Confessions of an AI Fanboy: How artificial intelligence amazes and dazes, dazzles and frazzles

Tag: magazines

  • A love letter to a great tech/AI magazine you’ve probably never heard of

    Thanks to Magzter, I found TechLife News – and it’s worth your time

    My last post here was about how I’ve always been a magazine fan, an offshoot of my news junkie roots. And about how I found an interesting one at the grocery store called, I kid you not, “How to Hack Your Life with Chat GPT.”

    So in these digital days, I subscribe to Magzter, which offers a pretty great array of magazines (and newspapers) I read on my Nook tablet.

    But I’ve really come to love one magazine there you’ll never find on a newsstand.

    It’s called TechLife News, and it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty great.

    It has some of the same AI/tech news you’ll find elsewhere, but many other unique articles in its weekly 200-plus pages (yep, it uses big photos/graphics to illustrate articles, but it’s pretty meaty)!

    At times, it gets very Apple-centric, and for a longtime Windows guy (I have the Version 1.0 manuals in my computer/tech museum, near my stuffed Y2K bug, my Walkman, etc.) who does use a Mac at work, it’s not my main topic of interest.

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  • AI has invaded the grocery store! (Well, the magazine rack, anyway…)

    You can see why it caught my eye…

    I haven’t wrestled with whether to buy a magazine THAT much in a long, long time.

    Any fellow magazine fans know how things have evolved/splintered into countless categories – from self-help to a wide array of lifestyle, sports, etc. etc. (and many have gone up in price – all those $14.99 “special editions!).

    (Side note: Why is it so HARD to buy and read these special editions digitally? I do like having something fresh and trendy for the coffee table, on occasion, but..!!??)

    By the way, speaking of old-fashioned paper, in recent months, I’ve picked up some cool AI-focused volumes – often NOT the stuff you read in the daily tide of newsletters and article posts – from Time Magazine, Scientific American, The Street and now…. “How to Hack Your Life with ChatGPT,” from McClatchy Lifestyle & Entertainment.

    (I LOVE the weekly tech magazine I get on my Nook, called Tech News Life. But oy, the Masthead, with dead links and email addresses, recently took me down a weird rabbit hole. I was assisted by the folks at the great magazine/newspaper app I have, Magzter. Highly recommended!)

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