A recent news article across the internet the last day or so has been around the topic of excessively sycophant answers, or in other words saying “that’s great for you” – about anything, even those that are ideas that are dangerous or stupid…
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Today I noted something I hadn’t seen before in a store I don’t often frequent – a floor scrubbing machine was roving around the aisles among the people, beeping and flashing a light, with no person riding or controlling it. These BrainOS devices apparently integrate in to regular sweepers, with addition of some sensors and a marked off, blocked off seat (saying, don’t hop up here and try to control this 🙂 And they have been doing so since 2018?
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This year the Bay Area Maker Faire was back after years of postponement! This was an enormous fair compared to others I had attended and included some very interesting exhibits:
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Earlier this month there were some interesting makers – music makers, robots, woodworking, taking things apart and putting things together – check out the video !
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Central Oregon Maker Faire is less than a month away! This is the place to be for interesting robots, solar cars, sustainability or various interesting DIY projects.
Continue reading “MakerFaire Central Oregon is coming up!”How to build your own ChatGPT-style chat bot
In recent months, new inventions like ChatGPT have been said to be possibly the end of society, or the saving of society… but maybe this is something that is something very similar to what has been hyped before?
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Some time ago I found the StarryAI service, with limited computer-generated imagery functionality. These are the image equivalent of painting as writing would be to ChatGPT. Let’s take a look at what we can generate…
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This year’s MakerFaire had some great additions and some new booths… Check out a few of the highlights:
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If you haven’t heard the news or live stream, today the Perseverance rover landed, with the first extraterrestrial helicopter!
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In The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos, the author has some interesting thoughts on the “master algorithm”. Just like physicists want to find a universal formula for everything, a similar quest is what some in the machine learning world are looking for, and could simplify or bring new insights to how the world works through collected data. Just as many useful algorithms can be used in different ways – for example a super simple neural net can find pi, or a neural net can tell the difference between a dog and a cat, why can’t there be one that could run all machine learning problems?
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