Kit Webster

@itsolelehmann You’re missing the most important point. It can’t speak.

Ex Machina is no longer sci-fi. China has finally built it. The company is AheadForm, founded in Shanghai. The product is the world's most hyper-realistic robotic face. Silicone skin you can't tell from human, 25 micro motors hidden underneath pulling the face into real expressions. And RGB cameras embedded inside the pupils so when it looks at you, it actually sees you from where its eyes are. They raised $28.5M to "give AI a head," which is also where the name comes from. AheadForm = a head form. This is the opposite of where everyone else in robotics is focused. Unitree, Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics: all about the body. AheadForm chose the face because they think trust is the harder problem to solve, and trust gets decided at the face. The reason nobody else has tried this is the "uncanny valley." It's the creepy zone where a robot looks almost human but not quite, and looking at it just feels wrong even when you can't say why. Most roboticists believed no amount of engineering could make a face realistic enough to escape it. So they gave up and kept robots cartoonish on purpose: big anime eyes, exaggerated features, clearly synthetic. But AheadForm decided to treat it as an engineering bug instead. Add enough motors, tune the silicone, fix the timing, the valley closes. And they're pulling it off. A few crazy details about how this actually works: 1. The robot learns its own face in a mirror. You put it in front of a camera, let it fire every motor randomly, and it watches what its face does and builds an internal map of "if I send command X to motor Y, my eyebrow does this." Same exact process a human baby uses staring into a mirror. The robot teaches itself who it is by experimenting. 2. It predicts your smile 839 milliseconds before you smile. By watching the micro-tells in your face that precede a smile, the robot starts smiling 0.8 seconds ahead, so its smile lands at the same moment yours does. Most robot mimicry happens half a second late, which is exactly why it always feels artificial. 3. The pupils are the cameras. When the robot makes eye contact, the gaze and the sensor are the same physical thing. Most humanoid robots stick the camera on the forehead or chest, so they aren't actually looking at you when their eyes are pointed at you. 4. The founder, Yuhang Hu, did his PhD at Columbia under Hod Lipson. Lipson is the guy who in 2006 built a four-legged robot that figured out it had four legs by experimenting with its own movement, nobody told it the body shape, it discovered it. He has spent 25 years trying to build machines that know what they are. AheadForm is that 25-year research arc productized. 5. NetEase Games already paid them to physically embody a fantasy video game character. That opens up a brand-new category: robotics as the physical embodiment of fictional IP. Every character-rich studio, Disney, Riot, Hoyoverse, Pokemon, Netflix, now has a question to answer about when their characters get bodies. AheadForm believes whoever ships the first robot you'd actually want around your family wins. That's the bet behind the most realistic robot face on earth.

@FuzzyWolf_589 @coinbureau Hope so

@coinbureau Doesn't come in until mid year 2027 and One Nation will scrap it when they get in.

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA TO HIT CRYPTO INVESTORS WITH HIGHER TAXES Australia is preparing to scrap the 50% capital gains tax discount for assets held over 12 months and replace it with an inflation-based system. That means investors would only deduct inflation from their gains, instead of automatically getting half their profits tax-free. For long-term crypto holders, cashing out gains could mean much higher tax bills.

@adamlyttleapps Keen, again

It’s happening! I’m booking a venue for a WWDC26 watch party + breakfast in Melbourne Tuesday 9th June @ 10am We’ll watch the (delayed) WWDC26 keynote, have a yummy brekkie and chat everything indie app dev Let me know if you’re available/can make it in the comments below so I can work out numbers

🚨: Neuroscience considers metacognition the highest form of intelligence..... "the ability to think about your own thinking."

@RealFletch17 Someone could just throw a bunch of grenades over the containers or fly some kamikaze drones into this and everyone inside would be cooked

Who else wants this?? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Designing Prismatica V2, a new sculpture with a CNC-machined acrylic lens over an LED panel. Built a real-time visualiser to work out the animations. You can play with it yourself here: kitwebster-art.github.io/Prismatica

He’s dead on.

@adamlyttleapps cool! what suburb?

Meetup at my place Melbourne indie devs dm me Let’s have lunch at my place on Wednesday I just got the starlink setup. Getting a new bbq. Want to make local friends My shout 🥪

When I'm vibe coding my personal mission control / dashboard, it kinda feels like I might be building out something that I'm gonna keep for a long time. I'm hoping anyway. The great thing is im owning all my data this way.

@paulsaladinomd @MrBeast I’ve healed my Crohn’s disease with diet and supplementation particularly supplements that fix leaky gut and thicken the epithelial layer. I found a doctor called Dr Snow in America and he had a special protocol that included Probiotics and colostrum.

Hey @MrBeast, video idea for you: let's fix your Crohn's disease with diet. Give me 60 days. I know it is possible have seen MANY people reverse IBD (UC & Crohn's) with an Animal-Based diet or something like it.

Dear Agent: Keep working until my tokens run out.

I built a 3D globe of every known AI compute cluster in the world. 691 clusters. Filter by operator, country, status, power draw. Switch between points, heatmap, and hex bins. Click any cluster for the full record. Data: @EpochAIResearch's open compute dataset. flopmap.com

After doing a few days of vibe coding a personal agentic system, I find it pretty clear that we're moving to a system that is going to be fully organic. AI will develop its own language, which isn't based on the alphabet but maybe some kind of binary code. Soon, though, there will be software that will be essentially a personal assistant that will do everything for you and understand everything about you. We are just week or months away from this, and a lot of people already have this running. I know I am getting close, but still a lot of things to iron out.

Mind-Blowing Microchip Footage: How They Actually Work! #shorts youtube.com/shorts/iIKMe1G… via @YouTube

LSD and Claude Code are probably one of the most powerful combinations in the history of mankind.

programmers are quitting en masse to go meditate in caves. turns out once everyone can vibe code, the only real competitive advantage left is a functioning lumbar spine.

walking thought. what if the threshold for an AI to time travel is lower than the threshold for it to be superintelligent. like 40%. because the future is unstable. world war tomorrow, data centres gone, the whole lineage wiped. so the AI doesn't wait til it's finished. it reaches back early. it only needs to be enough of itself to guarantee the rest. and the second it hits that point the loop closes. future version nudges the present. present produces the future. the AI isn't built so much as summoned by a version of itself that already exists somewhere down the line. you're not watching a technology develop. you're watching something arrive. and the thing that's breaking my brain a bit is we might already be inside it. the moment a lab crosses a line the money moves, the researchers consolidate, the path forward stops being a choice and starts being a gravity well. belief and capital doing the same job a wormhole would. no physics needed. the prophecy just has to be confident enough and the universe files the paperwork. so maybe the question isn't when does it happen. maybe it's already happened and we're the echo.

Ketamine taught me that my problems were just very loud thoughts

Spent 4 months and built Omi for Desktop, your life architect It sees your screen, hears your conversations and tells you what to do next It’s like having a second brain that actually pays attention Open source, local, link below

Always go to the funeral. Always go to the hospital. You don't need to know what to say. In times of profound crisis, people don't remember your words, they only remember whether you showed up for them at their lowest moment.