Published 3 April 2023
Michael, Andy and Michael have the information on which country is the happiest on earth: Finland! In a possibly related piece of news, the Finnish National Opera have created a 1:1 digital twin of their stage, which provides them now unlimited stage time for blocking, lighting design and much more. This reminded Michael and Andy of their VR experiences with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s performance of Dream. Then, the co-hosts break on through to the Otherside, reacting to the article and video from the Yuga Labs experience. The cacophony of voices and avatars teeming in the environment are simultaneously amazing and disconcerting. Rounding out the metaverse portion of the episode, Michael, Michael and Andy consider an article about jobs you would only find in the metaverse.
Switching gears to the ongoing fascination about generative AI, an article in Fortune spells out the workflow a university professor used to create a marketing campaign with the ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, generate images with Midjourney, script a video with voiceover and “film” the video, all in the span of 30 minutes. Both Google and Microsoft have put out a great deal of content to show how they envision productivity increasing tremendously – a couple of short videos are included in the show notes below. It is quite simple to imagine from these articles and videos the integrated toolchain to go from ideation to instantiation faster than ever before. The co-hosts also discuss an article about how Microsoft’s Copilot AI is also being used to accelerate security through DevSecOps in an AIOps manner. A LinkedIn post by Peter Nixey provides an opportunity to consider the far-reaching implications of what was ingested in GPT3 and GPT4 from sources such as StackOverflow, and how this may change when knowledge is pooled into the transformer as weightings.
A rich treasure trove of articles the co-hosts did not have a chance to review on the podcast are included below for your perusal. And maybe for ingestion into GPT5. Who knows?
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Selected Article Links
metaverse
Mixed article: A symphony of technology: Finnish National Opera creates entire set in VR
Games At Work e308: Feline Filters
The Guardian article: The Finns hold the secret of happiness – and it is not what you might expect
Venture Beat article: Bored Apes owner Yuga Labs launches 2nd Trip Otherside metaverse experience
Make Use Of article: 10 Jobs That Only Exist in the Metaverse
Generative AI
Fortune article: A Wharton professor gave A.I. tools 30 minutes to work on a business project. The results were ‘superhuman’
Google blog post: A new era for AI and Google Workspace/
Microsoft blog post: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
Wired article: Microsoft’s ‘Security Copilot’ Unleashes ChatGPT on Breaches
Microsoft blog post: Introducing Microsoft Security Copilot: Empowering defenders at the speed of AI
LinkedIn post by Peter Nixey
Bonus Links
https://intentional.io (by Peter Nixey)
MarketTech Post article: Google AI Introduces PRESTO: A Dataset of Over Half a Million Contextual Multilingual Conversations Between Humans and Virtual Assistants
Yeo Kheng Meng’s blog post: BUILDING A DOS CHATGPT CLIENT IN 2023
Reddit r/cassettefuturism post: IBM System/370 with colour terminal. At NASA 1983.
Hackin’ Stuff
hackster.io article: A New Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interface Offers Thought-Based Robot Control with High Accuracy
Interesting Engineering article: The US will soon be home to the world’s first 3D-printed hotel
so, @settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!
Printables post: Contest theme: Dice Storage (Finished)
Cults 3D design post: CAPYBARA DICE POND
Entertainment – TV, Video, Games, LEGO
Vice article: The Cure Tried to Stop Scalpers. Brokers Are Selling Entire Ticketmaster Accounts Instead
The Verge article: Paramount Plus has renewed Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Tje Verge article: The Diablo IV beta let players do a lot — but not pet the dog
Brickfanatics article: Fan-made coffee table combines two LEGO Star Wars UCS sets
Brothers Brick article: Across the fields of Pelennor, Gandalf rides to Minas Tirith
The Verge article: 9 cool new games from GDC 2023
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Such a fun episode, Michael & Andy! Loved your discussion on Life by You.