Token Wisdom ✨ 13th Edition

Neuroscientists vs. Philosopher, Sony Bets $2B on XR, Intuition Economy, SoundStorm, Bill Gates Addresses the Terminator in the Room, Threads' Deceptive Dark Patterns, Frontline of the AI Revolution, Reinventing Song Creation, Investing in AI Mafias, Training On Your Own Data, Artists Get a Fighting Chance, Sound Nets $20M Investment; Future of Fashion with Pharrell, Debunk the Illusion, Greek Villa Earth, BookAI, and Benford's Law

Khayyam Wakil
July 17, 2023

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Keeping up in this new generative mega-multi-meta-DAO-verse is hard to GPT. That's why I package up a small part of the internet that catches my eye and stirs my mind and share it with you.

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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

— Boethius

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Neuroscientist Loses a 25-Year Bet on Consciousness — To a Philosopher

Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.

bigthink.com

Sony Dives Into 'Extended Reality' with $2B R&D War Chest

Japan electronics giant to focus on live-game titles to catch up to Microsoft.

asia.nikkei.com

The Knowledge Economy Is Dead. Long Live the Intuition Economy

Amid the understandable anxieties around AI, the discussion should be rational rather than hysterical as an intuition economy dawns.

venturebeat.com

SoundStorm: Terrifying AI Tool Capable of Real-Time Voice Replication

Google has introduced its latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology with SoundStorm, a cutting-edge model for efficient and non-autoregressive audio generation.

mpost.io

Bill Gates Addresses AI's ‘Terminator’ Scenario

The billionaire Microsoft founder asks "What if a future AI decides it doesn’t need humans anymore and wants to get rid of us?"

thestreet.com

The ‘Threads’ App is FILLED With Deceptive Dark Design Patterns – We Spotted More Than TEN

Explore how the Threads App from Instagram cleverly manipulates user behavior - featuring over ten deceptive dark design patterns...

yankodesign.com

The Workers at the Frontlines of the AI Revolution

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

restofworld.org

Can AI Reinvent Song Creation Without Cutting Out Humans?

One of the hottest sample libraries in the music biz is introducing AI that opens new avenues for song creation while keeping human-created loops at the forefront.

forbes.com

Investing in the "AI Mafias"

Why it matters: Like other cohorts that decamped from big technology brands to start their own ventures, it appears the era of “AI mafias” is now upon us.

axios.com

AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

Training AI models with AI-generated synthetic content causes the quality of the models' outputs to disintegrate, a new paper shows.

futurism.com

Artists Are Losing the Battle Against AI. A Tool That's Found a Way to Trick Algorithms, Is Giving Them a Fighting Chance

Artists are worried AI will steal their futures if they advertise their work online. Researchers say they have the solution, but it's not perfect.

businessinsider.com

Snoop Dogg and a16z Back Web3 Music Platform Sound’s $20M Funding Round

The company aims to help artists make a living for their music by minting their songs on-chain and selling them directly to fans.

coindesk.com

Pharrell Is the Future of Fashion — and the Future Looks Creative AF

Louis Vuitton's embrace of a "non-traditional" creative director and NFTs points the way forward for fashion, despite the naysayers.

decrypt.co

Debunking the Illusion: It's All About the Eyes, Not the Mind

Research from the University of Exeter indicates that visual illusions result from our eyes and brain's neural limitations rather than complex mental processes.

scitechdaily.com

Greek 'Villa Earth' Emerges from the Mediterranean Like a Futuristic Yacht

Overlooking Greece’s Mediterranean coast, Vrantsi’s Villa Earth is a private residence that seamlessly integrates into its natural landscape while promoting a bold and dynamic aesthetic.

www.designboom.com

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BookAI - Chat With Your Book

You only need the title and its author, and Artificial Intelligence takes care of the rest.

bookai.chat

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Jobs? You mean the slow version of get rich quick schemes? No thank you.
— Ginny Hogan (@ginnyhogan_)
Jul 11, 2023

This is peak UI design.
— Ilya Miskov (@ilyamiskov)
Jul 16, 2023

This is the most detailed closeup I made, where I cannot find any sign that this is an AI image
#midjourney has reached new heights for me
Can you indicate any detail here that doesn't look real?
— Uri Raveh (@uriraveh)
Jul 17, 2023

Jump into a new adventure with 16 new Super Mario OREO cookies. #SuperMarioOREO
— OREO Cookie (@Oreo)
Jul 7, 2023

Instead of warming up my leftover pasta in the microwave, I sautéed some onions, added more seasoning, and heated it up on the stove
— Mel (@TheBaddestMitch)
Jul 10, 2023

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