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Sam Houston

@samhouston
13 posts
2024-12-17
Google's new AI Whisk tool is pretty neat [image]
2024-12-17 View on X
The Verge

Google debuts Whisk, an image generator that takes other images as prompts to suggest the subject, scene, and style, and uses the new, “latest” Imagen 3 version

Google has announced a new AI tool called Whisk that lets you generate images using other images as prompts instead of requiring a long text prompt.

it's nice to see Google shipping products across multiple Product Areas that all support the overarching AI mission. nice to see the company all moving in the same direction. seems like they're starting to unlock some innovation (ex: NotebookLLM) and some cool use-cases
2024-12-17 View on X
The Verge

Google debuts Whisk, an image generator that takes other images as prompts to suggest the subject, scene, and style, and uses the new, “latest” Imagen 3 version

Google has announced a new AI tool called Whisk that lets you generate images using other images as prompts instead of requiring a long text prompt.

2024-09-24
I wish Sam spent more time talking about what he thinks we're going to do to retrain people and help folks navigate to new jobs. This essay ends with just a few sentences talking about the labor disruption, but doesn't really address what will need to be done to help people
2024-09-24 View on X
Sam Altman

Sam Altman claims “deep learning worked”, superintelligence may be “a few thousand days” away, and “astounding triumphs” will incrementally become commonplace

In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.

2024-07-26
Best thing about this is it will create some competition in the Search marketplace and motivate product teams to ship features. Bing is absolutely terrible and almost un-usable (I use Edge/Bing on my Windows machine). Maybe OpenAI can stir things up a bit.
2024-07-26 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a GPT-4-powered search tool that can organize links and summarize its findings, limited to 10K users but eventually coming to ChatGPT

Whenever AI companies present a vision for the role of artificial intelligence … Greg Noone / Tech Monitor : OpenAI announces AI search engine SearchGPT Samantha Dunn / CCN.com : S...

2024-06-06
I don't think many people understand the Why for ChromeOS, even inside Google it has a ton of doubters. But I think it has a ton of potential. I had the original test ChromeOS device about 12 years ago and it is awesome to see it continue to grow.
2024-06-06 View on X
The Verge

Google acquires software virtualization company Cameyo to deeply integrate virtualized Windows app support into ChromeOS, after a partnership in April 2023

2023-10-18
In 2020 Techcrunch was running articles about how it was the “year of community”, but since then we've seen many of these companies lay off their community teams, shutdown products, and overall decrease investment in community. sad
2023-10-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Reddit kills Community Points, started in 2020 as a blockchain-based way to reward creators and developers, citing the regulatory environment and scaling issues

2023-08-16
@rachelmetz @Priyasideas i once worked as a moderator who had to flag nudity and bullying content. I personally think it will be great if AI can help take over a lot of that work. it feels really demeaning to do that stuff and i still have moments 9-10 years later that are bad memories
2023-08-16 View on X
Semafor

OpenAI says the company has been using GPT-4 to enforce its content policies and says some of its customers are already using the LLM for content moderation

Can ChatGPT become a content moderator?  Semafor https://www.semafor.com/... X: @openai : We've seen great results using GPT-4 for content policy development and content moderation...

@rachelmetz @Priyasideas i once worked as a moderator who had to flag nudity and bullying content. I personally think it will be great if AI can help take over a lot of that work. it feels really demeaning to do that stuff and i still have moments 9-10 years later that are bad memories
2023-08-16 View on X
Popular Science

To comply with a state law requiring that school library books be “age appropriate”, an Iowa school district used ChatGPT to find books depicting “a sex act”

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain …

2022-05-21
If Elon buys Twitter, Larry will be one of the larger investors in the newly private company ($1B of his own money) https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-21 View on X
Washington Post

Court docs and a source: Larry Ellison participated in a November 14, 2020 call that focused on strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the 2020 US election

The billionaire GOP donor participated along with Fox's Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant

2022-01-27
Sad that @Fanhouse had to do this but I understand why. Apple needs to remove the IAP requirement, ASAP https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-27 View on X
The Verge

Fanhouse, an OnlyFans-like platform, introduces a 50% surcharge for iOS IAP's, after pushing back in 2021 on Apple's 30% commission on creator earnings

Fanhouse previously tried to push back against Apple's fees and was granted a six-month extension to come into compliance

2022-01-10
NFT projects are looking like get rich quick schemes more and more. For the founders. Create a project with a small team, start a discord server and sell several million dollars worth of jpegs, then bounce. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-10 View on X
CoinDesk

A look at the turmoil inside Pudgy Penguins, one of the most successful NFT projects, as community members clash with founders over the project's fate

There's trouble brewing in the huddle.  —  The beloved NFT project Pudgy Penguins voted out its founders on Thursday after they allegedly failed …

2020-10-27
My bet is FB's main innovation here will be using cloud streaming to drive user acquisition thru “Free Trial” type demos of games https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-27 View on X
CNBC

Facebook launches free-to-play cloud gaming on desktop and Android but says it is unable to bring games to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies

and another feud with Apple Emma Roth / MakeUseOf : Facebook Introduces Free Cloud Gaming Service | MakeUseOf David Pierce / Protocol : Apple fights the future of gaming Andrew Web...

2020-02-25
Next 12 mos will be Lyft/Uber/Bird/Lime/etc trying to find more paths to revenue that has higher margins. Adding on a bunch of services/frills on top helps them capture more margin during a time where they need to prop up revenue vs burn in their Bread&Butter biz's https://twitter.com/...
2020-02-25 View on X
Adweek

Uber plans to pay ~1,000 drivers to put ads on top of their vehicles in Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix by April 1, forming a unit called Uber OOH Powered by Adomni

Scott Nover / Adweek :