05 2024 September
Why I Paid Human Musicians + Artists to Create the Sonic Identity for My Podcast
Earlier this week I posted on LinkedIn about a project that my team and I have been working on for nearly a year. During the pandemic, I...
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02 2024 August
The Real Reason the “Created with Human Intelligence” Badge Probably Won’t Work
Freelance artist Beth Spencer had a brilliant idea that went viral. She suggested that artists hand draw their own version of a “created with human...
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11 2024 July
A First Look at America’s Smartest Highway
Driverless vehicles are obviously going to be part of humanity’s future, but they aren’t experiencing a great PR moment right now. Every day it seems...
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03 2024 July
Want To Understand How AI Could Transform Our World? Read More Philosophy.
AI-induced angst seems to be on everyone’s mind. Just this week I was invited to an hour-long virtual session with a group of brand experts...
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26 2024 June
The Next Generation of Political Polling Is Asking AI to Simulate Human Voters
Have you ever picked up the phone to answer a call from a pollster? I can probably guess your answer, and that’s not uncommon. A...
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10 2024 June
AI Subscriptions Based on Usage Are Coming Sooner Than You Think
This past week, ChatGPT went down for all users. According to Gizmodo, “OpenAI’s outages have become somewhat common, which makes it difficult for people to rely...
Read Now04 2024 June
Marques Brownlee and Walt Mossberg on Trustworthy Tech Reviews
How useful will tech reviews (or any other kind of online review) be in a future where they can increasingly be AI generated? This was...
Read Now29 2024 May
India Is Ground Zero for the Irresistible Appeal of Sanctioned Deepfakes
The biggest AI story this week was the showdown between Open AI and actress Scarlett Johansson over the use of a voice concerningly similar to...
Read Now28 2024 May
Truecaller Offers Perfectly Useless Feature to Let AI Respond to Calls in Your Voice
This week’s example of unnecessary AI innovation comes from the caller ID platform Truecaller which is using Microsoft’s Personal Voice technology to power a new...
Read Now21 2024 May
How Airbnb “Icons” Illustrate the Future of Immersive Entertainment
The future of entertainment will be driven by more immersive experiences. This week, there was a story about how the Meta Quest VR headset will be...
Read Now14 2024 May
Imagining the Future of Hip Hop and Art in 50 Years
The day after the Met Gala, the Internet was flooded with deep fakes of celebrities who weren’t there, wearing things they never wore. Some of them...
Read Now08 2024 May
AI Startups Are Too Power Hungry, But Scientists Are Working on A Solution
In aviation, most people know that a huge portion of the costs in that industry come from paying for fuel. Recent projections are that it...
Read Now06 2024 May
Reid Hoffman Interviews an AI Cloned Version of Himself to See How Good It Really Is
When you are a notoriously geeky tech billionaire, having an AI clone of yourself built and trained on all your books and public videos and then interviewing...
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