Chaos & Amazement #2422 Glue Pizza, the End of ICQ, and Ros the Cat
This week's Chaos & Amazement takes you to the wild world of Generative AI, from hallucinogenic 🌀 recipe suggestions to copyrighting art. And oh, an adventurous cat 🐈⬛ from Deventer.
Tech News
According to Reuters, TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its US users that may result in a version that operates independently of ByteDance https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-preparing-us-copy-apps-core-algorithm-sources-say-2024-05-30/
TikTok, however, denies this vehemently in a tweet: https://x.com/TikTokPolicy/status/1796270486134919609.
Did you know glue can help cheese stick to pizza? Apparently so, according to Google's AI Overview. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162896/google-ai-overview-hallucinations-glue-in-pizza
In the weeks since Google announced AI Overview, users have been on a hunt to find the wildest responses. Here’s another one: In response to “Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti?” Overview says yes and offers a recipe that combines the flavors of gasoline with Italian spices. https://www.fastcompany.com/91132974/shocking-google-ai-overview-answers
The YouTube app launched a collection of free, casual games called Playables. These games won't compete with paid apps but could become another place for YouTube to show ads. The feature includes titles like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. Netflix also launched games a while ago, but I think the context is a bit weird. What do you think? https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-playables/
Fresh AI
AI design startup Exactly.ai secures $4.3M to help artists create & copyright designs at scale. https://exactly.ai
From my blog
The End of an Era: Remembering ICQ https://bnox.be/2024/05/the-end-of-era-remembering-icq.html Ribbit!
Weird and Wonderful
From the Novel Fields of Science Generator: Have you considered Stratographic-Radiochemistry? It is the art of leading an army and study of ordinary chemical reactions under radioactive circumstances. https://cyan-elizabeth-74.tiiny.site
One Minute Park allows you to visit parks from around the world for 1 minute each. These are just 1 minute videos, not webcams. Eventually the project will fill in all the minutes in a day. You can create your own One Minute Park to help achieve this goal. https://oneminutepark.tv/
Prefer the city? Try https://citywalks.live
Ros the Cat lives in Deventer, Netherlands with his human Kees Meijerink. The pair recently got a small Insta360 camera with a detachable camera pod, which Meijerink attached to Ros’ collar.
Miss Dugan reads what her 8th Graders (age 13-14) say to her. That last one was personal.
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