📖 Can AI write good novels?

Plus: OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, Tesla has dumped 75% of its bitcoin holdings a year after touting 'long-term potential, and more…

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Can AI write good novels?. On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and she was behind schedule. The color-coded, 11-column… (Josh Dzieza / The Verge)

Josh Dzieza @joshdzieza

I wrote about how Kindle novelists are using AI to write fiction faster, and some of the ethical and artistic questions they're confronting

theverge.comCan AI write good novels?Authors are getting a hand from machine learning tools — and some of them think it’s the future of writing.

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OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system. Today, DALL-E 2, OpenAI's AI system that can generate images given a prompt or edit and refine existing images, is becoming more widely available. The company announced in a blog post that it will expedite access for customers on the waitlist with… (Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch)

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OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system tcrn.ch/3IU2LOp by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

tcrn.chOpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system – TechCrunchOpenAI is expanding access to DALL-E 2, its image-generating AI system, with the goal of onboarding around 1 million people from the waitlist within weeks.

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Tesla has dumped 75% of its bitcoin holdings a year after touting 'long-term potential. Tesla said in its second-quarter earnings statement that it has 'converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency.' The company invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin early last year. After a huge rally in 2021, the digital… (Jordan Novet / CNBC)

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Tesla has dumped 75% of its bitcoin holdings a year after touting 'long-term potential'

cnb.cxTesla has dumped 75% of its bitcoin holdings a year after touting ‘long-term potential’Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent much of 2021 hyping cryptocurrencies. His company has exited most of its bitcoin holdings amid a dramatic downfall.

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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke. “She was trying very hard to be a cannabis influencer,” a former coworker at a weed company says. “Cute blond girl eating edibles: that was the premise.” By 2016, Moon had amassed over 14,000 followers on Instagram. Then… (Amanda Chicago Lewis / MIT Technology Review)

Amanda Chicago Lewis @msamandalewis

I regret to inform you that "scromiting" -- vomiting while screaming, from too much cannabis -- is a real thing. For @techreview I wrote about the feud between an influencer & a scientist over research into the disease that makes stoners puke.

technologyreview.comThe feud between a weed influencer and scientist over puking stonersA scientist went looking for genes that cause cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. But a public spat with a cannabis influencer who suffers from the disease may have derailed his research.

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Feedback required: the science of criticism that actually works. It really is possible to get better at giving — and receiving — constructive criticism Receive free Personal development updates We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Personal development news every morning. (Esther Bintliff / Financial Times)

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Why is feedback so hard to take? 😡🥺🙄 Ok so I've always struggled with criticism and wanted to know if I could better at receiving it. This is the story of my journey to find out, which I've written about for this weekend's @FTMag 🧵 ft.com/content/a681ac…

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