Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Simon Willison on the release of Google Gemini 2.0 Flash and it’s multi-modal capabilities.
Very often I sit, with my laptop open in front of me, staring at the mountain of emails I have in Gmail, most of which I could give a fuck about. And I get mad. I get mad because Google makes it impossible for me to whitelist instead of blacklist senders. And then I start thinking about switching away from Google. I really do want to. But it’s so
... See moreThe truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.
I’m not much of a movie person, but this was a compelling plea.
I mean OF COURSE Laurie Anderson created a GPT of Lou Read. I love her discussion of it. I’m also aware that many (most?) would struggle with technology explicitly intended to “speak” to dead people. My guess is that, similar to pornography, people will dabble in private and speak very little, if anything, of it.