I recently created a video and didn't want to use my voice on it.
Rather than TTS I did STS (speech to speech) through Eleven Labs (you upload the video it alters the audio track to voice of choosing with some parameters you can control).
I showed it to a bunch of people and they could not believe it was non-human. The bit that got most was all the pausing, broken sentences ...essentially elements you don't put into text if your doing T2S.
An LLM over the original text could perhaps inject these elements though if prompted correctly.
> Don’t Win the Argument, Profit From the Difference
Best section for me. Many times I have taken the contrarian view. It doesn't always work, I do get it wrong (fail fast) but when it goes right you earn virtual credit against the person whom you took the opposing view. Its not something tangible but its there and the next time you lock horns they remember.
Whats peoples thoughts on Tenstorrent - they were looking for funding on Hiive recently but that deal got pulled when Qualcomm rumours surface a week or so ago.
I only use this for high value problems/challenges. A lot related to life decisions including work, where to live, finances etc. It gives me a small army that can break down and slice, dice the problem in different ways then someone to reconcile it all and present it back to me. The variance in their opinions is the most interesting part of this project so f ar.
I think ...or hope...he ends more right than left and manages to do what Starmer failed to do a year ago which is to make major reforms to the Welfare system. Its just not sustainable.
Imho there are two dimensions here: Firstly different LLMs and secondly the strategy in which you break down the problem in an agentic fashion (e.g. break up to separate agents with own persona and then judge evaluates across all agents). You can of course mix-up the dimensions as well and that's what I have been tinkering* with for a good few months with some success. This was all done using home-brew setup running on openrouter.
Personally I prefer understanding the dimensions and the interplay and controlling it though can see why openrouter and others are now offering this a solved solution.
Just be careful when you start outsourcing too much of your intelligence needs to a blackbox.
I wouldn't underestimate the community effect of software. There are plenty of features that get shipped because a small but important minority requested them, only to benefit the long tail of users who never knew to ask for such a feature but now find it indispensable. If everyone is building their own isolated solutions, how does this positive externality manifest itself?
If you ask people to rank say 5 things from top to bottom where the first thing at the top is what they are least cost conscious about and the one at bottom is what they are most - I would bet health would at the top slot for most of us. So relatively we would spend (whatever we have) on our health versus other things if we had conviction on the outcome.
I have been experimenting with multi-agent llms for last month, as I put in the writeup for my repo and in the video the biggest value I have found is when you run a bunch of different agentic strategies in parallel then have a judge review the variance of them. So far that has uncovered interesting insights. The rest of it is so-so. Been fun but also expensive!
Multi Agent setup to tackle complex problems using the diversity of multiple LLMs. All for personal use but finding it very useful especially what I call the 'all angles' where it runs multiple strategies parallel then a judge agent presents summary including a view on how the strategies agreed and diverge from one another.
AI has collapsed the cost of producing content while leaving the cost of reviewing, verifying higher imho. This has inverted the economics of collaboration. Reviewer attention, not output volume, is now the scarce resource, this happened with my engineering teams (PR reviews) and is now happening in my world in Product.
Sure let me do that. Can I post this as a ShowHN if its just video? The rules say people need to try out but that will cost me a small fortune :) ...could perhaps post on Github and people can setup the repo themselves with their own Openrouter key if that works. Have never done a ShowHN but would be fun to try it.