Episode 303 — ARt imitates life

5pointz art in NYC

alternate reality games, augmented reality metro cards, macOS & Mario, and immortality via AI Continue reading

Episode 252 — I want a new truck

classic red truck

Tesla’s Cybertruck announcement, Boeing’s flying cars, an AI called Roo and perfect hair by Reallusion’s Headshot. Continue reading

Episode 218 – Virtually Married

Marrying your best friend, when it is an AI bot, introduces more than one strange thing to your life. So does chatting with the dearly departed. VR/AR/MR stories, ionic drive & more. Continue reading

Episode 173 – Babel Fish

Computer to computer communications protocols used to start with a high pitched whine & crackle over a telephone line, using a modem – a modulator / demodulator – to establish a handshake.  Computer to computer interactions are nothing new — but AI to AI interfaces are becoming more and more common.  We discussed some of the ramifications in earlier episodes of the podcast — links below for those — and now we turn to how artificial intelligences create optimized methods of communication between themselves.  Like the Twitch example of two Google Home bots talking with one another, the first few … Continue reading