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  Christos Kritikos

  

  Mar 16

  Technology Is Good Actually

  every.to - Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

  by Evan Armstrongin Napkin MathImage prompt: a cute robot knight holding a shieldMy great-grandmother’s toilet was a hole in the ground until she was …

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  Christos Kritikos

  

  6 days ago

  AI Won’t Kill Our Jobs, It Will Kill Our Job Descriptions—and Leave Us Better Off

  singularityhub.com - Vanessa Bates Ramirez

  The hype around artificial intelligence has been building for years, and you could say it reached a crescendo with OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT …

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  Christos Kritikos

  

  AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules

  Engadget - Kris Holt

  The US Copyright Office left open the door for protecting works with AI-generated elements. Any images that are produced by giving a text prompt to current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US. That's according to the US Copyright Office …

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  Christos Kritikos

  

  Has the 3D printing revolution finally arrived?

  The Guardian - Tim Lewis

  Nori bricks, which were first fired in the Lancashire town of Accrington in 1887, quickly became legendary as the hardest brick ever produced. Their strength, derived from the chemical properties of the local clay, enabled megastructures to rise up around the world, including the Blackpool Tower in …

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  Christos Kritikos

  

  This couple just got married in the Taco Bell metaverse

  MIT Technology Review - Tanya Basu

  The future of virtual weddings is shiny, tacky… and sponsored. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the initial sign-in, and my screen kept crashing. It …

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  Christos Kritikos

  

  How AI could upend the world even more than electricity or the internet

  techxplore.com - Julie JAMMOT

  The rise of artificial general intelligence—now seen as inevitable in Silicon Valley—will bring change that is "orders of magnitude" greater than …