Generative "A.I." is so astoundingly bad. Just garbage all the way up and down.
What haunted meābeyond the wanton destructionāwas the visible cruelty of the people who made it, seen in the mannequin desperately trying to push against the press, the terror on the face of the animated creature before the television that contained it exploded...
"They could have depicted all that gear being cheerfully shrunken and squeezed into one iPad, awaiting creative fun. Instead, they went with just demolishing it all." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/m...
Tech companies are running low on new experiences to offer us. A new ad for the iPad contains revealing hints of where they could go next.
Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date.
"In this case, software is eating itselfāa kind of digital cannibalizationāand it feels like a fitting conclusion. Because thereās also long been an open secret in SaaS: the value proposition behind many of these products is bafflingly thin." thebaffler.com/lates...
āSoftware as a serviceā is taking over the economy. The bubble canāt pop soon enough.
From @itsandyryan.bsky.social on Twitter: Her: Who's your favourite literary vampire? Me: The one in Sesame Street Her: He doesn't count Me: I can assure you that he does
"Teenagers have reported seeing pornographic material more on X than on adult sites. Research from the UK childrenās commissioner found that 41% of teenagers reported seeing pornography on X, versus 37% for dedicated adult sites." www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
The social media networkās new rules, announced on Monday, come after regulator pressure around the world to better protect children from inappropriate content
Ladies, I'm single, can cook, and I'll continue to work my one job so you can work your one job.
Iām on a cruise ship and they canāt figure out how to turn off motion smoothing on my tv! Itās a Samsung but they say itās a special āhotel TVā and the tech guy canāt even access the right setting. Any hints? variety.com/2022/film/ne...
Motion smoothing is a technology used by modern TVs to increase the frame rates of video. For many film lovers, it's very controversial.
Sorry these are not cats but I took some photos yesterday of very, very tiny beautiful things in the woods and thought you might like to see. šæ
This week's newsletter is about AI's great bait-and-switch, where companies like OpenAI, Rabbit and Humane raise millions of dollars and make outlandish promises about the future, only to deliver a deeply mediocre version of the present. wheresyoured.at/expectations...
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off āSora,ā a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple qu...