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Essays and news focusing on tech, science, and AI. In rarer occasions I will be sharing my best tips on note taking, AI tools, and productivity.
Overthinking the Future Episode V Art and Artificial Intelligence I hear a lot of people worrying about AI replacing art and creativity. It's undeniable that tools like Midjourney and Suno are marvelous works of engineering, but I don't think that we should be worried about the future of art. AI superpowers don't make an artist While today's AI tools have made it easy for anyone to create beautiful images and songs, I believe the best AI art is made by artists. Only someone who has spent...
Overthinking the Future Episode IV Why Google's AI Overviews being so horribly wrong is O.K. Ok, so, here's what happened. During their annual developer conference called I/O, Google released a new feature called "AI overviews." When you search on Google, apart from the regular search results, you also get an AI-generated summary at the top. This summary provides the gist of what you're looking for based on the search results. Some people even claimed that this feature will kill Perplexity,...
Overthinking the Future Episode II Where's my flying car?! Calvin and Hobbes, December 1989 ©️ I'm reading Hall's "Where is my flying car?" and the introduction made me think a lot. If you compare planes in 1910 with 1960, they're on a totally different tier of technological magnificence. A plane from the 60s looks almost identical to one from 2010. Wright Model B, 1910 (left). Boeing 707, 1958 (middle). Boeing 787, 2011 (right). It may sound normal to us that we don't have flying cars yet,...