🕹️ Quake II GPUs laid the foundation

+ What does AI know about you?

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Tim Moylan
16 Oct • Reading Time: 6 minutes

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The release of NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 twenty-five years ago, was overlooked by all but hardcore PC gamers and tech enthusiasts at the time playing Quake II, but those GPUs would go on to lay the foundation for today’s generative AI. GPUs are changing the world at an incredible pace, so let’s dive in..

🐝 The AI Buzz

How the World’s First GPU Leveled Up Gaming and Ignited the AI Era

In 1999, fans lined up at Blockbuster to rent chunky VHS tapes of The Matrix. Teens gleefully downloaded Britney Spears and Eminem on Napster. But amid the turn-of-the-millennium tech culture, something more transformative was unfolding. The release of NVIDIA’s GeForce

Adobe Launches Firefly Video Model and Enhances Image and Design Models

Adobe announced the expansion of its Firefly family of creative generative AI models to video, in addition to new breakthroughs in its Image, Vector and Design models and significant momentum in Firefly’s adoption by leading brands and enterprises.

GitHub - An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.

An open-source clean & customizable RAG UI for chatting with your documents. Built with both end users and developers in mind.

Meta suggests AI Northern Lights pics are as good as the real thing

Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights: just use AI to fake it!

In an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster back at the launch pad

Company employees screamed in joy, jumping and pumping their fists into the air. NASA joined in the celebration, with Administrator Bill Nelson sending congratulations.

Orchestrating Agents: Routines and Handoffs | OpenAI Cookbook

Open-source examples and guides for building with the OpenAI API. Browse a collection of snippets, advanced techniques and walkthroughs.

 

Writer RAG tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes

  • Writer RAG Tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes with simple API calls.

  • Knowledge Graph integration for intelligent data retrieval and AI-powered interactions.

  • Streamlined full-stack platform eliminates complex setups for scalable, accurate AI workflows.

 

AI Gaming
🔫 AI creates games from static images instantly

🐝 The Buzz: New AI tech lets images become real-time games, revolutionizing gaming with instant, dynamic worlds. It enables user creativity despite needing high computing power and fluid outcomes.

  • Researchers have developed AI technology that can generate playable game worlds from static images.  

  • The AI creates game levels in real-time, enabling seamless exploration of digitally crafted environments.  

  • The real-time generation requires substantial computing power, and generated game worlds are transient and fluid.  

AI at work
💻️ What does AI know about you?

For me, this was a pretty accurate result.

  • Go to ChatGPT

  • Prompt the following

From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself

🎨 Gen AI art

“Peacock-snake hybrid: A mesmerizing animal with the long, sinuous body of a snake, but it has a peacock's beautiful, iridescent tail feathers at the end. The snake’s scales shimmer in shades of blue and green, while the tail fans out with bright, eye-catching designs. The creature slithers gracefully, leaving a trail of color behind it.”

AI productivity
🔥 Tools to take your workflow to the next level.

  1. ChatSimple lets you add an AI sales agent chatbot to your website.

  2. Figma2Website lets you design and publish websites without leaving Figma.

  3. Fluency is for create process documentation in seconds.

  4. Akool is a cutting-edge Gen AI platform for sales and video production.

🤘 Weird Wednesday - Catfishing with AI

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I hope you enjoyed the buzz 🐝

Cheers, Tim

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