Cannot wait for AI-generated trap streets https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/1/24057994/google-maps-generative-ai-llm-local-guide-search

Teaching my cats about the cruel inflexibility of automation as they meow furiously at me to make the machine-mother feed them 40 minutes early.

@rominator Yeah I generally agree on emotion, but also I really didn’t need the questions that just seemed like a therapy session (“is it a happy storm”) or moments where Sorkin started with a real question (i.e. whether Twitter’s on a collision course with the iOS App Store, which I’m super curious about!) and let himself get sidetracked into an infinitely dumber one based on Musk’s rambling (yeah of course Twitter is not building a phone).

still cannot get over how bad the NYT dealbook Elon Musk interview was. like I assume not being asked any hard questions is a precondition of a Musk appearance, but if I worked for the company whose name was on a pivotal First Amendment legal precedent, I would feel awfully embarrassed not bringing up one of the world’s richest men filing a transparent and carefully forum-shopped anti-speech lawsuit against his critics

Referring to my cats’ new automatic feeder as “the machine-mother” in a series of ominous text messages.

I’m not sure what’s actually happening here but the parsing of “AI” from longstanding games industry techniques like procedural generation feels like it’s going to start getting increasingly fine. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/silent-hill-ascension-isnt-written-by-ai-dev-insists-says-suggesting-otherwise-is-a-veiled-insult/1100-6519527/

now if you’ll excuse me one second i’m gonna think about this torn-up napkin till it upgrades my pistol damage

My first 2 hours of Alan Wake 2:

Pacific Northwest Max Payne: anyway if you want to get back to the car we can interview some suspects, crack my old buddy’s murder wide open -

Me: I found an old lunchbox full of garbage. This CAN’T be a coincidence.

Alan Wake 2 is the first game to successfully simulate zoning out during a work meeting to think about a weird piece of trash you found.

@ianrbuck yes as claimed in her first game boss monologue

It’s been 16 years and I am not nearly enough of a Valve nerd to find this out: is it actually canon that GLaDOS knows what happens after you die.

The official launch version of World of Horror is still full of loose ends but damn if I’m not going through and trying to earn every achievement again.

Truly unfair that I can’t listen to 10 seconds of Michael Fassbender’s inner monologue without “be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet” popping into my head.

The more I think about it the more I’m convinced the 2008 Valve TF2 “Meet the Sniper” video destroyed my ability to enjoy David Fincher’s The Killer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZDwZbyDus

Lot of fun items on here but I think “Fake Privilege” is my favorite https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23960686/sundar-pichai-epic-google-bingo-cards

I’m so curious how this applies to non-AI imitations of musicians (voice actors rapping in the style of Eminem, singing Sinatra parodies, etc.). In theory the policy seems to not be concerned with them, but especially given how uneven AI detection is right now, it feels like it could easily get weaponized to ban imitating a famous artist who’s working with YouTube, period. https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23959658/google-youtube-generative-ai-labels-music-copyright

I like seeing people play around with new form factors but it’s remarkable how much every aspect of the AI pin design puts me off.

Humane really just managed to combine all my least favorite tech trends, didn’t it? Take an AI technology that’s not ready to be a reliable interface (down to screwing up facts in its demo), add hardware that displays info in the least efficient manner possible (because “screens” are eeeevil so let’s use an awkward-looking projector instead?), and reduce my dependence on technology by forcing me to talk to my devices in public and ostentatiously hold objects to my chest! A flawless plan.

the “insert slashes in terms people don’t like so the Algorithm doesn’t find them” convention has apparently breached social media containment and reached official US government public comment submissions, I have never felt so old