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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/26/23699633/mark-zuckerberg-meta-generative-ai-chatbots-instagram-facebook-whatsapp I’m worried about her. It’s great she’s got lots of friends. But we don’t know anything about them. Obviously they never come around. Kids don’t meet in the real world anymore, just endless chattering on the phone. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Luddite. I’ve got friendships that… Read the rest

Ford Applies to Patent Self-Repossessing Cars That Can Drive Themselves Away

https://www.thedrive.com/news/future-fords-could-repossess-themselves-and-drive-away-if-you-miss-payments The phrase “cost of living crisis” didn’t really cover it. The word “living” was a constant reminder that that was far away. “Surviving” would have been nearer the mark. And “crisis” sounded as though it was a sudden shock, not a drawn out, endless story. He knew he wasn’t… Read the rest

VR startup working on tech to “replay” memories

https://futurism.com/the-byte/vr-startup-replay-memories He’d walked these street so many times. He’d never wanted to drive. The “school run” always sounded so… rushed. He’d relished that time. Sauntering, talking about what they saw. It was meditative, quality, time. Now they were gone. Grown. They still met, still walked together occasionally, even round here,… Read the rest

The Most Important Job Skill of This Century

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/openai-text-models-google-search-engine-bard-chatbot-chatgpt-prompt-writing/672991/ She wants to play. Look at her! Let’s just let her play for a while. She can come back to this. I heard somewhere that breaks are good. Change. Interacting with different stimuli. Her talking is coming on well. Look at the scores. She’s much more fluent talking with… Read the rest

Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Privacy has been extinguished. It is now a zombie’

https://www.ft.com/content/0cca6054-6fc9-4a94-b2e2-890c50d956d5 They’re quite funny really. I almost bought them one of those anti-face-rec masks on eBay. I wonder if it’s like when they were growing up, living with old hippies, still clinging on to leftie visions. What was that Glastonbury thing Dad said his mum used to play? But god… Read the rest

Consumer advocacy groups want Walmart’s Roblox game audited for ‘stealth marketing’ to kids

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/consumer-advocacy-groups-want-walmarts-roblox-game-audited-for-stealth-marketing-to-kids/ They’ll never find out, there’s two of me. The parents are pleased I have what they call a “Saturday job” with a “good company”. It’s a mixture of testing stuff and just hanging out and looking interested. Occasionally they get some of us in to hear our ideas and… Read the rest