we've been talking about GPT-fueled propaganda campaigns on HN since before COVID... so very likely in-house.
Likely in-house for many of the other actors above; this may just be low-hanging fruit, or operations designed to hit specific demographics in specific countries.
My daily driver is an ‘89 4Runner that gets about the same milage. That sounds bad in this climate, but for 35 years and nearly 300,000 miles I have not had to spend the energy/resources/carbon to build another vehicle and dispose of this one.
From my experiences Toyota tends to over engineer on the reliability side rather than optimizing for fuel efficiency. It’s all trade offs. You can tune the engine that may not be as fuel efficient but it may last longer.
Viewing themselves as the saviours (an end which justifies many many means) of some granfalloon is a common theme.
In one of Benigni's movies, a group of italian Fascists are discussing a new german fascist textbook, in which one of the word problems says something like: a cripple costs the state so much per year, a cretin so much, etc. How much could the state save if n thousands of cripples and m thousands of cretins were eliminated? "But that's horrible", cries an italian woman, "making children do algebra, at such a young age!"
I suspect a true fascist (although a true economist might send a false positive?) would not understand why the woman's objection is generally thought to be gallows-humorous.
Right to who? To me, the voice sounds like an over enthusiastic podcast interviewer. Whats wrong with wanting computers to sound like what people think computers should sound like?
It understands tonal language, you can tell it how you want it to talk, I have never seen a model like that before. If you want it to talk like a computer you can tell it to, they did it during the presentation, that is so much better than the old attempts at solving this.
You are a Zoomer sosh meeds influencer, please increase uptalk by 20% and vocal fry by 30%. Please inject slaps, "is dope" and nah and bra into your responses. Throw shade every 11 sentences.
And you’ve just nailed where this is all headed. Each of us will have a personal assistant that we like. I am personally going to have mine talk like Yoda and I will gladly pay Disney for the privilege.
People have been promising this for well over a decade now but the bottleneck is the same as it was before: the voice assistants can't access most functionality users want to use. We don't even have basic text editing yet. The tone of voice just doesn't matter when there's no reason to use it.
I've seen a programmer-turned-streamer literally do this live. Woohoojin on twitch/yt focuses on content for Riot's Valorant esports title, during a couple watch parties he would make "super fans" using GPT with TTS output and the stream of chat messages as input. His system prompts were formed exactly like yours, including instructions to plug his gaming chair sponsor.
It worked surprisingly well. The video where he created the first iteration on stream(don't remember the watch party streams he ran the fans on): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MBKouvwaru8
I want to get to the part where phone recordings stop having slow, full sentences. The correct paradigm for that interface is bullet list, not proper speech.
Why did they make the woman sound like she's permanently on the brink of giggling? It's nauseating how overstated her pretentious banter is. Somewhere between condescending nanny and preschool teacher. Like how you might talk to a child who's at risk of crying so you dial up the positive reinforcement.
LLMs today have no concept of epistemology, they don't ever "know" and are always making up bullshit, which usually is more-or-less correct as a side effect of minimizing perplexity.
The Total Perspective Vortex in Hitchhiker's notably didn't do anything bad when it was turned on, and so is good evidence that inventing the torment nexus is fine.
It didn't do anything bad to Zaphod Beeblebrox, in a pocket universe created especially for him (therefore ensuring that he was the most important thing in it, and thereby securing his immunity from the mind-scrambling effects of fully comprehending the infinite smallness of one's place in the real universe).
> so more than 90% of points on a wall are not in front of a sud
That would depend on the wall length, no?
For example, a 1.5"-3" wall has 100% of points on a stud. Also many (most?) traditional residential constructed walls have end plates, at least one top plate, a bottom plate, fire blocking, support, kings, sisters, cripples, jacks, headers, etc.
Anyway, I think its probably safe to say more than 10% of the surface has wood or some other object behind it on many walls, and unlikely that you could "do the math on this" without surveying data.
The top and bottom plate are unlikely to get punched, as you're going to tend to punch towards the middle height wise. Fire blocking became required by code in maybe the 80s or definitely in the 90s; there's a lot of older housing that may not have it. Also, it seems like a lot of this punching or kicking of walls happens near doorways, you're going to tend not to punch the wall near the doorframe, and if you go in maybe one shoulderwidth, you're not likely to hit a stud.
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