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Melania promotes her AI substitute



Kinda funny for a First Lady who has been under scrutiny for years for allegedly dispatching a body double to accompany Trump on official events (which, to be clear, there is no good evidence for).

But kind of crap AI — the face doesn’t look quite like her.
 
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nycfan said:
Melania promotes her AI substitute



Kinda funny for a First Lady who has been under scrutiny for years for allegedly dispatching a body double to accompany Trump on official events (which, to be clear, there is no good evidence for).

But kind of crap AI — the face doesn’t look quite like her.
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It's not perfect but I think that's pretty daggum good. For people interested in that sort of thing, Sora 2 by openai just came out and it's really good. Veo by Google is another good product. Grok by xAI also has a version that isn't quite where the other 2 are. My guess is this is Grok. I think Grok gives away a little bit more gor free where openai and google have a little bit more aggressive paid models.
 
Listened to an interesting video about AI from Seth Godin. Very interesting guy talking about using AI to build personal assets that help us to create value and be more prepared for the future.

Be the person who learns the tools, not the person performing the task that will be replaced.
 
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I'm at dreamForce this week, more of a team-building getaway than a mission to learn or network. Anyway, of course the theme everywhere is AI (esp. agentic), meaning you are bombarded with a two-faced message about "workforce productivity gains"... while desperately trying to avoid the obvious"slash jobs" implications. It's almost comical.

"Optimize your team" is on the slide, while the speaker is indicating indirectly they're going to replace an entire call-center (probably India or somewhere cheap labor wise).
 
Here is a cool application for AI. You can turn old photos into short videos. I did one of grandparents on their wedding day and my mom really liked it.



I used Gemini which is google's version. Had issues with any kids in the picture but adults are fine. The example in the tweet is Grok. There are plenty of other vendors.
 
This is interesting. There's a US army general admitting/trumpeting that he uses chatGPT to help make some of his command decisions primarily around administration and personnel matters. I'm sure it's actually pretty common but the fact that a high ranking officer would discuss it publicly says something about how accepted this technology is going to be.

I do hope he's very well versed in the potential downsides of the tool but I do think it could make him a more effective leader.

nypost.com

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor told reporters that he’s been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.
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gtyellowjacket said:
Here is a cool application for AI. You can turn old photos into short videos. I did one of grandparents on their wedding day and my mom really liked it.



I used Gemini which is google's version. Had issues with any kids in the picture but adults are fine. The example in the tweet is Grok. There are plenty of other vendors.
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I would never use grok, especially with PII
 
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“… Broadly speaking, circular financing often goes something like this: One company pays money to another as part of a transaction, and then the other company turns around and buys the first company’s products or services. Without the initial transaction, the other company might not be able to make the purchase. The funding mechanism could take the form of an investment, a loan, a lease or something else.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, such dependency loops mainly consisted of telecom-equipment makers lending money or extending credit to customers so the customers could afford to buy their gear. In those days, this was widely referred to as vendor financing. …

Vendor financing still exists. But it isn’t how the bulk of the latest attention-grabbing, circular deals are structured.

Take, for example, the strategic partnership announced in September by Nvidia and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. The companies said Nvidia would invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI, and that OpenAI is looking to buy millions of Nvidia’s specialized chips. That isn’t vendor financing, because it doesn’t involve a loan to finance a specific purchase. But it does look circular.

OpenAI isn’t publicly traded, so it doesn’t disclose financial reports. But it is known to be losing money, notwithstanding a recent secondary share sale that implied a $500 billion valuation. Nvidia’s investment will help OpenAI pay for its infrastructure build-out. Nvidia also stands to get money back from OpenAI through chip sales, boosting its revenue.…”
 
nycfan said:
“… Broadly speaking, circular financing often goes something like this: One company pays money to another as part of a transaction, and then the other company turns around and buys the first company’s products or services. Without the initial transaction, the other company might not be able to make the purchase. The funding mechanism could take the form of an investment, a loan, a lease or something else.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, such dependency loops mainly consisted of telecom-equipment makers lending money or extending credit to customers so the customers could afford to buy their gear. In those days, this was widely referred to as vendor financing. …

Vendor financing still exists. But it isn’t how the bulk of the latest attention-grabbing, circular deals are structured.

Take, for example, the strategic partnership announced in September by Nvidia and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. The companies said Nvidia would invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI, and that OpenAI is looking to buy millions of Nvidia’s specialized chips. That isn’t vendor financing, because it doesn’t involve a loan to finance a specific purchase. But it does look circular.

OpenAI isn’t publicly traded, so it doesn’t disclose financial reports. But it is known to be losing money, notwithstanding a recent secondary share sale that implied a $500 billion valuation. Nvidia’s investment will help OpenAI pay for its infrastructure build-out. Nvidia also stands to get money back from OpenAI through chip sales, boosting its revenue.…”
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So another word might be incestuous
 
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