AI Agents & Development Timeline

Here's some of my explorative technologies and insights into AI. I believe I am making information assistants, not artificial intelligence.

Mutant Sea Snakes! Rapid Prototyping an AI-Driven Film Idea: Infranodus + Bolt

I demonstrate using InfraNodus.com to generate an AI film idea quickly. I show how to search for related words, create a website using Bolt.new, and deploy it. I also discuss changing the website theme and name for a younger audience.

Synthesis EP01: The Dragon and the Eagle: A Dangerous Dance

This podcast examines the captivating, yet perilous tango between the U.S. and China as they vie for global dominance. Despite their rivalry, these two superpowers are intricately linked through trade, technology, and a shared ambition to shape the future.

AI Tests: Analyzing Carbohydrate and Protein Intake

In this video, I conduct AI tests to analyze my carbohydrate and protein intake. I ask five popular AI tools - Claude, Meta AI, Perplexity, and Pi.ai to calculate and present the nutritional values of the foods I ate.

Hallucination Test: Llama3, Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, Pi

I'm checking if Meta AI, Claude, Perplexity, Pi, and ChatGPT3.5 accurately summarize an article without presenting false information. Let me know what you think.

A Reminder of the Awkwardness of Cultural Political Partnerships

Does the coalition between National and ACT usher in a new age of vindictive political decision-making? Or does it build and enhance on the progressive wins for both sides made over the last years?

Investing in ESG: Unlikely to Save the Planet Right Now

I thought investing in ESG funds would help, but according to experts, ESG investing is cosmetic wish-wash. Apparently only corporate performance matters, not environmental performance.

Wikipedia, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Google and AI

Moderators and executives clash on principles of data accuracy, integrity and commercialism. The effects of AI on the web are not simple to summarise, but here's a few insightful quotes from people spending a lot of time reviewing thie transformation of today's web tools.

Future of Governance, Collective Intelligence & Sovereignty

"Who has the right to sovereignty, the experimental religious community, or the larger number of neighboring communities who fear for their safety?" This led me to ask the question regarding indigenous peoples and settler governments.

ChatGPT Helps But Can Harm Too

After reaching 100 million monthly active users just two months after launch, ChatGPT is the fastest-growing consumer application in history, so what makes it special? What do we need to watch out for?

ChatGPT i Ka Leo Hawai'i

'O ChatGPT he holomua e kāko'o ana i kānaka i ka hana ma ke kikokiko ma ka heluhelu i nā nūpepa a me nā puke mai ka honua hoʻoholoʻokoʻa.

ChatGPT i Te Reo Māori

Ko ChatGPT he whakamahi e whakaputa ana i te tuhinga e pā ana ki ngā tikanga o te tangata mā te pānui i ngā rauemi i te whānui o te ipurangi.

Insights

ChatGPT: Who Has Time for That?

If you're looking for a tool that can write and translate for you, ChatGPT is your guy. But let's be real, who has time for that? This article is part of a series on ChatGPT.

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ChatGPT As a Powerful Tool

To truly appreciate the greatness of ChatGPT as a tool for writing and translation, one must explore the different versions of this article, which have been rewritten by ChatGPT in a cosmic and optimistic style, as well as versions in Te Reo Māori and Hawaiian.

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What is a Stablecoin? Why are they an Important Part of Crypto?

From the Wild West of decentralized finance comes a financial instrument called the 'stablecoin', there are more than 60 now on the market.

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Rapid Growth of Decentralised Finance DeFi

Checked my portfolio this morning and Ethereum jumped in value. According to Coinbase, this is because the universe of crypto-based lending, saving, and trading apps known as Decentralised Finance or DeFi has been growing tremendously.

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Tracking Ethereum & NFT's

Really impressed with the business and collectibles innovation around Non Fungible Tokens (NFT's). NFTs are exploding on the crypto market.

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Digital Colonialism: People Using Technology

The rise and proliferation of neocolonial surveillance corporations, two reports advance ideas of a digitally-powered form of 'surveillance capitalism' and the economic exploitation of society through corporate and state mass surveillance. The primary author is Michael Kwet from the Yale Law School [https://law.yale.edu/mike-kwet].  He

OSINT Open Source Intelligence

Just learning about the evolution of open source intelligence (OSINT) and it's usefulness for maintaining information sovereignty for intelligence operations. Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies - USA [https://www.csis.org/analysis/modernizing-intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance-find-era-security-competition] . In summary, information advantage is a critical requirement for intelligence organisations. The goal

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Popstars & Video Games

Was really taken back by the creativity in this video of a supersized Ariana Grande flying through a creatively designed level in Fortnite. The merging of pop-culture and video-game culture. Here is the video: 1. The merging of two larger audiences to cross-promote products. 2. Game development and music video

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Exalting the Metaverse

I've been tracking the trend of the keyword 'metaverse' since social media business owner Mark Zuckerberg mentioned it in his company's investor call and when news outlets started promulgating the concept around 27 July 2020. Google Trends Due to Google Trends being a proportionally

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Sentiment Analysis: Explorations in Artificial Intelligence

News can be good or bad, but it is seldom neutral. I was interested how certain news agencies reported on a variety of topics, are they positive, neutral or negative?

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Water Crisis & Water Tanks

As part of our shift to avert the Auckland water crisis, have taken two affirmative steps. 1. Installed water tanks. 2. Purchased the domain watercrisis.nz and started ideation on connection points/planning document.

Development

Vizor: Scan → Qualify → Read

I attempted to code and design a tool where people could filter their news feed with speed. That was hard, I called it Vize.