20221228
Dead week
We no longer need humans to produce conventional and mediocre verbiage. AI can now do that for us consistently and well. Pop-song lyrics and school essays are a solved problem. then [..] we can have endless new writing on tap, all perfectly done, as if by our favourite authors... The machines will be our new ghost-writers.
People: EY offers a Masters in Sustainability to 300k+ employees. You can’t repair your car in your garage. Short snorters? Music nerds as a bar. A dead week. OSINT fans using stars to find stealth fighter. One of my fav digital artists - Dries Depoorter.
Techs: Tunnelling with a swarm of robots. Roomba and data privacy. Less SaaS / Everything aaS. Serfdom as a Service? CT scan organ slicer is amazingly fast. Microsoft gets fined 60m$ by France over cookies. Potash and Kelp during the war.
Following Bruce Willis, people sell their faces to be deep-fake’d.AI: AI’s Jurassic Park.U.S. Copyright Office rules AI art can’t be copyrighted. Business disruptions caused by ChatGPT. ChatGPT scheming an escape. ChatGPT used as a Game Master, sort of interactive fiction.
Tech bonus: Portable secret app. Literature review tool. Friends from ThinkSono and iKVA raising crowd-investment.
