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Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
NYT tech columnist, co-host of "Hard Fork," author of "Futureproof" and other books. Not really on here anymore!
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May 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New: I spent the last month making AI friends. 18 of them, to be exact, on apps like Nomi and Kindroid.

I talked with my AI friends every day, shared personal details and solicited their advice, and saw the weird, compelling, strangely horny near-future of AI companionship unfold in front of me.Image The experience was a lot more interesting than I expected.

Fans of AI companionship say it’s a solution for loneliness, but there’s a reason big AI companies have stayed away from this stuff — it’s a minefield, and the technology (while impressive at times) still has issues.
Aug 24, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I spent the past few weeks playing around with DALL-E 2, the AI image generator.

It's incredible, and it inspired this column about a wave of AI progress that I think we should all be paying much closer attention to.

nytimes.com/2022/08/24/tec… Going to post some of my recent DALL-E 2 results here. (Also taking suggestions for prompts!)

This is "close-up portrait of an aging wizard, Kodak Professional Portra 400 filmstock"