The time has come for me to chime in on this whole AI gadget craze.
Two new gadgets aren’t worth your money. One absolutely is.
Here it is, my take on what Humane, Rabbit and Meta are doing to free us from smartphones:
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The time has come for me to chime in on this whole AI gadget craze.
Two new gadgets aren’t worth your money. One absolutely is.
Here it is, my take on what Humane, Rabbit and Meta are doing to free us from smartphones:
Remember the iPhone that still worked after it fell out of an Alaska Airlines plane at 16,000 feet?
I couldn’t shake figuring out how it survived. So I launched some iPhone 14s and Galaxy S23es 300 feet into the sky to find out.
🆕 COLUMN AND VIDEO: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-an-iphone-can-survive-a-drop-from-a-plane-but-not-from-your-kitchen-counter-57453ca9?st=9uqa298hbwakydm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It's the tech billionaire death match you've been waiting for...
Yes, MUSK vs. ZUCK action figures.
They're jacked. They're ready to fight and explain what this ridiculous fight is really about. OK, I do the explaining.
Latest @WSJ video and column here:https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-musk-vs-zuck-how-the-big-tech-rivalries-are-shifting-7430185e
Sometimes you just have to hit the streets with a printer, laptop and a giant battery to generate some AI art and make total strangers' photo dreams come true.
My 🆕 video testing out some crazy AI photo tools, including #AdobeFirefly #midjourney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKoFc14mpMs
And my latest video where I blow up balloons with a leaf blower to explain how markets tend to balloon after Apple enters them.
And yes, I do birthday parties and board meetings.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFmiHEMYd50
The VR / AR headest of today are nerd helmets.
Can Apple change that?
My latest column / video: https://on.wsj.com/42KhULc
My AI voice clone fooled my family, bank and Evan Spiegel. And my video clone + a script from ChatGPT made a pretty decent TikTok.
We’re all going to be just fine.
My latest video and column on the crazy—and creepy—world of voice and video AI.
COLUMN: https://on.wsj.com/3NnZbjU
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/t52Bi-ZUZjA
One week.
Thats how long my colleague Evan Gershkovich has been in a Moscow prison for doing his job: reporting the truth about Putin’s Russia.
I feel helpless in this situation but reading and sharing his work can help.
Let’s all #IStandWithEvan.
WSJ.com/Evan
Google Bard is coming today! Well, sorta.
It’s going to be a limited roll out and Google is clearly calling it an experiment.
You can sign up for the waitlist here: https://bard.google.com
I got a demo yesterday and Google's making it clear this is not meant to replace search.
Everyone was talking about
#ChatGPT + cheating.
So I did it. I went back to AP Lit and used it to write an essay.
My last WSJ video of the year, featuring me in a high school classroom with a bunch of teens giving me side eye: