Remembranes

And I thought the voice was a knockoff of Leo Laporte

Washington Post: He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it: NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

It's still vendor sports. And we still need truly personal AI

Dana BlankenhornPeter Steinberger’s Secret Sauce. Key line: "How does Steinberger get so much code into the world? It’s because Steinberger isn’t Bill Gates. He’s Linus Torvalds." More: "Rather than building a team from inside OpenAI, the plan is for Steinberger to do what he did with OpenClaw. That is to get thousands of outsiders involved in building agents, using open source. As Om wrote to me when I asked about this, Peter 'started an open-source project and galvanized hundreds, including a few key ones on the core team.'"

Go deeper with Om.

Never too late for the late

Today is Ron Phillips' birthday. He died five years ago, but his absence remains constant and heart-wrenching. I'm also sad to note that I haven't written a proper remembrance for him here. So that's now on my list.



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