Author: Mr. Strange
Exploring the Meaning of Life: Insights from Survey & Other Insights
Thank you so much for your interest, and for taking the time to fill out my ‘Meaning of Life’ survey in the first place. Although I can’t say that I have “figured it all out”, this whole process has really helped me understand my own beliefs on these topics
Apple’s Long Awaited Rollout of AI
This last Monday was the first day of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), commonly referred to as Dub Dub. It is Apple’s time to show off their latest in innovations and plans for the Fall. This year Apple’s big announcement is that AI is coming to their platforms but they cheekily rebranded it to…
Rare Earth Data Mining
Ch.1 Sometimes I feel like a monster, a collector of souls, stealing tiny pieces of people’s lives unbeknownst to them and selling it to some bloated corporation to do god knows what with it… just so I can have my gadgets and my creature comforts, while the rest of the world makes due with what…
A mostly proud owner of the Apple Vision Pro headset
I am what they call an “early adopter” (aka: huge nerd), it is most likely my dad’s influence. He was an electrical engineer in aerospace and we had some of the first personal computers in our home, and when he gave me his hand-me-down Palm V (image below) that he got from work, I became…
No big deal, AI is just figuring the building blocks of life
Google was one of the first companies to start investing heavily in AI, well over a decade ago, they developed and released open source frameworks like TensorFlow, spent billions developing their TPU coprocessors, and acquired a cutting edge UK based AI research lab which became Google’s Deep Mind division. Around 2014 after developing several successful…
The Rise of the Robots
I remember having my love of robots crushed in the mid 80s, I had of course seen all the sci-fi movies and when my dad said he was bringing home an actual robot I was pretty much expecting it to be my new best friend. The Omnibot 5402 does deliver in terms of looks, maybe…
OpenAI previews GPT-4o and she is flirtatious AF
If you haven’t see the movie Her you should, because it is good, but also because it has a fairly prescient theme of predicting this concept of falling in love with your AI assistant. I mean can you think of a lonely person who wouldn’t want an intelligent and funny Scarjoe organizing their life and…
Music Video Made Entirely with Video Generator Sora
A few months ago Open AI announced their video generation platform called Sora. Sora is much more advanced than other “text to video” platforms and can generate realistic clips – up to a minute long! Although Sora is not yet released, some creators are getting a chance use it in their work. Here is the…
Hello Strange New World!
Ok, I’m going to call it… It is May 20th of the year 2024, and from where I’m sitting it sure does feel like we have officially reached the beginning of the “technological singularity“. And although you may not know or care what this even means, you should consider that in the next 10 years…
Lex Interviews Sam
Pretty historic interview of Sam Altman, interesting to hear about AI from the horses mouth, he thinks compute is the next “currency” and that it is “going to be the most precious commodity in the world”. He may be right, but I hope that will be because compute will start making a tangible improvements in…