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"Today’s a holiday special, and we’re not really doing AI at all. But we sort
of are — this is about the AI venture capitalists, how they think, and how they
were always like this.
This is the story of uBeam, a long-dead company from the 2010s. uBeam’s pitch
was they would charge your phone using energy from soundwaves. You send out
high frequency ultrasound with lots of power. Then you turn the vibrations back
into electricity! And your phone charges!
I expect the physicists among you are right now going “what on earth.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
