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M.H. Williams

@mhwilliams.bsky.social
17 posts
2024-10-27
I've said this before, but before the AI hype boom we already had tools that used machine learning to do stuff like ramshackle transcription.  —  I used Google Recorder transcription for interviews!  Was pretty solid for personal purposes.  —  So how have we stepped *backwards* in the name of progress? [embedded post]
2024-10-27 View on X
Associated Press

Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”

2024-10-26
I've said this before, but before the AI hype boom we already had tools that used machine learning to do stuff like ramshackle transcription.  —  I used Google Recorder transcription for interviews!  Was pretty solid for personal purposes.  —  So how have we stepped *backwards* in the name of progress? [embedded post]
2024-10-26 View on X
Associated Press

Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” Mastodon: @mhoye@mastodon.socia...

2024-07-02
what  —  I thought “lookmaxxing” was just a meme joke thing.  [embedded post]
2024-07-02 View on X
Fortune

An overview of “looksmaxxing” apps that rate teen boys' faces and are criticized for worsening the youth mental health crisis; paid app UMAX has 7M+ downloads

I thought “lookmaxxing” was just a meme joke thing.  [embedded post] X: Verne Kopytoff / @vkopytoff : One person claimed to have obtained a chiseled jaw by hitting his face with a ...

2024-05-27
Which is all well and good as a statement, but users can actually do the queries themselves and it's quite clear they still have the same problems that all LLMs do.  The hallucinations are rampant and you're not really going to be able to get rid of them at scale.  [embedded post]
2024-05-27 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

2024-05-26
Which is all well and good as a statement, but users can actually do the queries themselves and it's quite clear they still have the same problems that all LLMs do.  The hallucinations are rampant and you're not really going to be able to get rid of them at scale.  [embedded post]
2024-05-26 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.

2024-05-25
Which is all well and good as a statement, but users can actually do the queries themselves and it's quite clear they still have the same problems that all LLMs do.  The hallucinations are rampant and you're not really going to be able to get rid of them at scale.  [embedded post]
2024-05-25 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.

2024-04-29
Hey wow.  Same thing is happening with Google!  That's keen! [embedded post]
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Fast Company

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram

partly because is the company putting its new AI *everywhere*, but mostly because viral user-generated AI images are now ubiquitous on its apps. My latest for @FastCompany: https:/...

2024-03-25
What?  The tech hype around generative AI might be cooling off after companies realize they oversold it?  No. Perish the thought.  [embedded post]
2024-03-25 View on X
Financial Times

Analysis: Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg lead a group of insiders selling tech company stocks in Q1 2024, a sign that the bull run may be peaking

Financial Times :

2024-03-08
What would make anyone think ceding your work to Twitter would be a good idea? [embedded post]
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Engadget

X unveils Articles, a feature for writing and sharing long-form content in a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers

Long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.  —  Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.

2024-01-17
So it's like a Quest 2/3 for 10x their price tag?  —  (Well, those have an existing library of games and apps.)  [embedded post]
2024-01-17 View on X
Engadget

Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min

We got hands-on with the device once more before its official launch, with some new features available to test this time.

2024-01-11
Note, the founders of Fitbit and most of the upper-level team there are gone.  —  Google only bought the company four years ago.  Brand is probably dead at Google.  [embedded post]
2024-01-11 View on X
Semafor

Google lays off hundreds of staff working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as the company explores integrating newer AI tech

Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number …

2023-12-25
Another one.  —  Assuming it's like the others, another flood of nonsense in like a week.  [embedded post]
2023-12-25 View on X
BleepingComputer

Ubisoft is investigating reports of a new security breach after security research collective VX-Underground shared screenshots of the company's internal tools

Ubisoft is investigating whether it suffered a breach after images of the company's internal software and developer tools were leaked online.

2023-10-29
And what are those public conversations gonna be about?  —  I dunno, maybe new things that are happening in their lives.  In some concrete format.  Wait, would that be... the news?!?! [embedded post]
2023-10-29 View on X
The Verge

Adam Mosseri wants Threads to be the “de facto platform for public conversations online” and says the web app is not a “primary focus” as mobile usage is higher

I dunno, maybe new things that are happening in their lives.  In some concrete format.  Wait, would that be... the news?!?! [embedded post] X: Omar Sultan / @omarsultan : @verge So...

And what are those public conversations gonna be about?  —  I dunno, maybe new things that are happening in their lives.  In some concrete format.  Wait, would that be... the news?!?! [embedded post]
2023-10-29 View on X
TechCrunch

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content”

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works.  This will give chance to developers …

2023-10-28
And what are those public conversations gonna be about?  —  I dunno, maybe new things that are happening in their lives.  In some concrete format.  Wait, would that be... the news?!?! [embedded post]
2023-10-28 View on X
TechCrunch

Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content”

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works.  This will give chance to developers to create different apps and experiences around Threads.

2023-10-18
You were selling your game as a solution for remote work just a few months ago...  www.theverge.com/23775268/rob...  [embedded post]
2023-10-18 View on X
The Verge

Roblox CEO David Baszucki says the company is “transitioning away” from remote work, as virtual workspaces aren't as “engaging, collaborative, and productive”

This wasn't a pivotal moment for anyone else.  Just him.  [embedded post] M.H. Williams / @mhwilliams.bsky.social : You were selling your game as a solution for remote work just a ...

2023-09-07
Oh right, Clubhouse.  I remember that.  [embedded post]
2023-09-07 View on X
The Verge

Clubhouse completely redesigns its iOS and Android apps around a new asynchronous voice-only group chat feature, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app”

Hey all.  We're evolving Clubhouse to be more like a messaging app … Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Clubhouse is trying to make a comeback Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today ...