I wish there were something to translate video essays into short form blog posts. I imagine the hard part would be extracting good images from the video to supplement the generated text.
That seems like the sort of thing "ai" might be able to do passably, but I assume the field's dominant focus on spam generation and privacy invasion is indicative of the technology's limited general utility, so maybe "ai" isn't actually useful for this sort of thing. Oh well.
EDIT: apparently video summery is a thing now, which is probably close enough
@aeva I use ChatGPT box to summarize YouTube videos, and it works great there. In the age of clickbait and spammy videos, it's my defense to quickly see if a video is worth watching or just 10mins of filler.
I also used OpenAI Whisper to transcribe my own talks, and it also works great (and this one is local, open source, and 100% private).
Then transcription can be fed into ChatGPT for rewriting and summary (have done it as well, but never used it directly, just as a starting point).
@aeva You and me... people seems so bent to make this world worse, they cannot help themselves.
I would like to shake some sense into them. At work, I am kinda the AI grinch, pouring reality every time I heard about the next exciting AI tool the company should adopt.
@rticks@aeva
Continue your idea about alchemy - also it influence us a metaphor. I mean the Alchemist book, you know.
Same with blockchain, metaphor of how our system can be - with blocks as a main timeline without corruption. Capitalism also not only about capital as we know. The system also.
And in this mood - AI as idea of learning the machine(system, "karma") turning into the failure of capitalism maybe, but not this technology.
I can't be bothered to look up the facts about the windows 11 ai thing, but I'm genuinely baffled as to who wants this, as well as why they need special ai hardware to make a keylogger that also watches you look at porn or whatever else it is that people use computers for
My phone just got really really hot just now after trying and failing to take a picture. I rebooted it and threw it in the freezer for 5 minutes, and now it's blessedly not a zillion degrees. Alarming.
I've been experimenting with using a fast approximate voronoi diagram rendering technique as a point cloud renderer. This is a voronoi diagram with a million cells :3
It would be neat if there was a website dedicated to cataloging and evaluating common rendering techniques, focused on practical use a with straight forward explanations and reasonable examples for each entry and a discussion of tradeoffs.
edit for tact: If you're an academic who is more concerned with spreading knowledge than "publish or perish", please let the take away here be that you will be more successful at communicating ideas to the people who need them if you eschew excessive formalism and traditional obfuscation. I'm tired of wading through hundreds of papers that seemingly exist only to pad out CVs and plump up paywalls.
I would have more respect for the medium of academic computer science publishing if it was more common to see papers to the effect of "we tried this thing that sounded like a really cool idea, and let's be honest you thought about it too, but--surprise--it turned out to be absolute dogshit. Just a complete disaster. Total waste of time. Calling this a slideshow would be generous.", but instead usually people just fluff that sort of thing up so reviewer 2 can't tell it didn't quite work out.
I need to get my mind off the bad. Anything good going on tonight for anyone? Feel free to share things your excited about or happy about or just cool stuff you've come across recently
@aeva OMG can you imagine if I actually had one hanging from the dashboard and just tugged it "for good luck" every time I went through that corner. Eventually it would work. Because it has before:
@aeva I WAS supposed to doing some relatively boring routine api-database coding today, but instead I seem to be reading up on voroni diagrams and taxicab geometry and ... well... I obviously have no idea of why yours look wonky, but this is still way more fun than yet an other rest api.