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Gadgets & Gizmos: Google's new search, Chat GPT causes psychosis & AI robotic dogs
Steve Caplin laments Google's new AI search which means far fewer people will ever click on links. ChatGPT apparently causes psychosis but could also…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: A 100mph e-scooter, a fake AI Instagram model & turning mercury into gold
Steve Caplin discusses an electric MPV, an e-scooter with a treadmill, a bike charging pad, a 100 mph e-scooter with faster acceleration than a Tesla…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI creating books, music and marking exams, Uber for oldies & cyborg bees
Steve Caplin discusses an app that uses AI to create illustrated books for children, as well as AI being used to mark exams. Uber is making it easier…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: AIs working against humans, robot football & a possible cancer cure from tombs
Steve Caplin feels sorry for the Norwegian lottery players told they'd won big, only to find it was a basic maths error. Monzo has been fined over "w…
1 year, 3 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: RoboTaxis, Iran & Scottish independence & lumbering velociraptors
Steve Caplin expresses surprise that Elon Musk (or his lawyers) claims not to use a computer, despite previous contrary evidence. Tesla has launched …
1 year, 3 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI music for bots, Trump's mobiles & solutions for underarm odour and baldness
Steve Caplin discusses more to do with AI: researchers have discovered that relying on it makes you stupid; an engineer found it can't play chess; AI…
1 year, 3 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Next generation email tool, automatic bike gears & AI art restoration
Steve Caplin is unsure about DeepMind's forthcoming "next generation email tool" which will answer emails in your voice. The rooftop garden of Google…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Albert Einstein's business card, concrete coffee makers & the world's smallest violin
Steve Caplin is excited by Jony Ive's new venture, even though nobody yet knows what it is. He wonders how much Albert Einstein's business card will …
1 year, 4 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: AI resorting to blackmail, see-in-the-dark contact lenses & cyborg cockroaches
Steve Caplin says that the Vienna Tourist Board will be celebrating Strauss's bicentenary by beaming The Blue Danube to Voyager 1. Google's 3D meetin…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gadgets & Gizmos: Google's new AI stuff, beard trimmers, gene-edited spiders & train cleanliness
Steve Caplin is bowled over by Google's new AI which can produce videos with incredibly realistic speech in 24 languages with any accent, though perh…
1 year, 4 months ago