The AI discussion thread

[[DHT]Osiris]

Hahaha true. Subjected to so much second hand smoke we may as well have been smoking lol. It's kind of funny looking back, how common smoking inside was. My dad even has a picture of himself in the hospital with a cast since he broke his arm, and in his other hand he had a lit cigarette, inside the hospital!

More correct than you realize, good chance many of us will develop lung cancer from our parents/those around us smoking with us in the room.

 

[Kaido]

Hahaha true. Subjected to so much second hand smoke we may as well have been smoking lol. It's kind of funny looking back, how common smoking inside was. My dad even has a picture of himself in the hospital with a cast since he broke his arm, and in his other hand he had a lit cigarette, inside the hospital!

Remember how restaurants would have half of the dining hall portioned off for smoking? I would go places as a kid with asthma & just sit there hacking it up lol.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Remember how restaurants would have half of the dining hall portioned off for smoking? I would go places as a kid with asthma & just sit there hacking it up lol.

Lol yeah, we had a Tim Horton's that actually had a glass wall to contain the smoke, and all you could see was a big haze in there, but most places didn't enclose it, so it's like, what's the point lol. The donuts always tasted like cigarette too.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The donuts always tasted like cigarette too.

Yuck!

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Yuck!

Yeah, if you didn't grow up in a smoking home, it was a horror show that you didn't realize you were in until you left. The yellow keyboards, the off-white walls, ceilings, clothes. Inability to smell or taste anything. Burn marks in the car roof and door frame from missed attempts to throw lit paper out at highway speeds...

 

[Ken g6]

Meanwhile, back at the AI...

OpenAI President Greg Brockman quits as shocked employees hold all-hands meeting

Details emerge in Sam Altman firing, which blindsided Microsoft and investors.

arstechnica.com

Greater things??? What could be bigger than ChatGPT?

This would seem to be the right question.

OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The project is further rumored to be called "Q*", or Q-star.

I really hope it's unrelated to Q-anon. 🤢

 

[JEDI]

Waiting for AI to be able to mimic someone's personality by reading their txt msgs and social media postings so when they die, you can still talk to them.
ie: parents, grandparents

 

[igor_kavinski]

so when they die, you can still talk to them.

But it would be like talking to a ghost. I can see this happening but personally, I don't think it would be really engaging unless someone has serious issues in letting go.

 

[Kaido]

Waiting for AI to be able to mimic someone's personality by reading their txt msgs and social media postings so when they die, you can still talk to them.
ie: parents, grandparents

Already exists! 3 options:

1. Reading text (audiobooks, messages, etc.)
2. Recording answers to questions
3. Doing Q&A as a chatbot

StoryFile is a neat service where someone can record answers to questions. William Shatner did nearly 600 questions:

William Shatner - StoryFile

storyfile.com

It's called "grief tech":

AI afterlife: 'Grief tech' is bringing loved ones back from the dead

AI-powered technology is being used to develop chatbot avatars of people's deceased relatives, preserving their memories and helping with grief.

www.euronews.com

They even have a service that makes the answers conversational using AI:

HereAfter AI — Interactive Memory App — Try Free

Try HereAfter, the interactive memory-sharing app that preserves precious stories for the whole family to hear, free for 14 days. No obligation. Cancel any time.

www.hereafter.ai

In its current form, HereAfter AI’s technology is tightly based on retrieving things that people have recorded, but in the future, it hopes to utilise a large language model like ChatGPT to enhance its conversational abilities - with the caveat that it remains restricted to the information given.

"It wouldn’t be able to talk as freely about as many things, but it would also be constrained in its knowledge so it’s not randomly sourcing information to who knows who on the Internet".

Weird, but cool!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Waiting for AI to be able to mimic someone's personality by reading their txt msgs and social media postings so when they die, you can still talk to them.
ie: parents, grandparents

That would be kind of freaky, but I could actually see people being into that. Give them a sense that the person still is around.

Kinda like when you get to talk to dead people in dreams, for that moment it really feels like you're with them.

 

[Kaido]

That would be kind of freaky, but I could actually see people being into that. Give them a sense that the person still is around.

Kinda like when you get to talk to dead people in dreams, for that moment it really feels like you're with them.

Imagine this:

1. Initial recording of the person (photos, videos, questions answered for data)
2. AI interface (live Q&A chatbot using recorded data)
3. Hologram chat interface (Google, Logitech, etc. have these) to get the presence aspect

Google's version: (Project Starline)

Logitech's version: (Project Ghost)

 

[Kaido]

RIP logo designer jobs: (login to see animated examples in the Twitter thread)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728695833254883692

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Absolutely ridiculous lol

 

[Kaido]

 

[Zorba]

That would be kind of freaky, but I could actually see people being into that. Give them a sense that the person still is around.

Kinda like when you get to talk to dead people in dreams, for that moment it really feels like you're with them.

My Dad died when I was 10. I could see something like the being cool to get to "experience" a conversation with him as an adult. Not really for grief, but as a way of filling in blanks. For someone like my mom that I've known well into adulthood, I think I'd prefer just keeping my memories "pure."

A few years ago (right before COVID actually), I went through all of our old home videos looking for videos of him and just found a few really short clips, which really upset me. So at the beginning of COVID I made a point to film my mom and in laws just encase.

 

[cytg111]

Meanwhile, back at the AI...


This would seem to be the right question.

OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

The project is further rumored to be called "Q*", or Q-star.

I really hope it's unrelated to Q-anon. 🤢

Yea the rumors seem to indicate AGI.

Also, the breakthrough might be centered around the concept of the AI creating its own training data and that sort of sent things screaming to the sky.

Recall about the singularity, the core concept is that when the AI reaches a maturity where it's able to improve on its own code it's an exponential growth factor that takes off?
It sort of smells a bit like it, doesnt it?

edit: And with AGI... well, we're all f'ed.

 

[Kaido]

And with AGI... well, we're all f'ed.

Not a hard problem to solve!

 

[igor_kavinski]

Not a hard problem to solve!

There's just one problem. Suppose the next generation of humans becomes entirely dependent on AGI. They stop learning about basic stuff, like electronics, the electric grid, power generation. Everything we take for granted. They just build it or even tell the AGI to build robots that in turn build all that infrastructure. Once the AGI has locked humans into a permanent dependent state like that, there's no telling what it might do. Pulling the plug would mean losing all the amenities and comforts of life which in future, could include breathable air and drinkable water because those can no longer be used without filtration that is controlled by AGI.

 

[cytg111]

Not a hard problem to solve!

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Thats not how that is going to play out, the partisans that benefits from a particular AI is the same peeps that’ll keep the power on.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

There's just one problem. Suppose the next generation of humans becomes entirely dependent on AGI. They stop learning about basic stuff, like electronics, the electric grid, power generation. Everything we take for granted. They just build it or even tell the AGI to build robots that in turn build all that infrastructure. Once the AGI has locked humans into a permanent dependent state like that, there's no telling what it might do. Pulling the plug would mean losing all the amenities and comforts of life which in future, could include breathable air and drinkable water because those can no longer be used without filtration that is controlled by AGI.

We already have that, we just don't acknowledge it. There's entire sectors of industry dependent on the arcane knowledge of a few individuals, and entire supply chains that depend on each other for functionality, where nobody has all the manufacturing knowledge of the entire chain. We're already dependent on a system we don't really have insight into, we just trust that things will keep on rolling. I don't have any further concern over AGI controlling things than I do with humans controlling them.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

RIP logo designer jobs: (login to see animated examples in the Twitter thread)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728695833254883692

Try it for free:

AI Logo Maker | Logo Maker | Logo Diffusion

Create custom logos in seconds with Logo Diffusion's AI Logo Maker. Start from sketches or text prompts and control every detail. Perfect for professionals and beginners, our tool uses the latest design trends to deliver high-quality results fast.

logodiffusion.com

Features include:

* Text to logo
* Sketch to logo
* Image to a logo
* 2D logo into 3D logo
* Text effects
* Logo to illustration

Absolutely ridiculous lol

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How long until this well is poisoned and all simple sketches “evolve” into a penis?

 

[Kaido]

There's just one problem. Suppose the next generation of humans becomes entirely dependent on AGI. They stop learning about basic stuff, like electronics, the electric grid, power generation. Everything we take for granted. They just build it or even tell the AGI to build robots that in turn build all that infrastructure. Once the AGI has locked humans into a permanent dependent state like that, there's no telling what it might do. Pulling the plug would mean losing all the amenities and comforts of life which in future, could include breathable air and drinkable water because those can no longer be used without filtration that is controlled by AGI.

Nah, there will ALWAYS be job opportunities available!!

 

[Kaido]

Windows Terminal now has AI chat:

Terminal Chat in Windows Terminal Canary

At Build 2023, we announced that Windows Terminal users will be able to take advantage of natural language AI to recommend commands, explain errors and take actions within Windows Terminal. Since then, we have been listening to customer feedback and iterating on our AI chat experiments in...

devblogs.microsoft.com

Currently, it exclusively supports Azure's OpenAI service, so you need to provide an endpoint & key, so you have to create & deploy an OpenAI Service resource (consumption-based pricing). Note that they are also open-sourcing it:

Microsoft open sources Terminal Chat to enable community collaboration on AI chat feature - SD Times

This move aligns with the team's desire to let users and developers shape the future of AI in the Windows Terminal

sdtimes.com

Download here:

GitHub - microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! - GitHub - microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same...

github.com

Canary is their nightly release & can be installed concurrent with the stable & preview Terminal releases, so you can mess around with it without affecting system functionality:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windows-terminal-canary/

Terminal in general is pretty nice these days & is now the default launcher for all things command prompt & whatnot:

Windows Terminal is now the Default in Windows 11

The day has finally come! Windows Terminal is now the default command line experience on Windows 11 22H2! 🎉 This means that all command line applications will now automatically open in Windows Terminal. This blog post will go into how this setting is enabled,

devblogs.microsoft.com

Command Prompt, Powershell, etc. are all in Terminal instances as of Win11 22H2:

Command Prompt and Windows Powershell for Windows 11 - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com

Bit of history;

Will Windows Terminal Replace Command Prompt?

Will Windows Terminal replace Command Prompt? Learn from Christopher Nguyen a Program Manager on the Windows Terminal team at Microsoft.

techcommunity.microsoft.com

Basic introduction guide to Terminal itself:

How to get started using Windows Terminal app on Windows 11

If you're new to the Windows Terminal, read this guide.

www.windowscentral.com

Also, Copilot preview is also available for Windows 10 users:

Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot for Windows 10 is now available to test

Microsoft is bringing more AI features to Windows 10.

www.theverge.com

I'm betting Microsoft is hoping that AI chat will overtake Google for searching, as it makes things more conversational & more tailored to what you're looking for. Regardless of that...pretty cool to have an open-source Terminal Chat with an all-inclusive Windows Terminal (CMD prompt, Powershell, etc.) that launches by default as of Win11 22H2! Same deal with WSL2:

Comparing WSL Versions

WSL 2 provides the benefits of WSL 1, but uses an actual Linux kernel, rather than a translation layer like WSL 1, resulting in faster performance.

learn.microsoft.com

Being able to do Linux with an integrated VM is pretty neat:

What is Windows Subsystem for Linux

Learn about the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including the different versions and ways you can use them.

learn.microsoft.com

The open-source nerds are slowing taking over Microsoft, haha! I'd love to see this ported into something like FreeDOS, haha! They already have the chatGPT-shell-cli shell script for Linux: (which includes GPT-4 support!)

Using ChatGPT from the Command Line is Easy on Linux - OMG! Linux

Want to use ChatGPT on Linux without a web browser? I took a look at Bavarder, a GTK ChatGPT app for Linux recently (note: this app also supports a number

www.omglinux.com

Windows Terminal also supports bash via WSL FYI. So there are plenty of neat options to play with for us keyboard warriors!!

 

[KMFJD]

Microsoft needs to allow us to uninstall this shit if we want, not disable, uninstall

 

[Kaido]

Has science gone too far?

 

[Kaido]

Re: recent drama. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm