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The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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Outboard TB 3/4 storage only seems expensive until you price it against Apple's native storage. Is it slower? Of course! Is it fast enough? Probably.

I recently moved my macOS installation to an external Thunderbolt drive - it's faster than the internal SSD.

Considering storage is a wasting asset and what Apple charges, this makes perfect sense to me.

Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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I’m not sure I would necessarily call YouTube a moat-creator for Google, since the content on YouTube is for all intents and purposes public data.

There is a difference between downloading a few videos and having access to ALL of them.

Not to mention all the metadata buried inside their internal api

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Ok, crazy tangent; Where agents will potentially become extremely useful/dystopian is when they just silently watch your entire screen at all times. Isolated, encrypted and local preferably. Imagine it just watching you coding for months, planning stuff, researching things, it could potentially give you personal and professional advice from deep knowledge about you. "I noticed you code this way, may i recommend this…

And then imagine when employers stop asking for resume, cover letters, project portfolios, github etc and instead ask you to upload your entire locally trained LLM.

Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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post #124

Ok, crazy tangent; Where agents will potentially become extremely useful/dystopian is when they just silently watch your entire screen at all times. Isolated, encrypted and local preferably. Imagine it just watching you coding for months, planning stuff, researching things, it could potentially give you personal and professional advice from deep knowledge about you. "I noticed you code this way, may i recommend this…

>Isolated, encrypted and local of course. And what is the likelihood of that "of course" portion actually happening? What is the business model that makes that route more profitable compared to the current model all the leaders in this tech are using in which they control everything?

Given that http://rewind.ai is doing just that, the odds are pretty good!

Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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Unless you live in the EU and have laws that should protect you from that.

incentives cannot be fixed with just prohibitive laws, war on drags should've taught you something

It's not a complete fix but I'm sure a law with teeth can make a big difference. There's a big difference in being data mined by a big corp with the law on its side and a criminal organisation or their customers that has to cover their tracks to not get multi million dollar fines.

Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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I was thinking about this a while back, once AI is able to analyze video, images and text and do so cheap & efficiently. It's game over for privacy, like completely. Right now massive corps have tons of data on us, but they can't really piece it together and understand everything. With powerful AI every aspect of your digital life can be understood. The potential here is insane, it can be used for so many different t…

Unless you live in the EU and have laws that should protect you from that.

That's only on paper - in practice the GDPR has a major enforcement problem.

Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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In modern world open code often doesn't mean much. E.g. Chrome is opensourced. And yet no one really contributes to it or has any say over the direction its going: https://twitter.com/RickByers/status/1715568535731155100

Open source isn't meant to give everyone control over a specific project. It's meant to make it so, if you don't like the project, you can fork it and chart your own direction for it.

exactly. open source doesn't mean you can tell other people what to do with their time and/or money. it does mean that you can use your own time and/or money to make it what you want it to be. The fact that there are active forks of Chromium is a pretty good indicator that it is working

Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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Guess the author didn't bother to check that those books actually are correct? The first one I checked, "Growing Up with Lucy by April Henry" doesn't exist. The actual book is by Steve Grand, and it's very obviously so in the video used as input.

So a cool demo, but sadly useless for anything more.

Re: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

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post #124

Ok, crazy tangent; Where agents will potentially become extremely useful/dystopian is when they just silently watch your entire screen at all times. Isolated, encrypted and local preferably. Imagine it just watching you coding for months, planning stuff, researching things, it could potentially give you personal and professional advice from deep knowledge about you. "I noticed you code this way, may i recommend this…

>Isolated, encrypted and local of course. And what is the likelihood of that "of course" portion actually happening? What is the business model that makes that route more profitable compared to the current model all the leaders in this tech are using in which they control everything?

Maybe it doesn't have to be more profitable. Even if open source models would always be one step behind the closed ones that doesn't mean they won't be good enough.
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