Curated Commons // Edition 136
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The future is now
An AI, trained on musicians Drake and The Weeknd, generated a song that has now gone viral. Going to be that much more harder for new talent to break through in coming years - Read here
First AI made stuff up, now companies want to show ads and not call them out
Microsoft thinks putting ads in Bing Chat’s responses and not calling them out is a good idea - Read here ($)
Students are using Generative AI. Why should the teachers not?
Why should students have all the fun! College professors are beginning to leverage Generative AI - Read here ($)
When a Google search result messes up your life
We’ve now had search engines for nearly 2 decades. And they sure have changed lives. Some in really harsh ways. One such story from Canada - Read here
The rise of ‘Prompt Engineers’
Is this a new job category created by tech. Or a flash in the pan before Generative AI takes it over fully? - Read here
And like they say, your margin is my opportunity - the rise of generative AI is taking away the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for US college students! -Read here
Streaming platforms encouraged bingeing. Are they having second thoughts?
Streaming platforms are experimenting with releasing new series in batches, creating their own version of content windowing, but within a series. - Read here
A screwdriver, USB cable, and a social media challenge
That combo is leading more care thefts in the US! The times we live in! - Read here
Death in tech is slow. Painfully slow.
Floppy disks are still around! - Read here
Criminal use cases for Generative AI
There’s a report for that! Coz you can bet criminals and wannabe criminals are sure leveraging the tool - Read here
The melting of ice sheets is now apparently ‘unmistakable’
More worrying news on the planetary front - Read here
A story on ‘today’s John D Rockefeller’
That’s Michael Bloomberg, in case you were wondering - Read here ($)
More interesting reads:
China is apparently building cyber weapons to hijack enemy satellites! - Read here ($)
SpaceX, Starship, and a successful failure - Read here ($)
Can you use electricity to make plants grow better? - Read here
Will AI make computers better teachers than humans? - Read here ($)
And finally
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