AI

01 Jul 2025

All of your AI-Girlfriends live in San Francisco

The male loneliness epidemic has been a common topic of discussion since the term was first coined a few years ago. Technology has gone from something that existed on the periphery of society into an unavoidable augmentation that is essentially required to exist in the modern world. The earliest indications

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28 Jan 2025

Is China’s “deepseek” Going To Derail San Francisco’s AI Dreams?

It’s not a secret that San Francisco has been betting big on AI to pull the city out of its post-pandemic slump, but while OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made waves, a competitor has recently emerged out of China that has effectively turned the entire artificial intelligence industry on its head. And

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13 Aug 2024

Driverless Cars Expanding From San Francisco Streets To Nearby Cities

Autonomous vehicle technology has become synonymous with San Francisco. And their presence on city streets has been controversial to say the least. But now people in other cities are going to be blessed (or cursed depending on who you ask) by the future. Waymo has announced they are expanding their

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16 Jun 2024

Famed Musicians Weigh In on AI-Generated Music

With the very recent controversy surrounding the possible release of AI-generated recordings of deceased Small Faces and Humble Pie singer Steve Marriott, it has become apparent that a tipping point in the evolution of music has been reached and breached. As the old joke goes, the difference between a drum

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12 Jun 2024

I Went to an AI Summit. What I Found Really Worried Me.

So far I am seeing tech moving very very fast and making some people lots and lots of money, while responsibility and human contact are becoming less and less important. People are being left out, and important discussions about equity, integrity, and intent are being left behind.

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26 May 2024

AI-Generated “Remasters” Fail to Replicate Musical Talent, Originality

by James Conrad Though he only stood 5’4, the British musician Stephen Peter Marriott had a deceptively and indescribably powerful singing voice. Artists like Robert Plant, Paul Stanley and Steve Perry view him as a role model. As a child, he started on ukulele and later moved on to guitar,

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10 Apr 2024

Hoodline is Using AI Generated Writers to Make AI Generated Articles

In a case of “I hate to say I told you so,” let me just say…I absolutely told you so. Back in 2019, almost exactly five years ago actually, I wrote an article for the SF Examiner called “Can robots do journalism?” In the article I called out Hoodline for

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13 Sep 2023

The “Avg. Couples” from Bay Area Cities According to Ai

Think of what the “average couple” from San Francisco looks like.  Go ahead and close your eyes, dream it up.  Is it an actual couple you know who lives there perhaps? Is it a combination of famous faces you identify with the city?  A newscaster and a famous athlete?  Maybe

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