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Los Angeles friends, come to our house party with Kraken next month.
Listen to the new pod talking hospitality tech with the co-founder Eater, Resy and founder of Blackbird.xyz, Ben Leventhal.
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Mmm, mmm, not so good. A New Zealand grocery store released what it thought was an innocuous app to help shoppers save money and reduce food waste. The AI recipe generator would allow users to input items they had at home and it would give them ideas of what to make. As users got increasingly curious about what recipes it could generate, things went from weird (think Oreo vegetable stir-fry) to dark real quick. From “aromatic water” that produces chlorine gas, to ant-poison-on-rye, the internet has been having a field day. The company appended the app’s terms to clarify that they do not guarantee that any recipe will be suitable for consumption. Call it utility!
D.C.’s Summer School. The elites of Capitol Hill flocked to a Stanford boot camp on generative AI. Taught by some of the foremost thinkers in the field, the crash course aimed to bring lawmakers and policy influencers up to speed on the benefits and risks of this new era of technology. Several big tech CEOs were also present, and many of the instructors are also affiliated with industry players vying to shape upcoming policy decisions. Guess there’s no such thing as a free school lunch.
Next-gen Tamagotchis. The team behind a Westworld-like digital environment of 25 autonomous AI characters has open-sourced the project so everyone can now play. Users can give directions and interact with the characters, who then go on to make decisions of their own. For example, a user might instruct a character to throw a party, and then the characters will go on to invite others (or ice them out), coordinate plans, and talk shit behind each other’s backs - all on their own volition. Reality TV producers, you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
We hang out in AI-image bot chatrooms so you don’t have to.
