Creating Knowledge [&] AI by Kelly O'Neill

What is AI? (McKinsey)

koneill64 — 2025-07-26 12:54:49 UTC

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos.

Eryk Salvaggio

koneill64 — 2025-07-26 14:30:33 UTC

Every AI-generated image is an infographic about the dataset. AI images are data patterns inscribed into pictures, and they tell us stories about that dataset and the human decisions behind it.

What is AI? (Google)

koneill64 — 2025-07-26 14:31:22 UTC

Artificial intelligence is a broad field, which refers to the use of technologies to build machines and computers that have the ability to mimic cognitive functions associated with human intelligence, such as being able to see, understand, and respond to spoken or written language, analyze data, make recommendations, and more.

Google on AI vs ML

koneill64 — 2025-07-26 14:34:51 UTC

While artificial intelligence encompasses the idea of a machine that can mimic human intelligence, machine learning does not. Machine learning aims to teach a machine how to perform a specific task and provide accurate results by identifying patterns.

Tim Lee on large language models

koneill64 — 2025-07-29 02:47:48 UTC

Willing to get into it? Lee unpacks the way LLMs work.

Gemini variations on Repin's Barge Haulers

koneill64 — 2025-07-29 03:37:37 UTC

https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/collections/mirador2/127

The Watermelon Rebellion

koneill64 — 2025-07-29 04:39:37 UTC

Here is the AI-powered resource we built to supplement a podcast episode.

Detecting fakes is fun (and hard)!

koneill64 — 2025-07-30 13:42:19 UTC

An experiment from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management

A great read on how AI "reads" human emotion (from a family photograph)

koneill64 — 2025-07-30 14:04:15 UTC

AI pedagogy guide

koneill64 — 2025-07-30 14:05:42 UTC

Barge hauler iterations by Gemini

koneill64 — 2025-07-31 04:12:02 UTC

ChatGPT as critical reader, part 1

koneill64 — 2025-07-31 04:45:32 UTC

ChatGPT as critical reader, part 2

koneill64 — 2025-07-31 04:46:36 UTC

Kelly's slide deck

koneill64 — 2025-07-31 05:54:50 UTC

MIT on environmental impact

koneill64 — 2025-08-05 12:22:58 UTC

IEEE on environmental impact

koneill64 — 2025-08-05 12:25:21 UTC

Queens University AI resource

koneill64 — 2025-08-05 12:31:22 UTC

Social Carbon Footprint Calculator

koneill64 — 2025-08-05 12:34:18 UTC

[Australian tool]