Harmless Democracy?

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." - Edward Bernays "The smart…

Robots and Culture: Embracing Automation or Preserving Tradition?

Balance of Tomorrow0:00/3:101× The Future of Robots in Our Lives: A Cultural Perspective on Automation As the integration of robots into everyday life accelerates, conversations about their role are becoming more frequent. Recently, a friend of mine shared a story about one of their Romanian friends who…

The Lost Art of Words

Lost art of words0:00/3:041× The Lost Art of Words In days of old, when pens were might, We crafted sentences pure and tight. Grammar stood like kings in court, Each comma, dash, a strong retort. But now we live in rapid streams, Where texts fly fast in…

The Thinkers and the Non-Thinkers: Navigating the AI Revolution

Thinkers and Dreamers0:00/2:231× Have Alex read this article for you. Alex AI reading this article0:00/6:391× In the midst of the rapidly advancing technological landscape, few innovations have generated as much excitement—and fear—as artificial intelligence (AI). For those of us who have embraced…

Tortoise TTS

Tortoise TTS0:00/2:161×GitHub - neonbjb/tortoise-tts: A multi-voice TTS system trained with an emphasis on qualityA multi-voice TTS system trained with an emphasis on quality - neonbjb/tortoise-ttsGitHubneonbjb Tortoise TTS (Text-to-Speech) Running locally on an Nvidia GPU (Geforce RTX 4070) (This also uses deepspeed which requires Cuda…