The thing that irks me is that literally anyone who's using their brain to research the "VR goggles" market for like a day could have told you this.
It has "vanity project" written all over it.
https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/1123389856439290…
The definition of what constitutes an "open system" has really been sanded down by "AI". Just dropping random weights and a bit of network structure counts as open: No idea how and on what something was trained, which data was filtered out, which earlier training runs were discarded.
It's not really open at all. Maybe "free" as in "free beer" but from learning potential, ability to understand the system and maybe extend it, it's not any …
Sources: Apple has considered a fitness ring, smart glasses, and adding cameras and more advanced AI to AirPods, but is not actively developing these devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsle…
Indeed, that's what I do, and can do for you, if interested...
More info: https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm/109304858936978587
(Need a new word for “freelance” because that “free” be giving y’all the wrong idea.)
Sources: Apple has considered a fitness ring, smart glasses, and adding cameras and more advanced AI to AirPods, but is not actively developing these devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsle…
From the vault: 2021
Israel and African Pentecostalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4LWfKr2t8&t=86s
"Pentecostal movements are usually very open to endorsing Zionist theologies - because of the idea that whoever blesses Israel and does th…
Do you remember?
Writer Kenneth Johnson reworked his script "Storm Warning" (a modern retelling of the Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here") into a science fiction story, but kept the idea that #fascism could happen in USA. The difference is that it would come in a UFO offering to be our friend.
NBC suggested changing the villains from fascists to sp…