Chaos & Amazement #2417 Llama 3, Glorb’s Spongebob Rap, and Wonkypedia
This week, we're diving head first into chaos 🌀 and marveling at tech wonders, from super weird AI creations to alternative realities. Enjoy!
Tech News
A very human looking Zuckerberg shares insights on Llama 3. He mentions he's driven to constantly innovate, from cattle ranches to data centers. Even failures yield progress for humanity.
Learning that President Biden signed off on extending the warrantless surveillance program till 2026 is concerning, even here in Europe. It's a reminder of the global impact of such decisions on privacy rights worldwide. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/20/24135339/fisa-720-reauthorization-senate-lapse-durbin-wyden
AI is now being used to create kill lists. Lavender and Where’s Daddy? are automated AI systems used in Gaza by Israel. Lavender assigns scores to men based on data, adding high scorers to a kill list, while Where’s Daddy? calls in airstrikes to target them and their families in their homes. https://www.salon.com/2024/04/21/a-short-history-of-kill-lists-from-nazi-germany-to-the-cia-to-gaza/
AI-driven cyber attacks are surging, costing victims $500m by Sept 2023, up nearly 50%. Companies are increasing security spending by 14% this year vs. 2023, per Gartner. Startups are emerging to address the issue. Full details here: https://sifted.eu/pro/briefings/cybersecurity-2024
Twilio cofounder Jeff Lawson appears to have just bought American satirical digital media company and newspaper organization theonion.com. A trust linked to Lawson is behind a U.S. company called Global Tetrahedron, which shares the name of a fictional evil megacorporation in a long-running Onion gag. So he bought it for SEO reasons… https://msn.com/nl-be/finance/-companies/twilio-cofounder-jeff-lawson-appears-to-have-just-bought-the-onion/ar-AA1nFtWS?ocid=sapphireappshare
Fresh AI
AI writing will feel real - eventually. New technologies, like AI writing, start impersonal but evolve to satisfy our need for connection and meaning, much like typewriters and radios did in the past. https://every.to/chain-of-thought/will-you-read-writing-from-an-ai
Hollywood's CAA is testing CAA Vault, letting A-listers create AI clones for reshooting, dubbing, etc. Tyler Perry paused studio expansions after seeing OpenAI's Sora video. As AI advances, the line between stars and their AI replicas blurs. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/hollywood-talent-agency-caa-tests-ai-clones
A closer look at synthesia.io, an AI video startup, as it advances human-like avatars, prompting discussions on the implications of lifelike AI. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/1091772/new-generative-ai-avatar-deepfake-synthesia/
The discussion on AI’s role in music just got a new twist. Glorb’s SpongeBob rap tunes are going viral, thanks to AI tweaking his vocals to sound like SpongeBob. Recent music video:
Glorb boasts 1,036,381 monthly listeners on Spotify: open.spotify.comGlorbArtist · 1M monthly listeners.
Check out these bizarre AI generated "digital porcelain sculptures" by Norwegian artist Bård Edlund, featuring celebrities like Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Timothée Chalamet, Margot Robbie, Nicki Minaj, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, and more kissing themselves!
I'm eager to try out the poetry.camera by Kelin Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather. It's a cool gadget that combines AI and poetry to make poems from pictures you take. It's like art and tech coming together in a unique way. More here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/20/poetry-camera/
Weird and Wonderful
Wonkypedia is a free encyclopedia for an alternative universe. It is for those who have exhausted the rabbit holes of Wikipedia and want to dive into an alternate timeline. https://wonkypedia.org
Cooking with beagles = pure chaos
@beagleskikoReplying to @Steven Knight DAD WAS GETTING BULLIED 🤣🤣 This was probably the messiest, most chaotic video we’ve ever made… and there have been a few that were really up there on the chaos scales!! 😅 Due to the amount of chaos, this is the first 2 minute cooking video - hope you enjoy!! Ingredients used: oats, egg, bell pepper, beetroot, cauliflower, beef, cheese [Disclaimer: we own the full rights to this video and we do not give permission for this video to be used or reposted] #beagle #funnydog #beaglesoftiktok #dog #dogcontent #viralvideos #cookingwithdogs #cookingwithbeagles #viral #dogparentTiktok failed to load.
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