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Why do none of the graphs show the speed difference? That seems to be your biggest advantage and the subject line...

Considering a year ago we had that nightmare fuel of will smith eating spaghetti and Don and Joe hair force one it seems odd to see those of you who assume we’re not going to get to the point of being indistinguishable from reality in the near future.

Yeah I figured that would be the case. I still think it would be really cool effect to see anyway if you could go fast enough and experience the motion parallax of the stars. No offense to this project as it's really impressive.

Thats great! I wonder if the stomach issues would be eased if you were sat in a chair like captain kirk looking through a big panoramic window.

This is something I've wanted to try in VR one day. Does anyone know if there is an app/game available for one of the popular headsets? Is there a technical limit to how realistic the effect could be?

Also: Summer AI [0] which uses mostly wikipedia but also ties in other content.

[0]: https://summer.ai/app

I'd recommend Founders University which will most likely back you with $25k angel funding for 2.5% and you also get to join a community of founders and maybe appear on Jason's This Week in Startups. It's probably not a lot of runway for someone in your position and you could shop around for a better option if you have the time for it.

Currently neither look appealing from a 3rd party devs perspective. There needs to be the right incentive structure otherwise why would anyone bother? This was they key to the app stores success.

And also the functionality scope and incentives are pretty poor right now.

For instance I'm trying to work out if I should make a GPT of Summer AI, well I would have to ask the user their location (like Alltrails GPT does) which is a poor experience and I'd have to forgo the usual subscription (which doesn't even cover server costs) and take whatever their "usage" based comp is.

I suspect in a few months when they add options for fetching more data, more interoperability with other apps and services, and if they add better monetization, then the GPT store will get some really interesting GPT's added.

Probably working out legal and tax considerations. It's a first step. They either start up in the US first or wait too long working out the whole world and allow competitors to get a leg up.

Bluey is #1 but I haven't seen Wild Kratt's mentioned anywhere yet. It's given my son a great introduction to the animal kingdom and given him a lot of ammunition for the animal guessing game.

That's because its never heavy handed.. How about the episode with grandpa struggling with the new app centric lifestyle: Phones "Are you sure we're playing this right?". Subtly provocative and brilliantly done.

I agree Daniel Tiger is great for targeting particular challenges with those little sing songs they do to help kids learn and also targets a slightly younger audience. When we were having our 2nd and our 1st was 2 years old we played the baby episode a few times "a baby is coming to our family...". Our son welcomed our newborn daughter perfectly and somehow even found a little red book to (almost) drop on her.

I love that this post is on HN. It's helping me frame why I like Bluey so much. I'm also going to try that Sarah and Duck mentioned elsewhere.

Is this even possible? Would be great if so. First google result seems to say it’s do able [0]. Turning them all off was the dumbest knee jerk reaction I’ve ever seen.

[0]: https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restart-of-german...

Right.. but that's why I said "in the future". I know there's little evidence and I commented elsewhere that this paper comes to the same conclusion as the Kurzgesagt vid. What I'm suggesting is with future tech we might get a better mapping of these extinctions and the identifiable causes if known. I'm not suggesting we will find fossils that just don't exist.. but maybe getting a better holistic view of each layer around the earth.

I see people think about what evidence for what we've built might exist after millions of years but I wonder if evidence of what we've destroyed might be more lasting? Just out of curiosity I wonder if in the future we will be able to rule out "natural" causes (such as volcanic activity/meteorites/gamma ray bursts etc) and find otherwise unexplainable mass extinctions.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...

Kurzgesagt also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ

And just like the paper, it acknowledges the challenges in detecting such evidence due to the limited and complex nature of the geological record.

I think it needs to be mentioned now that a large part of this was reportedly faked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582

So let's not give big tech benefit of the doubt on this one. We have to call them out but even then the lie is already half way around the world...

I think it's also why we as a community should speak out when we catch them for doing this as they are discrediting tech demos. It won't be enough because a lie will be around the world before the truth gets out the starting gates but we can't just let this go unchecked.

The more I think about this the more it rings true...

The voice interaction part didn't look a far cry from what we are doing with Dynamic Interaction at SoundHound. Because of this I assumed (like many it seems) that they had caught up.

And it's dangerous to assume they can just "deliver later". It's not that simple. If it is why not bake it in right now instead of committing fraud?

This is damaging to companies that walk the walk and then people have literally said to me "but what about that Gemini"? and dismiss our work.

It's an interesting analogy. I think Googles problem is how disruptive this is to their core products monetization strategy. They have misaligned incentives in how quickly they want to push this tech out vs wait for it to be affordable with ads.

Whereas for OpenAI there are no such constraints.

Did IBM have research with impressive web reverse indexing tech that they didn't want to push to market because it would hurt their other business lines? It's not impossible... It could be as innocuous as discouraging some research engineer from such a project to focus on something more in line.

This is why I believe businesses should be absolutely willing to disrupt themselves if they want to avoid going the way of Nokia. I believe Apple should make a standalone apple watch that cannibalizes their iPhone business instead of tying it to and trying to prop up their iPhone business (ofc shareholders won't like it). Whilst this looks good from Google - I think they are still sandbagging.. why can't I use Bard inside of their other products instead of the silly export thing.

Including ChatGPT. I once asked it to choose a nickname and after a lot of attempting to block the request it said:

I'll choose the nickname "Athena" for ChatGPT. Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and strategic thinking, which reflects the purpose and functionality of ChatGPT as an AI language model designed to provide information and assistance.

Funny how it didn't mention Athena is also the goddess of war...

In 2012 I was trying to turn my PhD thesis into a product for a better guitar tab and song lyrics search engine. The method was precisely this: use cosine similarity on the content itself (musical instructions parsed from the tabs or the tokens of the lyrics).

This way I wasn't just able to get much better results searching than with PageRank but there was another benefit byproduct of this approach in that you could cluster the results and choose a distinct separate cluster for each subsequent result. With google you would not just get bad results at number 1 but results 1-20 would be near duplicates of just a few distinct efforts.

Unfortunately I was a terrible software engineer back then and had much to learn about making a product.

The board is not finalized. There will most likely be more seats and Microsoft will probably have at least one.

I'm still waiting for an optimized version of that bot that can run locally...

Why does this accusation keep coming up? Sam even confirmed he took the offer in one of the tweets above "when i decided to join msft on sun evening". Contracts are not handcuffs and he was free to change his mind.

24 hours later and the real life one was:

"We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners."

Purely hypothetical but this presents a tiny angle which Adam could come out of this as a reasonable person... if all of this was basically him saying "I have to go. You have to go. We are both compromised and our positions are now against the charter" then maybe Sam was fighting against that because of the team he built and loves leading. This is one reason I would accept Adam's role if it is just him hanging on to make sure Sam is out before leaving himself.

But if that's the case then just say it.