Exceedingly common, turns out
I was excited to see and shoot a butterfly (above) that a search (remember that?) tells me is a Common Buckeye.
The News in Hues
Poynter says Nexstar hopes to get its bid to buy Tegna (politically speaking) red-lit. It’s one more way the Redstream eats the Mainstream.
Heavy
Earth is two planets in one. Or a former one inside another. Chunks of the former are wrapped around the core, deep under the Pacific and Africa. What’s not there we now call the Moon.
In case you thought there was real competition in Big AI
Steven Levy says there is only one AI company. He calls it The Blob.
S****iri will use Gemini?
That’s what it says here. Also, for reasons I don’t know, the word “Siri” in the subhead above is typed exactly that way, yet turns into “S****iri” when published. In the vernacular of medicine, this is a “fascinoma.”
We need, and still don’t have, truly personal AI
Imagine a GPT chatbot that you own, trust, and control. Let’s call it a genie, because honestly, that’s the most appropriate word for this new entity. This genie has access to everything you do on your phone, your computer, and sure, why not — your Alexa, your car, basically every digital surface with which you interact. Imagine it’s bounded by immutable rules that state you and you alone can tell it what to do, what information to share, what services to connect to, on what terms, and so on. Now imagine you can ask that genie to perform all manner of magic on your behalf — pretty much any question you can think of, it will figure out an answer… How about negotiating a way better deal with your healthcare provider by threatening to move to competitors? Done! Once you’re happy with that healthcare provider, can you ask your genie to file all your claims and make sure you get reimbursed by checking your bank statements? Why yes you can! Your wish has been granted!
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