It’s no secret AI agents are starting to take over customer service and other tasks. So, instead of communicating via expensive text-to-speech conversion, why not use their own language.
Gibberlink allows AIs to skip unnecessary speech synthesis and recognition and communicate using beeps and bleeps like R2D2.
People have converted their Big Mouth Billy Bass to use Alexa. Now people are augmenting their Big Mouth Billy Bass with ChatGPT AI. You can check out his github project here.
This guy gave his version an Arnold personality:
Drone warfare is very real as the conflict in Ukraine has shown the world. Cheap, re-purposed drone airplanes deliver bombs behind enemy lines and small copters are being used to deliver decisive and deadly grenades to entrenched positions. Hoog created this distopian instructional video that imagines how bad things could get and how to protect yourself from packs of rogue robots.
While this version is tongue-in-cheek, the reality is that swarms of cheap drones can absolutely overwhelm and kill larger, well-equipped enemy forces.
Real anti-drone weapons are already being developed
When I was on a 8 week sabbatical a number of years ago, I took an artistic welding class. It was a ton of fun. Sugar Metal Customs does custom ironwork, but also teaches some classes from making metal roses to giant metal flails for your medieval fantasies.
Maybe pick up a skill that AI can’t replace?
Reddit user “loozerr” found that if you ask Copilot “is there a script to activate Windows 11,” Copilot will happily share a how-to guide that includes a script you can run to activate the OS.
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IBM has a good video on what vector databases are and how they’re used by AI systems.
US Patent #2012416938 for the AI enhanced overclocking method I co-developed in 2024
AMD recently published a new version of its FidelitySDK with FSR 4 upscaling and FSR 3.1.5 frame generation support. Unfortunately, they accidentally published the full FSR 4 source code on GitHub. Before AMD took it down, some media outlets and X users managed to record screenshots of the files, including Videocardz.
Update: PCGamer is reporting that AMD is having more trouble putting the genie back in the bottle than first thought because they accidently included the MIT license.
AI PDX has become a pretty popular group for folks working with AI systems in Portland. Check out their calendar for upcoming events.
A basic introduction to a vector database and why it’s becoming very interesting for AI workloads.