Chaos & Amazement #2410 T-Series, Stable Video, and Chickens Crossing the Road
This week's Chaos & Amazement explores AI advancements, the science of napping, and why chickens cross the road (including a video!).
Tech News
The biggest YouTube channel is now T-Series, which now has 260M subscribers. To put this in context: MrBeast is close at 242M. PewDiePie has 111M. T-Series, the world's biggest music channel on YouTube, offers a massive library of Indian music and films and scored 2.7B views in February, per Tubefilter. https://tubefilter.com/2024/03/04/top-100-most-viewed-youtube-channels-worldwide-february-2024/
Putting your phone on airplane mode for flights seems like a no-brainer, right? But turns out, it's more myth than necessity. Despite lingering fears, the FAA study from 2012 shows little proof of phones messing with plane systems. https://qz.com/phone-airplane-mode-myth-1851286214
OpenAI's Sora isn't just about cool AI videos; it's a step towards AI understanding the real world, potentially leading to major advancements in robotics and logical reasoning. https://medium.com/the-generator/why-openais-sora-is-about-way-more-than-ai-videos-20d81c2aba9f
Fresh AI
Stable Video is a new web app by Stability AI that turns text prompts or images into videos with Pan, Zoom, and Orbit effects. Currently in closed beta, it's free to use with daily credit refreshes. stablevideo.com
This video has sparked interesting conversation about the potential of AI-generated art, with some finding it beautiful and others disturbing. It raises questions about creativity and the future of humanity. What do you think?
From my blog
AI Enables Further Enshittification of Social Media https://bnox.be/2024/03/ai-enables-further-enshittification-of.html
TikTok spammers are using AI to flood social media with stolen clips and low-effort content. https://www.404media.co/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-spammers-and-the-ai-tools-that-enable-them/
Powernap Paradise: Why the Philippines Makes Napping a National Sport https://bnox.be/2024/03/powernap-paradise-why-philippines-makes.html
Weird and Wonderful
Check out http://ambient.garden, an experiment in spatial composition where music and visuals are entirely generated from open-source code. Dive into the Ambient Garden and experience sound organized in space, not time.
Remarkable footage from Varda Space Industries depicting Earth's atmosphere affecting its W-1 capsule during descent. The audio includes the spacecraft's sound as it travels through the atmosphere at speeds exceeding Mach 25.
Do watch the CDK - Somebody That I Used To Know dance video. The choreography, editing, and execution are all top-notch. Bravo to everyone involved!
Building a Cat-Sized Lego Train
Chickens crossing the road. Still not sure WHY chickens are crossing the road, but here is HOW they did it.
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