The Old and the New

Abortion in Augustan Rome

HI EVERYONE I'M SO SORRY FOR THE IMPROMPTU HIATUS AND THUS DELAYED PART 2! Next episode is out this Sunday (I promise!!!) This episode is part two of our duology on Google DeepMind and SynthID. If you haven’t yet, I suggest you listen to part 1 before listening to this episode.

A couple weeks ago, Google’s DeepMind announced the introduction of their new watermarking method to SynthID, whose toolkit can identify AI-generated content and can embed digital watermarks on AI-generated content, such as images, audio, text, or video. These watermarks are imperceptible to humans but can be detected by the device.

Briefly touching on the life of Bronze Age Anatolians

Briefly touching on the life of Bronze Age Anatolians

The MWC (Mobile World Congress) occurs every year in Barcelona. It is one of the biggest trade shows of the year, and as the name suggests, specializes in mobile devices.

wine for everyone

Today we're going to talk about the Copper Age, also known as the Chalcolithic Age.

A couple days ago NVIDIA’s market cap briefly reached the 2 trillion dollar mark. While I have mentioned NVIDIA in this podcast before during our episode about Meta, IBM, and the AI Alliance, I believe it’s time to dedicate an entire episode to the self-described “World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing”.  This is everything you need to know about NVIDIA in less than three minutes.

This is the second part of a 2-part series on Sora. Both parts have been released at the same time.  Today I will be talking about Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generator.

This is the first part of a 2-part series on Sora. Both parts have been released at the same time.  Today I will be talking about Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generator.

Little cultural dissections

a continuation of part 1

At the tail end of 2023, data poisoning became a major topic of discussion within the generative AI community. Today on The Old and the New, I will explore the image-generating AI and data poisoning world.

What is it?

While Apple never officially confirmed that it was working on a headset, there have been rumors about it for the better part of a decade. Finally, the Apple Vision Pro is here.

What was it like to be a woman in ancient Sparta

The New York Times announced today (Wednesday) that it is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement. This lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, is the first of its kind and could have some major implications that could affect the use of published work in the training of AI technologies.

Introduction to Lives of Women in Classical Antiquity

Today on The Old and the New, I will be talking about Google's Gemini.

Last Tuesday, Meta and IBM launched an AI Alliance in order to promote “open innovation and open science” AI development. The Alliance’s members notably include Dell Technologies, Sony, AMD, Intel, Oracle, CERN, NASA, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Hugging Face, Imperial College London, the National Science Foundation, and others. Its members notably do not include Microsoft, Google, or OpenAI. Wh...

What was the 5000 year old mummy like?

What was the 5000 year old mummy like?

On Thursday, Amazon, along with its new partner Hyundai, announced that the company will start selling cars in its US store in the latter half of next year.

An exploration of mythical floods