Encausse.net - Weekly #119

Paperclip 📎 Maximizer and Shoggoth, Hilbert Space Filling 🖌️, Mega Sphere 👁️, Pixels Dice 🎲, 3D Print cold metal 🖨️, and more weak signals ...

Hello everyone, I switch the newsletter to english (but keep some 🇫🇷 links)
This week I played with an ESP-32 connected to awesome PixelsDice :-) I still have a bug with WebSocket … and OTG/Keyboard (this device is very buggy)

See also the video :-)

By the way, I get renewed Microsoft MVP AI for the 7th year ! It will be awesome with all the buzz around Azure OpenAI …

Happy Reading !
#Metaverse #SmartMirror #MVPBuzz

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Technologies

• One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost

• Scientists discover mysterious radioactive rock on the far side of the moon

🧠 Articial Intelligence

• Conditional 3D Shape Generation based on Shape-Image-Text Aligned Latent Representation. I’m not convince, it feel so Midjourney v3 with rough content. It will be a game changer with way more details.

• Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
  Ah ah ah the dark side of the force … the google frustration by OpenAI

• Snap wants to let your avatar chit-chat. The company is seeking to patent an “avatar call platform” which displays your avatar instead of you on a video call, and “moves in a way that matches what the caller is saying.” via PatentDrop

• Metaphors for AI, and why I don’t like them

• WavePaint: Resource-efficient Token-mixer for Self-supervised Inpainting
  Imagine having a tool that can fill in missing parts of a picture quickly and accurately

• GPT-4 API general availability same for Azure OpenAI and OpenAI Upgrades API With GPT-4 and Opens DALL-E and Whisper API Access

• Full-Body AI Scans Could Be the Future of Preventive Medicine welcome to your digital twin :-)

🕹️ Alternate Realities

John Carmack Reviewed Bigscreen Beyond

• Bennedict Evans about iVision Pro : check back in 2025

• Snap’s AR Mirror Could Be At Your Next Music Festival

• Unity finally revealed its first two AI tools a ChatGPT like and edge AI ?

• 🇫🇷 SIGGRAPH 2023 : découvrez les 9 pépites de notre ‘Pavillon France

• NVIDIA will present around 20 research papers at SIGGRAPH. With very amazing demo.

• Wisear lets you control XR with your jaw. Talk & fake speak to write ?

🤖 Internet of Things

• Nvidia wants to make training robots an easier task. The company is researching neural networks that “generate robotic task demonstration,” essentially taking the manual labor out of training robots to do certain jobs. (via PatentDrop)

• Emteq Labs unveils OCOsense, A new platform that unlocks the power of facial and movement analytics in every-day life for Qualitative Studies ?

• ScanGenie: ESP32 Based QR/Barcode Scanner I will buy it to add it to my ESP-32 toolbox !

• Revolutionary gel allows metal items to be 3D printed at room temperature it’s a mix of copper and gallium (like the conductive PLA)

• The latest GoogleTablet is the perfect dashboard for SmartHome thanks to Fully Kiosk Browser … may be for SmartMirror ?

• Intel’s assistive hearing initiative via PatentDrop
  I’m questioning why it is not already there, the tech behind BLE device is already very good and live translation is becoming a reality

Business

• 🇫🇷 Les États-Unis sanctionnent des russes pour avoir tenté d’influencer les élections. One more proof that Russia hate the rest of the world.

• European companies sound alarm over draft AI law (Javier Espinoza on the Financial Times): “Dozens of Europe’s largest companies, including Germany’s Siemens and France’s Airbus, have spoken out against proposed EU artificial intelligence regulation, saying the rules risk harming competitiveness yet fail to deal with potential challenges.” but Seven big tech companies say they’re platform gatekeepers under EU law so the big US/CN kill the small EU.

• Niantic Launches In-Game Rewarded AR Ad Format at Cannes Lions International Festival

• China : Alibaba and CAICT about AI governance policies and standards
  Western companies work with Government on AI. Trust vs Control of AI. Multi layer of collaboration.

• Webinar about Data & AI with LVMH, Alibaba and more from Journal du Luxe very interesting, feedback from Vivatech, hope to be able to share the replay.

• Generation Regeneration : rediscovery of our own humanity I do think the upcoming fusion power plant will change everyone state of mind.

Inspiration

• 3D Printed Rolls Royce so much time taken for this after processing.

• Hilbert space filling curve and the transparent version

• Google doesn’t want to interrupt your flow. The company is seeking to patent tech that essentially predicts when your content is going to be interrupted by a notification, such as when a food delivery driver is expected to arrive while you’re watching a movie. (via PatentDrop)

• What is a Vector Database? a very good explanation.

• The top 5 Plastic Remplacements.

• Sustainable packaging keeps perishable produce cool. Made from corn, it provides both cushioning and temperature regulation.

💡 Do It Yourself

• TinyVector : vector embedding database in python
  I like the REAME explaining the WHY. Need to cross with Microsoft Work on Vector Database in Cognitive Services and the RAG model.

• Cooling paint you can actually make

• 3d audio imaging with a phased array microphone
  Not impressed with the demo, I like the idea of using FPGA to align the data.

• Automize : The missing Chrome Devtools Element Selector compatible with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cypress (but not so smart).

• Inifine Mirror into a chandelier. I’m also lookin at fake sky (very very hard to reproduce)

• GPTCache : a semantic cache for storing LLM responses and cut the costs. Something I was also doing with LUIS, TTS and other SaaS API

Medias (Audio & Video)

Huge Impressive Sphere at LasVegas (2 billions $)

• AI Generated Depth Map on Video Streaming very very inspiring to build immerssive content from exisiting movies.

• GAN by GAN : A video (and conf) by Microsoft MVP Aymeric Weinbach

🎧 Podcast

• 🇫🇷 Popcorn : Alain Chabat répond à toutes nos questions !
  About it projects like Asterix and dificulties to create (he is slow and focus)

• 🇫🇷 Micode : I sent 10246 CVs with un bot … TL;DR: +25% for bullshit :-(

🕹️ Gaming

• Meta launches its gaming subscription service. Meta Quest+ is priced at $8 per month, or $60 annually, and gives you access to two handpicked games per month. The games that you get through the subscription service keep being part of your library until you pay.

• Generative AI in games will create a copyright crisis

• 🇫🇷 LEGO Wolverine's Adamantium Claws WANT ! aside my gauntlet of Infiniti

Stats & Quotes

• 🇫🇷 500K€ treasure found inside a the intestine of a sperm whale

• 🇫🇷 63K$ for a nano bag from LVMH … 🤦

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