Published 21 April 2025
e510 with Andy, Michael and Michael – AI stories ranging from privacy, dolphin communication, open source models for robots, Game Transfer Phenomenon and much more.
Andy, Michael and Michael get things off to a fast start with all things AI with a Bloomberg article reporting on Apple “analyzing data on customer’s devices in a bid to improve its artificial intelligence platform”. Apple shares a deeper take on the differential privacy and how it is employed to improve on the synthetic data used to train Apple Intelligence. Then, the team turns to a different way of training LLMs without forcing human language, which they found to be much more efficient, and potentially may unlock new chain of reasoning operations. Andy’s “autocomplete for stuff” description of AI is amazing. Next, is an intriguing AI model being developed to better understand dolphin communications. The chain of thought from this article leads to the camera only recently recovered from Loch Ness, Star Trek, Star Wars and of course, Douglas Adam’s fictional treatment of dolphins. After discussing open source AI robots and the challenges / benefits posed by AI geolocation sophistication, the team turns to OpenAI’s work on a social media platform.
After an article on Game Transfer Phenomenon, which describes how games and gameplay leak into the real world, the co-hosts wrap up with a PICO-8 demake of Warcraft III and a hearty endorsement of the Mythic Quest tv show. Both Michael R and Andy have watched the entirety of Mythic Quest, and Michael M has put it on the list to watch.
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Selected Links
AI
Bloomberg article: Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology
Apple’s Machine Learning Research Blog post: Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy
Quanta Magazine article: To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
ZD Net article: Google is talking to dolphins using Pixel phones and AI – and the video is delightful
BBC article: Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster discovered
Games At Work e495: Personal Planetarium for use of AI in translating animal communications
The Hitchhiker’s Wiki entry: Dolphins
The Hitchhiker’s Wiki entry: Mice
IMdB: Star Trek: Lower Decks (dolphin navigators)
Wookipedia entry: Purrgil (space whales)
Wired article: An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots
Huggingface: closed-vs-open-arena-elo
ChatGPT's o3 model can pinpoint a location from a photo, and give a pretty good deduction as to the point the photo was taken from. It's no Rainbolt, but any photos taken at or near your home, even with stripped metadata, are no longer safe
https://flausch.social/@piegames/114352447253793517
Reuters article: OpenAI is working on X-like social media network, the Verge reports
Games Carrying Over IRL
BBC article: Health bars and power ups: The ‘freaky and unpleasant’ world when video games leak into the physical realm
Taylor and Francis Online article: Prevalence and Characteristics of Game Transfer Phenomena: A Descriptive Survey Study
Making
lexaloffle.com blog post: Picocraft – demake of Warcraft III
itch.io Top Rated Games tagged Demake and PICO-8
Wikipedia article: PICO-8
Media
The Verge article: Apple’s Mythic Quest has come to an end
IMdB: Mythic Quest
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