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<p>Published 8 September 2025</p>
<p>e528 with Michael, Andy and Michael &#8211; stories about AI image editing with Nano Banana, GAN enabled LLM evolution with R-Zero, MentraOS open source smart glasses, automotive software, Making Monsters, Kazeta and a whole lot more.</p>
<p>Michael, Andy and Michael get things rolling with the Nano Banana image editing software from Google.&nbsp; While the generated and altered images are very sophisticated, there are still a few tells that the photos came from AI.&nbsp; An example from the Washington Post article calls out the “AI gibberish” replacement of numbers on the phone keypad &#8211; while the replacement of the human in the phone booth with a water buffalo replete with smart ring is ultra realistic.&nbsp; Andy’s ChatGPT generated nano banana is a fun visualization for an atom-sized banana, even though he was “AI-splained” by the chatbot that “a banana at that scale couldn’t exist in any realistic way.” Ha! &nbsp;</p>
<p>The team touches on a couple more AI stories dealing with with the Fast-VLM video captioning model and a generative adversarial network method of self evolving reasoning LLM with R-Zero.&nbsp; Next is a springboard for the MentraOS open source smart glasses operating system that reminds the team of Andy’s experience in 2024 with the Brilliant Labs Monocle. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Then the co-hosts talk about automotive software &#8211; and the challenges posed by the need to troubleshoot and correct for the intersection between evolving software and existing hardware.&nbsp; The frequency for software updates for a vehicle, phones and more requires a level of testing and integration that can be very frustrating when things don’t work as expected.&nbsp; Understatement of the year, I’m sure.</p>
<p>Wrapping up the episode are a couple of games &#8211; a kickstarter called Making Monsters, Office Job, which has a television sized screen and suitcase sized mouse and Kazeta for cartridge gaming.</p>
<p>What’s been your most frustrating automotive software experience?&nbsp; Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know!&nbsp;</p>
<p>These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.&nbsp; All rights reserved.&nbsp; That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Selected Links</strong></h2>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size"><strong>AI</strong></h2>
<p>Washington Post article: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/01/gemini-flash-nano-banana-ai-photo-editing/">Masterful photo edits now just take a few words. Are we ready for this?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://nano-banana.org">Nano Banana AI Image Editing</a></p>
<p>9 to 5 Mac article: <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/01/you-can-try-apples-lightning-fast-video-captioning-model-right-from-your-browser/">You can try Apple’s lightning-fast video captioning model right from your browser</a></p>
<p><a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/apple/fastvlm-webgpu">FastVLM-webgpu</a> on Huggingface Spaces</p>
<p>Venture Beat article: <a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/forget-data-labeling-tencents-r-zero-shows-how-llms-can-train-themselves">Forget data labeling: Tencent’s R-Zero shows how LLMs can train themselves</a></p>
<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05004">R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data</a> paper on arXiv</p>
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<p>Unacceptable situation to wear camera glasses of the moment: while doing a bikini wax<a href="https://futurism.com/wax-center-meta-glasses" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/wax-center-meta-g</span><span class="invisible">lasses</span></a></p>
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            &mdash; Mike Elgan (@MikeElgan@mastodon.social)
            <a class="ftf-fediverse-post-embed-link" href="https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/115124467482884584">2025-08-31T17:06:05.260Z</a>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS">MentraOS</a> Open Source Smart Glasses OS on Github</p>
<p>Games at Work <a href="https://gamesatwork.biz/2024/02/12/e453-vision-pro-a-pro-pro/">e453: Vision Pro a Pro-Pro</a> (for Brilliant Labs Frame)</p>
<p>Games at Work <a href="https://gamesatwork.biz/2023/10/16/e436-squishy-purple-doom/">e436: Squishy Purple Doom</a> (for Andy’s experience with Brilliant Labs Monocle)</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size"><strong>Automotive Software</strong></h2>
<p>TechCrunch article: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/01/bmw-i-am-so-breaking-up-with-you/">BMW, I am so breaking up with you</a></p>
<p>BMWblog post: <a href="https://www.bmwblog.com/2024/10/11/bmw-digital-key-issues-ios-18/">Apple’s iOS 18 Update Is Causing BMW Digital Car Key Problems: Solutions Inside</a> from October 2024</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size"><strong>Games</strong></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makingmonsters/making-monsters-1">Making Monsters</a> on Kickstarter</p>
<p>Games at Work <a href="https://gamesatwork.biz/2024/02/26/e455-star-trek-vs-douglas-adams/">e455: Star Trek vs Douglas Adams</a> (for Spore)</p>
<p>Felix Fisgus post: <a href="https://felixfisgus.de/work/020_office_job">Office Job</a> from 2022</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kqxT6ynvsTc?si=Oze08V48xOHXKKN-" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://hackster.io">hackster.io</a> article: <a href="https://www.hackster.io/news/alesh-slovak-s-kazeta-turns-mini-pcs-into-90s-throwback-cartridge-based-games-consoles-eab81524c9d6">Alesh Slovak&#8217;s Kazeta Turns Mini-PCs Into &#8217;90s Throwback &#8220;Cartridge&#8221;-Based Games Consoles</a></p>
<p><a href="https://kazeta.org">Kazeta</a></p>
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