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Post by mlmonkey »

100ms wrote: post #208
mlmonkey wrote: post #183

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Try being a 90-year old with minimal social contact and nobody to talk to, wasting away in front of a TV blasting NewsMax or Fox News ... does that sound like Heaven or Hell?

Substituting one form of media for another does not improve the hypothetical situation at all, giving a senior nothing to do all day except talk to a spreadsheet is not a solution to that senior being lonely, it is a false dichotomy. Far lower tech solutions can be (and are) used. In my locale we have volunteer schoolchildren active in the community, as far as I know that's quite common, and even half an hour biweekl…

I speak from experience. The last few weekends I've been taking a friend to see her grandma at a Senior Facility in Sonoma County, and it is really depressing to watch them either lying in bed, listlessly, or in a wheelchair, gazing away in the distance.

They need interaction. And a suitably prompted LLM _can_ provide such interaction. I'm not saying hook them up with ChatGPT and let them loose, but that with the right harnesses and guardrails, they could have a more interactive life.

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Post by overgard »

dansquizsoft wrote: post #383
Fraterkes wrote: post #134

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Hey! Bit of an unusual question maybe: if this stuff further exarcerbates the loneliness epidemic and atomization of society, will you be able to live with yourself you think? If you hear about teenagers only spending time with your chatbot in 5 years, will you feel some amount of personal responsibility or not? Always curious to hear you guys' perspective on that kind of stuff!

So many wet blankets on this post today with these types of questions...

Its weird how years of relentless doom trolling and threatening peoples livelihoods, mixed with absolutely real, measurable, AWFUL societal impacts have soured people!

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Post by dannyw »

jjulius wrote: post #381
supern0va wrote: post #365

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Every time something along these lines is posted, comments like this show up. The thing I don't get is...no one would say this about listening to a podcast or audiobook on a walk. I'm not sure why people choose to demonize this specific use of time during walks.

> ...no one would say this about listening to a podcast or audiobook on a walk. I highly recommend simply enjoying the walk. :)

People can enjoy different things, people can be neurodiverse, different strokes for different things, etc.

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Post by fg137 »

simonw wrote: post #376
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #285

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One thing has remained constant over the last little period of time. AI boosters have zero taste.

I never considered that how I spend my time while walking my dog might be a matter of "taste".

Perhaps that's the definition of taste (or lack of).

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Post by jamilton »

anon-3988 wrote: post #407
batperson wrote: post #371

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Social people will be fine, I think this tech is far more important for lonely people who for any reason don't get to socialize much (if at all), this is especially common in older people. These people might not have any other alternatives.

> I think this tech is far more important for lonely people who for any reason don't get to socialize much (if at all), this is especially common in older people. Uhm, those lonely people need to get out and start talking. How is this going to help society? This is going to make it worse. Oh that kid is kinda quite and sad? Throw him an iPad. Oh that adult is kinda bored and wandering aimlessly? Throw him into a casi…

>Uhm, those lonely people need to get out and start talking.

Great, what is being done to help that happen?

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Post by WhitneyLand »

athyuttamre wrote: post #334
WhitneyLand wrote: post #224

Much better than it was before but it’s still significantly weaker than a direct chat. For example I asked “Why should LLM attention use dot product instead of cosine similarity, being that we often hear vector magnitude does not encode most of the useful information needed”? The voice response was directionally right but lacked detail and was a little hand wavy. The answer to the same question in a text chat was muc…

A lot of this is steerable! Our current personality is optimized for brainstorming and conversations, but you can provide custom instructions to ask it to go deep and give you info-dense or more technical answers.

That would be cool, but is there a way to differentiate between voice mode and text only output in the custom instructions?

Otherwise, it seems like preferences could be competing.

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Post by y1n0 »

I used it a few times. It's weird. It reminded me of Christopher Walken with all the oddly placed pauses.

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Post by ygouzerh »

progval wrote: post #186
rvz wrote: post #5

With this, human translators have been totally and absolutely a solved problem with this version of real time translation. This time is the most natural version that exists and it is a natural as a conversation. To Downvoters: Why aren't you feeling the AGI?

They most definitely did not solve real time translation yet. The French in the video is barely understandable, both the translation and the pronunciation are the quality of an American who hasn't used French since high-school.

So true! I am not sure if it was on purpose that the model spoke with a so strong accent!

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Post by breezybottom »

supern0va wrote: post #365
jjulius wrote: post #150

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I highly recommend simply enjoying the walk.

Every time something along these lines is posted, comments like this show up. The thing I don't get is...no one would say this about listening to a podcast or audiobook on a walk. I'm not sure why people choose to demonize this specific use of time during walks.

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Re: GPT‑Live

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Post by breezybottom »

appreciatorBus wrote: post #411
unknownfuture wrote: post #394

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It's coming from a place of objecting to burnout/overwork culture. Recently I witnessed a CTO mention in a public channel that with Claude remote control people can now work while getting a coffee or other breaks during the day. Tech is actively moving in a direction of destroying all the gains from the labour movement in service of enriching capital out of a combination of FOMO or fear of being replaced. So yeah, wh…

Nah. Workers in 2026, even non-tech workers have an easier life than workers alive at any other point in human history. Yes ofc there are problems - collectivist land use laws that ban construction near homeowners continue to drive housing costs higher for example. But if you asked any worker today if they would have preferred to be alive 40 or 400 years ago I would be shocked if any said yes.

That's a pretty wild take. There used to be a lot of good paying union jobs. It was much better to be a worker before Reaganism/Thatcherism.
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