Author: Reddgr

Talking to chatbots in the cloud... cycling and walking my dog on Earth.

AI-generated image inspired by "Your Friends & Neighbors". Andrew “Coop” Cooper stands at the center of a crowded party scene, eyes closed and face lifted, absorbed in the moment as colored lights blur behind him. Nick Brandes is visible in the background on the left, and Barney Choi on the right. Text at the top reads, “When dad bought you a ‘Get out of Jail, Free’ card, but you’re just an Internet meme.”
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While the “Jon Hamm dancing” meme is definitely taking over the internet, what most struck me about the series is its realistic, fully normalized portrayal of for-profit bail bonds. This genuinely American system allows criminal defendants to “purchase” their freedom in a way that is legally impossible, and culturally condemnable, in most other places.

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The ‘reply guy’ in me told me that public perception of whether the Gemini name ‘sucks’ or ChatGPT sounds funny is not precisely what keeps Sundar Pichai or Sam Altman up at night right now. Then I thought it was a good chance to showcase Google’s Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI’s GPT Image 1.5, the latest image generation models from the AI giants, and their remarkable, highly improved capabilities to:

– Generate highly realistic images of public figures doing mundane tasks in mundane settings.

– Produce high-quality marketing copy for virtually any conceivable junk.

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Read.AI is one of the fastest-growing, most useful genAI productivity tools I’ve tried this year. Built by an award-winning startup, it provides automated meeting transcription, summaries, and real-time analytics by integrating directly into major video conferencing apps, such as Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet. The platform is backed by patented technology that analyzes explicit and implicit participant signals for sharper meeting insights. Beyond high-quality transcripts and useful dashboards, Read.AI recently released “Search Copilot”, an agentic chatbot that leverages info from your transcripts and other productivity tools you may connect, so your meetings never sink into a pile of meeting minutes nobody reads or fade because everyone forgot what was actually said.

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If you are a professional and consider yourself ‘in need,’ you don’t need a job. You need the salary, plus any other material or immaterial benefits the job provides. Additionally, you may want a particular job that provides them for you.

By the way, I made some infographics with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation, the new favorite toy in the Gen AI world…

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Talking to Chatbots is a platform where I share my ideas and thoughts with the world in the form of chatbot conversations and generative AI prompts. Songwriting and music production are likely my favorite generative AI use cases and endless sources of fun. While most music generated by transformer-based models inevitably produces a perception of inexplicable “soullessness” that is behind most of the AI hate and the discourse created around “AI slop,” just as happens with long text produced by LLM inference, some of us enjoy the process of endless iteration and experimentation until we find something we consider unique and representative of our creative ideas and craft. You can find my public music creations on Suno and …

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