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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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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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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…
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The Robots are Coming: Here’s the Plan, Humans!
The wonks call it “AI job displacement”… but let’s just call a spade a spade: With the coming wave of autonomous AI software agents, combined with humanoid robot workers, there will be a massive leap in human unemployment. Translation: massive job loss as robots (both software and hardware) replace humans in almost every viable occupation.…
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Why the 2023 Altman Coup Failed? The Ugly Truth : MONEY, HONEY
It was widely reported that within 72 hours of CEO Sam Altman being summarily executed and kicked out of the company he founded, that more than 95% of OpenAI employees signed a letter threatening to quit if he was not reinstated. And that this was why the Altman Coup Failed. In the popular and mainstream…
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Quick Hit: GenAI at Fashion Week 2024
I love reading the New York Times. So it was with fascination and amusement that I scrolled through its recent coverage of Milan Fashion Week… and wondered: how would GenAI at Fashion Week perform? We begin with: an actual photograph Specifically, I was intrigued by this one particular (theoretically real) photograph: I thought: well, that’s…
