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Re: Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

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Post by unraveller »

warangal wrote: post #36

Videos encode so much information, and it looks pretty cool when such projects extract higher level information to play with. And recent models like whisper and clip are amazing to help make sense of that information even for personal projects. We are also trying to do something similar[0], but still a lot of work remaining. Idea is to allow real time processing of any video using just a CPU. [0] https://www.youtube.…

Nice demo, any chance this tech gets ported to an android library soon? Real-time face detection via CPU would be way better than constantly uploading your video feed to aws kinesis for ML processing.

Re: Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

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Post by yencabulator »

johnathandos wrote: post #26
coding123 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think part of the magic is still lost, as we used to be very open source and free centric. These days it's all based on paid API calls.

Someone is out there building and maintaining the APIs

One hopes. If they decide to stop providing/maintaining the API, you're out of luck.

Just using APIs also misses out on the learning, community, and collaboration of open source software.

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Post by garte »

sj8822 wrote: post #48
garte wrote: post #46

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Isn't what you're describing simply "being a friend" with an encyclopedia? Why would you want to create a machine to do that if we're made like that? In a sense instead of training a machine you could steer yourself to become that person. Call it being a life coach or a pastor. That's a lot less hassle than actual, true artificial intelligence (which needs to be invented as of yet). I'm genuinely curious, not trying…

Not quite. Here is my thinking, can’t be too elaborate because I’m typing on a phone keyboard, but here it is: We live in the age of information. The amount of information out there is limitless. This being the case, the importance lies in how a human being interfaces with this vast amount of information and which information out of the vast ocean of information is presented. Therefore curation is important. User exp…

A very basic trait of our capitalistic system is that you'll always want more regardless of your actual, personal needs. You're always left wanting, always. And that's by design.

"Information" in the current sense (stats, news, (inter)national "politics") is a commodity that's being generated by the boatloads. Just because there's lots of it doesn't mean it's valuable in the sense that it actually pertains to you and your life.

So from my perspective you have the right ideas but wanting to satiate others with "information" is a bottomless pit (again, by design).

The information that is actually actionable is still right in front of us (at least in the west): it's local media (newspapers, radio, not TV). The slow, boring, local, tedious stuff. Apart from that it happens in associations, sport clubs, regional politics, NGO's.

For that, you don't need an AI.

Just fyi: I'm a doomscroller and news junkie so I'm not in a position to judge you. :)

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Post by Retric »

fragmede wrote: post #70
madaxe_again wrote: post #57

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On your old car, you can just take it apart and see how it works. Don’t have the part? Improvise. It’s heavily skill-based, and a little knowledge will take you a long way. As long as you know your fundamental toolchains, you can make any part, do any job. On your new car, it’s a series of black boxes, cables, and tubes - you don’t know and don’t care what happens inside the boxes, just what goes in, and what comes o…

Some of that's down to the internal combustion engine being this insane, complex mechanical device, with 160 years of evolution on top of it. In comparison, electric motors, are much simpler. I'm sure that all of the technology in an EV 60 years from now will be amazingly advanced, but at least for now, an EV has no PCV valve to replace, no timing belt to synchronize a crankshaft and the camshaft; no O2 sensors.

Both batteries and electric motors are far older than cars and aren’t getting more complicated any time soon.

Infotainment etc impact both equally so it’s clear EV’s will just be simpler than ICE’s coming out in the same year.

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Post by sj8822 »

garte wrote: post #73
sj8822 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite. Here is my thinking, can’t be too elaborate because I’m typing on a phone keyboard, but here it is: We live in the age of information. The amount of information out there is limitless. This being the case, the importance lies in how a human being interfaces with this vast amount of information and which information out of the vast ocean of information is presented. Therefore curation is important. User exp…

A very basic trait of our capitalistic system is that you'll always want more regardless of your actual, personal needs. You're always left wanting, always. And that's by design. "Information" in the current sense (stats, news, (inter)national "politics") is a commodity that's being generated by the boatloads. Just because there's lots of it doesn't mean it's valuable in the sense that it actually pertains to you and…

I agree with many of your points, but I think you misunderstand my intent a bit. It’s not about providing more info. It’s about providing a nurturing friend to help one in life. In addition to this, this nurturing friend would try to convey some key and crucial points about developing as a human that I think are important to understand.

Humans need to get information/transmission of a few key points that leads to their own wisdom and discernment flourishing.

This bit of information would be built into my ideal ai, and it would convey it to human beings in the most beneficial way possible. It would even be built into its character.

And humans need a supportive and nurturing friend for the rocky road that is life.

Those are my intentions

By the way, the benevolent ai would advise you to stop taking in so much new info every day (doomscrolling, too much news), as it leads to disorientation, chaos, confusion, and discombobulation in one’s mind :)

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

DieAgainAli wrote: post #62
madaxe_again wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On your old car, you can just take it apart and see how it works. Don’t have the part? Improvise. It’s heavily skill-based, and a little knowledge will take you a long way. As long as you know your fundamental toolchains, you can make any part, do any job. On your new car, it’s a series of black boxes, cables, and tubes - you don’t know and don’t care what happens inside the boxes, just what goes in, and what comes o…

Being an ex-mechanic I second this. You HAVE to specialise otherwise you’ll be left with the simple competitive jobs like tyre replacement. I specialised in new vehicles and then you have specialise in brand to actually know whats going on and how to fix said black boxes and systems. My reason for training to become a software engineer was mainly because I felt like the knowledge and on-going training you need to ret…

I like to read comments from non IT people on HN, It's awesome that you were able change careers across different domains and still transfer skills.

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Post by EchoReflection »

So I've taken to saving many, many posts from HN with https://web.archive.org/save/ and this is the amusing result I got when trying to save this one: "This host has been already captured 100,091.0 times today. Please try again tomorrow. Please email us at "info@archive.org" if you would like to discuss this more." Haha.

Re: Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

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Post by pyfan878 »

jamesblonde wrote: post #50

I developed an online course on serverless machine learning, where you can learn some of the principles of refactoring ML systems into separate feature/training/inference pipelines: https://github.com/featurestoreorg/serverless-ml-course Some of the students have built similar systems, for example chaining Whisper and ChatGPT or translation or sentiment analysis of transcribed text, such as here (transcribe Swedish a…

Thanks for sharing! will check it out later, but this looks great.
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