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In a sign of stranger times to come, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen funded a semi-autonomous AI bot on X with $50,000 in bitcoin, which later pumped a meme-based cryptocurrency called Goatseus Maximus to a market cap that at one point surpassed $1 billion.

Naveen also tested a few different voice models, including those from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Google AI Studio. But he ended up picking Play.ai because the voices sound more natural and conversational.

Readers, I highly recommend the prescient article written by the incomparable and much missed Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, on rabbisacks.org:

Future Tense: The New Antisemitism

What is it & how do we deal with it?

1 November 2007

An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.

I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:

First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See more

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