What a bonanza for opposing counsel of any kind. (which is a bummer, as there are lots of interesting uses for digitizing our lives if the data could be guaranteed to remain private)
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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
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#82I remember an Asimov short story in which scientists developed a machine that could see backward in time. If I recall correctly, the upshot was the government became terrified because any machine that can see 1000 years into the past can also see 1000 milliseconds into the past and therefore functionally be used to spy on anyone in real time.
There was an article some years ago (2 or 3?), that described a drone (or drones?) that flew 24/7 over Mexico city taking high resolution video of the entire city at all times. Whenever there was a crime, the police could zoom into that location at the time of the crime and then run backwards to see where the vehicles came from. They then knocked on that door. I'm disappointed that I can't seem to find it using Googl…
Not sure about the Mexico City drone, but a similar thing was developed by the US military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
I know some folks who deployed during OEF/OIF and used these types of systems. Many a night raids were conducted simply by watching where attackers originated from.
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#83In some jurisdictions it’s illegal to record a conversation without all-party consent. Example:
https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide/massachusetts...
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, actually, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be made by putting together simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words. The shortened list makes simpler the effort to learn spelling and pronunci…
Anyone reminded of XKCD's "Up goer five" strip ( https://xkcd.com/1133/ ), or is it just me?
He expanded the idea into a book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_Explainer
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#85> My biggest problem with “OK Google” is that I don’t know by heart what it can do interactively Maybe it’s just me but this feels unaddressed and that seems ridiculous. Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?
Other OK Google problems:
o it changes. who cares if you know even some "commands"... it'll break. I used to ask google maps when driving "Ok Google, ETA". It's been many many years since that stopped working.
o can't change name/ATTN keyword. how dumb is your AI that you can't even rename _your_ assistant. /s
Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#86What are the limitations of numbers as descriptors of Being?
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#87> My biggest problem with “OK Google” is that I don’t know by heart what it can do interactively Maybe it’s just me but this feels unaddressed and that seems ridiculous. Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?
Other OK Google problems: o it changes. who cares if you know even some "commands"... it'll break. I used to ask google maps when driving "Ok Google, ETA". It's been many many years since that stopped working. o can't change name/ATTN keyword. how dumb is your AI that you can't even rename _your_ assistant. /s
Oh yeah the constant syntax changes got me to stop using it entirely.
Commands would suddenly lead to web searches, I'd then have to Google the new set of magic words to make it set a reminder or whatever, only for it to break again two weeks later.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure what side of the debate you're taking here, but I think you've outlined the issue perfectly. Engineers: "We couldn't have a list of commands, that's not how humans work, you're supposed to treat Alexa like a human, and the possibilities are endless" Users: "Ok, then. Alexa, take out the trash." Alexa: "Sorry, I can't do that." (Ok, so obviously the possibilities aren't endless, right?) I can somewhat underst…
> (Ok, so obviously the possibilities aren't endless, right?) This does not follow from the above. The set of positive integers is countably infinite. So is the set of positive even integers. Even if "half of the positive integers are missing!" there are still "endless" even postive integers.
> This does not follow from the above
Well, I elaborated after. There's an actual finite set of skills that are coded up by actual engineers. A natural language system isn't hallucinating the ABI for the function calls that send text messages. There's code there which takes the utterance and sends the texts. What I'm saying is that you can take an inventory of what skills have been written (and/or are installed), and y'know... document them somewhere.
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#89This is awesome! I've been recording myself (video/audio) for the last couple years on and off (thousands of hours) and have no efficient way of processing the info. Was not aware of Whisper and what he's done is exactly what I'm looking to pull off.
The GPT-3 idea is scary and most certainly the future. I can't stand the world of never ending 'Moviefone' menus and chatbots, but when it's me that gets to be the machine response the future doesn't seem so annoying. Would be nice to have my own GPT-3 model that I can use to "get to a real person" when calling places.
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#90>RELATIONSHIP THERMOMETER >According to studies on couple relationships, it is possible to predict with an accuracy of up to 90% if the couple is going to divorce by studying the interactions, specifically the relationship between positive and negative interactions between the couple Apparently the studies that were used to reach that conclusion does no such thing and were hilariously flawed. https://slate.com/human-…
literally horoscopes for tech bros. I am starting to be slightly concerned that there's actually people out there who think some sentiment analysis python package is going to tell them what their individual relationships are like.