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Re: Bunny AI

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Is this not available as a standalone tool? > To enable Bunny AI, simply enable the feature under the Bunny AI panel and start generating! Where is this exactly? Also, are the other AI image generation tools that can be used now at low prices? I've tried some of the free ones, but they have two hour wait times sometimes!

Do you have a GPU? Run it locally, it's really easy.

Oh I didn't know I could do that, thanks. Yes I have a GPU. I'm on the M1 Macbook Pro.

Re: Bunny AI

#82
post #64

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These are much more robotics problems. The “AI” is probably sufficient as long as it has the correct sensors and dexterity

If this were true, restaurants would already have these robots. Also, I'm talking about real cooking, not some mechanized approximation that produces meals akin to fast food, or the microwave stuff you can already buy in the supermarket.

As a robotics engineer I don’t think it’s true that “if it were a robotics problem it would be solved.” Robotics for non industrial uses are basically in their infancy.

Also I am of the opinion that the best way to make a meal is a purpose built series of small machines to perform different tasks. So you have an onion preparation machine which peels and cores the onions and maybe also performs onion-specific slicing. You have a vegetable washing machine to wash potatoes and carrots and zucchini etc. You have various cutting chambers that feed in to various cooking systems.

Doing all of this is possible today and I don’t believe it has to be limited to the low quality food you mention. But developing all of these specialized systems is extremely expensive. I actually really hope to work on all of this stuff as a massive open source project once my open source farming robot project gains enough traction. I literally obsess over this problem.

Otherwise you could imagine something like a pair of robot arms and a vision system on a track in a normal kitchen, but again robotics really hasn’t been able to produce functional or affordable human like hands, and the software to handle them is also in its infancy (that part is an “AI problem” though.

Anyway robotics is extremely expensive and low minimum wages means it’s cheaper to abuse migrant workers in the kitchen than pay for all the R&D necessary to really solve these problems.

But my hope is that an open source project could get the ball rolling and then the costs required to finish everything could be spread among many different groups once the basic concept is proven.

Re: Bunny AI

#83
post #22

Saw a great toot yesterday. Startups and media business are looking to make a windfall on AI generated art, music, code, writing, and other services. The payment models will be subscriptions, pay per use, and other models that make more money the more content is produced. But there's still no AI (with associated mechanics) that can fold laundry. (I think the latter would be really useful.)

You put AI to create some shit for you. Sell it. Hire a cleaner, lawnmover whatever. Or better yet, make AI to sell that shit and let it hire those people.

We’re not very far from some Satoshi putting it all together.

Re: Bunny AI

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Much like my fears about bluetooth connected cars being hacked to crash on the highway, it turns out that - by and large - nobody wants to kill me (or at least, not badly enough to do anything about it).

Ah yes the nobody wants to do it to me excuse. Until you piss off the wrong person and you suddenly crash into the railing and die in an 'accident'. In a more Orwellian world. It can be used to assassinate dissidents or individuals who speak out against authoritarian regimes. It's just a tool in a box, but it's one that's simple, easy to use, and leaves no evidence.

But that’s true with or without the AI. Anyone could decide they want to kill you. Most of the time we rely on “not everyone wanting to kill everyone else” to get by.

Re: Bunny AI

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post #22

Saw a great toot yesterday. Startups and media business are looking to make a windfall on AI generated art, music, code, writing, and other services. The payment models will be subscriptions, pay per use, and other models that make more money the more content is produced. But there's still no AI (with associated mechanics) that can fold laundry. (I think the latter would be really useful.)

You put AI to create some shit for you. Sell it. Hire a cleaner, lawnmover whatever. Or better yet, make AI to sell that shit and let it hire those people. We’re not very far from some Satoshi putting it all together.

If you can just tell the AI to create something, so can all of your customers, and they know exactly what they want from it.

Re: Bunny AI

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post #39

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Ah, do you have to contract when you buy the cheap GPUs that you might use then for game streaming but you won’t do AI inference? Makes me wonder if you could first-sale-doctrine your way out of that problem by buying the GPUs on eBay and not making any agreement with Nvidia.

The software is proprietary and is governed by the license. It's not the hardware.

Can't wait for a court to toss that particular one out. "Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software" (Chamberlain v. Skylink)

Re: Bunny AI

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If I try to pencil it out, $10/mo seems maybe doable at 10% utilization and downright lucrative at 1%.

Yeah lots of services are lucrative when people buy it but hardly use it!

Some random stats for successful web services (unit is average minutes of use per day per user):

YouTube - 19 minutes

Spotify - 140 minutes

TikTok - 95 minutes

Netflix - 71 minutes

So we’re looking at roughly a 1% - 10% utilization range, depending on where your game streaming or AI inference app falls. You need to factor that in when figuring out the pricing, your competition certainly will.

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