speculations

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-seven-counts/ They’re sentencing me next year. I still protest my innocence but we are where we are. The jury ruled and the judge is calculating the appropriate sentence. It’s all very precise and algorithmic. It’s ironic, my arguments in court were that that the complex interdependencies of human and technological… Read the rest

The Beatles’ final song is coming together through the power of artificial intelligence

https://www.theverge.com/23933209/the-beatles-now-and-then-release-date-ai It’s sad really. Looking back we were mates. A band of brothers having fun and making things. I remember that first awards ceremony, on stage together. We were so young. Naive maybe but mates, partners. Of course then it all went mad. More awards. More money. But even then,… Read the rest

Google looks to ultrasound to monitor heart rate through ANC headphones

https://newatlas.com/wearables/google-ultrasound-heart-rate-anc-headphones/ I was never into the mindfulness thing. When my friends were all downloading apps and listening to soothing voices telling them to count their breaths, I just took a deep breath and got on with it. Sure, my biometrics weren’t as green as theirs, as my appraisal noted but…… Read the rest

We might be surprised by our reactions to generative AI

https://www.ft.com/content/bcce0a15-9e16-4f6d-ac45-9a69700cbc8f He enjoyed reading the applications. Amid the countless ones full of generic phrases parroting praise of the university’s “world leading position” there were gems. Applicants who’d been brave and creative in their statement. Contrary ones where they’d taken on industry clichés or sacred cows. Speculative ones where they’d imagined… Read the rest

UK summit on AI ‘squeezing out’ workers, say labour groups

https://www.ft.com/content/07669dbf-a2b5-4472-943f-6ee1ba5a8336 We’re colleagues, not friends. But we have a strong relationship of course. Working together day in day out for so long, you get to know each other and have a sort of closeness. So when your partner is under attack, heh it’s an attack on us both. There’s an… Read the rest

How to Create Images With ChatGPT’s New Dall-E 3 Integration

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-chatgpt-dalle-3-create-images/ They were biased of course. All parents are. They told tales of when she’d responded to the holograms over her crib. “You could see that she was creative,” they said. “We knew we had to nurture that.” And they did. Investment they called it. No expense spared. The took… Read the rest

Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun

https://gizmodo.com/google-maps-uses-ai-find-where-people-are-having-fun-1850966626 She dreaded this moment. It was a farewell party so politically she’d had to go but now everyone was talking about “where to go next”. Someone pulled up the map and across the town the wearables fed their biometrics in. The heat map shimmered. Her heart sank, particularly when… Read the rest

Leica Hopes Its New $9,500 Camera Can Save Photojournalism From AI

https://gizmodo.com/leica-m11-p-content-credentials-anti-ai-1850963601 The hotel lobby, or more correctly the bar, was where they spent their time. It was no safer than their rooms but its opulence offered some comfort. The hacks grouped on the sofas when they came back from following a story. There was always a feeling of relief when… Read the rest

‘Education needed’: 8 things we learned at The Future of Gaming

https://the-media-leader.com/education-needed-8-things-we-learned-at-the-future-of-gaming/ Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of where we’ve got to with this. We’re leading the way with our division. We were in early, got the best talent in and pioneered helping our clients with this new space. What the team in “the Arcade” have done is remarkable but… Read the rest