itβs true π
itβs true π
no one:
Silicon Valley: im gonna create a MARKET that is so POLY it could destroy the world
always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists!
lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!
By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesnβt work.
Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.
Itβs an AI flop.
www.wired.com/story/why-is...
but itβs good at surveilling you and feeding your voice and data into its slop banks
By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesnβt work.
Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.
Itβs an AI flop.
www.wired.com/story/why-is...
I stuck Amazonβs Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well. www.wired.com/story/why-is...
that's good right
yasssssssss (I cried)
Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writersβincluding one historian who died in January.
NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers β but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen
"this is theater," @aripeskoe.bsky.social told me
I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.
Unprompted by anything specificβ¦ worth noting that WIREDβs ASME award nominated package, βHow To Win a Fight,β includes a piece on how to advocate for your trans and nonbinary neighbors:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity.
This is transphobia.
thank you Kevin
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad. www.wired.com/story/joe-ge...
OPEN AI: WILL YOU LET THE GOVERNMENT USE YOUR TOOLS FOR MASS SURUEILLANCE? OPEN AI: WILL YOU STAND UP FOR AMERICANS? OPEN AI EMPLOYE WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?
Criticism of OpenAI working with the Department of Defense seen in San Francisco this morning.
βOPENAI EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?β
ByteDance is still trying to make the VR workplace happen
The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is βnot just for gamingβ anymore by giving you a digital office.
The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills. www.wired.com/story/war-in...
practing a new form of mindfulness i call "fun computer" where i spend time at my desk but im not looking at things that make me sad or mad
They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.