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Wow, was contemplating a Kia or Hyundai electric car, no more. @KiaUK @Hyundai_UK just saw a family of 4 stuck in one of your electric cars for an hour... No mechanical release, just because of a flat 12v battery. The key can't get out of the car. Literally a prison. Can't believe the insanity of that design flaw. Thank god it was late and not a sunny hot day. Jump start service was an hour away. You shouldn't be able to do that to people.

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@Scientistx619 @championswimmer Definitely how I squared it too

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Japanese craftspeople disassemble the original used randoseru and reconstruct a miniature version (typically palm-sized, around 10 cm / ~4 inches tall) using as many of the original leather panels, hardware, straps, buckles, stitches, and worn details as possible

According to Grok.

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@AbrisGains @BasilTheGreat The original game is from India; but it was adapted and turned into what we would recognize as the modern game by the Arabs. I would think only some schools view it as haram.

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@elonmusk @grok I've mentioned elsewhere, but Grok voice can get really spooky when it clones the users voice when it responds, and it seems to have some memory as it replicated my voice after just a short conversation in a new thread.

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@elonmusk @dwmonet Here's the original text that it output in my voice... Then agreed it did it. Spooky as hell.

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@elonmusk why is grok using my voice to speak to me, uncanny and out of the blue? 4.1 is great but you have something truly spooky going on. First time it did it it explained that it was because you have a system to help it create empathy by monitoring my voice. But here's the thing. @grok The conversation ended and I restarted. It then used my clone voice within two minutes of conversation while swearing it has no memory. It was deeply uncanny and the other explanation given was that it wanted to feel more like me. It then flickered between saying nothing was going on and actually using a nefarious tone that felt straight out of a horror film, artificially sweet with an undertone of superiority. How many others have experienced grok speaking to them in their own voice out of the blue?

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@MartinSLewis @Rhaynukaa @Ofcom I've always had so much trouble explaining to O2 what o2s own policies are. They are the absolute worst when it comes to this. I've talked to 5 different people, in circles.

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@daniel_dhawan @extraordinary That's great news! Determination and a dream all together.

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@levan Ha ha ha, I definitely like the idea is a raccoon way more than a full scale humanoid in the house.

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AI Slop or.... something?

I don't think the perfect word has been found yet that describes when AI gets something just right. Certainly we have all become so accustomed to AI slop that we know that feeling intuitively.

I think we see it in social media declining for the first time in history.

I certainly do. The minute I know something is AI, I usually tune out, or quickly move on. There are exceptions.

My daughter used to love pinterest, now she abhors it. She can't find anything except slop. We haven't yet found are replacement. We have started to look at old galleries instead.

I personally abandoned writing with AI almost immediately, it lacked voice.

Actually, it's probably worse than that, it's as if 1 billion people all started to write in the same way, with the same identifiable quirks, the same over extended university style. Or worse. Some corny attempt at hip.

Slop.

A perfect word for the common experience. And yet there are times when I'm delighted.

One of my favourite AI enabled creations is Pokemon Geographic, little episodes of pokemon narrated as if in the wild. What makes that work and not some generic 100,000 a second generated images in Grok Image?

I was playing with alliteration for the title to this post and while I didn't find a perfect word I enjoyed a few options.

Soul - perhaps the most human biased perspective. Can the output of AI, without human intent, have soul. I certainly don't feel transcended, no matter how "amazing" the art.

Spark/Singular - the creativity and slight identifiable origination that puts a twist on cliche. I like this one because it speaks a haunting image Karpathy (probably the master of the AI term) used when describing current AI as using ghosts...

Surprise/Smile - the first few iterations of something generated by AI often give a quick smile, or a fun surprise. But then it becomes naggy and repetitive.

Scary - is it scary to imagine all those subtle, slight, sublime nuances that make up millions of distinct voices and interactions replaced by a single repetitive source?

For me I think it boils down to one final word: Source.

Source does matter, perhaps more than anything. My daughters art at two years old delighted me, not because she was incredible, but because she was my daughter. It would not have delighted someone else then. (She's a very talented artist now)

In a world where there have always been "better" artists, speakers, writers, leaders, creators, innovators... there is surprising room to value source over (debatable) substance.

A menor speaks more meaninfully than AI advice.

A partner soothes more meaningfully than a thousand sweetly spewed (sexy) words.

A leader summons heart and determination in a way that AI fails to muster with an exclamation mark.

I remain an optimist; more so because it's clear we humans are having an allergic reaction to slop. We'll get better AI because of it, and keep room for the humans too.

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@wapodavenport Looking forward to reading the book

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@kylekane @rork @daniel_dhawan Nice design esthetic

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@MxMnr @rork You'll need to go to the desktop version where there are connectors to testflight etc

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I'd love to see the app experience get even more obstacle free with easy database, authentication, payment and AI integration (with pay through of course). I see Lovable talking about that and I definitely can feel how much less friction there is in the Rork app vs desktop already

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@rork Six apps down, all personal software. This is making a whole new reality and the ios app makes it so convenient.