Category: Technology
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Duolingo Max (Product Review)
My summary of Duolingo Max before using it – Duolingo using generative AI to help its users learn new languages. How does Duolingo Max explain itself in the first minute? – The Duolingo blog post that announced Duolingo Max talks about “a learning experience powered by GPT-4”. Duoling Max is a new subscription tier that…
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Bard (Product Review)
My summary of Bard before using it – Bard is Google’s answer to Open AI’s Chat GpT. How does Bard explain itself in the first minute? – The invite to try out Bard describes it as “your creative and helpful collaborator, here to supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and bring your ideas to life.”…
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Google’s MusicLM (Product Review)
Listening to some of the music samples generated by text, and you get a good idea of what Google’s MusicLM has been designed to do. Here you can find 30-second snippets created from descriptions that list a genre, specific instruments or a vibe. MusicLM uses a large dataset of unlabelled music and captions from MusicCaps…
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Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology
Ever heard of Melvin Kranzberg? Kranzberg (1917 – 1995) was a professor of history of technology at Georgia Tech. Kranzberg is best known for his Six Laws of Technology: Whilst created back in 1986, Kranzberg’ six laws of technology still very much hold true today. I’ll elaborate on some of these laws and highlight their…