A 2024 blog post, now remoted, pointed to a pirated collection of all seven Harry Potter novels and showed users how to use it to make a generative AI system.

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...

Author Richard Schloch makes the case that Sondheim's greatness–beyond the clever lyrics and adventurous music–rests in his ability to tell stories that relate to us all. From Louise's desire for ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently went on record saying that AI still needs to prove its worth if society is to adopt it long-term, but he presumably thinks his company has cracked it with its ...

It has been 10 years since Maureen Abood penned her first and highly acclaimed cookbook on Lebanese cuisine. Now Abood, a second-generation Lebanese American who divides her time between East Lansing ...

Having held their two-person — plus listeners — book club this past summer, host Scott Tong and Here & Now’s go-to book expert, Traci Thomas of “The Stacks” podcast, discuss how to run a successful ...

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...

Aimed at families, start by describing “any story you can imagine” in the initial prompt. Notably, you can have Gemini “draw inspiration from your own photos and files.” Example use cases and prompts ...

Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at the intersection of technology and the humanities, investigating how perspective can enhance, rather than overstimulate, ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Running Python scripts is one of the most common tasks in automation. However, managing dependencies across different systems can be challenging. That’s where Docker comes in. Docker lets you package ...

Anthropic has won a major legal victory in a case over whether the artificial intelligence company was justified in hoovering up millions of copyrighted books to train its chatbot. In a ruling that ...