20 hours agoHow I Used ChatGPT TodayI used ChatGPT to calculate the hours worked by a babysitter. I’m normally sent a message with the hours written as a schedule of start and end times, in Hebrew. I have to spend a minute or so going through and converting this to hours and double checking my math…ChatGPT1 min readChatGPT1 min read
1 day agoThe Problem With A Race To The Bottom… is that you might win. Or worse, come in second place. This is a common adage from Seth Godin. Another adage, this time by Peter Drucker, is what get’s measured gets managed. Then comes the ratchet to get to one end or another of that metric. …Seth Godin1 min readSeth Godin1 min read
2 days agoIdea Generator to Content CreatorStrikes usually happen when the status quo is threatened. Sometimes, technology is behind the disruptions, sometimes, it’s just economic or societal changes. …Content Creation2 min readContent Creation2 min read
3 days agoReducing Time To OrderIt’s amazing how much of an impact poorly loading pages can make on cart abandonment. Either because I’m using a newer computer, there have been updates to Chrome, or because of website improvements, the load time for the online grocery page I use is significantly faster. It’s now a pleasure…Load Times2 min readLoad Times2 min read
5 days agoPizza NuggetsMy brother sent me two Facebook pages that have illustrated us moving in the direction of AI-generated content. Of course, “first, they ridicule” applies in this context. The first, AI-Generated Nonsense puts together video generation with strange artifacts to make nightmare-like versions of 1990s commercials. Their commercials expand on the…Generative Ai1 min readGenerative Ai1 min read
6 days agoTorturous RefinementOne of the more compelling scenes in the WestWorld series when one robot/human clone was relieving the same days over and over again to whittle out issues of data “fidelity”. It’s a common trope from Sisyphus, reliving the same challenges over and over again. …Learning2 min readLearning2 min read
May 2410 Years After Google GlassGoogle Glass came out in April 2013 and it was both loved and hated by many — a trait that you look for in a groundbreaking product. We (the Ubi team) were fascinated by it because it was voice controlled and brought to center stage the argument that we were…Google Glass2 min readGoogle Glass2 min read
May 22C-AI-tphishingAnti-catphishers can use Tineye or Google Image search as an easy way to check if someone might be using readily available images to catphish someone. However, that’s going to be harder. AI can create one-of-a-kind people with images that won’t exist anywhere else on the web. What we’re seeing is…Ai Dating1 min readAi Dating1 min read
May 21Data OverwhelmWith generative AI, one of the drawbacks we may face is being flat out overwhelmed by the extent of data and choices available to us. We can watch something that was created by someone else that we might like or we may have something created fresh for us based on our tastes. When searching for the right choice, we may be able to sort by dozens of dimensions we might not have been able to access before. At some point, we’ll need to decide and take action.Generative Ai1 min readGenerative Ai1 min read
May 18It’s Not FERWhile Word Error Rate (WER) is the accepted standard for speech transcription, maybe Formatted Error Rate (FER) should be considered a better measure? FER takes into account all the additional parts of language that make for better readability and comprehension of a passage. FER can also take into account paragraphs and other elements like capitalization. The good news is that with more language models becoming available, the ability to perform such formatting is being democratized.Fer1 min readFer1 min read
