Thanks to a recommendation from my brother, I stumbled on a great website, futuretools.io. It showcases many of the new GPT3, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, other other AI-based tools on the market and the third parties that have built solutions around these offerings. It’s amazing to see how quickly there’s developed…

Sam Altman has a problem. He knows it. In a recent interview related to the release of GPT4, he’s quoted as saying “people are begging to be disappointed and they will be”. I really appreciate that re-setting of the bar. People think subsequent numbers are better. Sure, but usually the…

I like visiting a particular chain of supermarkets because they’re willing to try new things. At one particular branch, they’re always testing new systems. A large difference at this store was that instead of requiring a coin to unlock a cart, you could enter your membership number. Wow… I often…

My wife sent me a recent ABC News Article about new privacy concerns around voice-first devices. You can check out the article here… https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/collection-voice-data-profit-raises-privacy-fears/story?id=96363792 The main concern was about companies using voice data in a discriminatory fashion unintended by the caller / user. The examples they gave were companies using…

Deepfakes are often associated with malicious intents — political rivals create incendiary fake footage of the opposing politician doing something bad, ex-lovers create embarrassing clips, angry employees create harmful content to denigrate the company they’re working at. However, Deepfakes might need a new name. Alternate actors? AI generated characters? With…

Learning something new can be painful. One knows how to do things how one’s already done them, how the world works, and wants to avoid the different pains associated with learning. In university, learning was a painful process as the signals I was receiving back were that I was bad…

A few days ago, Microsoft announced VALL-E, a new text-to-speech technology that can mimic a person’s voice with only three seconds of sample data. This comes at a time when Microsoft is contemplated a much larger stake in OpenAI. At the Toronto Tech Summit in 2019, one person asked the…

Since it was caught by mainstream media, it seems like OpenAI came out of nowhere. All of a sudden, this technology is showing up everywhere, whether it be AI generated images or new tricks people are learning to use with NLG (I’m looking at you, Excel formula tricks). However, it…