Curated Commons // Edition 142
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Humanoid robots are coming
They’ve been coming for a while. Are they finally round the corner? - Read here
Movies generated by AI are now here
Made by bots…for humans? - Read here
A Mis-spelt AI world
Great thread! Starting with Machu Pikachu below - Read here
The challenges of e-waste
Good long read on the growing challenge of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Weee) - Read here
Will range anxiety soon leave EVs?
For a price, you can now buy cars that have a really long range. At least in ideal conditions - Read here ($)
We are fast-approaching peak AI fears
A hypothetical situation stoking real fears! - Read here
More money is going into green energy
For every dollar invested in fossil fuels, about 1.7 dollars are now going into clean energy. Five years ago, this ratio was one-to-one. - Read here
AI is taking over product descriptions
Then - SEO-optimized content to fill pages.
Now- AI-generated content to fill pages. - Read here
“We can write 10,000 product descriptions in 30 minutes,” said Sachin Dhawan, Stitch Fix’s chief technology officer. It typically takes less than a minute for an employee to review the copy, which is approved nine times out of ten. “They are super good,” he added.
How to think about AI
Good interview with Sci-Fi author Ted Chiang on AI. - Read here ($)
“The machines we have now, they’re not conscious,” he says. “When one person teaches another person, that is an interaction between consciousnesses.” Meanwhile, AI models are trained by toggling so-called “weights” or the strength of connections between different variables in the model, in order to get a desired output. “It would be a real mistake to think that when you’re teaching a child, all you are doing is adjusting the weights in a network.”
Are Transformers art?
Love this interesting piece. A Georgetown Professor put up ten-foot high installations of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. His rich neighbours weren’t pleased! - Read here ($)
When GPT-4 met Minecraft, and what does it mean for the future of work?
A fascinating bot from Nvidia that built a library of code for achieving progressively complex tasks inside Minecraft - Read here
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