The company’s latest dance video shows Spot and Atlas dancing to a 2021 BTS single. It’s interesting to see Boston Dynamic’s robots given the livery of parent company Hyundai, and with the BTS lads getting conscripted, perhaps the robots will take their place? At least it’d be an ethical use-case for AI in war.
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread from software engineer Warren Craddock, who worked on a number of high-profile tech flops including Lytro, Google Glass, and Google Clips. Craddock explains why each project failed (e.g. lack of a killer app for Glass) but identifies a common problem: the inability of teams and companies to acknowledge the shortcomings of their own work.
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Well, you should, just to hear how good AI voice cloning is right now. The Bro Jogan Experience is a 20 minute interview between AI clones of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs (made to advertise an AI voice synthesis startup).
For more on the promise and danger of this technology, you can read our report on the subject from last September.
If you don’t know about Lena Forsén — aka the ‘Patron Saint of JPEGs’ — then a little history lesson wouldn’t go amiss today. You can read all about Forsén in my review for the London Review of Books of Dylan Mulvin’s book “Proxies.” It’s all about the standards, templates, and, yes, Playboy photographs, that invisibly shape the technological landscape around us.
[London Review of Books]
