Five Things Tech: Cookies, Web3, Apple, AI, Randomness
Lots of Tech stuff for a long Easter Weekend!
This week was full of interesting new developments, again, and mostly in AI. It’s amazing to watch how fast things evolve. At the same time, there is so much more happening, where AI will play a role. When we look beyond chatbots and image generation, we can see many problems that can be tackled with AI, ranging from health and fitness to greentech.
Speaking of which, my company NMA has been tasked with getting greentech startups to come to Hamburg and establish a presence here. If you run a greentech startup, apply now! If not, tell your friends who do!
I might be a bit biased, but Hamburg is really a great place to grow your startup. It’s also a great place to live.
Inside Google's Plan to Kill the Cookie
I don’t really care that much about the cookie and all the privacy concerns attached to it. I’m more annoyed that the EU passed stupid regulation that requires each and every website to display a stupid cookie banner. Actually, I do care about privacy, but those cookie alerts really annoy me. Anyhow, it will be interesting to see what Google comes up with and yes, I’d be concerned if I were a privacy advocate. (Gizmodo)
Maybe Web3 isn’t as dead as it would seem, as agencies play with new data-generating models
We’re all riding the hype cycle whether we want it or not. While the metaverse is pretty empty and the cryptopeople are still trying to build complex things to solve easy tasks, some big brands are trying to get NFT into the mainstream. (DigiDay)
Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple
Apple is not just the biggest company out there, it’s also the one company I always was drawn to. One of my uncles had an Apple II and I remember playing Choplifter on it in the early 80s. My other uncle had a Mac SE and wow, that was an amazing device. I was hooked. When I went to university, I bought a Mac and then had no money left. Anyhow, Tim Cook seems to be the only adult in Big Tech and I like how he stays calm amid all that noise. (GQ)
Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI
I remember when everybody thought social media and the remix culture would be a total nightmare for copyright holders. It turns out that this was just the foreplay, AI will be an amazing shitshow to watch. Hopefully Chat-GPT can assist the legal scholars trying to make sense of this. (Ars Technica)
How Randomness Improves Algorithms
And now some math, explained in a way even I could understand most of it. Interesting stuff. Really. Says the guy telling his kids that he cannot help with the school work because the topic the kids are dealing with had been invented after I left school… (Quanta)
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