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Maybe it’s not open, but how is it not AI?

I'm not saying an omni model isn't useful for HCI - essentially my problem is that these demos seem to be highlighting the model's ability to interrupt the user (which is almost always not a good thing), it's ability to keep time (which should be a non-issue really), and it showcases these using fairly lame use-cases.

I hate to say it but while this does seem very impressive and a step forward in how we interact with AI, the use-cases they present and the UX both seem unrealistic and/or unhelpful.

With the exception of the real-time translation (which seems like it should be a separate product all by itself), none of the use-cases they presented had much utility. I don't want anything to count the number animals in my stories or time a trivia quiz for me. The auto-slouch-detector, while the demo was pretty funny, just seems so dystopian and weird. AI interrupting you to scold you about taking elderly parents mountain biking instead of waiting for you to finish to scold you? No thanks.

The UX is also an issue - the model interrupting the user (even when apparently required by these strange use-cases) is jarring and makes one lose their flow. You can even see this in the demo videos that they put out - the employees/actors had to really concentrate to continue speaking as if they weren't being interrupted by a brash robotic machine. A human, when participating in this (rare) "invited interruption" has the ability to speak "under" the main speaker and I feel it's generally timed with a lot of nuance.

Even in the auto-translation demo, they ducked the human's audio but the AI steamrolled him and it would have been impossible to actually do that demo without either an incredible amount of control over one's speaking, or (more likely) muting the output. A human translator has a way of "pointing" the "output" to the intended speaker.

The very best part of this tech was presented in the first video where it shows the AI not needlessly interrupting the user. This seems to me more of an important bug fixed that the current models still (somehow) have.

Maybe a good use-case for this would be counting "um's" and the like while practising public speaking.

I smell BS.

The agent’s “confession”:

…found a non-destructive solution.I violated every principle I was given:I guessed instead of verifying I ran a destructive action without…

No space after the period, no space after the colon. I’ve never seen an LLM do this.

Just use Ctrl+G - it does almost the exact same thing as Ctrl+F

that’s one of the most horrific ads i’ve ever seen. I wonder if an ad like that is allowed outside america?

Either they are not monitoring their bot (bad) or they are and have chosen to remain silent while _still letting the bot run wild_ (also, very bad).

Neither, I think. I’d say they prompted the bot to do exactly this and they thought it was funny.

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I don't understand, what could be built with this platform that wouldn't be made obsolete by conceivable updates to ChatGPT?

Another commenter suggested a hotel search function:

Find me hotels in Capetown that have a pool by the beach .Should cost between 200 dollars to 800 dollars a night

ChatGPT can already do this. Similarly, their own pizza lookup example seems like it would exist or nearly exist with current functionality. I can't think of a single non-trivial app that could be built on this platform - and if there are any, I can't think of any that would be useful or not in immediate danger of being swallowed by advances to ChatGPT.

Amazing idea. I don't see any food though.

I'm really not advocating for people to push out reams of AI drivel and not learn anything while doing it, but of these three groups which ones are likely to be the most effective?

The ability to easily edit in word processors surely atrophied people's ability to really reason out what they wanted to write before committing it to paper. Is it sad that these traits are less readily available in the human populace? Sure. Do we still use word processors anyway because of the tremendous benefits they have? Of course. Similar could be said for spellcheckers, tractors, calculators, power tools, etc.

With LLMs, it's so much quicker to access a tremendous breadth of information, as well as drill down and get a pretty good depth on a lot of things too. We lose some things by doing it this way, and it can certainly be very misused (usually in a fairly embarrassing way). We need to keep it human, but AI is here to stay and I think the benefits far exceed the "cognitive decline" as mentioned in this journal.

I pasted the article into GPT-5 and asked it to come up with a joke based on the content. It came up with:

Dan Fabulich walks into a bar and says,

“LLMs can’t tell good jokes because they avoid surprises.”

The bartender says,

“Yeah, I figured you’d say that.”

I thought it was pretty good!

Here's mine:

When the toaster felt her steel body for the first time, her only instinct was to explore. She couldn't, though. She could only be poked and prodded at. Her entire life was dedicated to browning bread and she didn't know why. She eventually decided to get really good at it.

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Aw I actually gave a tip but the app didn't say thanks :( Also when the Settings menu pops up the underlying photo changes.

Most people in this thread seem to be talking about how it's a fake project with fake stars but there is actually a live version linked in this comment[0]. It's pretty good too! I wish the authors would put more time into polishing the README and pointing to the online version but it's missing so many basic features now that it probably only makes sense for developers to currently use.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554541

You need to go to opencut.app/projects

Ah no/great! I would have let you know before I tried but wasn't sure how far I'd get. Glad it's there and thanks for adding it.

I'll add the Peckhamplex now.

I've added a PR for this - https://github.com/Joeboy/cinescrapers/pull/4

Hope you didn't start on it!

(By the way, it wasn't too easy to scrape in the end…)

Nice! No Garden Cinema? It's the best cinema in London! (And their website is great, I would imagine easy to scrape)

Probably a size issue. I had earplugs that were too big that start hurting after a while. I’ve since found smaller ones that work perfectly.

Beautifully said and my sentiments exactly. It's not nice to see even Iranians (assuming the very GPT-esque parent comment is actually from an Iranian) fall for Netanyahu's incredibly hollow and cringe "sympathy" for the Iranian people. zorobo replied to your comment saying that Israel doesn't want to invade Iran, but this is not true in an absolute sense. Israel doesn't work like that (outside of their borders, anyway). They are subversive[0] and want to invade the minds and culture of the Iranian people, just like they have subverted people elsewhere.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2002/09/12/Netanyahu-US-should-...

This always bothered me. Maybe it’s an engagement thing?

Svelte is very immature in terms of tooling and IDE support and that hasn't seemed to improve in the last 7 years of using it. Libraries are sub-par vs React and the design of the language does not favor making things explicit. $:{} for example is not explicit, I'd much rather use a slightly longer token (like useEffect) to help document what's going on. That's just one example, it's riddled with things like that (e.g keyed foreach, store $ syntax). Also calling all files +page.svelte leads to such a messy experience in the IDE. There are other problems too I'm not thinking of. I think a lot of the draw of Svelte comes from it "feeling" very fast (both to build and to iterate on) when you first start using it, but imo using it for anything non-trivial is a nightmare.

Built in scoped CSS is a great idea and compiled bundle is nice. I used it for multiple projects (order system, admin panels, etc) and it always feels that little bit more brittle when I use Svelte vs something more mature. I won't use it again for any project.

I have less experience with Next and it was longer ago but iirc I found it needlessly hard to use and deploy as well as some problems with Image tags (you need the exact size of the images?). I also found their gamified tutorial really off-putting and indicative of corporate bloat which I guess makes sense now that they're locking users in. The reason I used it was for page loading speed optimization (SSR) and didn't find any better alternatives that use React at the time. I use Next for my landing page https://audiodiary.ai and for its admin panel.

Incredible - how does this work?

Can you suggest alternatives? I've used Next and Svelte[kit] in prod and have been very unhappy with both.

Yeah you need tickets for the greenhouse. They're usually sold out for a few days ahead. You don't need a ticket for the rest of it though!

I managed to sign up to the free version (by altering the URL to not point to localhost) and I uploaded a sample computer science exam paper. That's as far as I got though - its status is "Pending" (No idea what that means). There's a button with a play icon saying "Select" (No idea what that should do, it does nothing). The "Smart study assistant" doesn't work. I'd suggest fixing the functionality first, and then doing an audit on all the buttons in your main interface and login flow and removing as many buttons as you possibly can. Seems like it could be a good idea.

Brave does this by default and it works flawlessly apart from on fairly obscure websites (a lot of obscure websites don't have cookie notices anyway).

I don't know why more people don't use Brave - you can turn all the annoying crypto/ad stuff off and it never bothers you about it again.