For the past few months, my side project has been building an interactive AI designed for group chats. I’m interested in figuring out how the AI/UX for this use case should behave, and exploring how the nature of a group chat evolves as people grow accustomed to hanging out with an AI. Since February I’ve … Continue reading Building a Better AI for Group Chats: Part 3→| Skynet & Ebert
For the past few months, my side project has been building an interactive AI designed for group chats. I’m interested in figuring out how the AI/UX for this use case should behave, and exploring how the nature of a group chat evolves as people grow accustomed to hanging out with an AI. Since February I’ve … Continue reading Building a Better AI for Group Chats: Part 2→| Skynet & Ebert
For the past 1.5 decades, a major focus of tech advancements was getting consumers to passively flip through recs, on their phone, in single-player mode. What I’m most excited about in the recent explosion of human-like AI and LLM, is the chance for these technologies to expand connections with the actual people you care about … Continue reading Building a Better AI for Group Chats→| Skynet & Ebert
“Just win, baby.” – Al Davis, Owner & GM, Oakland Raiders Maybe for you, the realization that your fantasy football season was circling the drain came slowly. A few bad breaks. A concussion that took your star QB out for a game; an opponent that picked up a free agent running back the same week … Continue reading Why your lousy fantasy football season isn’t your fault→| Skynet & Ebert
With the development of low-cost / low-power / Internet-enabled sensors that can live inside physical objects, there’s an interesting opportunity to rethink what a “button” might look like. As a recent hack, I wired up a wine bottle to act as a “thematic button” for our office’s communal music player. Here’s how it works… A … Continue reading The Music App of Things with XBee and Arduino→| Skynet & Ebert
Feeling like I’d burned through my standard sources for movie recommendations, I recently decided to turn to box office failures. I was seeking out an automated way to explore the world of such mov…| Skynet & Ebert
Growing up, I enjoyed writing code and messing around with technology, but my first love was always pop culture — books, film, tv, movies. So I always thought tech would be a hobby, while my …| Skynet & Ebert
After sixty years of research, it’s conventional wisdom: as people get older, they stop keeping up with popular music. Whether the demands of parenthood and careers mean devoting less time to pop c…| Skynet & Ebert
