Musings of the Angry Optimist
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: A robot with ChatGPT
A robot that can pick up trash, while reasoning why it chose to give a human an apple. The robot Figure One uses ChatGPT to talk and listen, while performing physical tasks.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Is a revolution underway?
Usually, when writing an opinion piece, it carries a thesis or a message. Not this one. It ends with an open question. That question is based on the notion that something big is underway. Something revolutionary.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Electric cars are terrible in cold weather! Or are they?
Up to 1,000 cars were stuck for at least 24 hours, during a snow storm. Immediately prejudices about electric cars started to spread.
🤳 Have screens made us stop experiencing?
Thousands filmed the countdown to the new year at a celebration in Paris. They have forgotten to experience, occupied with documenting, some say. That's nonsense.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Things that will end up in the pessimist archive
Give it 15 years, and the Pessimists Archive will have two new categories: Social media and screen time.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Have electric cars peaked?
The electric car market is melting down, they say. Is that true?
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: If we'd regulated the internet, as we're regulating AI
President Biden's AI regulation is vague and at the same time EXTREMELY specific. If we had regulated the internet in the same way, it would have seriously hampered our development. Also: We reveal which movie Biden watched that influenced his determination to regulate AI.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Dumb money
How 'dumb money' became 'smart money', what you should do to knock down a wall, and what to do if you're inside that wall.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Slowing down is more dangerous than speeding up
It certainly feels like slower progress is safer than faster, right? But when it comes to technological development, it's often the opposite.