by Jeff McKamey
Google’s Gemini
The most PC AI ever made (so far!)
AI has always had blockers to try to keep people from making embarrassing nude pictures of famous singers and other celebrities,
Google may have gone a little too far trying not to generate ANY images that might offend someone:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13108515/Google-Gemini-racist-white-people.html
https://aibusiness.com/responsible-ai/google-s-gemini-has-trouble-drawing-white-people
https://www.engadget.com/google-ceo-says-gemini-image-generation-failures-were-unacceptable-163748934.html
Here is some talk shows that talk about it and show some more pictures:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-google-gemini-white-people
It can’t decide if Hitler may have been worse than Elon Musk:
https://www.ndtv.com/feature/gemini-ais-stance-on-elon-musk-and-hitler-shocks-internet-5137238
My favorite of course is the white farmer:
https://www.news8000.com/lifestyle/money/google-halts-ai-tool-s-ability-to-produce-images-of-people-after-backlash/article_3473d357-a060-548b-a0b1-d13159a37f56.html
Farmers in the news
The farmers in Europe are not doing well financially, and they are speaking up!
https://www.vox.com/2024/2/3/24059767/french-farmers-protests-eu-brussels
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/26/farmers-protests-brussels-eu-agriculture-leaders-riot-police
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/03/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-india-agriculture-climate/
Voice AI
Pete made an impressive demo I’ll show, but he pays for a subscription to this to make various voices.
All you need is one minute of speech to train it then it will say whatever script you want. It has trouble with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
https://elevenlabs.io/
Low Earth orbit visualization:
This one is really cool, it shows all the space junk up there
If you hover over a satellite, it will tell you what it is!
https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization
This is the same thing, only for ships.
You can see all the supertankers getting filled up just past Port Aransas:
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
And of course there is one for Airplanes, this is how people follow Taylor switch around and various other public figures:
https://www.flightaware.com/live/map
There are some AI tools showing up as plugins for browsers:
Most of this one is an automation tool, the only AI part is when it writes some text as far as I can tell:
https://mail.aol.com/d/search/keyword=stmugmeeting/messages/ANm9RDkYm4IOZco7LAFXwDvI5Ho?reason=invalid_cred
Fixit manuals for things:
Repairclininc is like MacFixit for appliances
https://www.repairclinic.com/
Google is retiring the ‘Cached page’ Link
https://searchengineland.com/google-search-officially-retires-cache-link-437122
Now the only way to look at an old page is the wayback machine
https://archive.org/web/
Best Buy Mac On Sale page
With the new M3 Options coming out, they are trying to clear out some of the old models.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-8&browsedCategory=pcmcat247400050001&id=pcat17071&iht=n&ks=960&list=y&qp=currentoffers_facet%3DCurrent%20Deals~On%20Sale&sc=Global&st=categoryid%24pcmcat247400050001&type=page&usc=All%20Categories
Refurbished from Apple
Some are cheaper than returns from Apple,