them (uppercase, size, color, …).

The short answer: When in doubt, set your text in a font that’s easy to read. Easy to read is everything that readers are used to. On the web, that means sans-serif, neither overly narrow nor wide, regular (instead of bold or thin) text set in sentence case, in a size that’s big enough to read, and in black or almost black.

Sans-serif or serif typefaces? Lining or oldstyle figures? Narrow or wide? With lots of examples, we explain which fonts work best for data visualizations.

30/05/2022

Aboitiz Data Innovation (ADI), the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) unit of the Aboitiz Group, has launched a data exchange platform called Parlay to help accelerate the conglomerate’s digital transformation.

On Parlay, businesses from across the Group’s various industries can share and gain access to data from businesses across the industrial spectrum from power to banking and financial services, manufacturing, land, infrastructure, and food, to name a few.

Aboitiz Data Innovation (ADI), the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) unit of the Aboitiz Group, has launched a data exchange platform called Parlay to help accelerate the conglomerate’s digital transformation. On Parlay, businesses from across the Group’s various industries can sha...