I use the "Chic-Chic-a-chic-kaw" bit from the song Oh Yeah by Yello as my message notification tone.

* Easy to hear at low volume from a distance (through tinnitus). Surprisingly long distance (high tones with a smidge of beat)
* Even if I don't hear it, others will and mention it.
* Funny accidental conversation starter (if one is into that sort of thing)

I tried one with the "Bueller" by Ben Stein (8 seconds long with the word repeated a second time), but that got annoying.

https://www.quantamagazine.org...

FTA (from This article):
"They proved that origami is 'Turing complete'"

That's the moment that got me! The whole thing went from preposterous to magical.

I wonder about two meetings. The first, committing to the idea of an online toothbrush (WTF). The second, the decision to use Java to power the idea (WTF^2).

And then the events. First, people bought the thing, millions of people (WTF). The second, someone thought to target the toothbrushes (not surprising really).

It's a fantastic story about an idea where crazy people (everyone involved) realize their whims creating and exercising a most unlikely attack vector.

The show would be called "True Brains", about zombies finally being accepted into society thanks to a technological breakthrough for feeding them...

The Police wrote about this back in 1983.

There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop

This.

Even if you aren't training, running open source LLMs at speed requires non-consumer hardware, either purchased or rented.

At that point the paid offerings by OpenAI and MS Azure OpenAI Services can look reasonable (or the entire concept of setting up the open source LLM AND the expenses look unreasonable).

Weaker hardware can provide a proof of concept, but it will be slow (although, compare the result to a human, per word, 2-3 tokens/second is faster than you over the long run...).

And that 128K token "limit" for GPT4 is rather fantastic.

Training? Yeah, you will be renting a ton GPU time for considerable $. With proper data prep a RAG solution in front of the LLM is a) faster, b) cheaper, c) far easier to maintain/alter, and d) (potentially, it's about data prep, chucking strategy, metadata, etc.) very competitive against fine tuning for results.

It's just not making the news much.

Relocate or quit.

https://coincodex.com/article/...

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1q...

It's a shit show. I don't work there but know someone that does (until pension benefit date if they can make it).

Damn, he already covered that in some manner... Thanks for that.

RIP Mr. Carlin.

What if I wish to ONLY be represented, now, and in perpetuity, by ACTUAL images, writings, and recordings (recorded / created by myself or other parties).

What if I do not want any representation of MY PERSON in an AI fashion?

Live action representations are a different story and have an existing legal framework. And can be very respectful, see Val Kilmer being Mark Twain as an exemplary example of this.

I believe Carlin would have chosen to not have AI representations of himself. But he can't make that decision.

Quality of the content is probably also a factor.......

Here's a lighthearted take on it (if that's possible), with Danny Devito.

"Dupont: We're already in you!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes, it's called Autogen. You setup different personas and let them discuss things, with or without one or more humans also involved.

It's open source. Imagine setting up personas for a team, say a web designer, project owner, and a marketing type. Give them an idea and they will pass it around from their particular point of expertise (and they maintain individual memory or state).

It's nothing that's production ready, but it's very interesting.

Matthey Berman on YouTube covers it extensively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://microsoft.github.io/au...

The overshoot hasn't caused failure due to functional limits, yet.

Water will fail first, it already is. Read up on aquafiers, at least snowfall can replenish annually (if it falls in the right places).

https://www.wri.org/insights/n...

Aqufiers will fail. Subsidence is when the land sinks from water (or oil) extracted from aqufiers. The California's Central Valley has sunk about 28 feet since the 1920s. I'm sure that's sustainable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In other news, 2-3 billion people experience water shortages:
https://www.unesco.org/en/arti...

(this is the current minimum overshoot in my opinion)

Food:

Worst food crisis since 2007, about 200 million face food ermegency or famine globally.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/n...

Political Problems: I won't even get into that.

What's the result of this? Migration.

There will be a lot of untracked migration and a ton of migrant deaths. Locals will resort to violence.

The bloody edge of all of this will be far away from the "first world" countries, where our politians are forced to promote endless growth because the other person will.

That bloody edge is called "global population control". We keep that out of sight, and wind turbines, I don't want to see that either!...

This is the graph that causes me fear:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/...

Note that the 2024 start is about .45C above 2023, which itself was a runaway record year (the sort where the scale on the graph is adjusted).

The ocean is where all of the excess heat ends up. It really heated up last year, and didn't let up.

Needs lots of tending, making sure cases are correct and that only the "correct" terms are used in their new language.

Can't have any badly spelled graffiti on the wall.

Absolute control of narrative.

There's a lot of opportunity in passthrough, in my opinion. Specially around allowing for larger spaces.

Here's a video where all of the objects created are relative to the floor and where you are located (the grass only grows where the headset goes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The concept was for controllerless interaction, with various worlds (before stopping on the project I had fire and ice worlds along with the nature one).

No market for it. And AI came along and that's far more interesting (and financially viable).

There's another video beside that one that goes over the mechanics I was using.

But for time.