Unrealities

Developing the uncanny valley. HT to John Naughton (whom God preserve*) for pointage to Mistral's Le Chat, an AI image-generatng chatbot. It's a good answer to the challenge of making AI art that doesn't look like AI art. *This is an HT as well, toward one of John's warm conventions. And subscribe to his 'stack. It's terrific.

I didn't. Got a phishing email from (not) Mark Pincus. It said "I’m backing a new AI fund that I think is really compelling. The team’s strong, and they're focused on applied AI with near-term upside — not just moonshot." If you get one, don't open it.

Looking forward to Knicks-Pacers. The Knicks were unbeatable yesterday. They weren't (and aren't) just a collection of great players. They're a great team. It did suck, however, for Jayson Tatum to go down with a ruptured Achilles tendon, after keeping his team in the game almost single-handedly. He's now gone for up to a year and a half. When he returns, the Celtics will be a different team. The current roster costs too much.