Beyond tech philes and phobes

Making AI regenerative is going to require that we are not prompt engineers but devious bricoleurs, in the sense intended by Claude Lévi-Strauss, working with our hands on this tool and recombining it with others to do things it was never intended for. For good. For fairness. For community. For real wealth. For the environment.

Google introduces NeRF 3D to Maps

Google has begun to roll out Immersive View, using advances in AI and computer vision to fuse billions of Street View and aerial images, to create a immersive, digital model of the world with local data layered on. Immersive View combines 360 video with neural radiance fields (NeRF), an advanced AI technique, transforming ordinary pictures …