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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376251

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I'm a strong advocate for a united effort to create a training set of the collected works of mankind free to any AI company to use if, for instance, it uses its profits to fund UBI, or some other program to pay us for what they use.

Anything but AGI profits being used to keep score in the Oligarchy Olympics. I agree that is a bridge too far.

I think I was fair to call this out, and the article has been flagged by others.

I don't see any how for-profit AI is a threat to anything but for-profit art.

However, I do know that printing opinion pieces as news is definitely a threat to journalism.

https://www.ayes.ai

The leader in the field is BeMyEyes, of course. They've been working with Microsoft to integrate GPT-4o vision models into their app, with some great success. What we haven't seen yet is the move to live-video image recognition that could come from something like an OrCam or Meta glasses (they recently announced a partnership with Meta). I'm guessing there are serious safety issues with the model missing important information and leading someone vulnerable astray.

https://www.bemyeyes.com https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-meta-accessibility-...

OrCam has a new product (woe upon those of us who have the paltry OrCam MyEye2) that the Meta glasses will be competing against at an eye-watering > $4K price point, that seems to do less.

https://www.orcam.com/en-us/orcam-myeye-3-pro

As with the hearing aid industry which recently went over-the-counter causing prices to plummet, the vision aid product category is in temporary disarray as inexpensive new technologies makes their way into a premium-price market.

"We also find more abstract features—responding to things like bugs in computer code, discussions of gender bias in professions, and conversations about keeping secrets."

1: https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-mod...

One thing a high ACE score did for me was make me an irresistible force, even as it seemed to turn the rest of the world into immovable objects.

Not saying this is ideal, just that it isn’t the showstopper you present it as. In fact, when people talk about “human values”, it might be worth reflecting on whether this a thing we’re supposed to be protecting or expunging?

"I'm not a textbook player, I'm a gut player.” —President George W. Bush.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2003/01/12/going-to...

I hope we can start putting our money where our mouth is, though.

(Adding on instead of making a new comment)

These are the kind of personal robots I am more interested in. I'm imagining an autonomous, voice-controlled (this isn't exactly that, but it's very close) little robot buddy, like a Destiny 2 Ghost. This is productized to be something different than that, but maybe this is a closer form factor (with what seems like useful protective nacelles to prevent it from damaging its environment).

It has wifi, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to have a 5G modem in a more expensive model (DJI has a deep bench at this point, all the way up to agriculture and delivery drones that have serious radio communication arrays).

I feel like with all the companies rushing to humanoid robotics, there should be a place for alternate forms like little drone buddies?

There seems like there could be a really sweet price-to-performance ratio that could open up a $1K or 2K personal robot that isn’t about doing tasks, but about remote sensing and processing?

I was really hoping AI would make our world more accessible, not less.

(eta) Additionally, it would take more instructor or docent time, because no one can't be trusted to actually learn the material we're paying tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for.

It ain't the future dystopia I'm afraid of, it's the one we're creating this week.

Before Wizardry, there was Akalabeth.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth:_World_of_Doom

On my 16GB MacBook Air, I did not have to set the OLLAMA_ORIGINS env variable. Maybe I did that a long time ago, as I have a previous Ollama install. This is the first really fun toy/tool that I've found that uses local (also supports foundation model APIs) LLMs to do something interesting.

I'm having a ball!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41317643

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If you mean what I think you mean, well, we probably don't disagree so much at that. How to make society less cruel, eh? There's the rub.

It seems that with that last quote you're agreeing with my point that people who have lost hope in achieving food, money, romance, work, housing, etc. (becoming insecure), would reach for tools in the authoritarian toolkit.

I do wonder if maybe you misunderstood me.

In my experience, "Secure people never go Nazi and are generally kind, good, happy, and gentlemanly."

"The logic of humanitarian military intervention gained force in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, “the unipolar moment” of American dominance, and after the Sept. 11 attacks, when it became increasingly common among conservatives to tie national security to democracy promotion abroad."*

*https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/opinion/biden-afghanistan...

With any luck, y'all are going to be 60 someday, or 80, and pot making boredom less boring is going to become your every waking thought, and staying awake all night is going to become a curse and no longer a superpower.

And cannabis is going to be there for you as an alternative to benzos and opiates, and it will be a good thing. Count on it.