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Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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rosetremiere wrote: post #118
DC-3 wrote: post #49

Nice project OP. I also love In Our Time. Some favourite episodes off the top of my head: * Wilfred Owen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001df48 * The Evolution of Crocodiles - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zmhf * The May Forth Movement - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001282c * The Valladolid Debate - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgmw * Gerard Manley Hopkins - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m…

One thing I am slightly wary about after listening to quite a few episodes is Melvyn Braggs seems to be a bit too patriotic oftentimes. It's nothing really obvious, but you hear a lot of "we" when talking about positive aspects of english history, and a lot of focus on all english innovations compared to other countries. Maybe I'm wrong though.

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Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by rosetremiere »

gadders wrote: post #138
rosetremiere wrote: post #118

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One thing I am slightly wary about after listening to quite a few episodes is Melvyn Braggs seems to be a bit too patriotic oftentimes. It's nothing really obvious, but you hear a lot of "we" when talking about positive aspects of english history, and a lot of focus on all english innovations compared to other countries. Maybe I'm wrong though.

He's a Labour peer in the House of Lords. They're not known as a group for rampant patriotism. My criticism of him his how much he struggles with anything of a maths or scientific nature.

Good to know, it might be me putting such thought in his mouth then!

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by davidy123 »

coob wrote: post #125

90 episodes on the History of Europe and 3 on the History of Africa. Blimey

The Dewey system is famously stuck in its time and culture. Look at religion, there are multiple top level cateogries for Christian religion related things, then there's "Other religions" for everything else. At this point, it's embarassing and insulting.

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by corobo »

Here come the real AI use cases! Nice work!

AI generated content is the initial "ooh, money" wave that will be the future's basic spam to deal with.

Difference between AI and web3 is that web3 didn't have a real use case to follow the gold rush phase :x

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by sho_hn »

basch wrote: post #117
EZ-Cheeze wrote: post #111

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That is the truly mind-blowing thing that's coming. I am currently creating reference images for a game which I expect within 6-12 months I'll be able to feed into a multimodal ChatGPT to create 3D assets out of the 2D pics. We'll be able to conjure up worlds at a whim - so start imagining them already!

Mark gets a lot of flack for metaverse, but can imagine world design where you start in a blank room and describe what you want around you, and it appears. Like the Matrix loading white room. And with voice recognition and eye tracking (and brain scans), how close are we to “you have to use your hands? It’s like a baby’s toy.”

This was always the coolest capability of Star Trek's holodecks, not the projector technology. Super cool that we might just get there within the lifetime of someone who watched the show in the 80s.

My favorite Star Trek episode has always been "Identity Crisis". Not because it's one of the good ones, it's pretty clunky. But it contains a fantastic 5-7 minute long montage featuring Geordi La Forge interacting with computers (by touch, voice and on the holodeck) to solve a murder mystery, analyzing and live-manipulating 3D "holo footage" to discover a vital clue. Whoever imagined that sequence is the hero of my childhood and perhaps the reason I became a software engineer, doing an oddball mix of HMI and systems engineering.

There's so much in that sequence. The free mixing of different input modes, the complementary collaboration between a human and an AI system, carrying state with you from room to room. Analyzing and generating. Following instructions and making suggestions. Powerful inference, precision of control.

We're getting close now!

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by mellosouls »

rosetremiere wrote: post #128
petesergeant wrote: post #119

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Seems pretty reasonable for a national broadcaster, no? Also British encompasses more than just the English, unless you specifically mean he’s excluding the other Home Nations…

Sorry, I didn't mean English more than British (the distinction being a bit too subtle for me to make). It's "par for the course" I guess for a national broadcaster, but: * That doesn't mean it's not less than ideal. * It's something one might want to bear in mind, when listening, since it might introduce some kind of a bias to the whole thing (maybe the other comment about number of episodes about european vs africa…

Wrt bias it's actually a refreshing change for some of us to hear the voice of a traditional (old-school) leftist, as they tend to be more interested in actual social problems rather than the made-up ones that infest modern discourse, and - perhaps - shift the centre so much that plain common-sense is now perceived as "bias".

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by ewalk153 »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #91
v7n wrote: post #81

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Bit of a tangent but I also predict an explosive demand for parametric AI-first design and simulation software. OpenSCAD works right now in the sense that the produced source is valid, but asking for even something well documented e.g. an AR-15 lower receiver does not impress.

Fusion 360 has a generative AI design extension already. Never used it, I’m too much a poor to use something like that.

There is a free hobby plan for Fusion 360 that I use for my personal projects.

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Post by yarbas89 »

brutusborn wrote: post #122
samplatt wrote: post #101

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My previous boss (we were in the civil construction industry) has been saying for years that we are on the cusp of an industry-shattering breakthrough with generative engineering. We should be able to, by now, input terrain maps, account for local water ways & rainfall, and Autodesk's Brobdingnagian suite of tools should be able to spit out a whole new suburban package, engineered to local country/city engineering st…

I'm about to start work in this space. Some companies are getting close to full building automation, Augmenta seems to me to be closest / have the best approach. [0] Although the complexity of building standards is a challenge, the speed and quality of various generative algorithms are still major limitations. [0] https://www.augmenta.ai/

Thanks for linking augmenta. I was wondering if you know of other similar companies? I'm an experienced structural engineer who's just completed an MSc in Comp.Sci. I want to combine the two disciplines and so far I've only been looking for consultants who utilise parametric design (Rhino + Grasshopper).

Re: Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Post by amiga386 »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #93
flir wrote: post #58

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This is great. I'll certainly be thinking of "classification" uses for ChatGPT in the future. Thinking out loud: Add the experts, not just the reading lists. They're a jumping-off point into academic-paper-space. What have they published? In what journals? Who have they collaborated with?

Here’s a powerful use - content moderation. Today we literally traumatize content moderators with the dregs of the human mind. Chatgpt is fairly good at identifying the classification of content on many dimensions, including the ones it’s actively screens for. Regardless of how you personally feel about content moderation, I would be happy to see humans not have to be actively involved in it and face the traumas they…

Automating your moderation policies is a cop-out. It isolates you even further from the peons whose lives you're controlling.

European humans have the right for any automated decision affecting them to be reviewed by a human. We do not want a world where a tiny handful of people, getting fewer by the day if it's Twitter, have untrammeled control over what billions of people can say, see or do. We can't let businesses do what they like, change their policies on a whim and have it instantaneously applied by automatons, if it's bringing misery to millions of people.

Remember those old-fashioned things called laws? Courts? Judges? Legislators? The things we used to use for deciding what people could/couldn't do, before tiny companies with billions of users applied their own de-facto laws with no oversight, governance or accountability. Move fast and break things!

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