Giving a Robot Three Voices
Building a three-persona TTS pipeline for a Pi robot — MLX voice cloning, a GLaDOS model, and engineering graceful fallback.
Tag: ai
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Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon
Clone a voice from a 15-second sample using Qwen3-TTS on an 8GB M1 Mac — from raw audio to a production HTTP server with zero cloud dependency.
Beyond Context Windows
What if the LLM didn't read your document — what if it queried it? The Recursive Language Model pattern treats long texts as environment, not input.
Safety-First Therapeutic AI
Building AI for trauma therapy means the safety architecture has to exist before a single therapeutic feature does. Here's why.
The Robot That Refuses to Give Orders
How SPARK is rewriting the rules of neurodivergent support — a non-coercive AI companion for AuDHD children.
Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason
Reformulating harmful prompts as poetry bypasses safety filters across every major LLM family. A single-turn, universal jailbreak mechanism.
The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails
90% of companies plan to increase AI investment. 1% consider themselves AI-mature. The J-Curve explains why — and how to survive the trough.
The Legal AI Trust Deficit
75% of lawyers cite accuracy as their top AI concern. The legal profession's core values are in direct tension with current AI capabilities.
120 Models, 18,176 Prompts: What We Found
120 models, 18k prompts, 5 attack families. The raw compliance numbers — and why calling them "attack success" needs a demonstrated refusal floor.
Reconciling the Great Divergence
Four major forecasters publish wildly divergent numbers for AI's economic impact. The divergence is the analysis — what the spread tells us.
The Cognitive Cage: Humanoid Robot Fatality Risk
A probabilistic risk model for VLA-driven humanoid fatalities projects a 'Danger Zone' between 2027–2029: the mechanism, timeline, and what follows.
The NotebookLM Pipeline
How I automated audio overviews, quizzes, mind maps, and infographics for 32 projects via an unofficial NotebookLM CLI and a stack of shell scripts.