Posts tagged with Technology
AI De-Identity
Of all the use cases for AI, the one that feels the most dystopian, Black Mirror -esque is its ability to replicate personalities. Companies like character.ai already offer models trained on historical personas and celebrities, but a research paper…
The Wearable Decade
For about two decades, the blistering pace of smartphone hardware improvements has driven manufacturing advances. We've made massive engineering improvements in all the components in the latest flagship phones: touch screens, systems-on-a-chip, tiny camera modules,…
Fueling Infrastructure
It's a shame that hydrogen fuel cells didn't work out for cars. On their face, fuel cells were natural successors to gasoline for consumer vehicles: the energy density by weight is superior[1]; the refueling mechanism…
Translating Culture
Before ChatGPT made AI mainstream, Google and others had already experimented with, successfully, adding aspects of machine learning to traditional rules-based language systems to get more accurate translations. LLMs, too, seem to do a pretty good job—with the…
Tech Savvy Stasis
The other day, my dad forwarded me a screenshot of a Google Gemini-generated summary: some way, somehow, the capital gains tax rate for people over 55 can be 0%. Now, I'll grant that much of his excitement…
Through the Looking Glass
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of these technologies we keep returning to. The sheer science-fiction ness of wearing a computer on our faces, augmenting what we see around us with information gleaned from a combination of sight and sound…
