@awolber

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Tratando de aprender español. Previously: Wrote about Google and other tech topics for TechRepublic and helped nonprofit orgs with tech. Living in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 2018.
Websitehttps://www.wolberworks.com

Let's celebrate, today is World Book Day (athough some countries celebrate in a different day)! It's also known as World Book or International Day of the Book.

What book are you currently reading? What's your favorite book so far?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day

You can find several interestings books in our catalogue:
www.gutenberg.org

#books #literature #worldbookDay

Human creativity in the age of AI

My perspective on the uniquely human aspects of creativity that can’t be replaced by AI.

https://tessneedham.com/2026/04/creativity-age-of-ai-zine/

David Uclés es también matemático: “Me encantaría entrar en el Oulipo”

Cada vez que alguien visita la casa de David Uclés, en Madrid, se acaba topando en un momento u otro con un icosaedro. “Es una novela”, le dice a todo aquel que se queda mirando esa figura geométrica. Los invitados no ocultan su cara de estupor. “¿Cómo va a ser esto una novela?” Y no una cualquiera, sino la que le llevó a ganar el premio Nadal el pasado mes de enero: La ciudad de las luces muertas (Destino).

La Vanguardia
Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjI0Q05IV0dlS3EiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODk2NDkwL2dvb2dsZS1yZXBsYWNlLW5ld3MtaGVhZGxpbmVzLWluLXNlYXJjaC1jYW5hcnktY29hbC1taW5lLWV4cGVyaW1lbnQiLCJleHAiOjE3NzQ0NzIwOTAsImlhdCI6MTc3NDA0MDA5MH0.3exwHWG6qdR5YeFLjzS1qvUy3tgfASQhbFZDTbHrkKE&utm_medium=gift-link

Daring Fireball

New to AI chatbots and want to experiment on your phone? Try three apps: Copilot, Perplexity and Pi. Each of these offers distinctly different capabilities and responses. Then install ChatGPT, which offers solid performance when used for free and best-in-class capabilities for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

These apps are available for Android and iPhone, although not necessarily available in every country.

Details: https://www.aiproductivity.news/ready-to-get-started-with-ai-chatbots/

#AI #mobile #GenerativeAI

Ready to try AI chatbots? Start with these apps.

If you’re new to AI chatbots and want to experiment on your phone, try three apps: Copilot, Perplexity and Pi. Each of these offers distinctly different capabilities and responses. After you’ve tried those, install ChatGPT, which offers solid performance when used for free and best-in-class capabilities for ChatGPT

AI Productivity News
Sometimes I think people get too focused on being "data driven". But this piece by Max Roser concisely covers why we need #data if we seek to understand the world: https://ourworldindata.org/limits-personal-experience via #TheBrowser #learning
The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics

The world is huge; to get a clear idea of what our world is like, we have to rely on carefully collected, well-documented statistics.

Our World in Data

The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
New AI systems could speed up our ability to create weather forecasts 

They could also help to make them more accurate.

MIT Technology Review
Enjoyed talks by Carla Fernández and Ivy Ross in #SantaFe today. Thank you to the International Folk Art Market and SITE Santa Fe for holding these events!
Interesting work from Erik Guzik at the University of Montana about #AI use in business settings, specifically for brainstorming and idea generation: https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/07/070523test.php #ChatGPT
UM Research: AI Tests Into Top 1% for Original Creative Thinking

New research from UM and its partners suggests artificial intelligence can match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard test for creativity.