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The (Hidden) Faces of Militarized AI 2030 : Starlink, Palantir, Anduril
OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google’s continual Gemini faceplants, and now Apple’s (“Intelligence”) tend to dominate the public conversation about AI. But what about militarized AI, the AI of global warfare, the AI that will theoretically control the killer robots of sci-fi lore? Let us not forget what fully 1/6th of the entire federal budget, and fully half (50%)…
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the AI Chip Race : nVidia vs. the World in Silicon Warfare 2024
All the news, and all the stock market, seems to celebrate nVidia these days, with their apparent stranglehold on the global AI chip race market. Their domination, and the unprecedented demand for their fastest chips (currently the H100, as of 2024), has been the major factor that has propelled them into position as the most…
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Metaverse Dystopia 2024 : The Wreckage of RecRoom VR
It had been a few years since I’d done a deep dive into the Metaverse… what we used to call VR, or more specifically, social VR. I had left the industry in 2018 with a great deal of disillusionment, having invested roughly 4 years of my life into developing leading edge apps for the then-available…
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AI production pipeline comes into maturity : the GenAI scorecard / watchlist
In the Land of AI, nothing stays still for long. The AI production pipeline is rapidly moving from the R&D lab and into commercial enterprise / creative agencies. New models and startups, with genuinely boundary-pushing technology, appear to pop up almost daily. Its a lot to keep track of. This is my by-no-means comprehensive and…
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BCI 101 : the Brain Computer Interface
If you haven’t noticed, across the years, tech is getting closer to the bone. Enter BCI. In the ancient days of the twentieth century, you travelled to an office to use a PC; at the dawn of the 21st you carried a laptop with you; today you merely keep a smartphone in your pocket… now…
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The Bizarre Way that Fortnite Fashion makes Billions in Revenue
When Fortnite first launched, I met with some of the key execs in the offices of Epic Games, in a quiet office park in the remote suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina (technically, a village called Cary). They were excited, and enthusiastically explained the concept to me: “The game is short-form; no session will ever exceed…
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Why Tesla Wins : AI FSD : The Future is 100% Electrified, 100% Autonomous
Have you seen a RoboTaxi? I live in Santa Monica. Two robots roam my neighborhood streets freely these days (c. 2024), and one waits in the wings. There are Waymos (waymo, the robotaxi JV between Google and GM), there are Cocos (Coco Robotics, the ultracute food delivery robots), and there is… Tesla Optimus (the humanoid…
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ChatGPT4o Oh Oh Nooooooo : “She” — I mean “Her”– is finally here
ChatGPT4o-Oh is here. You read that right. Like Hawaii Five-Oh. Ostensibly, the “o” is for “omni”, a reference to the truly multimodal nature of the model (more on that later, it’s truly insane from a technical standpoint). Mira Murati, OpenAI’s flagship woman-in-tech, made the announcement: Preying on Lonely Young Men Now, interestingly, we really haven’t…
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Volt Typhoon : Reckoning with the Lethal Sleeper Agent of the 21st Century
Two things : 1) Volt Typhoon, & 2) Axis & Allies Tech Stacks .. redefining the domestic threat level of global cyberwarfare operations, and the lens through which we observe it. Volt Typhoon This was the sentence that woke me out of my stupor. I had to read it three times slowly to make sure…
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the Physical Culture Podcast is LIVE! Listen Now to e001!
We are delighted to announce the inaugural episode of our new podcast: the Physical Culture Podcast. Our first episode explores a wide range of topics from physical health to the purpose of life to what a future with UBI might look like for our civilization, with hosts Gregory Roberts and Abram Hodgens. Listen now to…
