AI Contests Accelerate Product Fixes and Empower Creators
Since I just judged another, similar, contest, these are smart for companies to do. First, they are a forcing function to get AI companies to ship and fix things, but they get feedback from real users and get lots of people to try them. So many tools for creatives to use (I put all these things on my Holodeck list here on X).
Dreamina AI Surpasses Nano‑Banana, Offers Multi‑Media Creation
I'm playing with @dreamina_ai (used it on my post earlier) and it's quite special for creating a wide variety of things, videos, photos, posters. It's from ByteDance and is beating the others, lets you upload six images and mix them...
AI Assistants Arrive on Mobile with Unique Onboarding
AI Assistants are coming to your mobile phone. @marvinvonhagen and his team at @interaction make my favorite “Poke.” @IrenaCronin and I grill him today in two hours. Not like any other X audio space. Just the three of us for 45 minutes....
AI Learns in Self‑created Worlds, Complementing Human Data
Agent-generated worlds? Yes, instead of using human data. AI has long depended on human data, but this supply is limited, biased, and legally contested. Agent-generated worlds offer an alternative, where AI learns inside simulated environments it creates and inhabits. These synthetic...
Humanoid Robots Will Soon Empower Special Needs Independence
What does this mean? @adcock_brett has put the bar high. My special needs son will have a humanoid. It will take care of what we do for him today. Food, laundry, dishes, shopping, and much more. Let him live on his own, even,...
Focused AI Founder Interviews on X Spaces Spotlight Poke
What the heck is Poke and why does it have so many fans? Every Tuesday at 4 p.m. Pacific @IrenaCronin and I grill an AI entrepreneur here on X audio spaces. Up tomorrow? @marvinvonhagen which makes the app, https://t.co/KPPr0atx18, that tells me...
Self‑Driving Tech Already Outdrives Human Drivers
Autonomous vehicles are passing humans in capabilities. And they are way way way smoother at driving than you are. And if you think that is not a true statement it will be by the middle of next year for sure.
Speak, Let AI Polish: Faster, Cleaner Writing
I was so honored when @RandyWKirk1 asked me to write the foreword of a book he, and a bunch of other AI luminaries is writing. I turned it in this morning and he wrote back "Huge thanks Robert. That was...
Bought a $499 Virtual Dog, Feeling Stupid
On vacation I thought of one startup more than any other: @IllusionOfLife. I hear I'll be one of the first to get its product: a virtual dog. No other company has caused me so much anxiety before getting its product in...