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Tag: AI

  • AI-Generated Speaker Timer

    AI-Generated Speaker Timer

    This project started as a search for a timer that would let conference speakers know how much time they had left in their respective speaking slots. Gemini found commercial solutions, but none really met my requirements. Then, it struck me that it could probably be done in an HTML file. This was the prompt. Could…

  • Viodi View – 02/28/26

    Viodi View – 02/28/26

    AI agents create content from the online and real-world zeitgeist. This is one of the epiphanies from a thirty-second music creation experiment. See the Korner for more details on that ViodiTV experiment. But first, we will focus on a key leader in the rural broadband industry. This leader has been prominent for the past couple…

  • Viodi View – 03/29/25

    Viodi View – 03/29/25

    Friendly, safe, and clean: three words that describe Hong Kong. If the public transportation system is an indication, then efficient could be added to this list. Of course, with its density, walkable is another adjective that describes the world’s fourth densest city. Despite the endless sea of people during the day, it is relatively quiet…

  • Viodi View – 07/15/23

    Viodi View – 07/15/23

    Cruise and Waymo passed the Kornhauser Proof-of-Technology version of the Turing Test (YouTube) last week. Princeton Professor Kornhauser explains that, if he closed his eyes, he would have found it difficult to differentiate between rides provided to him by those driverless companies and rides given by human drivers. He suggests that the next step is…

  • From a 56k World to Tomorrow’s Metaverse – A CES2022 Preview

    “We’ll be ducking in and out of the metaverse for these immersive digital experiences, and that’s why I say they will eventually become inextricably linked with our physical reality,” predicts Steve Koenig, VP of Research for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The above interview provides additional insight into trends to expect from this week’s CES2022,…

  • Viodi View – 01/20/21

    Viodi View – 01/20/21

    A Digital Talent Multiplier Did the statement, “I could just be here [CES2021] virtually,” jinx 2020? This statement, made last January at CES2020, was a comment on the realistic-looking video models created by HourOne’s Generative AI service. The creation of a digital twin is definitely an appealing alternative to the wear and tear of CES…