For the past 10 years Elon has been promising us significant autonomy with his cars. Here's a list of his quotes purporting to this. The post Elon Musk’s Broken Promises on Autonomous Vehicles first appeared on Zbigatron ..read more

I react to Sam Altman's essay entitled "The Intelligence Age" in which he compares the current AI revolution to past technological ages. The post Reacting to Sam Altman’s “The Intelligence Age” – Videos first appeared on Zbigatron ..read more

In this age of generative AI, I think we will slowly start to crave the human element in online content. The personal touch will win out. The post The New “Handmade” in the Age of Generative AI first appeared on Zbigatron ..read more

I hereby grant the 2024 Zbigatron Paper of the Year Award to the academic publication entitled "ChatGPT is Bullshit" by Hicks et al. The post ChatGPT is Bullshit – Zbigatron Paper of the Year Award first appeared on Zbigatron ..read more

In this post I look at the different perspectives that science and (Christian) religions have on the topic of AI and things like consciousness. The post AI from the Perspective of Religion first appeared on Zbigatron ..read more

I started a Robotics Club recently at the Institute I’m currently working at in which I’ve been slowly getting my beginner students to become acquianted with Arduino-based robots and Arduino coding. We purchased a set of Lafvin 2WD Robot Kits (see image above) from Little Bird Electronics and step-by-step I’ve been getting my students to learn how to control each piece of hardware attached to the robot. We’re working towards getting the robot to move around a room without bumping into anything it might encounter along the way. In this post I thought I’d share some code I’ve written for this cl ..read more

Nearly three years ago (July 2021) I wrote an article on this blog arguing that artificial intelligence is slowing down. Among other things I stated: [C]an we keep growing our deep learning models to accommodate for more and more complex tasks? Can we keep increasing the number of parameters in these things to allow current AI to get better and better at what it does. Surely, we are going to hit a wall soon with our current technology? Artificial Intelligence is Slowing Down, zbigatron.com Then 7 months later I dared to write a sequel to that post in which I presented an article written ..read more

The recent reveal of OpenAI’s Sora model which generates videos from text made headlines around the world. And understandably so, because it’s truly something amazing. But I was not too surprised with the announcement. I wrote about the emergence of text-to-video generative AI on my blog 16 months ago! See here: AI Video Generation (Text-To-Video Translation). So, I knew that it was just a matter of time before one of the big players released something of such beautiful calibre. What did surprise me, however, was something that seemingly went under the radar just 2 weeks ago: an announcement f ..read more

Last month (Dec 2023) Google presented their response to ChatGPT called Gemini to much fanfare. The race for superior generative AI models is certainly heating up. There’s a ridiculous amount of money to be made here. But have a quick look at their demonstration video, if you haven’t done so already: It would seem as though Gemini is reacting to the video sequences we are shown on the left side of the video, right? Surely!? Nope! That video was faked. It turns out that Gemini was only shown still images accompanied by prompts. It’s all in the fine-print, folks. In the video description on the ..read more

Last week I gave a presentation to senior government representatives from the Philippines showing them how ChatGPT can be used to increase productivity in their respective departments. They were all amazed at ChatGPT’s capabilities. And rightly so because ChatGPT is something special. It’s a real game-changer. However, ChatGPT (and AI for that matter) is over-hyped. The media and IT companies talk about it as if it’s something that, if not now then in the near future, will completely surpass humans in terms of intelligence. ChatGPT is certainly better than humans at some tasks but people forge ..read more