Meta releases their Llama AI model as open source: what should we think of that?
Llama 3.1 outperforms OpenAI and other rivals on certain benchmarks. Now, Mark Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant to surpass ChatGPT’s usage in the coming m...
Category: Strategy
Ford chief says Americans need to fall ‘back in love’ with smaller cars – duh
Jim Farley says country is ‘in love with these monster vehicles’ but big cars are not sustainable in the age of EV Source: Ford chief says Americans need to fal...
AI in the physical world
I’ve always been straddling the physical and the digital – thinking of how the two worlds interact and complement each other, and what it means for ...
Now that genAI remembers so well, I’d like a bit of forgetfulness
When I started using genAI tools like ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey), the tools could not remember what was said earlier in the thread of a conversation. Of cou...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...
Ghost’s manifesto is a call to take back the graph, take back the cloud
Years ago I was trying to find away to keep folks connected across all their various digital streams. At the same time, the large Platforms were kicking off the...
Banning foreign-owned companies isn’t unprecedented in the US, TikTok is just one of the latest
The whole TikTok-banning story has been interesting to me. I understand that there is little faith in dominant foreign-owned orgs that either sit on our network...
Are all GenAI buttons magic fairy dust?
I now have apps everywhere asking me to click a button to use GenAI to do the things I can do myself. So I sorta ignore them. But last night I saw a Samsung ad ...
Is Aboard onto something, building with GenAI? (Bonus: BASAAP reference!)
I will admit (not that folks didn’t already know this) I am not really an original kind of guy.[1] Tho I do fool myself into thinking I am a decent remixe...
What’s at the heart of the iRythm Zeo XT monitor?
I came into possession of a Zeo XT long-term heart monitor (see image right). The device was sent to someone I know who ended up not using it. So I took it and,...