Matthew S. Smith
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Portland, OR, United States
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Quantum Dots Are the Key for Creating Red MicroLEDs
The development could be key to enable thinner, lighter AR glasses → Read More
The Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That
“Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other models → Read More
Holy Wow, Apple’s Vision Pro Is Full of Pixels
Cupertino’s pace-setter AR/VR display leaves the metaverse in the metadust → Read More
The Case for Running AI on CPUs Isn't Dead Yet
GPUs may dominate, but CPUs could be perfect for smaller AI models → Read More
The Oh-So-Aromatic History of the Smell-O-Vision
VR olfactory generators are just the latest scent across 150 years of aromatic tech history → Read More
Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train it Yourself
On 11 March 2023, Samsung’s Device Solutions division permitted employee use of ChatGPT. Problems ensued. A report in The Economist Korea, published less than three weeks later identified three cases of “data leakage.” Two engineers used ChatGPT to troubleshoot confidential code and an executive used it for a transcript of a meeting. Samsung changed course, banning employee use, not of just… → Read More
Open Source Eyeware Is AR Without Walls
Brilliant Labs leans into generative AI with tiny, affordable lens → Read More
MEMS Micro-Speakers Blast Sounds from the Fab
For pure audio in a small package, silicon’s wowing audiophiles → Read More
Hey, Siri! You Worried ChatGPT Will Take Your Job?
The rapid rise of GPTs distresses natural language processing researchers → Read More
Google and Microsoft Race to Unveil AI-Based Search
But both Bard and Bing Chat stumble out of the gate → Read More
Deepfakes Are Becoming a Cottage Industry
Dozens of startups now offer services based on deepfake technology. The largest of these, London-based Synthesia.ai, raised $50 million in 2021 and employs over 100. And this is likely just the start of the trend. → Read More
The best AI at CES 2023
The best AI demos at CES 2023 target a specific use. Yet this isn’t a detriment to AI’s potential: on the contrary, it’s precisely what makes AI so alluring this year. The field is mature enough to move beyond demos and offer tangible improvements to countless consumer devices, apps, and services. → Read More
New AI Speeds Computer Graphics by Up to 5x
On 20 September, Nvidia’s Vice President of Applied Deep Learning, Bryan Cantanzaro, went to Twitter with a bold claim: In certain GPU-heavy games, seven out of eight pixels on the screen are generated by a new machine-learning algorithm. That would accelerate rendering by up to 530 percent. → Read More
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X13s laptop ditches Intel to improve portability, but at the cost of almost everything else
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X13s is for a niche group of people who don’t need a lot of performance from their laptops. → Read More
AI-Generated Fashion Is Next Wave of DIY Design
CALA reimagines DALL E as a clothing designer’s ultimate smart sketchpad → Read More
Dell’s new, less expensive XPS 13 laptop is still a star
The XPS 13 delivers a premium Windows laptop experience at a mid-range price point. → Read More
Digital resurrection Brings Star Trek Back to the Future
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story famously used such effects to replicate the late Peter Cushing’s performance as Grand Moff Tarkin. Now, the Roddenberry Archive is using similar effects to give audiences a like-new performance of Leonard Nimoy as Spock—if only inside the virtual world of a video game. → Read More
5 AI Art Generators You Can Use Right Now
2022 could go down in history as the year AI art went mainstream. → Read More
Meet the open source PC that fits in your pocket
Open source computing is coming to your pocket. MNT Research is going small for its next project. The MNT Pocket Reform has a seven-inch screen with a clamshell design that, when closed, will be less than five centimeters thick. → Read More
Why Is Meta’s Metaverse Such a Misfire?
“Facebook is out of touch with game-style software development practices and expectations on art direction and character/avatar development,” says Rafael Brown, CEO of Symbol Zero. “Keep in mind their other internal projects like Quill, that they’ve jettisoned and lost [staff over].” → Read More