Let’s see how well this quote ages as subscription services become ubiquitous.

It does matter in terms of ease of use. Some have apps, some don’t. A non-linux-native might have difficulties with the latter.

Da geb ich dir recht, aber bei manchen Fragen haben politisch weniger Involvierte oft die falschen Antworten. Meine Eltern beispielsweise würden auf die Frage:

Möchtest du soziale Politik? -> Soziale Partei Deutschlands

antworten, obwohl sie die letzten Wahlperioden alles andere als soziales Programm gemacht haben. Meine Antwort wäre die Linke. Deine vielleicht die Grüne.

Seine Entscheidung auf lediglich einem Wahlprogramm zu basieren ist ohnehin der falsche Ansatz. Wie viel von dem, was im Koalitionsvertrag vereinbart wurde, oder dem, was in dem Wahlprogramm deiner letzten Wahl stand, ist wirklich passiert?

Man sollte sich die einzelnen Politiker anschauen und deren vergangenen Taten beurteilen, sprich die Entscheidung darauf basieren.

Aber wer bitteschön hat denn dafür Zeit?

Zu dem Leben, der Arbeit und den Katzen kommen bei mir noch ein Neugeborenes und ein Umzug dazu. Die Zeit, die ich mir ergattern kann, stecke ich in psychische Erholung, sonst dreh ich völlig am Rad. Ich denke, dass das eines der größten Probleme der zivilisierten Menschheit ist. Keine Zeit für korrekte Meinungsbildung.

This is awesome, thanks!

I think I was 11 or 12 when I started plaxing Tibia (a very early MMORPG). I really enjoyed it. At some point I found out that somebody has leaked the source code. You could host your own Tibia server. You could create new map segments or introduce new quests by Lua scripting. There was a huge community for “Open Tibia”, hundreds of servers with thousands of players. First, I got into mapping, then I got into scripting and loved it.

This needs more visibility

Yes, but once code becomes too spaghetti such that a "refactor while you write it" becomes too time intensive and error prone, it's already too late.

Following up on the other comment.

The issue is that widely available speech models are not yet offering the quality that is technically possible. That is probably why you think we’re not there yet. But we are.

Oh, I’m looking forward to just translate a whole audiobook into my native language and any speaking style I like.

Okay, perhaps we would still have difficulties with made up fantasy words or words from foreign languages with little training data.

Mind, this is already possible. It’s just that I don’t have access to this technology. I sincerely hope that there will be no gatekeeping to the training data, such that we can train such models ourselves.

For the last example: Here

Rendering dreams from fMRI is also already reality. Please, google that yourself if you’d like to see the sources. However, the image quality is not yet very good, but nevertheless it is possible. It is just a question of when the quality will be better.

Now think about smart glasses or whatever display you like, controlling it with your mind. You’d need Jedi concentration :D But I sure do think I will live long enough to see this technology.

Imagine a car company disabling your car.

Thanks, didn’t know this

A factor I didn’t consider. Thanks. And there I thought given hardware requirements it would be relatively easy to build such LLMs or similar foss-like.

I don’t think the issue is corps feeding the internet into AI systems. The real issue is gatekeeping to information and only giving access to this information while milking the individual for data by trackers, money by subscriptions, and more money by ads (that we pay for with subscriptions).

Another larger issue that I fear is often ignored is the amount of control large corporations and in theory the government can have over us just by looking at our trace we leave in the internet. Just have a look at Russia and China for real world examples of this.

Yes, I totally agree with what you said.

They currently try to buy out the digital gaming space of the internet, sell it for cheap and later on up the price. That’s what big corporations usually do nowadays. Same with X, Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc. It’s a big issues that we as consumers and later on citizens of our planet face.

However, currently it is a sweet deal for me. And the argument that I’d own the game otherwise doesn’t count for me as I would most probably never replay it. So what’s the use of owning it if it’s just collecting dust in the shelf?

The argument of whose property the item is is different for me for movies, series, and audiobooks. I’m surprised that this scheme was not yet applied for books / e-books. Or am I wrong?

In time they will become better

I can totally relate. Paying 30-100€ per game is something for rich people or something I’d do once or max twice a year on very carefully selected games, hoping these games are worth it. With Game Pass I spend 120€ a year to access a wide range of games.

Once I played through or once version 2 of a game comes out, I’m not likely to play it ever again.

Also I have phases where I play a lot and phases where I do not play at all. I can simply discontinue Game Pass in these cases.

Think further. Don’t own a phone anymore but only smart glasses.

That’s just a toolbox and in my experience a pretty limited one as well. What OP means is that Gen AI doesn’t connect to your Emails, Photoshop, your IDE, your browser, and what not with text or speech.

Imagine not using your keyboard and mouse anymore, but only using your speech and natural language for everything (not commands, but natural language).

Confidently interfacing with smart glasses would be a game changer for so many things.

Some things you also shouldn’t parameterize for the sake of overview and intuitiveness in understand.