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screen capture of a presentation agenda with a photo of a painting of a mountain Published 23 March 2025 e506 with Andy and Michael M – stories and discussion on the attention economy, focus, pirated data used in training LLMs, snarky software and much more. Andy and Michael M get things rolling with an intriguing article dealing with focus and attention. Part of their reaction was that there are so many competing sources for attention. And that the pressure to respond with speed to these competing sources compounds the challenge. The conversation reminded Michael of a memo that Steve Jobs wrote to his team at NeXT 39 years ago imploring them to have time of uninterrupted individual work. Check that out in the show notes below. Michael and Andy give a couple examples of what they suggest to bring balance and creativity back to the fore. Continuing on to the advances made with large language models, Andy and Michael take up the discussion on the data needed to train the LLMs. The Atlantic article on the use of pirated books to train AI also includes LibGen, their search tool The Atlantic created for their analysis of the Library Genesis data set. This subject has cropped up in earlier episodes – such as the discussion on the Sarah Silverman example. Next, the team turns to an AI coding assistant named Cursor. After a developer had spent an hour of vibe coding with Cursor, the AI reportedly gave feedback to the developer that he should complete the work himself to ensure he understands the logic and can maintain the code. Computer applications with snark are nothing new – take Carrot Weather or the Talking Moose for example. Cursor’s reply echos practically every geometry teacher who insists that going through the mathematical proof is crucial to understanding why A^2 + B^2 = C^2 is true. Not necessarily a bad idea, yet surprisingly comes from an AI assistant. After a surprising article about speed runner successes on aging and accelerating Super Nintendo hardware, Andy and Michael reflect on games embedded inside of other games from a How to Geek article. This appeals greatly to Andy’s love of game preservation, and strikes Michael’s fancy for how art echos through the years, sharing a prior incarnation of this topic with paintings having paintings in them. Then, a story about the LEGO x Pokémon teaser. The team wraps up this episode with a couple of stories about the challenges indy software developers face. What suggestions and techniques do you have for recapturing your time and attention? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links Attention Economy Wikipedia article: Daylight Savings Time ploum.net blog post: A Society That Lost Focus Games at Work e67: Free Bitcoins! for the attention economy Wikipedia article: Battle Chess Edward Tufte AI The Atlantic article: The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem The Atlantic article: Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Games at Work e443: In the Stone for the Sarah Silverman discussion Wired article: An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself Cursor Games 404 Media article: Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages How to Geek article: These 15 Games Have Other Games Hidden Inside Them Daily Art Magazine article: Paintings Within Paintings: Time to Go Meta in the Art World The Verge article: This watch has Pong and Missile Command instead of apps Ars Technica article: Sobering revenue stats of 70K mobile apps show why devs beg for subscriptions Gamesradar article: “Valve knows it, I know it, and you need to know it”: Steam expert tells indie devs to “give away” demos, because actually playing a game beats all other marketing LEGO Oh hello, what do we have here? 👀 # pokemon # lego # leak https:// retrododo.com/pokemon-lego-set -reportedly-leaked-by-lego-mexico/ — Daniel (@puresick@social.hnnng.space) 2025-03-18T14:16:13.486Z Retrododo article: Pokémon LEGO Set Reportedly Leaked By LEGO Mexico Lego Germany Pokémon Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Photo by Max Böhme on Unsplash Published 17 March 2025 e505 with Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on AI technical & security challenges, a Metallica augmented concert, Dungeons & Dragons and much more. Michael and Michael get things started off while Andy is away with a discussion on the security challenges and technical complexity for AI implementations for Siri and in upscaling video. They then turn to another set of AI game generation and playing experiences using Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros. There have been many such stories in the past years where the level of AI sophistication has been tested by either developing game code or leveraging machine learning to play a game. Moving into the augmented experience world, Michael R gives his firsthand impressions of the new Apple Vision Pro Metallica immersive concert. He was very impressed – listen into the episode for the specific vignettes that were most intriguing to him. This spurred a conversation between Michael and Michael about ways to potentially interact with such immersive experiences in the style that the 1983 game Dragon’s Lair used to highlight choices for the player. Take a look at the YouTube video below for this game mechanic. In another story, Lowe’s Home Improvement is using the Apple Vision Pro to help you visualize your kitchen design. This also reminds the co-hosts of similar experiences from Ikea. The team then heads over to the Pokemon Go Gym to exercise the story the recent sale by Niantic of the game (and the game’s data) to Scopely. Michael and Michael imagine how in-game rewards could generate immensely valuable (near) real time location data collection. Last, the team wraps up with a couple of Dungeons and Dragons stories – one on the tabletop augmented experience and another on a colossal D20. How would you like to experience a concert or sporting event from the comfort of your living room? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI 9 to 5 Mac article: Apple commenter John Gruber launches blistering attack on ‘rotten’ Apple over Siri vaporware Vice article: Netflix Used AI to Upscale ‘A Different World’ and It’s a Melted Nightmare The Guardian article: ‘A lot worse than expected’: AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed Pac-Man history Games at Work e504: Can you Digg It? for fly.pieter.com Boy Genius Report article: Claude-3.7 outperforms other AI in Super Mario Bros, but it’s still no gamer Super Mario Bros history Games at Work e225: Ah-ha, it’s AI! for AI playing Q*Bert AR MacStories article: Metallica Is Coming to the Apple Vision Pro Wikipedia article: Dragon’s Lair 9 to 5 Mac article: Apple Vision Pro demos expanding to new Lowe’s stores Games at Work e336: Pancaking Robots for Pancake “furniture as a service” and Ikea Apple App Store: Magic Room: LiDAR Environment AR / VR Games TechCrunch article: Pokémon GO maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B 404 Media article: Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data Games at Work e503: Death Watch for Scaniverse Polygon article: After years in development, D&D’s Unreal-powered virtual tabletop still feels off Hello Mastodon! I'm a power engineer who is trying out solo game development and on the way to release Power Network Tycoon – a game where you build and manage your own electrical grid with real physics simulation. If you've ever wondered how power systems actually work (or why they fail), this might be your jam. I built it to be technically accurate while still being fun. To say it's been a challenge is an understatement https:// store.steampowered.com/app/242 9930/Power_Network_Tycoon/ # GameDev # IndieGame # Simulation # Gaming # Energy — David Made This (@DavidMadeThis@mastodon.social) 2025-03-10T17:11:40.896Z Tindie post: Massive Light Up D20 Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash Published 10 March 2025 e504 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on #vibecoding #AI, #biocomputing, #philosophy, #Digg, #MWC25, #LaserRot and much more. Michael, Andy and Michael get things started off with a 404 Media story about creating software with AI, specifically focusing on Pieter Levels’ “vibe coding” methodology. Levels created a flight simulator game using AI and per the article, this free to play game is bringing in a very healthy income from in-game advertising and purchases. Next up, is a story about a company called Cortical Labs who offer the CL1, which they describe as “the world’s first code deployable biological computer”. Amazingly, Cortical Labs also offer a biological cloud service. This reminds Michael R of his experiences in the biocomputing space, and Michael M of the Swiss startup FinalSpark. Then the team turns to the discussion of whether a large language model can produce philosophical and ethical output sparked by an article entitled “The questions that ChatGPT shouldn’t answer”. An article on a new version of Monopoly which features a mobile app to handle the banking tasks gets the three co-hosts energized. After the Monopoly discussion, the team turns to the reboot of Digg – something that inspired the creation of Dogear Nation , the precursor to the Games At Work podcast. Wrapping up this episode is a discussion of exoskeletons, a quick fly over of some of the technology introduced at Mobile World Congress 2025, and a conversation on Warner Brothers DVDs with laser rot showing that even if you have physical media, it is not immune to degradation. What you would like to “vibe code”? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI 404 Media article: This Game Created by AI ‘Vibe Coding’ Makes $50,000 a Month. Yours Probably Won’t fly.Pieter.com Wikipedia entry: Vibe coding slither.io Solterra Guardians MIT’s Scratch This is… uhh… deeply disturbing, tbh. https:// newatlas.com/brain/cortical-bi oengineered-intelligence/ More: https:// corticallabs.com/cl1.html — Sean Heber (@bigzaphod@mastodon.social) 2025-03-04T17:01:25.421Z New Atlas article: World’s first “Synthetic Biological Intelligence” runs on living human cells Cortical Labs ’ CL1 Games at Work e470: Two Marvelous Mini Brains for biocomputing Science Alert article: Swiss Startup Connects 16 Human Mini-Brains to Create Low Energy ‘Biocomputer’ FinalSpark Neuroplatform The Verge article: The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer IMdB: The Good Place Simon & Schuster book: How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur Monopoly The Verge article: A new version of Monopoly replaces cash and math with a mobile app Wikipedia article: Lizzie Magie The Guardian article: The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins Games at Work e195: Augmented Audio for Monopoly City Streets and Digg Reader ABC News article: Monopoly City Streets Launches on Google (2009) Can You Digg It? Yes, I can! The Verge article: Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s Digg TechCrunch article: Alas, Digg Reader is shutting down at the end of March (2018) Mobility Tech and DVD Laser Rot The Verge article: I wore a one-horsepower exoskeleton to the world’s biggest tech show Games at Work e241: Smarty Pants for exoskeletons and smart shorts MIT Technology Review article: These bionic shorts help turn an epic hike into a leisurely stroll (2019) Wired article: The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025 Mobile World Congress catchpad.com Wikipedia article: Simon JoBlo article: Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don’t work anymore; updated with response from WB Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash Published 3 March 2025 e503 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on the #DeadInternet, #AI, #recipes, #crowdsourcing #VR, #VirtualWorldsMuseum, #watches such as the #Pixel3, #CasioRingWatch and much more. Andy, Michael and Michael get things started off with a couple of detailed articles on the state of AI. They focus first on a post outlining on how historical records could be changed, using the example of PhysicsForums where backdated posts have appeared. This leads to a conversation on human creativity and community, with examples from music and film. A Techdirt article continues on this theme, featuring the technique dubbed SNARF, an acronym for “stakes, novelty, anger, retention and fear” used in the attention economy. After these deep discussions, the team turns to Ed Ross’ AI created game called “Solterra Guardians” as a practical example of what can be done with AI at speed, which harkens back to episode 458 detailing an example of an AI that creates a full fledged websites from a prompt. In the AR and VR space, Andy, Michael and Michael touch on Niantic’s Into the Scaniverse app for the Meta Quest 3 and 3S VR headsets. Content for this can be created by people with the Scaniverse app to record their experiences. Curation and recording of the multitude of metaverse experiences is the goal of the Virtual Worlds Museum – a kickstarter aiming to reach it’s funding goal in March 2025. This reminds the team of the OpenSimulator project for flexibility for navigation and portability between virtual worlds. Wrapping things up for this episode, the co-hosts consider a pair of timekeeping devices. The Pixel Watch 3 has a has a feature called “Loss of Pulse Detection”, which can reach out to emergency services on behalf of the wearer. The Casio Ring Watch is exactly what it sounds like, a Casio watch that is shrunk down to a ring form factor. Would you want to wear a Casio Databank Ring Watch ? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI Hall of Dreams post: PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory Wikipedia article: Dead Internet Theory Everyone is wasting all this money betting huge amounts on “AI” (aka large statistics models, really clever parrots) when they should be investing in the human communities around their product, which are the source of… everything. 🧠 — Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror@infosec.exchange) 2025-02-26T00:50:01.637Z Open Terms Archive Internet Archives Blog: Learning from Cyberattacks NBC News article: 1,000 musicians release a silent album in protest of U.K.’s proposed AI copyright law changes IMDb: Wag the Dog plot summary Techdirt article: Buzzfeed CEO Aims To Solve AI Slop Problem With More AI Slop Wikipedia article: Snarf (from Thundercats) @ gamesatwork_biz Here's a game I made with AI (specifically ChatGPT) over the last few weeks https:// edaross.codeberg.page/ (it'll work on mobile if you have a keyboard connected, otherwise a standard computer is needed). — Ed Ross (@edross@mas.to) 2025-02-25T08:19:13.336Z Solterra Guardians Games at Work e458: Generative Podcast for AI software engineering to code websites by itself Cooking with Apple News The Verge article: Apple’s News app is getting a recipes section AR / VR Niantic Labs post: Explore the World Up Close in Vivid 3D – Step Into the Scaniverse on Meta Quest Kickstarter: Virtual Worlds Museum OpenSimulator project Which Watch is Which? Ars Technica article: Pixel Watch 3 gets FDA approval to alert you if you’re dying The Verge article: The Casio Ring Watch is extremely silly, and that’s why I love it Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Photo by Michael Martine, Chapel Hill, NC July 2023 Published 24 February 2025 e502 with Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on AI for career recommendations, game generation, enabled devices such as the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 and Agents, as well as Kindle eBook DRM while Andy is in transit to RubyJam. Michael and Michael get things started off with a story about Google’s Career Dreamer AI enabled tool to help people explore career possibilities, discover strengths and develop skills. Turning next to AI Agents, Michael and Michael take a look at the Rabbit Agent and the functionality the software provides. The team then focuses on the news about HP acquiring Humane, and especially on the AI Pin servers shutting down at the end of the month, putting a severe crimp in the functionality of the hardware devices. This also signals that HP sees significant value in the Humane software, and reminds the co-hosts of earlier episodes dealing with technology companies shutting down services for hardware, such as the Jibo robot. Next up is a discussion on the latest eBook DRM situation with books on the Amazon Kindle, and what people can do right now other than back up books before February 26. Then the While Waiting game spurs a broader conversation on boredom and screen time before the next topic of AI to generate games spins up. Michael R wraps up this episode with a discussion on the Swift on Android working group, and language portability. Do you have another solution to purchasing (or licensing) books to share? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI PCMag article: Google ‘Career Dreamer’ Tool Uses AI to Help You Explore Career Options Google’s Career Dreamer Google AI for Developers Gemini API Additional Terms of Service Pandora Music Genome Project The Verge article: Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with Rabbit Tech: LAM playground The Verge article: Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP Humane News: HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work HP Newsroom press release: HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work Games at Work e464: AI Piano Man , touching on both the Rabbit R1 and the Humane’s AI Pin Games at Work e230: Dance this AR Around , touching on the shut down of Jibo Surreal. This # StarTrek com badge “toy” that uses Bluetooth and costs around just $80 has more functionality than the more expensive # Humane # AI pin will in a few days. — David Bisset (@davidbisset@phpc.social) 2025-02-20T13:21:18.755Z Books – eBooks and paper You can back up all your Kindle books using this script – https:// federatedfandom.net/@villainou sfriend/114009999021828439 A lot easier than manually downloading them all. After that, install the Calibre eBook Manager https:// calibre-ebook.com/ Install the noDRM plugin for Calibre https:// github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools Give the plugin your Kindle's serial number. Import your Kindle books into Calibre. Done. You now have a DRM-free copy of all your purchased eBooks. You can copy them to your eReader, convert to ePub, save on a backup disk, etc. — Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social) 2025-02-16T09:23:51.268Z Treetrum Github repo: amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader Michael Rowe’s Random Thoughts blog: 10 years of Podcasting Discover Durham: Books Do Furnish a Room Bookshelf app Tom’s Guide article: No Kindle? No problem: 5 places to buy DRM-free e-books Crowd Supply article: Ink Console Ink Console Wikipedia article: Chose Your Own Adventure books Wikipedia article: Infocom Games – for waiting and for generating The Verge article: While Waiting is a playful reminder of the joys of boredom While Waiting on Steam metro.co.uk article: Xbox is using AI to make games in a disturbing vision of next gen gaming The Verge article: Microsoft’s Xbox AI era starts with a model that can generate gameplay Software Development swift.org forums: Swift on Android Working Group Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Published 17 February 2025 e501 with Michael R and Andy – all about outsourcing intelligence to #AI, protecting your #data after #death, #AR #glasses, #Diablo & #Civ game ports, #backdoors and more! So many articles these days have a headline such as “what happens to your body when you ”. Michael R and Andy start off the episode exploring what happens when you outsource some, or too much, of your cognitive energy to an AI. Then, the team turns to a discussion on a hardware + software solution for protecting your data when you shuffle off the mortal coil and join the choir invisible. Check out the In Case of Death Case, replete with the pulse detecting In Case of Death Smart Ring and associated software. Next, some speculation on what the team in Cupertino is doing with glasses-based AR. Then, a story from the UK on the mandate to provide a backdoor for end-to-end encrypted data for Apple and other companies. On a lighter note, Michael and Andy discuss how to run Diablo 1 on a variety of hardware and software. And speaking of ports, Civilization VII will be made available on Meta’s Quest later this spring. The team then wraps things up with The Wheel of Time. What steps have you taken to protect your data? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” https://www. 404media.co/microsoft-study-fi nds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/ — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social) 2025-02-10T16:02:56.509Z 404 Media article: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” New Scientist article: Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills Boy Genius Report article: We just started using AI like ChatGPT, and it may already be making us dumber Microsoft Research article: The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers Apple Stories Macworld article: Any case can protect your iPad. This one protects you when you die Zugu’s The In Case of Death Case Games at Work e218: Virtually Married 9 to 5 Mac article: Report: Apple’s plan for standalone AR glasses ‘remains intact’ Six Colors article: UK Orders Apple to Implement Secret Global Backdoor for End-to-End Encryption Games at Work e416: Lawsuits and Swimsuits Entertainment PC Gamer article: The best way to play Diablo 1 on pretty much anything just got an update for a 20-year-old Apple OS that runs on a dead chipset, one lunatic somewhere presumably rejoices Diasurgical’s Github for DevilutiuonX The Verge article: Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this spring Ars Technica article: Wheel of Time S3 trailer tees us up for Last Battle Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Photo by Thiago Giardini on Pexels . Published 10 February 2025. Incredible scenes as the co-hosts celebrate the milestone 500th episode of your weekly technology podcast! … or, is it season 5, episode 00? The team kicks off by thinking back to some of their favourite episodes from the past: Michael M: e060, Bubbly Bubblers – https://gamesatwork.biz/2013/09/08/episode-60-bubbly-bubblers-in-gamified-buildings/ Michael R: e191, Return of the Piper – https://gamesatwork.biz/2018/01/15/episode-191-return-of-the-piper/ Andy: e292, Elite British gaming – https://gamesatwork.biz/2020/10/12/episode-292-elite-british-gaming/ After these reminiscences, the show gets down to reviewing the links from the past couple of weeks, across many of the usual topic headings: AI, Apple technology, Gaming and Making. There’s also a brief discussion of Andy’s recent visit to FOSDEM 2025. Let us know what you think of our musings – have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! Selected Links AI OpenAI’s Operator Agent https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/technology/openai-operator-agent.html Apple Apple’s ELEGNT robotics https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/elegnt-expressive-functional-movement https://www.theverge.com/news/607663/apple-smart-home-robot-research-video Downloading personalities http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=4482 AirTags and AirLines https://www.fastcompany.com/91267549/lost-luggage-apple-airtag-airline-share-item-location-united-delta Gaming Super Mario World in Unreal Engine https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/super-mario-world-got-remade-in-3d-using-unreal-engine-5-and-the-result-is-so-much-fun DOOM in.. a search bar https://www.pcgamesn.com/doom/google-search-bar a Lightning to HDMI adapter https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/02/04/doom-can-even-be-played-on-apples-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter Making / Makers uCritter https://www.ucritter.com/ FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2025/ Pigeon air patrol https://inhabitat.com/pigeons-with-backpacks-are-tweeting-about-londons-notorious-pollution/pigeon-air-patrol/ Hey, I did another thing!! Please check out "Harmony," the latest addition to swift-embedded-examples. Harmony is a Bluetooth speaker with a builtin ferrofluid music visualizer. Everything you need to build Harmony from scratch is either open sourced now, or will be available soon. This includes the embedded swift firmware, the bill of materials, electrical schematics, and the 3d models. https:// github.com/apple/swift-embedde d-examples/tree/main/harmony # EmbeddedSwift # Swift # SwiftLang # FOSDEM — rauhul (@rauhul@hachyderm.io) 2025-02-01T17:59:11.909Z Ignite OSS Swift based Site generator https://github.com/twostraws/Ignite Here’s to another 500 episodes! 🥳…
Photo by Matthew Jones on Unsplash Published 3 February 2025 E499 with Michael and Michael – all about #AI with #DeepSeek, #coldstart, #hallucinations, #BerlinWall, #AttentionEconomy, #IntentionEconomy and a whole lot more! Michael and Michael start the AI train off with a discussion about DeepSeek, which has been all over the news this past week. This leads into a conversation about generative AI’s propensity to hallucinate, and per the Schneier article, how AI mistakes are very different from human mistakes. Michael M gives an example of his recent experience using Ollama to run LLMs on his laptop, and the GenAI inaccurate description of some of the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, which in and of itself was precipitated by a human mistake. Next up is a discussion on methods used to trick AI scrapers that ignore the robots.txt file – and a callback to e451 where other data poisoning techniques were front and center. Remember Nightshade, anyone? Wrapping things up for the episode, Michael and Michael go deep on a discussion on the migration from the “attention economy” to the “intention economy”. Check out the discussion from 2013, e67 about the attention economy! Have we entered the “intention economy”? How can you protect your data from being harvested for the intention economy? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI Boy Genius Report: Here’s another reason not to use DeepSeek AI IEEE Spectrum article: What DeepSeek Means for Open-Source AI Its new open reasoning model cuts costs drastically on AI reasoning DeepSeek.com Schneier on Security article: AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes ollama.com TheWorld.org article: How a mistake at a press conference helped topple the Berlin Wall Ars Technica article: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Games at Work e451: Fahrenheit Fast Company article: Frustrated with today’s ‘attention economy’? You’re really going to hate what comes next Harvard Data Science Review: Beware the Intention Economy: Collection and Commodification of Intent via Large Language Models Games at Work e67: Free BitCoins! Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
covered wagon with a password entry box on the side adapted from Photo by James Lee on Unsplash Published 20 January 2025 e498 with Michael, Andy and Michael on #maps, #weather, #games, #gamification, #robots, #LanguageLocalization, #LEGO and a whole lot more! Michael, Andy and Michael start things off with a discussion about the weather, and this time, it’s related to mapping technology and the integration of way finding with weather. Using the example of CARROT weather, the team takes a look at how this app integrates the two. During the show notes writeup, another app, Weather on the Way, surfaces as an example for how weather forecasts along with the directions can be pulled together. This episode has a bonanza of games and gamification, with the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware announcement. Then, an (un)serious game like 1Crossword, which integrates with your password manager to create crossword puzzles to play and share on social media. Next, an RPG style command line interfaces enabling a rogue-like romp through your directory structure. Doom fans may rejoice at an example of the game played through a PDF. And there is an intriguing experience on the Oregon Trail where waiting down by the riverside for a long, long time will have surprising results. After taking a look at the 25 year celebration of the Sims and a LEGO example of Tetris, the cohosts evaluate the micro robot from Robeauté. Wrapping things up for the episode, Michael R shares the news that his Quick Localizer app has now hit the MacOS App Store Check out the link below for more details. How long would you wait by the river? What other tasks would you want a mini robot to do? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links Weather and Maps 9 to 5 Mac article: CARROT Weather adds new CarPlay app, plus upgraded Live Activities CARROT Weather: Alerts and Radar The Apple Geek post: Weather on the Way Weather on the Way Games and Gamification Nintendo Switch 2 I couldn't find any good games for my password manager. So I made one. 1Crossword connects to your 1Password vault and generates a crossword entirely out of your passwords! The crosswords are fun, simple, and great for sharing on social media when you finish. Enjoy! — nolen (@eieio@mastodon.gamedev.place) 2025-01-15T18:27:27.910Z eieio.games post: 1Crossword: Crosswords For Your Password Manager olano.dev blog post: Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game Github repo: facundoolano rpg-cli DoomPDF moral.net.au blog post: Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study EA Sim4 post: Behind The Sims 25th Birthday Special LEGO Ideas: Tetris Solid Mini Robots Fortune article: Exclusive: Startup pioneering tiny robots that can travel inside the brain gets $28 million in new venture funding Robeauté IMDB: Total Recall Language Localization Michael R’s New app on localization – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r3coT29Rl0 Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Apple Image Playground generated image: robot holding a sock, January 2025 Published 13 January 2025 e497 with Michael, Michael and Andy on #CES2025, #robots, #socks, #AI, #TalkingMoose, #ZaphodBeeblebrox, #LanguageLocalization, #LEGO and a whole lot more! Michael, Michael and Andy are back in full co-host force once again, covering the robotics-filled CES innovations hitting the feeds this week. The team starts things off this episode discussing a TechCrunch article covering Nvidia’s R2X avatar. The user experience for this avatar is through the computer desktop with a humanlike embodiment to provide assistance to users, seeing what they see on the desktop, or ingesting documents. This reminds Michael R of the Reallusion Crazytalk capability (discussed way back in e35 in 2013), Andy of Microsoft’s Clippy, and Michael M of the Talking Moose. The R2X puts “a face on agentic AI” according to Nvidia’s press release, and it is easy to imagine how Clippy, the Talking Moose or other embodiments might be a similar face. Moving from virtual to physical, it is clear that CES2025 is chock full of robots, for all manner of purposes. The uncanny valley resurfaces with the Realbotix humanoid robot Melody. The facial and body movements of the robot resemble human natural movement, but are still far enough away to create the emotional discrepancy described by the uncanny valley. In addition, Andy makes the point that the reported open source nature of the robot and its code does not appear to be substantiated. Moving along from the humanoid form factor to other robots, there are many robot examples whose purpose is to vacuum, mop, deliver drinks or even pick up socks. Check out the show notes below for some of the CES robots, from those that attach to purses, to those that cool your tea. Michael R shares a project he’s been working on dealing with language localization – check out the link below for more details. Wrapping things up for the episode, the co-hosts turn to a couple LEGO innovations: the latest in the Nintendo-LEGO partnership, and an intriguing Hackaday omni-directional treadmill. What tasks would you want a robot to do for you? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI TechCrunch article: Nvidia’s AI avatar sat on my computer screen and weirded me out Nvidia press release 6 Jan 2025: NVIDIA Launches AI Foundation Models for RTX AI PCs Reallusion’s Crazytalk Games at Work e35: Pirates of Pizzazz Wikipedia article: Office Assistant (Microsoft Clippy) Wikipedia article: Talking Moose Uli’s Moose Robots, Robots, Everywhere Interesting Engineering article: Melody: New humanoid robot companion that packs into a suitcase unveiled Realbotix Wikipedia entry: Uncanny Valley The Hitchhiker’s Wiki article: Zaphod Beeblebrox 9 to 5 Mac article: These are the silliest robot cleaners at CES – including one that carries drinks TechRadar article: This furry clip-on robot is the strangest thing I’ve seen at this or any CES TechRadar article: Roborock’s new robovac has a mechanical arm that can pick up your socks and maybe also play with your cat Roborock The Verge article: SwitchBot is bringing a Rosie the Robot wannabe to CES CES article: Stop Scalding Your Tongue: This $25 Cat Robot ‘Blows’ on Your Drink to Cool It Yukai Engineering: Yukai Engineering to Debut ‘Nékojita FuFu,’Attachable Mini-Robot That Cools Hot Drinks/Food, at CES Unveiled Leveraging Language Localization Michael Rowe’s Random Thoughts blog post: Coming Soon – Quick Localizer LEGO Brickfanatics article: LEGO Nintendo Game Boy officially announced for 2025 Hackaday article: Gaze Upon This Omni-directional Treadmill’s Clever LEGO Construction Games at Work e412: 3D or not 3D – Virtuix Omni treadmill Games at Work e451: Fahrenheit – Disney Holotile treadmill Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine…
Andy and Michael discuss the FOSDEM 2025 conference and the open-sourcing of the Moxie toy server. They also explore the use of Clams for water monitoring, Minecraft worlds generated from Open Street Map data, and VR glasses for mice.
e495 with Michael and Michael on personal #planetariums, digital #doppelgängers, #agentic #AI acceleration, and a whole lot more!
e493 with Michael, Michael and Andy on #digital #storage for a century, #AI #datasets, videos & new #Oreo flavors, #hacking digital license plates and #robots, and a whole lot more!
e493 with Andy, Michael & Michael — all things #VR, from #AndroidXR & Project #Moohan to #GorillaTag to the #NFL #Funday crossovers with the #Simpsons and a whole lot more!
e492 with Michael & Michael — #holiday desktop #decorations, #AR, #ImmersiveVideo in sports, user experience and interaction and a whole lot more!
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