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01 Jul

How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges

stp2y0 CommentsRAG modelsbook excerpt, economics, food and drink, investing, longreads, refrigeration

“People make fun of me about the fridges,” said Tassos Stassopoulos. “I am fridge-obsessed.” As the founder and managing partner of Trinetra, a London-based investment firm, Stassopoulos has pioneered an unusual strategy: peeking inside refrigerators in homes around the world in order to predict the future—and monetize those insights.By the time of his refrigeration revelation in 2009, Stassopoulos had already gained a reputation for his maverick process: Where other investors typically relied on market data and forecasts from big consumer-products companies to deduce what people in, say, India might start purchasing in the future, Stassopoulos spent days traveling around the…

18 Jun

I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again

stp2y0 CommentsAIartificial intelligence, books, chatbots, english, literature, longreads, reading, shakespeare

When a flattering email arrived inviting me to participate in an AI venture called Rebind that I’d later come to think will radically transform the entire way booklovers read books, I felt pretty sure it was a scam. For one thing, the sender was Clancy Martin, a writer and philosophy professor I didn’t know personally but vaguely recalled had written about his misspent youth as a small-time jewelry-biz con artist, also being a serial liar in his love life. For another, they were offering to pay me. “Clancy up to his old ways!” I thought.My role, the email explained, would…

13 Jun

If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud

stp2y0 CommentsAIartificial intelligence, big interview, longevity, longreads, singularity

You put a stake in the ground with your book The Singularity Is Near. This one is called The Singularity Is Nearer. How do you define the singularity?To me it’s when a human will not only be able to do everything that other people can do, but also create something new, like curing certain forms of cancer. AI is integral to doing that, because you can actually try out every single possible combination of things that might cure cancer. And instead of asking which one of those billions of possible cures are we going to try, we can try them…

13 Jun

The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIartificial intelligence, biotech, book excerpt, health, longreads

I’ve had many conversations over the years about life extension, and the idea often meets resistance. People become upset when they hear of an individual whose life has been cut short by a disease, yet when confronted with the possibility of generally extending all human life, they react negatively. “Life is too difficult to contemplate going on indefinitely” is a common response. But people generally do not want to end their lives at any point unless they are in enormous pain—physically, mentally, or spiritually. And if they were to absorb the ongoing improvements of life in all its dimensions, most…

06 Jun

How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIartificial intelligence, big interview, intelligence, longreads, open source

Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online. Source link lol

20 May

Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIartificial intelligence, deepfakes, elections, india, longreads, politics

On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a greenscreen to shoot a short video. He looked nervous. It was his first time being cloned.Wearing a crisp white shirt and a ceremonial saffron scarf bearing a lotus flower—the logo of the BJP, the country’s ruling party—Rathore pressed his palms together and greeted his audience in Hindi. “Namashkar,” he began. “To all my brothers—”Before he could continue, the director of the shoot walked into the frame. Divyendra Singh Jadoun, a 31-year-old with a bald head and…