Episode 550: A New Reality

03/25/23 • -1 min

Manton hears Daniel’s excuses, or perhaps explanations, for continuing to struggle with shipping Black Ink for iOS. They talk about the sometimes nonsensical rationale for postponing a release, and productivity hacks that might counter it. Manton describes his recent adventures with AI, including a practical effort to harness OpenAI’s voice recognition for transcription purposes. Finally, they discuss their shared awe about the current state of AI, and how they are struggling to imagine how to take advantage of it, both as users and as developers.

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OpenAI Whisper – Speech recognition framework from the makers of GPT.
Aiko – Free Mac app that uses Whisper to transcribe audio.
Speeding Up Development – David Smith shares an example of using GPT to automate generation of tedious Swift code.
Poe – Multi-technology AI chatbot interface from Quora.
Dithering – Subscription podcast from Ben Thompson and John Gruber.
The Age of AI – Post from Bill Gates about his impressions of the advances in AI technology.
Still Feels Like Magic – Manton’s post about being barely able to comprehend AI technologies.
Three Laws of Robotics – Isaac Asimov’s guidelines for how robot technologies might be kept in check.

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Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

RevenueCat: In-app subscriptions made easy. Also check out the Sub Club Podcast!

Links:

OpenAI Whisper – Speech recognition framework from the makers of GPT.
Aiko – Free Mac app that uses Whisper to transcribe audio.
Speeding Up Development – David Smith shares an example of using GPT to automate generation of tedious Swift code.
Poe – Multi-technology AI chatbot interface from Quora.
Dithering – Subscription podcast from Ben Thompson and John Gruber.
The Age of AI – Post from Bill Gates about his impressions of the advances in AI technology.
Still Feels Like Magic – Manton’s post about being barely able to comprehend AI technologies.
Three Laws of Robotics – Isaac Asimov’s guidelines for how robot technologies might be kept in check.

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Episode 549: A Crazy, Wild Place

Daniel and Manton talk about Manton’s impressions of the new Bluesky network. They reflect on the lack of evolution in microblogging over ten years, as WordPress focused on “macroblogging” features like Gutenberg Blocks, and how WordPress.com’s marketing compares with other sites that emphasize blogging. Finally, they talk about Nostr and the loaded nature of “anti-censorship” platforms.

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Bluesky — New decentralized social network spun out of Twitter.
AT Protocol — Protocol that powers Bluesky.
Cohost — Another new social network.
Nostr.com — Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.
Nostr protocol — Original GitHub site and documentation.
Indie Microblogging — Manton’s book.
Jack Dorsey quote — Twitter screenshot of Jack’s Nostr post about federated networks.

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Episode 551: Pretty Much Exactly Right

Daniel and Manton talk about the new AI-based transcripts feature in Micro.blog. What are the advantages (and new opportunities) to software developers for all these AI tools?

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