AI hardware stuns in new selfie
tech on the runway, union deals, seeing is believing
gm,
A few happenings:
Listen to the latest episode of Too Online featuring carrot tans, hot dog water performance art, plastic in receipts and Mehran’s Steakhouse.
Lads, still time to throw your hat into the Blockchain Bachelor ring.
love,
The Boys
Models on models. Humane, an avant-garde AI company founded by ex-Apple design execs, stunned sartorialists and engineers alike at Paris Fashion Week. Naomi Campbell sashayed down the Coperni runway serving a curious lewk: Humane’s “AI Pin.” The details around this mysterious name-tag looking device are set to be unveiled on November 9th, but what we know so far is it uses cameras, speakers, a projector, and a whole lot of computing power to launch us into what the company calls the “post-smartphone era of mobile computing.” AI wearables might turn into a seasonal trend, with two startups locked in a battle royale to pre-sell their own accessory lines. Where’s Tyra when you need her?
Right to Write. Hollywood’s writers strike has come to an end after 148 days, as the parties finally agreed upon the fair use of AI - at least for the next 3 years. W’s on the board for writers include that AI cannot supplant a writer’s credit or be used for source material, while their big concession is that studios can train AI models off of existing scripts. Now the spotlight pans to the Actors’ guild, where negotiation talks resumed earlier this week. Their top concerns include the use of AI-generated actors, but as long as producers want to show hands, they should be in the clear.
Visionware. A flurry of AI-vision big-tech announcements has taken over our X feed. First off, the internet has started playing around with OpenAI’s new vision model GPT-V, and the results are crazy. From taking a photo of a complex street parking sign and asking ChatGPT if you can park there at a given time, to uploading a screenshot of a Figma design and having GPT-V replicate the design with code, people are finding incredible ways to use this update - and it’s not even fully rolled out yet. Meta also released a slew of updates at its annual conference - including AI-enabled Ray-Bans (TBT to Snap’s Spectacles), and chatbots trained on celebs like MrBeast and Kendall Jenner. However, what really stole the show was Zuck’s incredibly realistic interview with Lex Fridman in the metaverse, using its latest AI tech. Shit’s getting real.
We hang out in AI-image bot chatrooms so you don’t have to.
