Apple's AI Accessibility Features, Retail is Changing, and a Book Suggestion

A few articles of note and movements in artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

It’s a beautiful morning over on the East Coast and I’m happy to be having a different geography to work and write in. Sometimes, as you might already know, just having a different place to sit can be enough of a vacation in and of itself.

I’m closing down a lot of things here since I don’t plan on being back anytime soon, if ever. There are seasons to our lives and the older I get the more I see them for what they are. I don’t mind the starts and stops as long as I can control them, somewhat.

Onward and upward my friends. Have a great week!

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer

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Folks are using ChatGPT to do quite a lot of things but is it because of the outcomes or the UI / UX? Does ChatGPT really have a “UX” or is it not really anything? These are some of the questions that are being raised. Maybe it doesn’t matter.

The new accessibility features in Apple’s new version is receiving a lot of fanfare with eye-tracking, motion sickness management, speech recognition, and more. Impressive is one way of thinking about it.

OpenAI doesn’t seem to care much about “safety” and “control” as folks have resigned citing issues and concerns. One thought that keeps coming to my mind is whether or not safety is actually something we can reasonable manage when it comes to these tools — kind of like social media when it became a thing.

Paragon helps builders with SaaS products that use AI by extracting data from over 100+ sources and adding it ot the pipeline for RAG.

Glitter AI helps you create step-by-step guides by just talking. That’s it.

Everything is being changed by (generative) AI including retail, from better shopping experiences to logistics and customer support.

And a fun read, if you’re interested. Four Battlegrounds was passed to me as a read and I’ve started into it:

An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry-the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives-and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe.

Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes listeners inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future. Four Battlegrounds argues that four key elements define this struggle: data, computing power, talent, and institutions. Data is a vital resource like coal or oil, but it must be collected and refined. Advanced computer chips are the essence of computing power-control over chip supply chains grants leverage over rivals. Talent is about people: which country attracts the best researchers and most advanced technology companies? The fourth “battlefield” is maybe the most critical: the ultimate global leader in AI will have institutions that effectively incorporate AI into their economy, society, and especially their military.

Data, computing power, talent, and institutions. Ok.

Finally, folks are trying to make money from AI and there is still no standard to it.

That's it folks! Have a good one!

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer