Can talk to you, and more importantly listen to you, endlessly, never getting tired. Checks out
Maybe, but more probably an enormous amount of (male) usage has shifted to interaction with AI assistants via other routes. I hardly use the web interface anymore. Everything happens through applications (such as Cursor).
Exactly what I thought of when I read TFS. I have a self-designed coffee mug that is almost 30 years old that has a similar graph on it.
The image on this page, to be specific: https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...
path you bulldoze thru a forest for powerlines to your new solar or wind facility
What is this moronic strawman?
You're arguing 'deforestation through solar PV/wind is a problem'? How about you provide some evidence for that, then we'll talk.
Sure, because internet, mobile phones, wifi, social media, and AI didn't have any effect on our society.
The reason to dismiss them is this:
In 2060 the poor suckers we call the next generation are not going know what I knew, I'm guessing
Predicting the future of humanity is hard. 75 years in the future is an eternity in modern times. Even 35 years is a very, very long time.
75 years ago we barely had computers. In the USA, 20% of households did not even have a flushing toilet or running water. Cars? Phones (regular land lines!)?, TVs? Air conditioning?
See: https://ourworldindata.org/gra...
Now we're in the age of AI, we have Solar PV and wind power being massively deployed, even Dune-esque wind traps being deployed, and everything turning electric. Yes, the physics of CO2 and greenhouse gases are pretty straightforward, but the point is that there is so much new technology and science to be deployed until then (whether it be for reversing, mitigating or working around the issues) that it is crazy to claim any certainty about what the future will look like.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying "technology will solve everything and just sit back and relax", just that a dystopian barren hellscape is absolutely not something you can predict reliably or have any certainty towards.
With regard to the green and lush forests: Nature can bounce back pretty quickly, given the right circumstances: https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
Life finds a way.
Apple paid them to write code for their proprietary platform for it, so they could say industrial people want the AVP.
Given how limited/walled and niche their platform is, it makes way more sense to create applications that can be used cross-platform or that run on well-supported, open platforms. The AVP ain't that special.
There are versions of Whisper that work around the issues (and they work really, really well):
https://github.com/Purfview/wh...
Vocal extraction model:
--ff_mdx_kim2: Preprocess audio with MDX23 Kim vocal v2 model (thanks to Kimberley Jensen). [Better than HT Demucs v4 FT]
Alternative VAD (Voice activity detection) methods:
--vad_method choices:
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Enormous round floating buttons that somehow still manage to be hard to find, because they look different than all other buttons (consistency used to be a thing in UI design) and visually merge into the equally unusable list item below them. It's dreadful both ways.
PEBKAC.
It's crazy how Slashdot's commentariat has pivoted to spouting and defending the bullshit the RIAA and MPAA have always been spewing and which old Slashdot would have shat on liberally.
You think that is what they're going for? They don't care about games. This is about advancing the field of AI in general with an incredible improvement over what was previously possible (and synthesizing training data for robots). It is an incredible achievement made possible with tons of R&D money and intelligence being thrown at it.
Stop being such a cynical hater.
No, no, the 'bubble' is going to pop any time now! Half of Slashdot has been telling us that on each and every fucking AI article.
Yep, stable 5% YOY growth is now a "sluggish economy". Sure.
Also, "will impact the AI industry's ability to grow and access funding" is insane to say about China. It's the country most known for providing shitloads of government funding for industries it wants to push.
I don't see any evidence that current AI is much more than the original Eliza program from the 60's on steroids.
You need to open your eyes.
Do this: Try to have a conversation with Eliza about a reasonably advanced topic. Then do it with any of the current frontier models.
Or try this: Do a "Deep Research" request on Google's Gemini (it's free), then let it generate a website about the results for you.
Willful ignorance is not a virtue.
You do realize that the Valve Index doesn't render or compute _anything_ itself, don't you?
The Quest devices can connect to a gaming PC both via a cable and wirelessly. Having done both and knowing what the limitations of the Valve Index are, the (wireless) experience with the Quest 3 is miles ahead of it. Pancake lenses, higher resolution and refresh rate, no cable tripping you up when turning around or moving vigorously all make it much more immersive. The Quest controllers are also awesome.
I have personally only used the Quest once in another place than at home, but the general freedom of not having to be tethered and doing things like watching video, or playing visually reasonably basic games pretty much anywhere in the house is great. The wireless aspect really is a "once you've tried it, you will never want to go back" kind of thing. Cables are fine for stationary stuff like flight and race sim games, but anything where you are mobile even a slight bit, wireless is king.
You had mail. Paul read it, so ask him what it said.
