2024-05-31
Crazy — my son was looking for a book on our bookshelves, so he took an iPhone picture of the whole shelves (hundreds of books) and then searched for the book's title in his photos.
Bloomberg
Sources: Apple plans to overhaul Siri with more advanced AI, a move that would allow Siri to take command of all the features within apps for the first time
- The feature will be at the heart of renewed Apple push into AI — Idea is to operate features within individual apps using voice
2023-07-19
Don't miss this fascinating dive by @jongertner into the future of Wikipedia in an A.I. age. Its massive dataset will be crucial to teaching chatbots not to hallucinate — but will those chatbots then render Wikipedia irrelevant? https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
A look at the Wikipedia community's debates about AI, including AI's threats and potential benefits, knowledge creation, truthfulness, and legal concerns
Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?
2022-11-29
Musk's App Store epiphany reminds me of one of my favorite quotes ever, from @NYTmag in 2002, in which an NFL player describes learning about the existence of the income tax https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
MacRumors
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship
Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
2021-01-15
Fascinating reporting. In a lighter moment, this was a big theme of the book I wrote about Internet culture a decade ago — how the experience of “going viral” changes you https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection
I saw this play out in the Philippines too when I was reporting my story about President Duterte “influencers” on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Stua...