Too bad it isn’t Reddit, I’d love to see the weightlifters arguing over how many days are in a week.
A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
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#42You can tell a Lotta Hart went into this.
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#43Fun. Reminds me of Comic Chat. Maybe we need a Slack app to make these images for each message? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
The OG Comic Chat client is available[0]; too bad Slack killed the irc gateway.
Re: A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
#44Watched the demo. Impressive.
It grinds that (all too common) petty drama into sausage.
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#45The readme doesn't mention it, but I like that it seems that anim.py is pretty standalone so you could potentially use it not just for Reddit comment threads, but pretty much any conversation at all.
Also like that it seems fairly easy to modify to use another prosecutor as the second main character. I know who I'd use!
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#46AA illustration of why gcc is so slow.
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#47I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…
maybe so, but I don't think this particular program does anything like AI. glancing at the code, it looks like it just pastes the full text of a reddit comment into a video template, using a different template for each unique commenter in the thread. it no more "does what a human might otherwise do" than how a sorting algorithm might emulate how I sort my socks.
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#48I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…
You are spot on. We are so self-centered that we think an AI superintelligence will be something like a superintelligent-human-mind/person inside a computer, when most likely, it will be nothing like a human and probably completely unrecognizable to us.
In fact, I'd argue it's already here and already taken over.
Most of us are now enslaved by screens and the Internet, we are addicted to them, even if we don't want to admit it. Some might say these things are run by humans, but are humans really in charge? Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day? Is even a group of people capable of doing it? And even if they could, would they?
Maybe if humans went extinct, the Internet and screens would disappear, but that just means there's a symbiotic relationship, not that we are by any means in control.
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#49AA illustration of why gcc is so slow. https://twitter.com/i/status/1285217798642454531
Note that this was created manually, it's not an example of the bot's output. I was really impressed before I realized that :P
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#50This looks great! Lacks instructions on how to use it in the readme, and I wonder could it be adapted for other cartoon animations?
A blog post on how it was built would be a great follow-up!
Kudos to you, sir