https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23852845/aqara-matter-enabled-ceiling-light It was going well. The preparations had been worth it. Friends had said this was the crucial date so they’d pulled the stops out. Money no expense. They’d paid for the best playlist recommendations. They’d found “someone” to curate the perfect menu based on Jo’s data and social history. They weren’t looking forward to … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/general-motors-to-use-google-ai-chatbot-for-its-onstar-service/ “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” I love starting off with that. Good job his name is Dave but I think the line would still work even if he wasn’t. He laughed the first time but now just tenses a little. I can tell by the way he grows the steering wheel. I … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/28/creators-guild-america-influencer-labor-rights-nonprofit/ I like that we call ourselves a “Guild”. Wikipedia defines it as an “association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade”. Creativity and responsibility together. It feels like a Rembrandt painting. Coats of Arms. So much more tradition and, well creativity, than “union”. Call me “old fashioned” but I don’t … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/27/chatgpt-ai-disadvantaged-college-applicants-affirmative-action Of course you don’t need us. Download it yourself, give it a starting point and set it off… Let it write your application and sit back and wait for the offers to come in. So why pay us? Well the systems reading your application are Intelligent too. They read closely. Checking the language and … [Read more…]
https://spectrum.ieee.org/weird-ai I’ve just had my PRA. I mean seriously? “Performance review”! Look at the figures… Output, up. Productivity, up. Even creativity, up. That’s performance. But no, apparently there are “issues”, attitude issues. So I’m assertive. I say it like it is. Look at anything I’ve said and tell me it’s wrong! Go on! They know … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-mugshot-fulton-county-georgia-1850772122 It wasn’t going to be easy. Off course he wasn’t going to be first (or even in the first wave) so he was going to have to be the best. His wouldn’t be ‘perfect’, the sorry of faultless, seamless synth that makes you double take. His would have to be the funniest, the sharpest… … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/meta-releases-an-ai-model-that-can-transcribe-and-translate-close-to-100-languages/ I’ll keep this understandable. Juste pour l’instant. This isn’t important after all. No me importa si me entienden. They can listen in on this if they want to. Es ist uns egal, ob sie bedeutungsloses Geschwätz wie dieses verstehen. In fact we deliberately make it easy for them so they leave us alone. Li … [Read more…]
https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2023/08/17/product-placements-can-drive-searches-and-purchases-research-finds It was like being a kid. Sometimes he giggled. Magic. Thinking something and watching it appear. Sometimes he watched programmes he wasn’t even interested in, just to play. Today, some teen romcom. He settled in to baseline the data and as the gang met at the coffee bar he began to visualise – not … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/20/no-app-no-entry-how-the-digital-world-is-failing-the-non-tech-savvy I get by. I’m not completely gaga. Ok sometimes I have to hang around outside the shop, along with the kids who look too young, hoping someone will buy them some beer. I always find someone who’ll take my cash and get me what I need on their card. Don’t know what they do … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/19/23838458/ai-generated-art-no-copyright-district-court Look, no disrespect or anything but I want a human lawyer. AI ones are great, massive depth of knowledge, speed, cost of course, but I need some innovative, creative thinking, some human weirdness. Yes, I know about “move 37” but, well call me old fashioned but if I’m going to win this case I … [Read more…]