I put a ribbon of tools that I use every day on my Microsoft Surface Book into this post. I teach digital transformation to a different group of mid-career professionals every six weeks. I've never had a group of these tech-minded trainees in which more than 90% of those attending were using a paid …
While teaching students how AIs learn to be smarter, I stumbled upon some discoveries concerning algorithms that are watching me. I discovered Only Fans Creators started showing up in my Instagram Reels after I searched Google for reasons there’s been a drop in subscriptions and followers …
Reality Defender says they have 90% confidence that the images of sexually explicit poses of Taylor Swift were created using a diffusion model. This AI-driven technology is accessible through more than 100,000 apps and publicly available models, CEO Ben Colman told Ken Conger of the New York Times. …
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According to UK marketing research firm GWI, social media usage is on the decline. I teach very clever university students. Many of them believe there is no compelling need to share ideas in one place anymore. They’re not pushed to connect to share. I believe we’re seeing an exodus of …
In the mid-90s, I was so happy with a flat-text indexing service called AskSam. I’d install the software from a set of floppies and it would keep track of all sorts of notes I had scattered across my laptop. Today, I still have a scattergun approach to information and I’m using a much …
As Kelli Maria Korducki explains in The Atlantic, computer science is no longer the safe major. From the time I left high school, computer science degrees have been sold as one of the safest paths to job security. Through several downturns, coding jobs kept spawning and wages are very good. By the …
Paul Kedrosky points out that all eight of the Google-based authors of the seminal “transformers” paper that helped spark the current wave of large language models have now left Google to start various AI companies. That is more people than there were senior vice presidents at Google in 2004. …
Waving to Anchor OG peeps who are using the one minute audio option inside IG group messaging. The Instagram kludge isn’t as elegant as the original version of Anchor v1. I doubt few will know of the casual social audio of Anchor now that the app is all-Spotify. Shout-out
From Bernie Goldbach's photostream: Wondering if AI is rising as fast in the 2020s Reshaping Education with AI Listening AssistanceStart at the experience and work back toward the techSeven New Rules of Digital Transformation by Red Hat
Elsevier appears to be collecting and monetizing our personal data, sometimes without writers' consent. Data can be used to “extrapolate core working hours, vacation times, and other patterns of a person’s life.” Over 20,000 researchers now refuse to publish, review, or edit for …
From @donncha@mastodon.ie I saw mind-boggling Fediverse stats Mastodon has the most users of any Fediverse sw. There are more Fediverse servers in EU than in the US.
Anyway, when ActivityPub and RSS merge we will have a fantastic social network along with the news reader of the world, as an open system that the Bigs will never break. We will have the online system we’ve been waiting for. Now we just have to do everything right. 😄 Dave Winer …
According to Debirdify 2.5% of the people I follow on Twitter have Fediverse accounts. Most of the people I follow are using scholar.social.
Eric Bellefeuille, art director for Ubisoft in Montreal, shared some of his text-to-art spaceship blueprints created by the Midjourney AI.The game art designers I teach have dramatically increased their outputs by using AI with their artwork. You can sketch ideas that in the past would have required …