Steven Groves

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@DisneyDLV Love to get one of the skins!

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@DisneyDLV Can we get one of the skins later?

Crackpots eh?

Freaking EPIC trolling by @jaketapper on McConnell and Johnsons clutching their pearls re; the 'fascist' label being pushed on their boy #Trump. Real, non-AI clips slap them right in the kisser... #Epic #TrumpIsAFascist #voted youtu.be/1PIvlN2uStY

@Scobleizer Balancing act - just upgraded to the newer Samsung tablet, watch, fold7, and a ring (on the way). They want a good deal more info & access in this iteration. Excited (with you) to see how it benefits acts and works for me...

It is dystopian to have an always-listening device. On the other side of the coin you will see it brings a lot of joy into your life.

@mcuban @realDonaldTrump Unbelievable... feel much better re; the future of America

@Scobleizer We still like you though Robert... XOX

I am grieving the death of like. You? 17 years here.

@Scobleizer Yeah - still have THAT image burning into my brain...

"This time Scoble no wearing it in the shower."

@Scobleizer Manifesto me thinks... tracking There is just so much to explore - what fun!

I'm in a judgy mood. So here's some things I'm gonna do with my AI Personal Assistants since that is what OpenAI and Google are trying to bring to us. 1. Does it do the basics? Like when you ask Siri to take you back to your car, it doesn't work, but if you ask it to take you back to your parked car, it does. If you ask it 1,000 questions how many does it answer accurately? In my perfect world it would have no mistakes. 2. Is it true multi-modal? Most of the demos we've seen are just with camera and microphone. What about the barometer inside your phone? Or the IMU motion sensors? Or the heart rate sensor inside your watch? 3. Is it true multi model? Can you ask it to ask it to ask your question, like "please write me a college-level essay on the formation of the United States but please ask Google Gemini, Meta Llama, OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, and please tell me where these differ?" 4. Is it a full citizen of the hardware ecosystem you already own? Can you talk to Apple Music, for instance, and ask it to play your Hip-Hop playlist on any speaker or headphone? Can you control all your devices? How deeply? 5. Can it code? With a big context window (Google just announced two million token window). Like drop your whole code folder into Siri and ask it to add features, debug, etc. 6. Does it remember? Can it look through your old photos and learn things about you, including figuring out your favorite restaurant and what you usually eat there. My wife takes pictures of all her food, for instance. Can it have a conversation with you about that "hey, looks like you like pepperoni pizza, do you like any other pizza?" 7. Can you run it long term? Like leave your phone on a counter during a fun discussion with my family, half of which speak Farsi. Without killing your phone fast? 8. How does it treat your private data? Like if you start talking to it about your mental illnesses, where does that all go? To some server? Do you have control of the fact that it figured out your mental illnesses? (ChatGPT is used by my psychiatrist already to listen to our therapy sessions and it picks up everything, so AIs can pick up lots of weird things you might not want others, or, computers, to accidentally reveal. 9. Can it talk to you about real-time news? Like if a neighbor's house catches on fire, something that happened last week in my neighborhood, how soon can we talk to Siri about it? Can we share pictures/video with others to enhance the news? 10. Can you control AI agents that will do research for you, or build a workflow for you? "Hey Assistant, can you send an agent over to the stock market and look for companies that have a P/E ratio of less than $20?" 11. Can you get one to start up a committee easily to discuss something. "Can you build me a committee that would be good to discuss where to eat in Las Vegas?" (It should give you a committee of food critics, chefs, and restaurant owners). 12. Do you have prompt control of how it appears. "Can you switch your form to Spongebob?" 13. Can I share my voice with your assistant so that it can read my emails to you in my own voice? 14. Can you control every application you already use, whether it's from Autodesk, Adobe, X, or, really any company? Can it instantly get smart about any new thing, like can it figure out how to export a 3D model from Autodesk and incorporate that in the right spot in a spreadsheet or slidedeck you are building? 15. If you have a Spatial Computer can you have it take on a real form (like does it look like a real human being walking around, or a real Coke Can that's talking to you on the counter)? Can you pick it up, or, if human form, high five it, while talking to it? Can it teach you to line dance? 16. If you have a Spatial Computer can it show you how to do something, like fix your washing machine that has a clogged pump, on top of the machine itself? 17. Is it really smart about your context? Like are you in a grocery store looking for some cold medicine? "It looks like you are in a grocery store looking for medicine because you are sick, can I help?" Which should give very different answers than if you are in a classroom learning to make aspirin. This goes beyond just looking at GPS, but looking at other signals about what you might be doing. 18. Does it understand my son and his classmates, some of which have a rough time speaking. My son is hard to understand by humans, for instance, so computers are frustrating for him to speak to. Yes, he can type, but we can train computers to understand people who have speech impediments or accents much better. 19. Can it make calls, get restaurant or hotel reservations, or listen on hold until some human picks up and then talks with them and only gets you involved if there's something you need to decide on? 20. Can it do searches for videos that have to do with your context (where you are, and what are you trying to do). If you are standing at Yosemite National Park on Glacier Point, which looks down at the valley, will you find the video I did with Ansel Adams' son there and let you know about it as something that might enhance your visit? Can you see a park ranger who left a class about what you are seeing there? Or are you gonna get all sorts of regular videos there of people's vacations which aren't nearly as interesting? 21. Can it help you do all tasks in the kitchen, including automatic shopping? "Hey, I noticed you are running low on milk, we'll add that to your next Amazon grocery run." 22. Can it start with a list you make, like a music playlist, or a list here on X, and expand it. "Nice classical list that has only Dolby Atmos music on it, here are 10 more tracks that fit into this list." 23. Can I really talk to it about medical and mental health concerns, even ones that will get me to go see a doctor? Can I buy sensors to expand this? 24. Does it really help me at work? Working with legal docs, finding collaborators, building not just marketing plans, but entire projects. 25. Can it keep track of tasks, particularly on a project. Like if you are planning a vacation for your family you will need to do things like make sure your passports are up to date, buy flights, buy hotels, get rental car, etc. As you do each does it keep track and does it know when you actually want to work on these tasks. "There are still some things to plan for your vacation, when would you like to work on those?" 26. Is there any AI Safety stuff (AKA "woke AI") that keeps me from doing what I want to do? 27. How well does it work in noisy environments, like when I go to a music festival and am standing next to the subwoofers, can I still talk with my assistant? 38. How well does it work in conditions where there isn't any connectivity? For instance, in Sidges, Spain, my wife and I were in a restaurant that was underground and we couldn't use our phones to do translations of the menus to English. 29. How is its personality? Can you interrupt it? Is it fun to have a "relationship" with? 30. What can it do automatically that computers couldn't do last year. Like does it recognize that I'm aiming at a beautiful sunset and does it automatically capture a photo? How will you judge your personal AIs?

“Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.” Jay Baer, Convince & Convert

Enter The Sandman

@edeckers I've played one on TV... well, 1 book ...and I'm in N. Florida

Do I know any playwrights? Do I especially know any playwrights in the Central Florida area?

@Scobleizer I have been following @docsearls and the #VRM convo. AI is the kind of tool that might make it possible to manage the details and monitor compliance.

The private LLMs are coming. Why? Did you not pay attention to how much LLMs can learn about you from my psychiatrist visit on Friday? Now, you want to give your company's intellectual property up to some cloud? No you don't. Private LLMs are the answer.

@AzureSupport ah = found it, submitted it. No case/issue # to ref yet

@stevengroves In this case we would recommend filing a free subscription support request through your Azure portal, that will get you in touch with engineers that have the proper tooling to investigate this issue further. ^NS

@AzureSupport - needing support; have user accounts unable to use Phone Link, I think due to Azure AD tenant issue. I no longer use Azure.

@AzureSupport In the Azure portal; where is the free option? should I reference this tweet/post?

@AzureSupport As of today, I am unable to run Phone Link. Says something about Org Admin, but there is not Org admin; this was a trial we did not pursue years ago. Using the same email for personal have not been able to change aliases

@stevengroves Hello, thanks for reaching out. Could you DM us providing your subscription ID and screenshots of any errors that are being seen? We would like to look into this further to assist. ^NS

@elonmusk Early on the list for the Cybertruck, excited! Planning on how to use it with my 40' motorcoach - would like to tow 4-wheels down/regen or have it autonomously follow a target. Can put on a trailer and tow it too. Not heard which is it going to be...

Spaces interview with @davidfaber starting now