Samir

@Samir@m.tweepsmap.com

Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids.
CEO/founder @fedica,
Cofounder of @rentcompass,
Builder of popular mobile apps,
Traveler, pentalingual.

Also building tools for Mastodon

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Samir, to ai

The Ask Jeeves-ification of online search https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23721323/ask-jeeves-remember-when-google-search-worked-ai

Samir, to ai

Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23720351/project-gameface-google-io-2023-ai-facial-recognition-control

Samir, to ai

Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a chatbot that can read a novel in less than a minute https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23720964/chatbot-language-model-context-window-memory-anthropic-claude

Samir, to ai

Raycast’s new Pro subscription adds AI and syncing features https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/11/23719737/raycast-pro-subscription-ai-syncing-clipboard-features-mac

Samir, to ai

AI startup Anthropic wants to write a new constitution for safe AI https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23716746/ai-startup-anthropic-constitutional-ai-safety

Samir, to ai

EU draft legislation will ban AI for mass biometric surveillance and predictive policing https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/11/23719694/eu-ai-act-draft-approved-prohibitions-surveillance-predictive-policing

Samir, to ai

Wendy’s tests an AI chatbot that takes your drive-thru order https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23716825/wendys-ai-drive-thru-google-llm

Samir, to ai

Google launches an AI coding bot for Android developers https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717328/google-ai-coding-studio-bot-android-developers-io

Samir, to ai

Google’s new image search tools could help you identify AI-generated fakes https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718616/google-image-search-verification-about-this-metadata-io

PietroGhezzi, to random Italian

I use ifttt to share my posts from Mastodon to Twitter but now they’ll start charging 47 eur/year (actually, 46.99). Are there free alternatives?

Samir,

@PietroGhezzi
Yes, post natively on both platforms!
We were the first to launch this last year:
https://m.tweepsmap.com/@Samir/109790157422954648

Samir, to ai

Frank Ocean fans are getting scammed with fake AI-generated songs https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718291/ai-music-scams-fake-frank-ocean-songs-legal-copyright

Samir, to ai

The nine biggest announcements from Google I/O 2023 https://www.theverge.com/23718158/google-io-2023-biggest-announcements-ai-pixel-fold-tablet-android-14

evan, to random
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that. 🫤

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!

Samir, (edited )

@tchambers @evan
I remember, it was great! Way ahead of its time!

Samir, to ai

The AI takeover of Google Search starts now https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717120/google-search-ai-results-generated-experience-io

tchambers, to random

FYI: just suspended over 50 crypto spam accounts to keep everyone's timelines here clean.

Report any others you see, none were local to this server.

Samir,

@tchambers
honestly, I think it's a mistake to allow account creation with the API.
Yes, it's not difficult to automate the process on the web client, but it's a lot easier with the API

Samir, to ai

Google rebrands AI tools for Docs and Gmail as Duet AI — its answer to Microsoft’s Copilot https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718301/google-ai-workspace-features-duet-docs-gmail-io

andypiper, to random
@andypiper@macaw.social avatar

I’m excited and honoured to share that I’m joining a range of my peers in the UK technology space on a panel for the at the House of Lords on Monday, providing advice and evidence on and Web 3 topics.

Samir,

@andypiper congrats!

andypiper, to random
@andypiper@macaw.social avatar

👋🏻 so you may have read (and I’m excited to share!) that I’ll be helping @Gargron and the team with the developer community and space.

Finishing up a busy weekend showing completely-unrelated things at - but I’ll have more to post about this soon… 😊

Samir,

@andypiper @Gargron
and another congrats :)

Samir, to ai

Google announces PaLM 2 AI language model, already powering 25 Google services https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718046/google-ai-palm-2-language-model-bard-io

Samir, to ai

Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718066/google-bard-ai-features-waitlist-dark-mode-visual-search-io

Samir, to ai

Google needs to stop throwing good money after Bard https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23710839/google-bard-ai-competition-bing-openai-chatgpt-io

atomicpoet, to random

The event that made me leave mastodon.social was the decision by Mastodon gGmbh to make that the default server for new registrations.

Rather than shrug and ask, “What can we do?”—and do nothing—I realized that this is the Fediverse. I’ve got options.

I don’t have to be part of any server that gives me the “No!” feeling.

Despite being a member of mastodon.social for 5 years, and donating money to the project, I think it’s going in the wrong direction.

“But Chris, what about growth?” Some have said.

If growth comes at the expense of decentralization, I don’t want growth.

“But Chris, people don’t care about decentralization!”

Then we’ll make them care. If they don’t care now, they’ll care tomorrow.

And we’ll do this by making decentralized social media that’s so good, you’ll never go back to Big Social.

We can’t compromise on this aspect. I don’t care what certain folks say, you can’t achieve decentralization through centralization.

Some people call this idealism.

If so, this idealist took the practical step up leaving mastodon.social.

Samir,

@atomicpoet
yes, it is a pain.
I lost my posts twice, and about to lose them again with the server name change!
This is a very important feature that's overlooked

Samir,

@atomicpoet
Yeah, we are watching it but I don't think it has A significant user base yet to add support
Maybe if it shows more progress we will add publishing support, but for now Mastodon seems a more appropriate choice

Samir, to ai

Microsoft’s Bing chatbot gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, and more https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/4/23710022/microsoft-bing-chatbot-ai-image-video-chat-history-features

Samir, to random

Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone, with plug-ins coming soon https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/4/23710071/microsoft-bing-chat-ai-public-preview-plug-in-support

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