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scoot
·5 dni temu·discuss
I live next to a railway line so I'm in the (not particularly unique, and definitely not enviable) position to compare what's on the map to "IRL" trains, and I can tell you it's as good as useless.

  - Trains appearing on the map that aren't anywhere to be seen on the tracks.
  - Trains on the tracks that don't appear on the map.
  - Trains moving away from the station that according to the timetable view shouldn't have left the station yet.
  - Trains on the map seemingly stopping and changing direction, only to reverse course once again.
The map shows a single line segment for what is in fact a multi-line stretch of railway. That's okay as a simplification (I guess), but the icons aren't pinned to the line, so appear to be driving off the track, or even on the adjacent street.

As for realtime - even if the data was accurate and timely, a 2Hz refresh rate most definitely isn't realtime.

Sorry if it seems like I'm shitting on it - it's a fun toy, but I wouldn't depend on it for anything important.
scoot
·5 dni temu·discuss
I really must learn to quote the full context of a reply. OP said:

> just due to lower oxygen levels in your blood

So my comment is in response to that.

PS. The downvote button isn't a disagree button. (Although how you can disagree with the fact that Apple watches have a blood oxygen sensor I don't know).
scoot
·7 dni temu·discuss
> producing the statistically most "correct" output

That isn't quite how they work - there's a degree of randomness depending on so called "temperature". And it isn't the output that's statistically modelled, it's the next token based on the prior output.

> This sounds a bit like you are saying LLMs are conscious

No more so than OP is implicitly asserting that human art is produced in cleanroom isolation. I don't believe either to be true.
scoot
·7 dni temu·discuss
> it’s not good immersion when every character is a chatbot that can inadvertently give you story beats you shouldn’t be aware of yet or you missed some crucial bit of information but no one talks about it anymore

What you're describing isn't bad dialog, it's bad interaction design.

I think your mental model might be of a single session with zero state, and no bounds on topics of conversation outside of the character's backstory. That isn't close to how this would work. A little understanding of how the game currently operates and some imagination, and you'll see how it could be improved further without degrading gameplay.

> those games would be made popular by people breaking the LLMs in funny ways

Because making the game do funny things didn't happen with RDR2, or any other game, device, or indeed humans (there are whole genre built around making people do or say "funny" things).
scoot
·7 dni temu·discuss
> I don't want to consume "art" that has been generated out the distillation of stealing all of the world's current art

It seems that you've fundamentally misunderstood art. I wouldn't personally call it "stealing", but T.S. Eliot would beg to differ (as would Pablo Picasso who "stole" that line)

> I want to read something that has intent. That has a purpose. A reason why it exists.

If the "allegories for the LLM condition" angle is accurate, then these stories do. In which case I believe what you mean to say is that you want to read something that has human intent.
scoot
·7 dni temu·discuss
> It's terrible and you'll find out quite fast you're not interested in everyone's background and scream to most NPC's to shut the fuck up and get to the point.

Many of the interactions in RDR2 are quite mundane, and despite thousands of hours of (high quality) voice acting, it can become quite repetitive.

I could very much see those micro-interactions being LLM generated, but the TTS would need to be a step above where even the best models are now to come close to RDR2s production quality.
scoot
·7 dni temu·discuss
Apple watches already have a blood-oxygen sensor so it's covered, albeit indirectly.
scoot
·10 dni temu·discuss
Doesn’t that simply make this blog spam?
scoot
·15 dni temu·discuss
Exactly this (when nitpicking the phrasing). Is putting the finished unit in the box "assembly" of the delivered product?

OTOH, I'm not sure how much it matters. Apple products are "designed in California" (which is a bit of a lie to begin with), and very much assembled overseas.

Of more interest is how few units they've pre-sold compared to mainstream phones. I wish them well, but I doubt they'll change history.
scoot
·15 dni temu·discuss
The trouble with long-term contracts is that they have an end date. Looking at my 5 year fixed mortgage which will end in just over a year, and it isn’t going to be pretty.

Apple doesn’t get a pass just because their contracts are many of orders of magnitude bigger.
scoot
·21 dni temu·discuss
Would have been more fun if the blogpost was rendered from the favicon.
scoot
·23 dni temu·discuss
Funny, because my LG TV had Google Assistant (whatever that is) when I bought it, but it was removed. It was never in your face though, just a button on the remote.

It still has Alexa (it has both) but I never use it. I barely use the Echo that's next to the TV!
scoot
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Edit to recognise your edit, as you’ve clarified that were talking about downloads - a once a month experience.

That sounds more like a time management problem - buy your game, go to bed, and it’ll be there when you wake at 2:30 for your next gaming session. ;)

~You appear to be confusing latency and bandwidth. While they are to an extent two dimensions of the same problem, it’s latency that affects gaming regardless of bandwidth.

More bandwidth will not reduce latency, and gaming intentionally only uses limited bandwidth (notwithstanding streamed rendering, but that’s a minuscule minority).

You cannot defy the laws of physics.~
scoot
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Millions of pounds wasted by using Palantir tech in refugee system

(FTFY)
scoot
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
To be "AI native" (a la digital native) you have to have grown up with the technology.

I'm not sure exactly which children they're planning to replace all their staff with, nor how they plan to get around the child labour laws.
scoot
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
And to think that ARexx was released nearly 40 years ago! Amazing that modern computing still hasn't caught on to some of the capabilities AmigaOS introduced.
scoot
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
> suddenly model quality is back up again

Is that not down to this? https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
scoot
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
If training data of any kind violated copyright, every creator alive would be in breach of by virtue of any influence their “training data” (lifelong exposure to the work of others) has on their output.

The creators crying foul of AI are painting themselves into a corner, both literally and figuratively.
scoot
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
According to the article E0 was static, E3 was dynamic.

What none of them did, however, was “learn” (as the title suggests). They used hardcoded algorithms.
scoot
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> Or Tian'anman

"Tian'anmen"