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This is consistent with my own experiments with local LLM models. I've also been experimenting with chaining the model to flagship LLMs when it is incapable of achieving the outcome using Langgraph.

It is good as a learning tool or to use in applications where latency is not a concern but there can be a high number of requests. But, not yet fast enough to do auto-complete on an IDE for instance.

At some point, AI will replace stuntmen with completely synthesized action scenes. Contrast that with the money that was poured into one scene in MI7 where Tom Cruise rides a bike off a cliff.

If AI could make us feel the same way as Tom Cruise himself jumping off a cliff, isn't it a no-brainer to use it?

If we stretch this scenario to the ultimate - Generating an entire movie using AI, it doesn't feel as fun, as real. But I wonder if it is the future

True, in most cases, backgrounds with a lot of elements (ex: a house in the background) were part of real pictures

The chat thread looked so farcical that I had to double check it wasn't a parody account. Is it possible the text has been edited? It just looks too scripted, especially since Jack Dorsey had shared his thoughts regarding Twitter being intended as a protocol publicly.

I was confused too. At one point I got the same impression that the multiplayer collab was for building the apps. But in another section, it seemed to be for the app users.

I went back and checked Apple's keynote and noticed that all their presenters faced the camera. But the camera itself was panning slightly which helped, as you said, to feel less stuffy. Nice!

One interesting thing to note is how much more high-budget Hollywood style Apple's event feels in comparison to Google's event. Having watched the two events on successive days, some things stand out -

Apple throws numbers repeatedly at you through out the presentation and you end up remembering quite a few useless statistics (55.7 billion transitors in M1 Max)

Apple makes a much bigger deal about each device with lots of close ups and pseudo x-raying of the product. Google just throws in a Pro with an extra camera that you can barely make out on the dark glass.

Apple spends several minutes talking about their SoC. Google says it spent years on Tensor and just leaves it as a shiny golden box.

The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange.

Have Macbook Pro sales been declining for the past few years? I can understand removing the touchbar as a bad experiment but I thought Apple was obstinate about the move to USB-C. Really did not expect this backpeddling.

Edit - I'm definitely pleased with the move to add more ports. Just surprised.

I don't really like the chassis design. It looks dated. But the rest of the Macbook Pro sounds really exciting!

For those who missed the keynote, here are some laugh-inducing moments - "Our Pro users love to use physical function keys. So we have added them"

"Our Pro users like to connect a lot of devices without using a lot of dongles"

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Gmail is a very good example of a finished app being tinkered with. No one asked for Meet to be integrated. There was already a good app for Meet. Then came Chat and Rooms!!

This is a valid point! Anyone who has built an admin dashboard knows that the UX of being able to edit any field in any row on an Excel is hard to replicate without additional edit buttons and dialogs popping up.

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