A sneak peek into the book

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What makes AI click, what makes it snake oil, and how to tell the difference

In April 2022, many images like this one went viral. What was special about it was that it was generated using a text-to-image AI system called DALL-E 2, using just a one-line description: “A photo of an astronaut riding a horse”. (via OpenAI) Tools such as DALL-E 2 and Google’s Imagen have made stunning improvements in creating realistic-looking images based on one-line prompts. In May 2016, ProPublica published a shocking report showing that COMPAS, a tool used to predict whether a defendant would commit a crime if released before trial, was twice as likely to falsely accuse a Black…

A sneak peek into the book

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