Arguing for inaction

…is surprisingly easy. “We’ve done all this work and things haven’t gotten better,” so, apparently, we should stop trying and go back to what we were doing. “We’ve done all this work and things are getting better,” so that means that there’s no need to keep trying and we can go back to what we […]
What game devs think about generative AI: “World and mission … – Game World Observer

The surge in popularity of ChatGPT, Midjourney, and other tools has people thinking that AI will soon replace artists and will help even smaller teams create games on the scale of Cyberpunk 2077 or RDR 2. However, many devs remain skeptical.The whole debate began after Jon Lai, general partner at investment firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), […]
These Were Our Favorite 25 Tech Stories From Around the Web in … – Singularity Hub

Every Saturday we post a selection of articles from the week. These stories might include an eye-catching bit of news or a deep dive into a bigger theme. With the end of the year here, we dug through every one of those posts again to surface 25 stories that managed to stay fresh amid another […]
How to Recession-Proof Your Real Estate Investments

The Guardian recently reported that the housing market will see a sharp cooldown in 2023 as the UK enters a recession. Housing and real estate property investors and experts believe that property prices are likely to decline by 5 to 12 percent as a result of this. In a worst-case scenario, this decline could be […]
AI art apps are cluttering the App Store's Top Charts following Lensa … – TechCrunch

Lensa AI’s popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled portraits of themselves as sci-fi, anime, or fantasy characters, among […]
Kenya’s Jumba bags $1M to help operators of hardware stores … – TechCrunch

The construction industry in Kenya is so big that it is among the few globally that expanded amidst the COVID lockdowns of 2020. And it is not showing any signs of slowdown with the country’s data agency — the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics — projecting it to grow at an average rate of 6.1% […]
Opinion | The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It. – The New York Times

Opinion | The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It. The New York Timessource
‘Sexually explicit graffiti’ found in men’s toilet near Commons bar, FOI reveals – Yahoo News UK

The name “Dave” scratched into stonework in the Peer’s Corridor and “sexually explicit graffiti” etched on a toilet door near a House of Commons bar are some of the incidents of vandalism dealt with by Parliamentary authorities during the last 12 months.Clean-ups were also required when eco-protesters made a mess with glue and “ketchup” in […]
3D Printing News Briefs, December 31, 2022: AI-Generated Footwear, Anniversary, & More – 3DPrint.com

3D Printing News Briefs, December 31, 2022: AI-Generated Footwear, Anniversary, & More 3DPrint.comsource
Chilling AI predicts what nuclear war would look like with attacks on London, Moscow and Washington… – The US Sun

ARTIFICIAL intelligence has offered a horrifying vision of what the world faces in nuclear armageddon and World War 3.Responding to prompts such as "nuclear bomb", "war" and "apocalypse" – the AI tool produced a series of truly grim pictures which could offer a glimpse into the future. Pictures show devastated cityscapes burning with what could […]