Mark Pesce

Futurist, VRML co-inventor, author, educator & speaker. Multi-award-winning columnist for The Register, columnist Cosmos Magazine, award-winning podcaster of both The Next Billion Seconds and This Week in Startups Australia. 🏳️‍🌈 Gadigal Land. (he/him)

Website: https://new.markpesce.com
Bio: https://new.markpesce.com/bio
The Next Billion Seconds: https://nextbillionseconds.com
Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots: http://new.markpesce.com/book

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2024-09-02 08:14:56

A public service announcement from @npub12sj…ytu7
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2024-09-02 03:42:08

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A pie that makes you think, after you've tasted it, "Such is life"?

2024-09-02 02:31:19

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Don't you have a local milk bar?

2024-09-01 22:22:33

Wait, Tasmania has a RIVER STYX??!?!?!?
(That would legit qualify it as the entrance to Hades, peeps)
WHERE'S THAT DAMNED THREE-HEADED HELLHOUND?!?

2024-08-31 22:03:36

"But fresh studies have found that Ozempic has impacts beyond what was originally imagined for the drug. People who took the drug died at a lower rate from all causes, not just from cardiovascular causes, researchers discovered."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/31/weight-loss-drugs-ozempic-slow-down-ageing-process-study

2024-08-31 08:52:47

Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW CORVID OVERLORDS
https://nautil.us/crows-are-even-smarter-than-we-thought-820066/

2024-08-31 08:17:50

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did it get to 38º?

2024-08-30 23:31:58

Current status
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2024-08-28 09:00:40

"Winter bushfire emergency" opens ABC News NSW
Because this is the new normal.

2024-08-28 02:55:11

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i have a good friend who thrives on building flatpack so there's that

2024-08-27 09:21:47

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As much as I like Clover, it needs to be stated, and stated clearly: TWENTY YEARS IS TOO LONG FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL TO HOLD HIGH OFFICE.
That might be elective office - as Lord Mayor of Sydney - or commercial office, such as the CEO of a large public corporation.
Organisations need to shed their skin. So do cities. They can only renew by bringing in new people.
That's never going to be perfect - and that's as it should be.
The Lord Mayor needs to lose this election. Badly.

2024-08-27 09:18:42

"Do you have a succession plan?" ABC asks Clover.
"I will have a succession plan - when I decide to leave."

2024-08-27 00:28:28

Microsoft promised the feature — that screenshots nearly everything on your PC — would be available for Windows Insiders “in the coming weeks,” but that’s now more like the coming months.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/08/27/microsofts-recall-ai-feature-wont-be-available-for-windows-testers-until-october/

2024-08-26 21:56:00

Discretionary powers used to stop investigations in one in four allegations of AFP misconduct
Australian federal police received more than 2,500 allegations of misconduct or improper practices over two years
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/27/afp-discretionary-powers-police-misconduct-allegations-ntwnfb

2024-08-26 00:45:45

Copilot falsely claimed Bernklau had been charged with and convicted of child abuse and exploiting dependents. It also claimed that he had been involved in a dramatic escape from a psychiatric hospital and had exploited grieving women.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/08/26/microsofts-copilot-falsely-accuses-court-reporter-of-crimes-he-covered/

2024-08-24 03:23:36

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At least it did not spontaneously catch fire as you crossed the threshold 😂

2024-08-24 02:59:50

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or as Monty Python put it:
“…and a well-known Catholic.”

2024-08-23 22:53:30

Presented without comment
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2024-08-20 22:47:44

When counting quickly, it’ll pretend it’s out of breath. It says “um” and “uh.” It laughs. It changes tone when talking about difficult or upbeat topics.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/08/21/openais-new-voice-mode-threw-me-into-the-uncanny-valley/

2024-08-20 02:57:27

First thought: IKEA Tempe should be running shuttle buses to Sydenham Station every 15 minutes.
Because Chatswood is just 20 minutes away.
Their catchment has grown threefold pretty much overnight.
And they should be leaning into that.

2024-08-20 02:54:26

State actors? Using social media to sow dissent?
Surely this can't be happening here -- can it?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/20/twitter-x-bots-linda-reynolds-gina-rinehart-likely-foreign-state-actor-expert-says

2024-08-19 04:39:08

Blade Runner 2024
(Gadigal Station)
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2024-08-18 23:01:08

The AFR will perform any back-flip necessary to ignore the fact that Australia's last minority government was the most productive government in recent history
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2024-08-18 22:34:06

Former Microsoft security architect Michael Bargury showcased multiple exploits that bad actors can leverage to breach Copilot's security guardrails and misuse its capabilities to cause harm.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/08/19/a-former-security-architect-demonstrates-15-different-ways-to-break-copilot-microsoft-is-trying-but-if-we-are-honest-here-we-dont-know-how-to-build-secure-ai-applications/

2024-08-18 08:56:18

"A reasonable observer might have thought that the Liberal Party’s failure to submit nomination forms for up to 140 NSW local government candidates would be about as bad as it gets. But no: the geniuses running the party have spent the past three days proving rock bottom may still be some way off..."
So that's going well?
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2024-08-18 08:54:19

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all the chickpeas.

2024-08-18 08:28:21

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oh, and eggs.

2024-08-18 08:22:36

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oh and try being a vegetarian

2024-08-17 07:53:59

Always get a bit of a thrill when I see my column above-the-fold in @npub10cz…4lpy
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/15/robot_took_my_job/?td=rt-3a
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2024-08-15 21:34:36

My latest for @npub10cz…4lpy tells the tale of being let go by Cosmos - then learning, six months later, all their freelancers had been replaced. By AI.
Yep. I've been AINEMPLOYED.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/15/robot_took_my_job/

2024-08-14 01:45:22

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It's all only just probable that the electrons in your nose aren't actually somewhere on the moon, is how it's been explained to me...

2024-08-13 23:22:29

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Nay -- by the laws of quantum mechanics, it is MANDATORY

2024-08-13 22:22:45

For those who did not receive the last memo:
THE VOID is for screaming.
THE ABYSS is for staring.
Please do not scream into THE ABYSS. And under no circumstances should you ever stare into THE VOID.
That is all.

2024-08-13 00:14:10

Weirdly, it feels as though this Patreon thing is the straw that breaks the proverbial monopolist's monopoly

2024-08-13 00:12:24

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I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS FOR YOU SUNSHINE

2024-08-07 00:45:30

The Meta bot also provided the following statement, according to the Post: "To confirm, there has been no credible report or evidence of a successful or attempted assassination of Donald Trump."
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/08/07/meta-addresses-ai-hallucination-as-chatbot-says-trump-shooting-didnt-happen/

2024-08-02 08:26:25

What we're all here for, what we're all _actually_ here for, is one another.
That's it. That's the whole job.

2024-07-30 23:45:19

For those wondering
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2024-07-05 03:07:43

To see how ChatGPT might fare against professional humor writers, the researchers conducted a second study in which they challenged ChatGPT to develop new headlines in the satirical style of The Onion.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/07/05/think-youre-funny-chatgpt-might-be-funnier/

2024-07-02 00:47:24

The trouble with generative AI is that, while it’s perfectly capable of performing a certain set of tasks, it can’t do everything a human can, and humans tend to overestimate its capabilities.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/07/02/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai/

2024-06-20 21:01:54

Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women
Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental twice-yearly shot prevented 100% of HIV cases in women and adolescent girls in Africa, the first successful big trial of what’s hoped to become a powerful new drug regimen for fending off the virus.
Lenacapavir will provide an easier-to-use option compared to other HIV prevention drugs that are either daily pills or must be injected every two months. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/gilead-shot-prevents-all-hiv-cases-in-trial-of-african-women/ar-BB1oAfz8

2024-06-18 21:12:54

I FOR ONE LOOK FORWARD TO QUEENSLANDS FUTURE AS A NUCLEAR SUPERPOWER
(The sunshine state, amirite?)

2024-06-13 22:38:29

By making a deal with a company like OpenAI, which has been the source of a string of tech controversies recently, it's understandable that some people don't understand why Apple made the call & what it might entail for the privacy of their on-device data
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/06/14/apple-and-openai-currently-have-the-most-misunderstood-partnership-in-tech/

2024-05-22 04:43:28

We don't need a computer that remembers.
We need more computers that forget.

2024-04-14 03:37:06

Yesterday Microsoft automatically updated an eight year-old desktop - one that will never be able to run Windows 11, as the CPU is just too old. When it rebooted I found that it had installed Copilot on the taskbar, and a Copilot panel that will pop out when invoked.
This means we are well and truly entering the time when Copilot rolls out to somewhere around a billion Windows 10 desktops.
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