A few days ago, I was invited to serve as a panelist at a RESAID project (“Creating Societal Cognitive Resilience Against Information Disorders – RESAID”) event. This EU-funded project has substantive online course content and has developed a few online games related to disinformation issues. The panel was reported by AA as well. Here are … Read more
There is nothing INSANE. Based on the video’s transcript, here are some highlights of the insane history of OpenAI: Early Beginnings of Sam Altman: The video introduces Sam Altman, his early career, and his rise to power in Silicon Valley, including his time at Y Combinator [01:00:00]. The Founding of OpenAI: Elon Musk, concerned about … Read more
After a long hiatus, Sinem and I streamed a new video at SosyalKafa. This was an update to our academic AI tools stream that took a few years ago. It is in Turkish, but a lengthy summary in English is available here. Artificial Intelligence and Academic Tools Artificial intelligence has become an important tool in … Read more
Dig deeper here: • Neural networks Technical details as a talk: • Visualizing transformers and attention | T… This was made for an exhibit at the Computer History Museum: https://computerhistory.org/ Instead of sponsored ad reads, these lessons are funded directly by viewers: https://3b1b.co/support These animations are largely made using a custom Python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here: https://3b1b.co/faq#manim https://github.com/3b1b/manim https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ All … Read more
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is transforming the labor market, especially by eliminating entry-level white-collar jobs. Tasks like customer service, legal research, and data analysis are increasingly automated. Reports from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum estimate that AI could displace up to 50% of these roles by 2035. Major firms like IBM and … Read more
I was invited to a talk at İstanbul Aydın University’s event last week. That allowed me to list AI’s role in accessing information. I have formatted my speech notes into content for this blog. Contemporary knowledge landscapes are increasingly characterized by overwhelming information density, posing significant challenges to human cognitive capacities. Artificial intelligence systems now … Read more
Announcing an AI Strategy In recent months, Wikipedia has significantly clarified and expanded its approach to artificial intelligence, focusing on supporting its human volunteer community rather than replacing it. Here is a summary of the key developments and strategies: 1. Launch of a New AI Strategy (April 2025) The Wikimedia Foundation unveiled a three-year AI … Read more
It was my birthday yesterday, and I am 49 now. As my close friends know, I prefer my routine life. I am a bit stressed with non-routine days, and accordingly, I am not excited to celebrate my birthday at all. Still, it is good to be beloved, and I know that I have my people … Read more
This was curated by a Perplexity user. Here is the link to the full content. As of February 2, 2025, the European Union has enacted a ban on AI systems deemed to pose “unacceptable risks” under the EU AI Act, targeting applications like manipulative systems, social scoring, and real-time biometric identification while introducing strict enforcement … Read more
This report is part of Data Narratives, a Civic Media Observatory project that aims to identify and understand the discourse on data used for governance, control, and policy in El Salvador, Brazil, Turkey, Sudan, and India. Read more about the project here and see our public dataset. Access the Artificial Intelligence Narratives report in PDF Turkey In Turkey, hype … Read more
Main points here: 00:04 We interact with AI more than we realize 02:28 Machine learning revolutionized AI 04:47 AI is seeping into every aspect of our lives 11:43 Americans have a 60% accuracy in identifying technologies that use AI 24:13 AI was created in the 1950s to attain human-level intelligence in computers. 27:46 AI awareness … Read more
Artificial intelligence is changing how music gets made – and how musicians get paid. AI is letting people clone artists’ voices, create completely new songs as fake collaborations, generate lyrics in seconds, even produce full tracks just by typing in a few words. It’s all causing some to say AI will be “the death of … Read more
MIT Technology Review reported: The Open Source Initiative (OSI), the self-appointed arbiters of what it means to be open source, has released a new definition, which it hopes will help lawmakers develop regulations to protect consumers from AI risks. Though OSI has published much about what constitutes open-source technology in other fields, this marks its … Read more
Turkey is not involved explicitly, but it is a member of the Council of Europe that developed the treaty… Based on the search results, here are the key points about the US, UK, and EU signing an AI standards treaty: The treaty is officially called the “Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and … Read more
ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between man and machine, Eliza simulated conversation by using a ‘pattern matching’ and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part … Read more