Chaos & Amazement #2433 AI Inbreeding, Brain Powered Computers, and Sleeping in a Glass Box

My love language is removing tracking parameters from URLs before sharing them. What’s yours?

Tech News

• Facebook rose to the top as the most hated social media app in 39 countries, including the UK, Australia, Canada, France and India. https://mailsuite.com/blog/the-most-loved-email-messaging-and-social-media-apps-by-country/

• AI models could get dumber from inbreeding (learning from their own AI-generated content, not human data). This could lead to less diverse, less helpful, and less honest AI. Experts warn of potential issues but think a total collapse is unlikely. https://theconversation.com/what-is-model-collapse-an-expert-explains-the-rumours-about-an-impending-ai-doom-236415

  

• Swiss startup FinalSpark offers $500/month cloud access to biocomputers made of human brain cells. These biocomputers aim to create AI using 100,000x less energy than current systems & uses organoids that compute for up to 100 days. Here’s a live stream: finalspark.com Live - FinalSpark

Fresh AI

• You no longer need to use discord: the Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone. They're also temporarily turning on free trials to let you check it out. https://www.midjourney.com/imagine

• ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, is making its Reader app available across the world with support for 32 languages. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/elevenlabs-reader-app-is-now-available-globally/

• AI-generated cat stories are objectively weird. They are also wildly popular, and more than a little controversial. More on this phenomenon at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240819-why-these-ai-cat-videos-may-be-the-internets-future

  

  @la.team.francePoor kitten.. Will he find his dad ? #ia #aiart #poorcat #catslovers #catsoftiktok

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Weird and Wonderful

• One night at a glass box hotel room. You are the art!

  

  @aprettycoolhoteltourWe stayed in the glass box hotel room in Ibiza but I was so unprepared!!! Here’s what I wish I’d known… To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please contact licensing@storyful.com #creatorsearchinsights

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• There Is No Website I’m still there, 100% clueless

  https://thereisnoweb.site

• Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desert https://youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQpim8?si=pkyNs5lUqs-om-nU

• Watch a STUNNING time-lapse of the northern lights from space