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Leor Grebler

@grebler

Technology optimist determined to improve how we interact with our world.

 Toronto, Ontario
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Joined May 2008
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Minimum Viable Model

Minimum Viable Model

Tens of thousands of organizations are struggling with the same issue as they deploy new AI-based features using LLMs. Which to choose…

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Agentic Shopping Agentic AI is happening now. Expect more things to happen on our behalf behind the scenes and for our benefit. grebler.medium.com/agentic-s…

Agentic Shopping

Last week, I tried out ChatGPT’s Agentic mode and it was odd but inspiring. Just like trying out full self drive capability, the Agentic…

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Will Smith Eats Spaghetti! If you think you're stuck in a simulation, ask someone around you to eat a bowl of spaghetti. grebler.medium.com/will-smit…
Will Smith Eats Spaghetti!

Will Smith Eats Spaghetti!

If you ever think you’re stuck in a simulation made with today’s technology, ask the people around you to eat.

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The Haptic Timer Magical things happen when technologies converge and when you can dig up forgotten, mature technologies and apply them in new ways. grebler.medium.com/the-hapti…
The Haptic Timer

The Haptic Timer

A long time ago, I sold haptic devices to research labs at universities. They were complicated, precise instruments that were used to mimic…

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My Concern Over Humanoid Robots It's not mass job loss and it's not Judgement Day. grebler.medium.com/my-concer…
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Little Moments of Joy We could be using generative AI to spark more moments of joy. grebler.medium.com/little-mo…
Little Moments of Joy

Little Moments of Joy

A few months back, by accident, I decided to name one of my timers on my Google Home because I had a few running concurrently during a…

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Nobody Knows You're on to a something big if the answer to whether it might succeed is "nobody knows." We look for mentors for these problems, but in the end, they might not know either. grebler.medium.com/nobody-kn…
Nobody Knows

Nobody Knows

There’s a wonderful sketch on Saturday Night Live about George Washington (played by comedian Nate Bargatze) crossing the Deleware, being…

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Boarding Complete It can be enlightening to understand our own preferences and how they sync with others'. grebler.medium.com/the-empty…
The Empty Seat

The Empty Seat

“Boarding Complete.”

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The Irony... Sora doesn't think I'm human. grebler.medium.com/the-irony…
The Irony…

The Irony…

Sora can’t verify that I’m human. At least the service they put in place to protect their site from DOS attacks can’t.

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Open Web, Closed Data Two forces are at a tug-of-war for the future of data for AI training. grebler.medium.com/open-web-…
Open Web, Closed Data

Open Web, Closed Data

A recent Wired exposé revealed it had used openly available cell phone logs to tie cell phone network pings on Jeffrey Epstein’s island to…

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Travel Ready A security breach underscores the importance of checklists. grebler.medium.com/travel-re…
Travel Ready

Travel Ready

I don’t fly as much as used to. However, I’ve racked up many experiences and am well into my second half of becoming a million miler. There…

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Missing Blackouts Why not a course on rebuilding civilization? grebler.medium.com/missing-b…
Missing Blackouts

Missing Blackouts

For the past year, I haven’t experience a power failure at home because of power backups. While extended blackouts are awful, the…

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Steady Improvements in Generative AI We're seeing the acceleration behind generative AI with advances in generative video and music being recently released. grebler.medium.com/steady-im…
Steady Improvements in Generative AI

Steady Improvements in Generative AI

Generative video continues to advance quickly. It seems like every week there’s another startup that releases a tool that allows you to…

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Generated On The Fly The next set of AI tools will be prompt-to-experience. grebler.medium.com/generated…
Generated On The Fly

Generated On The Fly

Another Two Minute Paper video came out that discussed a new AI experiment that was able to generated the game Minecraft on the fly… at 20…

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The White Knuckle Future I tried self-driving mode. It was terrifying... and it's our future. grebler.medium.com/the-white…

The White Knuckle Future

On my 16th birthday, as was a tradition in my house, I went to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation office on Walkley Road in Ottawa and…

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The Joy of Garbage Day There's something very special about garbage being picked up close to your home. It's magical. grebler.medium.com/the-joy-o…
The Joy of Garbage Day

The Joy of Garbage Day

There’s a weird joy I get during garbage day.

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1.8 Billion Generations of Blood Suckers We can learn from how nature has solved problems to solve our own problems. grebler.medium.com/1-8-billi…
1.8 Billion Generations of Blood Suckers

1.8 Billion Generations of Blood Suckers

When you think about it, a mosquito that lands a snack is the product of well over a billion generations of successful mosquitos, each…

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Explorers in the further regions of experience What eating super hots has taught me about the peak-end rule. grebler.medium.com/explorers…
Explorers in the further regions of experience

Explorers in the further regions of experience

Last weekend, I attended a farmers’ market and in one of the last booths when cinnamon bun filled kids in tow started to lose their…

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A Little Bit of Q First impressions are big impressions. Better to invest in the out-of-the-box experience. grebler.medium.com/a-bit-of-…
A Bit of Q

A Bit of Q

After jumping through many hoops, I was finally able to test out Amazon Q.

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Sixteen Candles The iPhone 16 was announced today. It's come a long way since its not-so-humble beginnings. Today's apps have only scratched the surface of what's now possible with this generation of hardware and technology. grebler.medium.com/sixteen-c…
Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles

The iPhone 16 was announced today. I didn’t know about it until I saw an video recommended to me about it on YouTube.

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