💪 Alexa Could Finally Be Getting A Buff

Hello, fellow nerds 🧙

So um… woke up to this eye opening video this morning. Enjoy!

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words… watch the video here.

Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 💪 Alexa Could Finally Be Getting A Buff

• 🤖 Mama Bear is Crushing It, Literally

• ⌛️ Morrowind Mods

• 🤗 Reddit Degenerates

Alexa Could Finally Be Getting A Buff

Holy hell, it’s about damn time. No joke, Kacey and I were just talking about his the other night. Like, when’s Alexa gonna get a killer update? Because OpenAI is making Amazon look like a bunch of wet noodles. Especially since the vast majority of Alexa’s are literally used as a timer, a way to look up the weather, or turn some lights on or off. That’s it.

The promised future of Alexa being this all knowing voice assistant that could bring your home into the “future” has been such a let down. But thanks to the competition out there—OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-4o—Alexa could finally be seeing the buff we thought it’d have, well, 10 years ago.

Imagine you could actually have a two way conversation with Alexa, and it could look things up with damn near 100% reliability. You could actually talk with it without being absolutely annoyed. Oh how happy I would be. Maybe, juts maybe, the Alexa’s in our house would actually be used more often.

Now apparently, this buff is gonna cost some extra cash, and it’ll be allegedly on top of your Amazon Prime subscription. There have been some reported numbers floated around internally, and it’s not confirmed whether we’ll have to dish out $9 or $20 a month.

Would paying extra be worth it?

Well, if Alexa can get up to speed with GPT-4o, yeah, I think it would be. Alexa could finally operate as a true home assistant, or AI agent as the AI world likes to call them.

This move makes absolute sense, and by golly if there’s an AI god out there, I hope this buff happens.

Mama Bear is Crushing It, Literally

Meet Mama Bear, the Mechanics of Additively Manufactured Architectures Bayesian Experimental Autonomous Researcher. Now that’s a mouth full.

But this isn’t just any robot. Mama Bear has been designed to run autonomous experiments to crush varying shapes no human would even think of designing.

She’s been running experiments without food or sleep for 8,000+ hours to test shock absorption while managing to document her research perfectly. Watch the video of her daily routine here.

Not only is she diligent, she’s efficient to boot. Although we couldn’t help but notice how she could at least take care of her hair in the morning, aka handle some better wire management.

Through all of her research, she’s figured out how to create a 3D printed shape that absorbs 75% of the energy forced upon it. Weirdly enough, in most cases, we want a balance of absorbing impact without crushing whatever is impacting it.

Imagine a car bumper with 75% absorption. Each car would effectively absorb the impact of the other, reducing damage as well as whiplash… woah!

⌛️ Throwback Thursday

A little blast from the past.

If you’re a true Morrowind fan, hold onto your britches because there’s an original developer returning to the game after 20 years to mod the hell out of it.

His current mission? Quest mods. And it just so happens a beefy one is out now. It’s called Red Wisdom - An Ashlander Prophecy.

Now if you’re looking to spice up Morrowind even more—because lets be honest, Bethesda ain’t touching this game again with a 10 foot pole, which is truly a shame—check out the other mods Douglas Goodall aka Affa has cooked up for Morrowind. Or download a giant mod collection from Nexus and have yourself a ball. Whatever your heart desires, a mod probably exists for it. Seriously.

🤗 Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

Remember when Reddit decided to sell its data to the big boy tech companies to train AI models? And remember when we said there were a bunch of degenerates on Reddit? Well, here’s a real life result of AI being trained on some real degeneracy. Thank you, Reddit user Fucksmith. Your AI training service is commendable.

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 😅 Washington Post announced they’re ready to embrace “AI everywhere.” The newspaper lost $77 million last year and is looking to use AI to dig out of the hole.

• 📌 Former wearable startup Humane who launched their AI Pin poorly is looking for an exit after its debut belly flopped…

• 💰️ Nvidia is to the moon at $1,000 per share and upcoming stock split and dividend hike.

• ✍️ Europe drops AI Act legislation. The first of its kind in the world to help address the emerging technology’s safety.

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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