I'm very sad this morning at the news of the passing of Vernor Vinge...his novels are among the very best in sci-fi, and while I don't agree with his views on the concept of the Singularity, he was a thoughtful, careful thinker who more people should read.
@maltimore We've talked about it many times on the State of the Onion talks... but yes, compared to Orbot or Tor Browser for Android, it doesn't get as much promotion from folks. Onion people seem to often have an Apple allergy!
Built on https://greg.technology/ cool "Sagittarius" demo, I quickly hacked together a Gemini-esque Waste Sorting Hat tool that works way better than expected... and its funny and has a real purpose (help kids figure out what to do with their trash at school). Here's my kid trying it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ya5rLj64Q#openai#gemini#gpt
The code is up here: https://github.com/n8fr8/CompostSortingHatAI essentially combining OpenAI GPT4 with the new Vision API, local in-browser speech-to-text, and then remote TTS with ElevenLabs to make it sound snazzy
The real key to the demo is how Greg weaved it all together to seamlessly combine multiple image frames and the monitoring of the dictation response, that then is all merged into a prompt into GPT4. Really neat.
My time investing in GenAI has mostly been focused on using it for advesarial red-team purposes with our work on ProofMode.org and Guardian Project things in general. It is fun to try to build something useful and beneficial, based on a real problem I hear about from my kids' school
@leo I know you felt played by the Gemini demo, so check this actual, real live demo out, and see the original "Gemini Remake" project by Greg here: https://sagittarius.greg.technology/
@danny Just posted our semi-mainstream use of IPFS to store visual documentation of hurricane relief efforts in Mexico: https://proofmode.org/blog/hurricane-otis-proofmode - we've been really happy using filebase.com as node+gateway, but also run our own IPFS nodes, and publish CARs to web3.storage, so livin' the dream
@danny It includes our call-to-action for community preservation: "If you would like to help preserve this proofpack, you can do so using the following ipfs pin command..." with links to how-to information.
@danny The "SETI at home" nature of this is really appealing I think - if you care about a cause, or event, or audio-visual archive, participate in its preservation using spare storage and cycles you have on your own computing device.
@kemelzaidan Considering that in their beautiful, polished, produced video they didn't know that the answer about "the best place to watch the solar eclipse" was wrong, I would say scared / amused / bemused
@kemelzaidan@argv_minus_one There will be a great deal of leaked "collateral" capture of people, voices, conversations, things, etc in the background as people use it in public
@noneck After everyone went to bed last night, I re-watch "American Werewolf in London"... less scary and more funny than I remembered, and fully enjoyed it
Here's a little toot stream preview of our RightsCon Session "Fortifying Community Truth
in the Age of Synthetic Media" that Community Leader Fabby will be participating in next week... #rightscon#proofmode@witnessorg
@katzenberger Yes absolutely. We are somewhat building ProofMode and our various services to be that, but there is nothing in the spec itself that requires you to only trust a predetermined set of Root CAs for instance.