Babylon.js, artificial everything, and customer care?

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From me… Migrating a website from… Read more about my journey overhauling my old old website, and my progress so far. Storytelling Collective Flash February Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium. In bots we trust My new show with my friend Killian where we look at generative AI, because, well, everyone else is! Tech Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias → Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating artificial images of people of color. Tech CEOs screwed up → Now laid-off employees are paying the price Download the app CEOs made mistakes, workers bear the bruntWith great power comes no responsibility Google's ChatGPT competitor spaces out at the start → Google and other major tech companies this week have been showcasing how conversational chatbots can help improve internet search. In one instance, however, Google may have inadvertently showcased the technology's shortcomings. Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule → Updated Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple will no longer require its competitors to use the WebKit browser engine in iOS. How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? → The Duck Hunt gun, officially called the NES Zapper, seems downright primitive next to today’s technology. But in the late ’80s, it filled plenty of young heads with wonder. And finally The death of the customer service hotline → Need to call Facebook? Frontier? Good luck. There’s been a breach of the Jonny Boston’s International Facebook page. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/ To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla.com/contact/ To support the show for ad-free listening and extra content, visit chrischinchilla.com/support/

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From me… Migrating a website from… [https://medium.com/geekculture/migrating-a-website-from-jekyll-to-54f0bea3de7a] Read more about my journey overhauling my old old website, and my progress so far. Storytelling Collective Flash February Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium [https://medium.com/@chrischinchilla]. In bots we trust My new show with my friend Killian [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiedVKfvTw0&list=PL1fnzsSshABxCqbMaK581ITpQ_iD54YaZ] where we look at generative AI, because, well, everyone else is! Tech Fake Pictures of People of Color Won't Fix AI Bias → [https://www.wired.com/story/synthetic-image-media-bias-artificial-intelligence/] Armed with a belief in technology's generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating artificial images of people of color. Tech CEOs screwed up → [https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee-layoffs-google-facebook-salesforce-amazon-2023-2?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email] Now laid-off employees are paying the price Download the app CEOs made mistakes, workers bear the bruntWith great power comes no responsibility Google's ChatGPT competitor spaces out at the start → [https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-chatgpt-competitor-spaces-out-at-the-start/] Google and other major tech companies this week have been showcasing how conversational chatbots can help improve internet search. In one instance, however, Google may have inadvertently showcased the technology's shortcomings. Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule → [https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/] Updated Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple will no longer require its competitors to use the WebKit browser engine in iOS. How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? → [https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-did-the-duck-hunt-gun-work] The Duck Hunt gun, officially called the NES Zapper, seems downright primitive next to today's technology. But in the late '80s, it filled plenty of young heads with wonder. And finally The death of the customer service hotline → [https://www.vox.com/23571375/no-call-center-phone-number-frontier-facebook] Need to call Facebook? Frontier? Good luck. There's been a breach of the Jonny Boston's International Facebook page. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]