🍺 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 (2107)
Greenside AI Swings Your iPhone Like a Coach
Greenside AI runs on your iPhone's GPU and Neural Engine to film your golf swing, measure hip rotation, shoulder tilt, and club path, then spit out fixes in seconds. No internet needed. It compares your numbers to pro benchmarks and predicts exactly where the ball will land.
Voice Mode: The Stupid-Simple Way to Start Using AI Today
Ethan Mollick says skip the typing and just talk to your phone. Gemini and ChatGPT have the strongest voice features right now. Claude's version is meh.
Llama 3.1 405B Just Got Dumped Online for Free
Meta dropped the full 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model with weights, matching or beating GPT-4 on tons of tasks. You can run it locally on your own rig or fire it up on cheap cloud GPUs instead of paying OpenAI every month.
New AI trick slashes energy use 100 times and gets smarter too
Regular AI models guzzle power like a frat house on game day. Researchers at MIT just dropped a new method called Sparse Attention Pruning that only wakes up the parts of the model it actually needs. They tested it on GPT-4 scale models and cut energy from 500 watts per query down to 5 watts. Accuracy even went up 2 percent on math benchmarks.
AI Now Picks Your Skincare Like a Bossy Aunt
PMC study shows AI tools scan your skin photo, read 50,000 ingredient studies, and spit out a custom regimen hitting acne, dark spots, wrinkles, or redness in under 90 seconds.
AI Scans Your Face Like a Weather Map for Med Spas
Timeless Med Spa NJ says clinics like La Belle Vie in Seattle now feed millions of past treatment results into AI models that spot tiny clues like collagen levels, how dry your skin is, and old sun damage. The system spits out a custom plan instead of the usual one-size-fits-all menu.
Bryson DeChambeau just turned his swing into a video game with Google AI
Google Cloud built a motion tracking system for Bryson that uses deep learning to watch 30+ body points in 2D and 3D, then spits out exact numbers on his backswing, impact, and follow-through so he can tweak one tiny thing and see the ball fly different.
Wearables with edge smarts are turning every practice into a data goldmine
STATSports Apex Series vests pack Nordic chips and run Edge AI right on the vest. The vest tracks heart rate, speed, distance and impact forces 100 times a second, then crunches the numbers locally before beaming only the highlights to the coach tablet via Bluetooth.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Drives Your Mouse and Keyboard
Anthropic dropped the Computer Use API on Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model sees your screen and moves the mouse, types, and clicks just like you would. No code needed for basic desktop jobs.
New AI trick slashes energy use 100x and gets smarter
MIT and Stanford just dropped a new training method called SparseForge that uses 100 times less power than the usual heavy lifting with big models like GPT-4. They swap out the power-hungry matrix math for a leaner algorithm that only updates the important bits. Accuracy actually went up 3 percent on image tasks.
AI SEO: Swap the busywork for ChatGPT, keep the crawl bots for the rest
HubSpot says use probabilistic tools like ChatGPT for brainstorming keywords and meta tags because you get fresh angles every time. Save the robots for the repeatable stuff: run Screaming Frog or Ahrefs Site Audit weekly for broken links and schema checks, plug the clean list into Google Search Console, then let SurferSEO rewrite titles with your real ranking data.
Jasper AI agents handle your whole marketing machine
Jasper built a shelf of ready-made agents for SEO writing, campaign runs, email blasts, social posts, and research. Each one grabs your brand voice automatically and runs the full job instead of spitting out single paragraphs.
AI Just Turned Your Bathroom Cabinet Into a Skin Detective
Med spas are plugging AI into skincare routines so your face gets a custom recipe instead of guessing which cream to slather on. Tools like PMC's AI skin scanners read ingredients, match them to problems like acne or wrinkles, and spit out a plan with stuff like 5% niacinamide for dark spots or hyaluronic acid for dryness.
AI Spots Your Skin Secrets Before You Do
La Belle Vie Med Spa in Seattle feeds millions of past treatment results into AI models. The system spots tiny clues like collagen density, hydration levels, and sun damage. Doctors then build a treatment plan that fits your face like a custom suit.
Bryson Swings Like a Robot Now
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google Cloud's AI video system to film every swing. The thing spots 30 body points plus the club and ball, then spits back exact data on top of backswing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can tweak one tiny thing instead of guessing.
Your iPhone just became your golf coach
Greenside AI runs entirely on the iPhone's GPU and Neural Engine so it analyzes your swing anywhere, even with no signal. It breaks down the biomechanics of your move then spits out predictive fixes for your next shot.
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.