From venue visualisers to digital avatars: How the #metaverse is reshaping the future of hospitality and tourism @ExpComputer https://
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ECONOMY
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Metaverse Transforms Hospitality and Tourism With Digital Avatars
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Corporate Climate Responsibility Displacement in AI Industry Reports
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Note that this specious and self-serving displacement of climate responsibility is effectively mirrored in this report, which sloppily assumes that people engaged in waged work for a corporations are themselves responsible for the climate impact of said work.
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AI Agents Will Represent Your Interests and Personal Brand Value
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Everyone is going to be represented by AI. You are going to have AI representing your interests on your behalf, presenting your brand value, your ideas…it will be your interlocutor
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UK FCA Approves Crypto ETNs, Bitcoin Surges Above $71,000
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Bitcoin is flying higher this morning, hitting a fresh all-time high above $71,000, after the UK Financial Conduct Authority said it will allow exchanges to list crypto-linked ETNs for the first time.
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Accessing X Data for Open Source LLM Development
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+1 Open Source LLM I assume the access to X data will be through their API and will be pricy as hell for any 3rd party willing to build on top of it.
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Overlooking lawsuits and licensing costs in AI economics
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yeah, i kicked myself after for omitting the lawsuits and licensing costs!
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Jensen Huang continues minting money in AI hardware boom
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yes huge profits there; should have clarified that (was focused on the GenAI companies). Jensen will continue to mint money.
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Public Funding Diversion: AI Research vs Essential Services
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Which raises a much more urgent question: does AI justify the diversion of such funding from, say, libraries, parks, schools, etc. to Google, Amazon, Microsoft on behalf of research? And if so, where's the hard proof backing this significant tradeoff? 7/
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Gen AI Hype: Solution Seeking Problem, Billions at Risk
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In reality, there is a thick cloud of smokey hype around AI, and it's not clear that the promises being made by the corps betting billions will ever be fulfilled (IMO gen AI is ~a solution in search of a problem so big it justifies the $$ to create/run it, which few do). 6/
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Big Tech Marketing and AI Resource Allocation Critique
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But it's not just this. By accepting the frame that such access is vital/necessary, we're buying into Big Tech marketing that says AI is real, lasting, and requires the diversion of billion$ (that could be spent otherwise). 5/