RichC | April 12, 2024
Who isn’t … or more appropriately wasn’t … fond of listening to the interesting and smooth-toned audio that was part of National Public Radio (NPR) in the previous century. I spent an exorbitant amount of time in my car back then and listened to static-riddled politically conservative radio talk shows on AM radio and liberally […]
Category: Audio, Human Interest, Innovation, News, Politics, Software, Technology |
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Tags: ai, amazon, elevenlabs, npr, polly ai, tech friday, techfriday, testing, uri berliner, voice
RichC | March 8, 2024
Google exec Prabhakar Raghavan explained, Gemini “may not always be reliable,” so “we recommend relying on Google Search, where separate systems surface fresh, high-quality information on these kinds of topics from sources across the web.” Google is scrambling to tamp down a political uproar after its recently launched Gemini artificial intelligence app depicted the pope, […]
Category: Computer, News, Technology |
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Tags: ai, bard, gemini, opinion, politically correct, woke, wsj
RichC | November 24, 2023
A week or so ago, I went looking for an image of a Killer Whale (Orca) … and wanted one that had the happy look of a smiling Shamu, etc. It didn’t need to be a “real photo” so thought it would be a simple task for one of the artificial intelligence assistance. Microsoft’s Bing […]
Category: Art, Computer, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, bing, image, killer whale, orca, smiling, tech friday, techfriday
RichC | November 23, 2023
Thanksgiving traces its origins to the 1621 harvest celebration held by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This historic gathering marked a season of abundance and marked the beginning of a tradition that would become a cornerstone of American culture. Thanksgiving serves as a universal reminder to thank our Creator for our […]
Category: Holiday, Photos |
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Tags: ai, bard, family, gratitude, thanksgiving, turkey
RichC | November 2, 2023
Both Brenda and I enjoyed the World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks this year. I really didn’t think I was going to get so emotionally involved considering the teams were not ones that I followed through the season … BUT, as with previous October playoff baseball, I did get fired up … […]
Category: Sports |
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Tags: ai, bard, baseball, dbacks, diamondbacks, google, mlb, rangers, world series, worldseries
RichC | October 27, 2023
“In other news” as the 6PM nightly news talking head would say, Rich broke his Fitbit Versa 2 watchband last night while raking the first drop of the leave this year. Bummer … but thankfully replacements on Amazon are just $7.99 or $9.99 for THREE (two of the three are the wrong colors for me, […]
Category: Gadget, Technology, Video |
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Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, buzzwords, computing, fitbit, marketwatch, smartwatch, tech friday, techfriday, versa, watch, watchband
RichC | September 22, 2023
It is time to start cleaning up my older WordPress blog install and preparing for an eventual update … once again. I’m beginning to realize that part of the problem is that I hang onto old themes that are no longer updated and I continue to tweak them myself. As the components that run WordPress […]
Category: Blogs, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: ai, bing, bot, chat, tech friday, techfriday, testing, twitter, x.com
RichC | June 16, 2023
Technology advancements and AI photo and video editing has been around a few years (FaceApp photos) … but some of the newer fakes or clones are a bit “too” convincing (link to a “human generated” one, but not necessarily convincing). 😉 As a society, there’s no turning back once artificial intelligence abilities are here, but […]
Category: Art, Computer, Social Networking, Technology, Video |
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Tags: ai, all in the family, blackmail, mash, mp4, tech friday, techfriday, television, tiktok, youtube
RichC | April 28, 2023
Do you trust that Google isn’t using your emails to push advertising to you? Personally I’m thinking this might be a “sleight of hand” considering the cookies and the fact you are signed into your Google account and search are used in advertising. Perhaps they aren’t using the content of Gmail to generate advertising, but […]
Category: Business, Idioms, Marketing, Technology |
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Tags: advertising, ai, elevenlabs, email, gmail, google, idiom, privacy, tech friday, techfriday
RichC | April 2, 2023
There is growing concern over AI from some of the brightest and best “human” minds in our society today. The more realistic the images (like “Puffy Pope”) and the more they fool even those seeing the AI advancements everyday, the more I’m concerned as well. Sure, artificial intelligence is speeding up our writing, generating canned […]
Category: Art, Computer, Innovation, Technology |
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Tags: ai, artwork, automation, bing, creation, disturbing, images
RichC | March 28, 2023
While experimenting with Google’s Bard last weekend, Katelyn had the AI software write a poem about her husband. Impressive although questionable when it comes to being personal? For the fun of it, I asked Bard to write a poem about my “Wonderful Daughter” and then sent it back to her for the fun of it. […]
Category: Computer, Productivity, Technology |
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Tags: ai, bard, chatbot, chatgpt, daughter, katelyn, wonderful
RichC | March 12, 2023
This past week my son Taylor and I had a father-son dinner together at Chili’s and enjoyed some “desultory” conversation … from the Ukraine-Russia war to ChatGPT. Eventually he commented, “Dad, you should let the AI system write or rewrite your blog posts.” Hm … how about I just ask the Chatbot to write […]
Category: Advice, Computer, Innovation, Technology, Tidbits |
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Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, change, chatbot, chatgpt, chilis, Computer, desultory, mindfulness
RichC | July 3, 2020
As often as I gripe about ordering from Amazon or more to the point, complain about their delivery and updating, one would think I would opt for another online ecommerce portal? Unfortunately there aren’t better options or more dependable deliveries. This past week a small order came a day early, yet the app notification that […]
Category: Alexa, Business, Shopping, Technology, Video |
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Tags: ai, Alexa, amazon, bots, delivery, echo, ecommerce, mp4, ordering, prime, shipping, updates, video
RichC | November 29, 2019
With the advent of decent quality inexpensive home security products and cameras, it has never be easier to keep an eye on “motion” that happens around a business or home. The key for most of us is to find the least expensive quality “small” product … in our case the Wyze cams have beat out […]
Category: Cloud, Computer, Technology |
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Tags: ai, cameras, cams, canary, detection, edge-ai, home, monitor, motion, security, tech friday, techfriday, wyze, xnor
RichC | November 16, 2019
Here’s a WIRED article that made me think … although it has a misleading title line, even if that is what caught my attention and started me reading it. When does user-friendliness, algorithms and anticipatory artificial intelligence that is designed to help us make decisions, end up becoming "I don’t need to think at all" […]
Category: Archive, Business, Human Interest, Innovation, Misc |
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Tags: ai, algorithms, article, artificial intelligence, b-17, decisions, design, macintosh, steve jobs, user friendly, wired, ww2
RichC | November 8, 2019
We often use the term “Luddite” whenever we refer to people resisting new technology or mechanization. Recently a Wall Street Journal article detailed a timeline of changes as much of the world is faced with yet another wave of robotic automation and artificial intelligence (AI) changing career and taking over many of the jobs we […]
Category: Archive, Education, Memories, Productivity, Technology |
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Tags: ai, automation, careers, cpp, cppnet.com, jobs, luddite, press, printing, publishing, richc, Technology, work