The past couple of years have been fueled entirely by vibes. Awash with nonsensical predictions and messianic claims that AI has come to deliver us from our tortured existence. Starting shortly after the launch of ChatGPT, internet prophets have claimed that we are merely six months away from major impacts and accompanying unemployment. GPT-5 was …
Seems the Hawk Tuah girl isn’t the only one hawking things lately. If I had told you a couple of years ago that a large tech company like Microsoft would be peddling personal companions, you’d think I’d lost it. However, here we are in 2024, and the game is changing. The ultimate question is, are …
New, deeply integrated AI-powered productivity tools are on the horizon. A recent example is Microsoft’s Recall, but others are also emerging. For example, there’s Limitless.ai, and if you are feeling particularly nostalgic for Catholicism, there’s the 01 Light from Open Interpreter, which allows you to control your computer remotely through a communion wafer. All of …
You might wonder why AI companies are working on seemingly simple and unimportant advancements in AI when there are much more significant problems to solve. Why would companies trying to create AGI get sidetracked by focusing on potentially already-solved problems? A couple of examples are OpenAI’s voice cloning, Google’s VLOGGER, and Microsoft’s VASA-1.This research, for …
Everyone from tech companies to AI influencers is foaming at the mouth, attempting to get you to mainline AI into every aspect of your personal life. You are told you should outsource important decisions and allow these systems to rummage through all of your highly personal data so you can improve your life. Whatever that …
In case you may have missed it on my social media, I made a few podcast appearances in the last month. I’ve been chatting with people about large language models, security, and the associated hype. The Perfect Storm I was on episode #39 the Perfect Storm Podcast talking about large language models and security issues, …
By now, you’ve probably heard the term metaverse or the fact that Facebook is rebranding itself to Meta. Metaverse is the hot new buzzword that companies will continue to latch onto. If you are unfamiliar with the metaverse concept, The Verge had a recent article about it called, What Is The Metaverse and Do I …