Welcome to Chaos & Amazement, where we explore the impact of digital technology on our daily lives. We started only a few weeks ago with a live broadcast on SocialRunner's Facebook Page, and now it's evolved to a weekly podcast show!  

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👉 Twitch’s AI-generated Seinfeld show was banned after a “stand-up comedy” set that included transphobic comments. 

🔗https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever

👉 Microsoft unveils an updated Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by a next-gen custom OpenAI LLM, calling the duo an "AI-powered co-pilot for the web"

▫️This is an exciting development in the field of AI and search engines, and it will be interesting to see the impact of the new technology on user experience.. 🔗https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/

👉 Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.” 

🔗https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

▫️Google responded to Microsoft’s ChatGPT by launching Bard, its own AI chatbot. But Bard produced a factual error in an ad demo, plummeting the company’s market value by $100 billion.

🔗https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155650909/google-chatbot--error-bard-shares

▫️AI First" To Last: How Google Fell Behind In The AI Boom, Google may have to change its approach to reclaim its AI leadership.

👉 Can BeReal build on its buzz in 2023? 

👉 Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, after climbing from ~380K in October 2022 to over 2.5M in November.

👉 “Clubhouse was open to everyone in July 2021, no invite needed, but by this point, many people had overstayed their welcome in the club.”

👉 "Twitter Chaos: Every Paragraph Could Be a Negative Story for a Normal Company

👉 How studios increasingly use AI de-aging VFX on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood's economics.

More in newsletter: www.clowillaerts.substack.com  

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