A recent update to Grammarly adds even more artificial intelligence: it’s called GrammarlyGO. I say “more AI” because Grammarly has always been an AI-based grammar-checking service. (There have never been humans there proofreading your work.) GrammarlyGO brings it up a notch with the ability…
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Experimenting with Google Bard (MacSparky Labs)
I’ve been spending some time experimenting with Google Bard, Google’s competitor to ChatGPT. It got a few things right and a few things wrong, but this is an easy platform if you want to experiment with large language model artificial intelligence… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Level 3 (Early Access) and Level 2 (Backstage) Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
The Looming Threat of AI-Generated Voice
I read this post by John Gruber, and I couldn’t agree more about the shenanigans that will come from AI-generated deepfakes. The computers are so good at duplicating your voice at this point that a determined jackass could “produce” a tape of you saying…
Continue reading →Microsoft 365 Copilot
Last week Microsoft gave an impressive presentation demonstrating the incorporation of artificial intelligence into their productivity apps. You can have it summarize and analyze data in Excel, write better documents in Word, and even summarize email in Outlook. Moreover, it had less of that…
Continue reading →AI-Generated AppleScript
I enjoyed this article from Dr. Drang about the robot-created AppleScript. I think AppleScript will be one of the most difficult languages for AI models to write because it was created to make it more human-readable, and that makes it quirky. The other thing…
Continue reading →AI As a Feature
It seems clear that in tech circles, 2023 will become the year of AI. Well, artificial intelligence used for creating images and writing texts now been around for several years, and it is this year that it has entered the mainstream. One of the…
Continue reading →Dipping Your Toes in Conversational Artificial Intelligence
There’s a Mac and mobile application, Poe, giving you an easy way to kick the tires on artificial intelligence. I’ve been playing with it for the last day, and I recommend it, particularly if you’ve never tried this kind of thing before. The application…
Continue reading →AI Narrated Books
Apple is now setting up a system for AI-narrated books. This would allow the computer to generate an AI-based audio narration of a book so that readers can listen as well as read. I consume a lot of books (primarily fiction) through audiobooks. For…
Continue reading →Craft Adds Artificial Intelligence
I was surprised to see the latest update from Craft added an AI writing assistant. The idea behind its inclusion (they are using the GPT-3 engine) is not so much to write for you (although it can do that rather poorly), but instead to help you…
Continue reading →Experimenting with DiffusionBee
There’s a lot of talk lately about AI-generated art. If you want to explore it, I’d recommend checking out DiffusionBee, which has a free Mac App. That said, I took a few shots at getting it to draw a picture of a bonsai tree…
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