Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
I’ve been playing around with the AI video generator Synthesia, and it’s pretty impressive. Designed for business applications, Synthesia offers a fairly easy-to-use interface that anyone who has used Powerpoint or Google Slides should understand. It offers a variety of pre-designed avatars of various ages, races, and body types as well as a number of…
I’ve been a bit obsessed with labyrinths lately. Labyrinths were last month’s topic of a spiritual discussion group I’ve been attending. Since then, I’ve been visiting all the labyrinths in San Francisco. People have asked me what my meditation process is when I visit one. I’ve adapted a process I found printed near a labyrinth…
I got the results back from an MRI scan I had done a couple of weeks ago at UCSF, as part of a long COVID study I’m participating in. I don’t have the knowledge to interpret the findings, but the scans of my brain are pretty fascinating to look at. It’s hard to believe that…
I used the LLM Claude to “vibe code” a simple game using basic prompts. Here is the result. Quick Thoughts: The larger issue is that while this kind of works, it is a terrible game, and I don’t know enough about coding to be able fix or improve it. So while this LLM can produce…
I prompted Claude AI to build this for me. Let’s see if it works. This version is hosted on Claude itself. Here’s another version I hosted on Netlify.
I enjoyed more than I expected Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s book The Worlds I See, a chronicle of one scientist’s research into the emergent field of artificial intelligence. The most moving sections for me were Dr. Fei-fei’s personal story as a young Chinese immigrant, trying to navigate through American society with her family. There was a…
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“Hey ChatGPT, based on what you know about me, draw picture of what you think I look like.” ChatGPT’s explanation: “Here’s an image inspired by your unique style and love for roller skating outdoors! I aimed to capture the blend of K-pop flair, 90s R&B, and vintage swing-era jazz in your look, along with the…
“The jobs least likely to be impacted by AI are dancer, athlete and roofer.” – Ethan Molick, AI Expert See Ethan Molick’s blog www.oneusefulthing.org for more insight into the impact of AI on work, education and life as we know it.
I read this really interesting conversation with Georgetown professor Jeanine Turner on how smartphones have fundamentally changed the dynamic of what students “being present” means, even when the phone is turned off. This section in particular gave me pause: I absolutely believe that every teacher, every presenter in a business situation, if you want people’s…