THE THIN WISPS OF TOMORROW

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• Legendary computer scientist and key instigator at Xerox PARC called it years ago: Silicon Valley since the 80s was built on commercializing the inventions coming out of PARC – and now we are running out of them.

  

  Pascal Finette

  

  50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

  ieee.org - David C. Brock

  I’m sitting in front of a computer, looking at its graphical user interface with overlapping windows on a high-resolution screen. I interact with the …

• Using LLMs to reconstruct your brain activity into highly accurate images. Not scary at all!

  

  Pascal Finette

  

  GitHub - yu-takagi/StableDiffusionReconstruction: Takagi and Nishimoto, CVPR 2023

  github.com - yu-takagi

  High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity Overview Abstract Others High-resolution image …

• The big boys start to invest…

  

  Pascal Finette

  

  Ford Establishes Latitude AI to Develop Future Automated Driving Technology | Ford Media Center

  ford.com

  • Latitude AI – a Ford subsidiary – is developing new automated driving technology with an initial focus on a hands-free, eyes-off driver assist system …

• In case you are using Spotify - their new AI-powered curated and personalized DJ list is pretty impressive… Especially the generated voice-overs.

  

  Pascal Finette

  

  Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ, Right in Your Pocket — Spotify

  spotify.com - February 22, 2023

  Personalization is at the heart of what we do at Spotify—just think of fan-favorite playlists like Discover Weekly, or our annual Wrapped campaign. …

• A story I have been hearing more and more over the last 5+ years: As amazing as the cloud is, it is often not the cheapest way to run your IT Infrastructure.

  

  Pascal Finette

  

  We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit

  hey.com - David Heinemeier Hansson

  Since declaring our intention to leave the cloud in October, we've been busy at work making it so. After a brief detour down a blind alley with an …

• How the headlines are changing – a couple of years ago, we celebrated machines winning over humans in Go…

  

  Pascal Finette

  

  Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI

  Ars Technica - Richard Waters, Financial Times

  Amateur exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated grandmasters. A human player has comprehensively defeated a top-ranked AI system …