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artificial intelligence augmented reality chatbots & other robots

·Jan. 13, 2020

Have Facebook Messenger Chatbots failed for Finance?

In the long take this week, I try out a contrarian point of view on personal finance chatbots. Trim, a savings chatbot, just withdrew support from Facebook Messenger. While lots of other chatbots are still invested in conversational banking, what could we take away from the counterfactual of chatbots failing to get B2C traction? What is the impact on the rest of the platform wars waged by Amazon, Google, and Tesla for connected homes, cars, and the Internet of Things?

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artificial intelligence visual art

·Jul. 15, 2021

Hallucinating Art and Finance with CLIP, VQGAN, and Big Sleep

Instead, we are going to tap again into a new development in Art and Neural Networks as a metaphor of where AI progress sits today, and what is feasible in the years to come. For our 2019 “initiation” on this topic with foundational concepts, see here. Today, let’s talk about OpenAI’s CLIP model, connecting natural language inputs with image search navigation, and the generative neural art models like VQ-GAN.

Compared to GPT-3, which is really good at generating language, CLIP is really good at associating language with images through adjacent categories, rather than by training on an entire image data set.

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