wearer of a cochlear implant, live in Dunedin and do that software development for a pet company (๐ถ๐๐) ... and my avatar has no mouth... oops! #a11y
@cortesi I say YouTube being bad at it (their auto-captions spits out like two words a second). An experiment I did, with llama2, and gpt4 I was able to make *great* captions/subtitles.
And not just for YT! It's all impressive for #a11y
@cortesi Solar is fine for summer I guess, but if you're a bit off the beaten path you could check something like this out: https://t.co/XIPgwdipu3 as well.
I hope you do a writeup of your big battery bank installation...
@dbasch absolutely agree. have you heard of https://t.co/cjbEvTyZrC? I've been using it far more because when I spend 10mins unsuccessfully trying to find something on Google, and then Kagi shows me what I'm looking for on the first try.
My timeline is full of GPT influencers, so I'd like to push back a bit:
LLMs are nowhere as advanced as most people would have you believe. It will be a while before you can automate away most jobs. Why?
There are plenty of single-step inferences on the internet: if you want to travel, search a travel site. If you need to do math, find a calculator. But for long chains of long-tail problem solving, this is not true. If you let an agent go away for several cycles it will start to compound its own mistakes and most likely fail to accomplish what you wanted. Or worse, it will make a mess that you'll have to undo.
This problem cannot be solved with more computation and more data in an economic way. Not yet, at least. Many startups will find out the hard way this year and next.
LLMs have their place in the world of business, just like calculators and spreadsheets. But they won't replace your accountant or your doctor or our lawyer any time soon. They will help larger companies (the Fords and Pepsis of the world) reduce inefficiencies and perhaps eliminate some jobs that are already borderline useful, but it's not a step function. It's the continuation of a trend.
@SigGravitas I am wondering whether the creator is a kiwi or the bot decided to go kiwi. ๐ณ๐ฟ
(I noticed in the demo all the links seemed to be NZ themed! - I've been trying to make my #ai channel on the NZ DEV Slack a bit more fun: https://t.co/Uk2jPYAMo1)
It seems almost impossible to talk to @FlyAirNZ - I can't ring them 'cus I'm all deaf, and you can message them on Twitter or Facebook (which I don't use). All I want is a confirmation of my flight changes (they keep emailing the old one)
@saketmodiji@levelsio@dannypostma but that's not fun! competition between friends is much more fun! ๐ It's actually a real good way to push your friends into actually doing something too. (well, not too pushy-pushy but a nice gentle nudge)
@MacdaraDay I've re-watched this series about 5ish times. It's just so interesting and I just love how @davidfarrier is all like "STOP THE BUS I NEED TO GO EXPLORE RADIOACTIVE DUST" and "OH MY GOD LET'S GO FOR A SWIM IN A NUCLEAR POOL".
@NickCodercise People think they speed read? Huh, okay. That said, a lot of people simply don't have the patience to actually read long form either. I feel like a lot of people no longer read books _at all_ which is crazy (to me).