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  • Desperate for work, translators train the AI that’s putting them out of work – Rest of World

    As a teenager, Pelin Türkmen dreamed of becoming an interpreter, translating English into Turkish, and vice versa, in real time. She imagined jet-setting around the world with diplomats and scholars, and participating in history-making events. Her tasks one recent January morning didn’t figure in her dreams. […]

    The new roles require much less skill and effort than translation, Türkmen said. For instance, she spent a year on her master’s thesis studying Samuel Beckett’s self-translation of his play Endgame from French to English. More recently, for her Ph.D. in translation studies, she studied for more than two years about the anti-feminist discourse in the Turkish translation of French author Pierre Loti’s 1906 novel, Les Désenchantées. In contrast, working on an AI prompt takes about 20 minutes.

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  • The Shardcore Inquisition 2025 – LLM edition. – shardcore

    Whilst the interactions were text-based, I wanted to embody the each LLM as a quasi-human subject, following the same parameters as the original inquisitions. Each bot has been given a different AI generated voice and face, with SadTalker providing the somewhat hit-and-miss lipsync animations. Presenting the interviews in this way places them firmly in the uncanny valley and emphasises the somewhat surreal nature of conversing with ‘the machine’.

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  • Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting – One Useful Thing

    Instead, let me propose a new analogy: treat AI like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation, one that comes highly recommended but whose actual abilities are not that clear. And I mean literally treat AI just like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation. Two parts of this are analogous to working with humans (being new on the job and being a coworker) and two of them are very alien (forgetting everything and being infinitely patient).

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