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AI Representation Remember when your biggest worry about fake photos was whether someone had airbrushed their Instagram selfie? Those days feel quaint now. We're living through a digital revolution that's fundamentally changing what we can trust with our own eyes and ears. Welcome to the age of synthetic media, where the line between real and fake isn't just blurry—it's disappearing entirely. The Old Days: When Faking It Was Hard Work To understand where we're headed, let's look back at how we got here. Photo manipulation isn't new. In fact, it's almost as old as photography itself. Back in the 1860s, photographers were already combining multiple images in darkrooms to create composite pictures. During World War II, Stalin's regime famously erased purged officials from photographs, literally airbrushing them out of history. But here's the crucial difference: these early manipulations were painstaking, time-consuming affairs. Creating a convincing...

AI Representation Imagine a world where your computer could chat with you like a friend, write your emails, or even tutor your kids. Sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, right? Well, that future is already here, living in your browser and phone. Language models—computer programs that understand and generate human-like text—have come a long way from clunky, rule-based systems to the powerful AI we use today. In this blog post, we’ll take a journey through the past, present, and future of these “speaking machines,” exploring how they work, what they can do, and the exciting (and sometimes scary) possibilities ahead. The Past: When Computers First Learned to "Talk" Let’s rewind to the 1960s, when the idea of a talking computer was more fantasy than reality. One of the earliest attempts at a chatbot was a program called ELIZA , created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT. ELIZA was designed to mimic a therapist, responding to your typed sentences with questions like, “Ho...