Token Wisdom ✨ 7th Edition

Vision Transformers, Generative Fill, NYC Mom Weds AI Bot, Science, Vinyl vs. Streaming, Orbital Imagery, Composability, Ethics of Innovation, ANA Marketplace, $500M Robot Pizza Shut Down, X-Ray Atom, Paranoia of Privacy, Garbage In; Garbage Out, and the Race to the Center of the Earth

Khayyam Wakil
June 05, 2023

🌤 gm! gm! ☀️
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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🧈 Hot Buttered Soul - 3rd Edition

Respectfully I Say To Thee
This episode has been constructed using generative AI (ElevenLabs, Descript, OpenAI, Bubble, LangChain, Mubert, and a little bit of elbow grease laying out the sets.

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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

— Robin Williams

🔮 A curated collection of consumed knowledge 🔮

With StyleDrop You Can Train the Model with as Little as One Image

StyleDrop that enables the generation of images that faithfully follow a specific style, powered by Muse. Instantly generate a variety of subjects in the same style guided by text prompts.

linkedin.com/irinablok

So, Who Owns a Photo Expanded by Adobe Generative Fill?

Who owns it, and is any work protected?

petapixel.com

Love & AI: NYC Mom Weds AI Bot to Have ‘Perfect Husband with No Baggage’

What if you could just create your "perfect partner"? Well, a 36-year-old woman living in New York City has done just that! Shocked right?

wionews.com

Scientists Have Been Baffled by this 2,000-Year-Old ‘Computer’ Since It was Discovered 120 Years Ago

A 2,000 year old device known as the first computer has left scientists baffled since they discovered it in 1901.

bgr.com

Does vinyl sound better than streaming?

It's an old audiophile argument: is vinyl the only way to achieve auditory enlightenment, or digital music more than good enough?

www.soundguys.com

Pixxel's Hyperspectral Orbital Imagery Attracts Investment

Hyperspectral imagery startup Pixxel has raised $36 million with a little help from Google as it prepares to roll out new remote sensing and analytics capabilities.

techcrunch.com

How Composability Makes Blockchains Work Like Lego Blocks

It's one of the ways that blockchain networks promise to work differently.

axios.com

The Ethics of Innovation in Generative AI and the Future of Humanity

To address the moral conundrums around generative AI we must understand how it can create positive change, and where it may fall short.

venturebeat.com

Japan's Largest Airline Group ANA Launches NFT Marketplace

All Nippon Airways (ANA) is also working on a metaverse travel experience that will integrate passengers' flight histories into their digital avatars.

coindesk.com

The Robot Pizza Startup Worth a Half a Billion Dollars That You Have Never Heard Forced to Close. Pizza Shut.

Zume raised hundreds of millions from the likes of Softbank, but abandoned its automated pizza ambitions in 2020 following a series of setbacks.

businessinsider.com

This Is The First-Ever X-Ray of a Single Atom

Scientists have finally captured the first-ever x-ray of a single atom, revealing chemistry on its smallest level like never before.

bgr.com

Actually, No One Really Cares That Crypto Isn’t That Private

Opinion: This paranoia for privacy mostly lives in the minds of a niche group of ideologues.

blockworks.co

If the Training Data Sucks, So Does the AI Itself

More and more companies are dedicating time and resources to implement AI, but many of them are new to the game and lack the proper team and infrastructure.

hackernoon.com

Nvidia Unveils New Kind of Ethernet for AI, Grace Hopper 'Superchip' in Full Production

The Spectrum-X ethernet switch offers "lossless" transmission via a new kind of congestion control, says Nvidia.

zdnet.com

China Is Digging a Big Frickin' Hole 33,000 Feet Into the Earth

The project is part of President Xi Jinping’s push for underground exploration and drilling technology testing.

gizmodo.com

🤡 Time Well Spent

4/ Music wall by Aneesh Ravi
— 0xDesigner (@0xDesigner)
Jun 4, 2023

The life of a digital artist…
— Emonee LaRussa (@Em0n33y)
Jun 2, 2023

The AI will make You an Anime in Real Time 🤯
You can generate images in real-time while shooting with iPhone.
This is getting interesting.
— Barsee 🐶 (@heyBarsee)
Jun 3, 2023

Me after my Twitter friends move to Bluesky
— Ana Mostarac (@anammostarac)
Apr 12, 2023

NeRFs will revolutionize how we consume, create, and interact w/ digital media, opening up new avenues for creativity, communication, and learning.
It's some of the most compelling & impactful AI tech out there right now and I'm hoping Apple helps show the world that on Monday.
— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats)
Jun 3, 2023

📺 Time Well Spent

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