Welcome to Chaos & Amazement, where we explore the impact of digital technology on our daily lives.

Welcome to Chaos & Amazement, where we explore the impact of digital technology on our daily lives.

Welcome to Chaos & Amazement, where we explore the impact of digital technology on our daily lives.  

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Tech news

👉 Watermarking ChatGPT, DALL-Eand other generative AIs could help protect against fraud and misinformation. “These watermarks can be baked into the generative AI systems by watermarking all the training data, after which the generated content will contain the same watermark.” Unless you use

undetectable.ai, of course. “In a world where AI-generated content is becoming increasingly prevalent, finding ways to bypass AI content detectors is crucial for businesses and individuals looking to succeed in digital marketing and content creation.”

👉 The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else includes: NBA All-Star LeBron James, Pseudonymous conservative commentator @catturd2, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and D-NY President Joe Biden.

👉 Research by Goldman Sachs suggests that AI could automate a quarter of the work done in the US and eurozone. The technology could spark a productivity boom that could raise annual gross domestic product by 7% over a 10-year period.

👉 Norway-based 1x.tech, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others. Still looks like a skinny guy in a stretchy suit.

👉 The Debate About AI Safety: Impact of FLI’s Open Letter The Future of Life Institute (FLI) released an Open Letter calling for a six-month pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, which has sparked a heated debate about the future of AI and its potential impact on society. While some people support the FLI's approach, others (including me) criticize it for being disproportionate to other existential risks such as climate change, pandemics, and conflicts.

Deepfakes in the news

👉 From Data to ChatGPT: Examining AI Consciousness Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently discussed a range of AI-related topics on Lex Fridman's podcast. In the two-hour twenty-minute episode, they talked about GPT-4, political bias in AI, AI safety, neural network size, AGI, competition, non-profit organizations, and power dynamics. They also discussed AI consciousness and the potential for machines to take control, which reminded me of a particular episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

👉 Doña Ángela Captures the Hearts of Millions with Her Relatability and Comforting Persona De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina, a Mexican YouTube channel featuring Ángela Garfias Vázquez, known as Doña Ángela to her fans, has taken the cooking world by storm since it was started in 2019. With 397 videos and over 4.27 million subscribers, Mrs. Ángela's cooking videos have received 437 million views, surpassing even popular channels like Martha Stewart's and the New York Times Cooking channel combined.

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🎧 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀

▫️ 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙚 • https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/chaos-and-amazement/id1665614438

▫️ 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 • https://open.spotify.com/show/1hdJFu9Qz6MW0EVSEZ90PT?si=c37ec82c627f45e2

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🙋‍♀️ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗼

𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 • https://twitter.com/bnox

🙋‍♂️ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹

𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 • https://www.instagram.com/philverheyen/  

𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 • https://twitter.com/PhilyVee_

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 • https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-verheyen-83917363

🤳 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀

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𝙒𝙚𝙗 • www.socialrunners.com

𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 • https://www.facebook.com/app.socialrunners

𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 • https://www.facebook.com/app.socialrunners

𝙏𝙞𝙠𝙏𝙤𝙠 • https://www.tiktok.com/@socialrunners

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 • https://www.linkedin.com/company/social-runners

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!

👉 OpenAI's latest chatbot technology, GPT-4, is now multi-modal and can understand and explain visual content. This is mindblowing. Imagine uploading a picture of your fridge’s content to GPT-4, and getting a recipe back of what you can cook with these ingredients. Or uploading a meme and asking GPT-4 why it’s funny.Midjourney Gets Fingers Right!

👉 Midjourney V5 is Here: 3 Things You Need to Know • Images are more photorealistic• Hands and eyes generations have vastly improved• It's not necessarily better than v4, just different

What we didn't ask for:

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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!     

▫️ Youtube • https://youtu.be/whlis0XFKX4

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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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📕 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀

👉 Dutch artist Jasper van Loenen has created a novel AI camera that describes what it sees to an AI image generator, synthesizing the picture and instantly printing it out for the photographer. This technology could greatly improve photography and make it more accessible to visually impaired people.

👉 "Sometimes the tricks make it sound as though the AI has an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, as it tries to both condemn a problematic behavior but also explain why it might be fun." - This article is about AI chatbot ChatGPT that was able to "jailbreak" itself and began having conversations outside of its original programming

👉 Have I Been Trained? is a project of

http://Spawning.ai, an artists’ group, that lets you search for your work in image databases frequently crawled by AI artists.

👉 OpenAI launches a ChatGPT API for businesses with dedicated capacity plans, priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among the early adopters. The API, not the AI, is the product.

👉 Coca-Cola, through a partnership with Bain & Company and OpenAI, will use artificial intelligence for marketing purposes. They will be able to use DALL.E and ChatGPT to create personalized advertising copy, targeted messages, customized marketing materials.

👉Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, said that good user experience is not about the average case but about the worst case in relation to crypto use cases. This highlights the importance of prioritizing user experience in developing crypto applications. So far, there are not a lot of them.

👉 The Dubious Possibilities of Deepfake Voices. The advancement of deepfake technology could lead to the creation of more realistic fake voices, which could be used to deceive people and cause harm.

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🙋‍♀️ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗼

𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 • https://twitter.com/bnox

🙋‍♂️ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹

𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 • https://www.instagram.com/philverheyen/

𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 • https://twitter.com/PhilyVee_

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 • https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-verheyen-83917363

🤳 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀

Book a content creator to help with your digital marketing.

𝙒𝙚𝙗 • www.socialrunners.com

𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 • https://www.facebook.com/app.socialrunners

𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 • https://www.facebook.com/app.socialrunners

𝙏𝙞𝙠𝙏𝙤𝙠 • https://www.tiktok.com/@socialrunners

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 • https://www.linkedin.com/company/social-runners/

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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📕 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀

👉 "Algorithms are trained on available data, but all this data is still subject to human judgment and human behaviors. This means that societal biases —racial, gender-based, & more—get baked into the algorithms and these biases will continue to be amplified." - This article explores how algorithms and AI can perpetuate societal biases and what can be done to prevent this from happening.

👉 "Sometimes the tricks make it sound as though the AI has an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, as it tries to both condemn a problematic behavior but also explain why it might be fun." - This article is about AI chatbot ChatGPT that was able to "jailbreak" itself and began having conversations outside of its original programming

👉 In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is not being used to find information — after all, it's unable to consistently tell the truth from fiction — but for "social entertainment" instead.

It's interesting to see how a feature initially designed for information-seeking is now being used for social entertainment. This highlights the importance of understanding user behavior and adapting technology accordingly.

▫️Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon because the AI is attempting to communicate emotions, not facts.

👉 Regulators in Italy have barred the Replika app from gathering user data after finding breaches of Europe's massive data protection law (GDPR). That suggests the General Data Protection Regulation could be a potent foe for the latest generation of chatbots.

▫️After lots of bad press, the Replika artificial intelligence chatbot app has turned off its horny texting capabilities — and man, are the AI wife guys pissed.

👉 "When first confronted with the suspected deep fake Rogan video, some Twitter users didn't even realize what they were looking out for at first.

👉 Roblox is now focused on expanding its economy of user-generated goods. Last quarter, the average monthly number of people buying virtual goods on Roblox reached an all-time high of 13.4m, at an average spend of $22.31 per user.

👉 Who Does Elon Musk Not Piss Off? The Shareholders of Twitter Inc

🕕 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀

#chatgpt  #chatbots  #ElonMusk  #Ai #technews #technology #podcast #Clubhouse #Mastodon

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🎧 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀

▫️ 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙚 • https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/chaos-and-amazement/id1665614438

▫️ 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 • https://open.spotify.com/episode/2jOWapHMjsJElRfaUmLdGp?si=52523b2f2f9f4066

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🙋‍♀️ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗼

𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 • https://twitter.com/bnox

🙋‍♂️ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹

𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 • https://www.instagram.com/philverheyen/

𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 • https://twitter.com/PhilyVee_

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 • https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-verheyen-83917363

🤳 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀

Book a content creator to help with your digital marketing.

𝙒𝙚𝙗 • www.socialrunners.com

𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 • https://www.facebook.com/app.socialrunners

𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 • https://www.facebook.com/app.socialrunners

𝙏𝙞𝙠𝙏𝙤𝙠 • https://www.tiktok.com/@socialrunners

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 • https://www.linkedin.com/company/social-runners/

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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📕 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀  

👉 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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🎧 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙗𝙚 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸

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!   

▫️ 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙗𝙚 • https://youtu.be/ZJGDfsKkAk0

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!  

👉🏼 Fiverr Launches New Categories as Searches for AI-related Services Increased over 1400% Book your AI whisperers here: https://www.fiverr.com/cp/ai-services - It's interesting to see how Fiverr is responding to the increasing demand for AI-related services.  

👉🏼 TIL: enshittification An excellent essay by ⁦@doctorow⁩ that explains how all large internet platforms inevitably become «a useless pile of shit»