⚠️ Edited to reflect urgency ⚠️ ⚠️ Still Living w/o hot water ⚠️ ⚠️ Unstable Home Life ⚠️ $28/500
I will continue to write about mutual aid, boost visibility for others, but I do live with emotionally/financially abusive grandparents who threaten to cut off utilities or make us homeless. Any donations and boosts to my Ko-fi or my bro's GFM will be used for utilities, meds, transportation, other needs and moving out.
Yeah, I know, Meta, and all. But this is a genuinely useful idea.
"Through this integration, the volunteer will see through the lens of the smart glasses in order to provide a real-time description to the user through their open-ear speakers, for everyday tasks such as setting a thermostat, finding the right supermarket aisle, or preparing meals—all while keeping the user's hands free."
“we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!”
Following a court ruling forcing Google to stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps in the Play Store, Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox mobile app on Android to allow U.S. users to purchase and play Xbox games on their mobile devices. Read more at @theverge. #Google#Antitrust#Microsoft#XBox#Android#Tech#Technologyhttps://flip.it/VRlg6K
Daily Inspiration: "The soul of this new machine is moving faster than your imagination!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Back when I began my computer voyage, I read the book "Soul of a New Machine," described by ChatGPT this way. The book is celebrated for making the complex and often insular world of computer engineering in the 80s accessible and compelling - and it was a great book for a young computer nerd who was busy immersing himself in everything involving the ongoing computer revolution.
Fast forward to today - there's a new soul in a new machine being built around AI, and one of the hardest tasks is keeping up to date with all the fast-moving and rapidly emerging new developments. There are thousands of people throwing their energies at creating new tools, ideas, capabilities, and opportunities, and the rest of us can barely keep up.
Which brings me to Google's NotebookLM AI podcast generation tool, which was just announced. Feed it a document, press a button, and you've got a ten-minute 'podcast' with two AI-generated voices talking to each other. I fed it a set of all my Daily Inspiration posts, specifically those written since January 2023. That numbers more than 500 of these posts, with a lot of content covering a variety of topics.
And in an instant, after pressing the generate button, it created a full 10-minute-long podcast discussing my work and the content. I generated an image for the recording and loaded it into YouTube.
Listen to the tone, intonation, and vocal style of the two 'hosts,' all of which are entirely AI-generated., The mind boggles at the sophistication of such a tool and the ease with which it can be used.
Even so, like most people, I have mixed feelings about this tool. A
“Your smart TV knows what you’re watching,” write Mohamed Al Elew and Gabriel Hongsdusit for @themarkup. They’ve put together a guide to turning off that ability on three different platforms.
"I think the next logical jump on that is like [...] “Okay, and we’re also going to show you content that’s generated by an AI system that might be something that you’re interested in.”"
This is great, actually. We're soon going to be free from the oppression of social media.