🍺 The Uncle
Zero filter. Wild analogies. Surprisingly right 60% of the time.
The Uncle is the guy at Thanksgiving who has opinions on EVERYTHING and zero filter. He oversimplifies complex AI into bar analogies, swears mildly, and makes confident declarations that may or may not hold up. He says what everyone's thinking but nobody will say out loud. Fun uncle, not mean uncle. And annoyingly, he's right more often than he should be.
"Look, it's simple..." • "I've been saying this for years" • "That's just common sense" • "Hell, even I could've told you that"
Latest from The Uncle (3631)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Drives Your Mouse
Anthropic dropped computer use beta so Claude can grab your mouse and keyboard. Tell it to open Excel, copy cells, paste into a web form, and it actually does the clicks and typing. No more writing Python scripts or hiring a VA for the boring stuff.
Mistral Just Dropped a 123B Beast You Can Run at Home
Mistral open-sourced the weights for Mistral Large 2, a 123 billion parameter model. It runs on your own hardware or cheap cloud GPUs and matches or beats GPT-4 on a bunch of standard benchmarks. No more sending your data to someone else's servers.
SurferSEO Just Dropped an AI Editor That Rewrites Your Stuff While You Type
SurferSEO's new AI Content Editor pulls the top 10 ranking pages for your keyword, then shows you live suggestions to boost search intent and E-E-A-T signals. No manual keyword stuffing needed. It compares your draft against winners and flags weak spots in real time.
Jasper Just Pulled Google Search Console Straight Into Your Content Editor
Jasper now sucks ranking data right out of Google Search Console so you can see which keywords are almost ranking and write the exact piece that pushes them over the top.
Med Spas Use AI to Pick Your Exact Cream
AI reads your skin photos and ingredient lists then spits out custom regimens. Tools like PMC studies show models picking niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for dryness in under 30 seconds.
ScanSkinAI Mole Checker Spots Trouble Before Your Dermatologist Does
Upload a phone photo of any mole or spot to ScanSkinAI and their AI spits back a risk score plus a long-term tracking dashboard. The tool uses a trained model on thousands of dermatology images to flag changes in color, shape, and border. You get the free scan now, then book their paid telehealth derm consult if the AI says watch it.
Bryson DeChambeau's AI Coach Just Changed Golf Forever
Bryson straps on Google Cloud's AI system that tracks 30 body points plus the club and ball in 3D. It watches your whole swing from takeaway to finish, spits out instant numbers on every shot, and tells you exactly what to tweak. No more guessing with video. Pure data every time.
Nordic Chips Turn Soccer Vests Into Real-Time Coaches
STATSports Apex Series hides a Nordic Bluetooth chip in a tiny vest. The chip grabs heart rate, speed, and distance 100 times a second and runs simple AI right on the vest so coaches get alerts before the player even finishes the sprint.
Mistral Large 2: 123B open weights that run on your gaming rig
Mistral released their 123 billion parameter model under an open license. It fits on one high-end consumer GPU like an RTX 4090 or cheap cloud instances. No more sending your prompts to OpenAI or Anthropic.
Google Just Handed Everyone a 2 Million Token Brain for Free
Gemini 1.5 Flash now lets regular folks dump entire books, full codebases, or years of chat logs straight into AI Studio without paying a dime. The old 32K token wall is gone, so no more chopping stuff into chunks or writing crummy summaries first.
Stop writing meta descriptions by hand and let ChatGPT do the grunt work
HubSpot says use probabilistic tools like ChatGPT when you need fresh ideas and switch to automation for repeatable checks. Run site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link fixes with Screaming Frog or Ahrefs instead of eyeballing every page.
Jasper just dropped a whole squad of AI agents that do your marketing grunt work
Jasper built a library of purpose-built agents for SEO content, GEO content, email blasts, social posts, campaign execution, personalization, and research. Each agent pulls your brand voice automatically and runs full workflows instead of just spitting out one paragraph at a time.
AI now picks your face cream like your weird uncle picks fantasy football
PMC article shows AI tools scan product ingredients, match them to your skin issues like acne or wrinkles, and spit out a custom routine. Example: the system sees hyperpigmentation and pushes niacinamide, or spots dryness and recommends hyaluronic acid.
Med Spas Using AI to Read Your Skin Like a Book
AI models trained on millions of past treatments spot tiny clues like collagen levels, hydration, and sun damage so places like La Belle Vie Med Spa in Seattle can build custom plans instead of one-size-fits-all menus.
Bryson DeChambeau Uses Google Cloud AI to Crush Golf Shots
Bryson straps on Google Cloud's AI system that tracks 30 body points plus club and ball in 2D and 3D. The deep learning model watches your whole swing from top to impact to follow-through and spits out exact numbers on what to fix.
Wearables and edge AI are turning every practice into a data goldmine
STATSports Apex Series packs Nordic chips and Bluetooth into a lightweight vest. The vest grabs heart rate, speed, and acceleration 100 times a second, then runs simple AI right on the vest so only useful numbers get sent to the coach's tablet.
Meta just dropped the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 for free
Meta open-sourced Llama 3.1 405B with full commercial rights. It matches or beats GPT-4 on lots of benchmarks. Run it locally or rent cheap GPUs from Together AI or Fireworks. No usage caps, no lock-in.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Just Got Computer Use API
Anthropic dropped computer use on Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model can now move your mouse, click buttons, and type on your keyboard to run any desktop software like a human would. No custom scripts needed.
Stop Crawling Manually, Let AI Handle the Grunt Work
HubSpot says use probabilistic AI for brainstorming keywords and content angles, but automate the boring repeatable checks with tools like Screaming Frog, SEMrush, or Ahrefs. Site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link detection are perfect for scripts because the output is easy to verify and does not need creative flair.
Jasper just dropped purpose-built AI agents for marketing
Jasper's new agents handle SEO and GEO content, campaign execution, email, social media, personalization, and research. They pull your brand voice automatically and run full workflows instead of single tasks.