Curated Commons // Edition 138
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The protests around AI eating jobs are beginning
The Writers Guild of America, the union representing Hollywood TV and film writers, is on strike, and one of the clear demands - keep AI out. Easier said than done though - Read here ($)
Science, FTW
A seven-week old fetus has just undergone a brain surgery! And it appears to have worked! - Read here
AI-generated imagery is now a tool of leverage
Amnesty facing flak for using an AI-generated image to depict protests. As the tech progresses by leaps and bounds, trust is the biggest collateral damage! - Read here
Will AI help us talk to animals?
There’s an ongoing research project to decode non-human communication! Godspeed to them - we sure need to know what our non-human inhabitants of planet earth think about the human species! - Read here
How important is it that a robot blinks?
Quite. We apparently respond better to robots to blink. But getting them to blink is not as easy. - Read here
"The speed of the motors moving skin material when blinking is really challenging and making the shape of the eye look natural while blinking is happening is also challenging. As well as reducing friction between artificial eyelids and the eye surface itself."
Then: Search-engine optimized content. Now: ChatGPT-generated content
For astute users of the interwebs, it was always fun to be associated with online communities. For they have always been the sure way of associating with humans elsewhere (or worst, humans sounding like bots). Most of the content earlier was just filler stuff optimized for SEO. Now, it appears there’s already a lot of ChatGPT-generated content across the web. Much more than what we might have guessed. And it seems some desi firms are calling dibs on generating such content already! - Read here ($)
Is ChatGPT Securities Fraud?
Matt Levine doing what Matt Levine does best! - Read here
Is your wrist buzzing yet?
How much are you controlling your smartwatch? How much is it controlling you? Good piece on the perils of smartphone notifications. - Read here
“Is my watch telling me I’m stressed or am I feeling stressed? Did I not sleep well or is my watch telling me I didn’t? The watch that’s supposed to make you more aware of your body can also make you more disconnected from it,”
Your Ikea chair might be turning off your new 4K monitor
Today in electro static idiosyncrasies… - Read here
Can geothermal energy save the world?
Very good read with an environmentalist who’s focused on geothermal energy - Read here
The next industry to worry about AI? Military
AI systems, for predicting which link you might click. Or for inadvertently triggering a nuclear war? - Read here ($)
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