ACCIDENTAL
INTELLIGENCE
Mason Truman has a problem.
A crazy AI named Miranda wants
his help stopping a conspiracy,
or humanity will be destroyed.
And he has until Saturday to do it.
ACCIDENTAL
INTELLIGENCE
It’s 2139, and private investigator Mason Truman has a problem. A crazy AI named Miranda wants his help stopping a conspiracy, or humanity will be destroyed. And he has until Saturday to do it.
Review: Asso Dosing Funnel, Your Magnetic Espresso Grinder Savior
I have a favorite accessory for my espresso setup, and I'm here to apologize for not telling you about it earlier. It's official name is the Asso Dosing Funnel (Asso
Happy New Year!
My last post was a...well, a wee bit acerbic might be polite. But hey, let's get 2023 off to a good start with some well wishes! I noted on Post.news
May You Live in Interesting Times
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The Context Machine and Other Updates
Looks like a couple of things have happened since my
The podcast where Bryan and Jeff talk about whatever they want.
Apple licensed content from Shutterstock presumably for its own AI efforts, which gets Bryan and Jeff looking at the ethics behind the methods many AI companies use to source the data they rely on to train their own models. Surprisingly, they didn’t have to edit for inappropriate language.
Sources referenced in this episode:
- Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data
- Defined.ai
- Common Crawl
- Shutterstock
- Photobucket
- fetch.ai
- SingularityNET
- Bryan’s new book Accidental Intelligence
- Mason Truman on Threads
Review the show on Apple Podcasts
Where to find us:
- The Context Machine on Twitter
- The Context Machine Facebook Group – Facebook
- The Context Machine on Mastodon
- The Context Machine on Post
- Bryan’s Instagram
- Bran’s Mastodon
- Bryan’s Threads
- Bryan’s blog: GeekTells
- Jeff’s Instagram
- Jeff’s Mastodon
- Jeff’s Threads
- Jeff’s YouTube Channel
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Whispers 4
The bathroom is steamy, the mirrors fogged. I’m drying off when I see it. A large X on the medicine
Stranger Things, an Awesome Show from Netflix
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Good Writing and Bad
It's a funny thing about writing. It turns out it's hard. In my efforts to become a published novelist, I've
Review: Asso Dosing Funnel, Your Magnetic Espresso Grinder Savior
I have a favorite accessory for my espresso setup, and I'm here to apologize for not telling you about it earlier. It's official name is the Asso Dosing Funnel (Asso
Happy New Year!
My last post was a...well, a wee bit acerbic might be polite. But hey, let's get 2023 off to a good start with some well wishes! I noted on Post.news
The podcast where Bryan and Jeff talk about whatever they want.
Apple licensed content from Shutterstock presumably for its own AI efforts, which gets Bryan and Jeff looking at the ethics behind the methods many AI companies use to source the data they rely on to train their own models. Surprisingly, they didn’t have to edit for inappropriate language.
Sources referenced in this episode:
- Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data
- Defined.ai
- Common Crawl
- Shutterstock
- Photobucket
- fetch.ai
- SingularityNET
- Bryan’s new book Accidental Intelligence
- Mason Truman on Threads
Review the show on Apple Podcasts
Where to find us:
- The Context Machine on Twitter
- The Context Machine Facebook Group – Facebook
- The Context Machine on Mastodon
- The Context Machine on Post
- Bryan’s Instagram
- Bran’s Mastodon
- Bryan’s Threads
- Bryan’s blog: GeekTells
- Jeff’s Instagram
- Jeff’s Mastodon
- Jeff’s Threads
- Jeff’s YouTube Channel
The post Apple, Generative AI, and Licensing appeared first on The Context Machine Podcast.
Whispers 2
It’s been a while. Those whispers. More than a year. I’d kind of forgotten about them because the house has
Prologue Is Past
I stripped the prologue from my novel recently. I had to do it, and that makes me tense. Let me
Mining For Pics
Been busy. Synopsis writing—have I mentioned how much I hate writing a fucking synopsis? And querying. I hate the query
Whispers
I’m getting ready to leave. TV off, ceiling fans off. Windows, closed. It’s quiet on the third floor. I turn off
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