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To be used for what? Summarising web pages?

I can give you a couple of examples:

1.

I recently made an extension to "bookmark data". It's an auto scraper, but client side.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lidar/eckcmnibplmme...

The user has to pick the elements so the extension knows which selectors to track across similar pages.

While developing it, I imagined a near future in which a small enough model could do that for me.

In fact, if I had the resources, I could probably train one specifically for that and use webnn or onnx or something to deliver it.

2.

I also made a quick drum beat generator https://alganet.github.io/quick-beats/

One of the things I wanted to do is improved beat detection. Several music apps have some sort of tempo detection (you tap on the desk and the microphone catches it and figures out the tempo).

While I can certainly use audio analysis to do that, it has its limits. If I wanted to detect a full drum pattern (the user taps on different objects for kick and snare, and the app fills them), something machine-learny sounds much more appropriate for the job.

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Your poke at the issue "for what? summarising web pages?" is valid though. While I don't have the resources to train those models I mentioned, the resulting weights should be fairly compatible with todays consumer hardware.

I blame the complete and utter lack of imagination of small-to-mid AI labs for the missing variety in that space.

It results in people not being very creative in imagining valid, non-shitty spammy marketing ways of using AI. They exist though.


I thought ring wingers also like freedom and would fight to protect it.

So next time when they arrest you, thinking you’re an illegals immigrant, put you in jail for 2-4 weeks, without access to a lawyer or even a phone call, and then release, will you be stretching your neck to make it more comfortable for them to tread on it?

Exactly the same argument can and should be applied to generated code

So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

Claims of productive boosts must always be inspected very carefully, as they are often perceived, and reality may be the opposite (eg spending more time wrestling the tools), or creating unmaintainable debt, or making someone else spend extra time to review the PR and make 50 comments.


> So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

There's no chatbot. You can use image-to-image, ControlNets, LoRAs, IPAdapters, inpainting, outpainting, workflows, and a lot of other techniques and tools to mold images as if they were clay.

I use a lot of 3D blocking with autoregressive editing models to essentially control for scene composition, pose, blocking, camera focal length, etc.

Here's a really old example of what that looks like (the models are a lot better at this now) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVgNNJP6Vc

There are lots of incredibly talented folks using Blender, Unreal Engine, Comfy, Touch Designer, and other tools to interface with models and play them like an orchestra - direct them like a film auteur.


Army brain.

Everyone having doubts, just wait until it’s time for the new presidential election, and see if power will be given up willingly.

Hopefully old man won’t be around that long


Is this common belief grounded in reality? We're well past the notion that the "old man" (and his VP, as well as most, if not all of his cabinet) believes in the law and he has stacked the deck in his favor.

To beat a dead horse, propaganda works. And it's so much more pervasive than an occasional misleading message.

Millions in the U.S. get "information" from a firehose of propaganda.

That defines the reality they see. Others perhaps just feel hopeless but... want to believe that our constitutional democracy somehow manages to hold on and rebound.


It is exhausting and frustrating. What level of evidence is required here? And why? It's not unlike the article. Do we need to wait around for firing squads or something? What does it take for people to wake up?

A man doing no more than holding a communication device in the presence of federally assigned bounty hunters was shot at, and executed, by several of them.

Not a big delta between that and firing squad.


Oh no, professional engineers are failing simple tasks and spending hours wrestling their AI chat to support their generated codebase.

I’m using Textual for my TUI needs, it’s very decent.


You sure about that? I think actions of the US administration together with ICE and police work provide quite enough


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