Personal AI, Sora, Cybertrucks, Scams, and Drawing
Personal AI, Sora, Cybertrucks, Scams, and Drawing
Weekly Roundup of AI, Technology, and UX
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Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
🧠 Personal AI
📽️ Sora
🤖 AI Training
🛻 Cybertrucks
💩 Scams
✍️ Quick, Draw
Podcast
Extending Human Potential: Creating Personal AIs with Founder Suman Kanuganti
In this episode, Kyle interviews Suman Kanuganti, co-founder and CEO of Personal.ai. Suman discusses his journey from an engineer with a robotics background to launching innovative ventures like Aira, assisting visually impaired individuals, and Personal AI, aimed at extending cognitive abilities through AI. The conversation explores the technology behind Personal.ai, its unique approach to personalizing user experiences, and the importance of data privacy. Suman also shares his insights on entrepreneurship in the AI space and the ethical considerations of AI development.
News and Useful Reads
Sora: Creating video from text
OpenAI took the world by storm (again) and introduced Sora this week. You can now generate minute-long videos with text prompts. And with how good they look already, it is mind-boggling to think where we go next.
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user’s prompt.
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How Sora Works (And What It Means)
If you’re looking for a very positive take on Sora, this article really highlights many of the possibilities.
Sora doesn’t allow anyone to make a great video at the touch of a button. Storytelling will require much more skill, taste, and dedication than that. But anyone can get started, learn those skills, and have a shot to be great—all they need is a laptop.
Things Get Strange When AI Starts Training Itself
As training data becomes more scarce, we’re already seeing companies turning to AI to train AI. So what happens then?
Generative AI already detects patterns and proposes theories that humans could not discover on their own, from quantities of data far too massive for any person to comb through, via internal algorithms that are largely opaque even to their creators. Self-learning, if successful, might only magnify this issue. The result could be a sort of unintelligible intelligence: models that are smart, or at least capable, in ways humans cannot readily comprehend.
This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting
Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place. That is known as Chesterton’s Fence. There are times when you should break the rules. But only when you understand why the rules are there to begin with.
Who knew untreated stainless steel might not be such a good idea for the exterior of a motor vehicle, especially considering that cars typically get left sitting outside in all weather for 95 percent of their lives? The whole automotive industry, that's who.
The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger
This is a fascinating story making the rounds. Definitely read it if you haven’t yet. Scammers are getting more sophisticated, yes, but the core tactics are always the same.
If it was a scam, I couldn’t see the angle. It had occurred to me that the whole story might be made up or an elaborate mistake. But no one had asked me for money or told me to buy crypto; they’d only encouraged me not to share my banking information. They hadn’t asked for my personal details; they already knew them. I hadn’t been told to click on anything.
Other Interesting Finds
Quick, Draw
My son found this game and we had time playing it. It also is training the underlying model to better recognize doodles of various types. Give it a try on your phone or tablet (it’s not very fun on your computer).
