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Welcome to Blueberry Thoughts
A blog at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence Hello and welcome to the blog of Ionut Burchi, father of three, IT consultant, web veteran and AI realist. I have started an awareness campaign on the possibilities, challenges and dangers the recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence have to offer. This…
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Episode 5 on generative AI beyond LLMs: Diffusion, audio, video, 3D and multimodal models
Hello again, hope you had a great summer! We continue our journey in gen AI land with the rest of the AI models, from pics to vids, 3D objects, voice clones and multimodal models. Enjoy! Transcription Welcome back to another episode of Blueberry Thoughts with your host, Ivor J. Burks. Today, we continue our deep…
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Podcast episode 4 on the rise of Large Language Models
Here is the newest episode of the “Blueberry Thoughts” podcast. Listen to it on your favorite podcasting app or right here on this page. Enjoy! Subscribe on your favorite app: Transcription: Hello and welcome back to Blueberry Thoughts, your favorite spot at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence! I am Ivor J. Burks,…
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New podcast episode out on UBI, AI and capitalism
I am thrilled to announce the release of the third episode of our podcast series. This episode, entitled “Universal Basic Irrelevance – UBI, AI, and Capitalism,” offers an in-depth exploration of a highly debated topic at the intersection of technology, economics, and social philosophy. Listen to the episode here on the website or on your…
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Introducing the Blueberry Thoughts Podcast
Hello, Blueberry Thinkers! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new project: the Blueberry Thoughts Podcast. This is an exciting new platform where we will continue our exploration into the fascinating realm of artificial intelligence (AI), creativity, and their incredible synergy. As you’ve journeyed through the blog posts and experiments here at Blueberry…
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Women in AI is not about gender equality. It’s about our survival as a species
We are celebrating International Girls in ICT Day today, April 27th, 2023. I’ve seen numerous posts on social and traditional media throughout March and April showcasing women working in tech, including an impressive list of 100 women in the field of AI here in Norway. There has also been an array of events centered around…
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A prompt for GPT-4 powered debate teams
Here’s a prompt I made for getting ChatGPT (GPT-4) to run debates (for/against) on different topics on the model of university debate teams. The topic used as an example is “risks and benefits of artificial intelligence” but I have gotten good results with topics such as “gun control” and “drinking alcohol”. You can read the…
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Poet-GPT – A.I. writing Shakespearian Sonnets on autoplay
As an English major, Shakespearian sonnets have been my favorite form when writing poems for quite a few years back in the early 2000s. So no wonder I am mixing things up again at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. For this experiment, I used Auto-GPT with OpenAI API and Pinecone for the…
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Learn about A.I. before it learns about you
This was the title for a retort I wrote in the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang . The article I was replying to is this one which was basically mirroring some of the ideas from the Future of Life Institute open letter proposing a 6-month pause on AI development. I am providing a translation of my…
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XM45: An A.I. audio tribute to X Minus One and Luis van Rooten
The second story in my book “Blueberry & the Bear and Other Stories” is called The Spirit of XM45. It’s a short story about how the spirit of Christmas finds a way to reach a lonely engineer on a remote planet. It’s also my (hopefully) funny attempt at creating a sci-fi Christmas-themed story with leetspeak…
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Example of 100% AI generated content
This is an example of content completely generated by AI (ChatGPT via its API integrated in WordPress via GPT AI Power plugin). After being presented with the prompt to generate an argumentative article about how “AI is only biased as it is mirroring our societal and human failures.” it generated the following list of possible…
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Jules Verne meets Idiocracy
A techno-pessimist view of machines across the ages I had the idea for this article in mind for some time and decided to write it together with ChatGPT. In the process I found out we share a love of Jules Verne and a concern for responsible development when it comes to AI. Imagine a world…
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