Makes great sci-fi, well it could, your pitches are alright but we can already do most of these with good ol' fashion forced conception and if you can't get your followers to screw for the cause then you're probably not much of a threat. Doesn't the doomer sci-fi connect this to VR somehow? Like you don't just want to make babies, you put 'em in a maturation chamber and mature them, rapidly. Better ban VR, there's no legitimate use. I for one welcome our Meta-Clone Overlords.
OpenAI released an app last month with press-to-talk that transcribes voice-to-text, but there's no in-built text-to-speech (use a screen reader I guess?)
I think this a dumb architecture. The Whisper model has been released and runs well on an 8GB consumer GPU. Train a new head on it to produce speech until it exceeds the other voice-to-voice models, and then fine-tune it to banter instead of translate. Is that possible? Sure, but it's a pretty small model, so you wouldn't expect large LLM performance.
Also, I've seen ALL these prototypes already. They didn't just do this. It's a slow drip of old research. If they were making these headsets available for purchase at a price normal people could afford I might give a shit.
DRM makes it possible for customers to rent products they don't want to own. If that isn't "removing friction" I dunno what is. Tokenization similarly makes it possible to buy stuff and not have to worry about what the merchant will do with your info. All possible because of cryptography hardware. The alternative is subscription platforms, where the payments happen behind the curtain.
You know how you can pay for stuff at stores with your phone? That didn't just magically happen. It wasn't just "the technology got better" or whatever you tell yourself. That was called Tokenization and what made it possible was cryptographic hardware being rolled out to the masses. They love this stuff.
I'm sorry but there's a class of users who want to be able to prove they haven't made modifications and they refer to themselves as consumers. They're the people who don't jailbreak their devices for exactly that reason and this protocol will support them. Oh, and they happen to be the bulk of the users.
Yeah, cryptography is bad and consumers shouldn't be allowed to prove their browser hasn't been modified or have safety when using biometrics or making payments.
Every time someone says that therapy is worthless, I have to remember that Jungians (and Neo-Freudians) exist. Whereas whenever someone says a therapist has really helped, it's because they've been introduced to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for the first time.
Whilst reading The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, I was struck by the casual glassblowing. For some reason I assumed the machine-shop/engineer division of labor, but no. William Shockley was a glassblower. Gordon Moore was a glassblower. I wanna be a glassblower
Size of the neurons matter, but ultimately we don't know enough about biological cognition to say anything about existing animals, let alone long extinct ones.
So, umm, if you want to walk BNF and emit likely tokens you can do that without any "machine learning" or whatever you want to call it. So what is being added here? Training to tie the prompt to the output?
aussie here, former dole bludger, still know people who live off the welfare system, hide their side income, and are proud of it. There was sooooo much warning for robodebt that they all made sure their taxes were clean before the first demands went out, but a few still got through. Mostly accurate, but a few dodgy ones too. Of course, as we know, it was a dragnet and the human suffering produced was excessive. Considering the depth of the corruption, it was clear the system was incapable of correcting itself, so what else is there to do? How do you get help to the people with real need when there's so many people cheating? Robodebt was big hammer approach.
Everything already costs basically nothing. There's a Moore's Law for every industry, and if you go into mature industries you'll see how easily they ignore it. There's open collaboration to keep prices "stable" in most of them.
In Fall; or, Dodge in Hell we're invited to consider whether reincarnation can be nudged, and for one character it involves building a VR rig for flying like a bird. Strangely those VR gaming places don't offer any non-bipedal experiences.