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OpenAI & Jony Ive: The AI ‘iPhone Moment’?
OpenAI plans to acquire the hardware company “io,” founded by Jony Ive, for approximately $6.5 billion. This move aims to create a screen-less, ambient AI device, challenging current technology paradigms. While past hardware efforts have faltered, the OpenAI-Ive collaboration holds promise for revolutionizing human-computer interaction and personal computing. Execution will be crucial for success.
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“Holy Grail AI”: Five Common Illusions
The article critiques the overly optimistic view of Generative AI, termed “Holy Grail AI.” It identifies five persistent illusions: the All-Knowing Oracle, the Human Replica, the False Launchpad, the Instant Revolution, and Shiny Toy Syndrome, urging a focus on clear problem definition and realistic expectations for successful AI initiatives.
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Vibe Marketing Part 3: A Playbook for Small Teams
This final installment on Vibe Marketing emphasizes its power for individuals and small teams to outpace traditional marketing through agility and automation. By effectively harnessing AI, marketers can enhance creativity while maintaining essential human oversight. Key steps include defining brand identity, auditing workflows for AI integration, and engaging in rapid experimentation to optimize campaigns.
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Vibe Marketing Part 2: Strategies, Tools, Examples
The post explores the rise of Vibe Marketing, highlighting its strategic significance in the AI era through enhanced personalization, agility, and emotional resonance. It emphasizes the irreplaceable human element in marketing, using AI as a powerful complement. Successful examples from brands like Coca-Cola and Spotify illustrate real world use-cases.
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Vibe Marketing Part 1: Reshaping Business with AI
Vibe Marketing, inspired by Vibe Coding, represents a strategic shift towards intuitive human-AI collaboration in marketing. This approach emphasizes emotional connections with audiences, leveraging AI for speed and data-driven insights while retaining human oversight and creativity. It aims to create authentic brand experiences in a fast-evolving digital landscape.
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Evolving Software Practices for the Age of AI
The article discusses the need to adapt software development practices for Artificial Intelligence (AI), emphasizing that traditional methodologies are insufficient for the unique challenges AI presents. It stresses the importance of embracing AI’s probabilistic nature, enhancing user experience, and being proactive about ethical considerations. Organizations must rethink their development approaches to successfully build trust and…
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Knowledge Canvas: Background
A brief overview of how Knowledge Canvas came to be, including a video of the initial pitch at UCLA Summer 2021 Product Development Contest (spoiler: Knowledge Canvas won 1st place!)
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Wirelessly Controlling a Robot with Speech Commands – UCLA Capstone – Part I
In this post, I describe how I used 2 FPGA boards, various peripherals like Bluetooth and microphone, TensorFlow, and the “iRobot” system to develop a speech controlled robot with wireless communication.
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How to Boot Jetson Nano From USB 3.0 (Natively) with Jetpack 4.5
If you have a Jetson Nano booting from a microSD card, you stand to gain both increased speed and a longer lifespan by switching out the microSD card for a USB 3.0 drive. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the process of wiping, partitioning, and flashing a USB drive and booting a Jetson Nano…
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How to Convert Encrypted TLT Files to TensorRT Engine on Nvidia Jetson
In this post, I go over how to convert an encrypted Transfer Learning Toolkit file to a TensorRT engine on a Jetson Nano. Specifically, we’ll be working with Nvidia’s PeopleNet model, which uses ResNet34 Object Detector and MoT IoU object tracker to generate bounding boxes and unique object ID’s as output.
Rob Royce
Exploring frontier technology at the intersection of AI, robotics, and business.
Rob Royce 