Don't you ever get up at 8AM and think "ugh not again"? Surely you're not a fan of the 40h work week? I totally agree with everything else and also find it scary, but defending work for the sake of it seems like the wrong angle to take. There will always be opportunities for productivity, regardless of whether that productivity is a requirement for food & shelter or not.
Of course I do, but at least I kind of chose a path that I kind of like. You are assuming that with a powerful AGI, we won't work 40h a week, but what if you'd still work as much, just to other positions that you don't like ? Do you think people in charge will give everyone leisure time, or do you think they'll want to keep extracting as much value as possible from people ? I think the latter ;).
I am a creative independent and I certainly don't work 40h a week...more like 10, but I'm very happy with creating things and I would be very sad if AI took my job away. I hope AI burns.
I mean... What kind of answer are you expecting? Like, specific companies that are making money off of AI already? It's kinda early days. Describing discussions of the future as "hype" isn't really helpful either way, since that word has no meaningful definition besides "bad predictions" I guess.
If you want companies that have already chosen to apply AI to their work, consider Google, Facebook, and Tesla.
She was involved with starting "Fellow Robots" in 2014, which is a spin-off of some sketchy for-profit AI "university" deal called "Singularity University".
AFAICT she's notable because she's been an academic and executive in the field for many years, in many different companies.
Singularity University was such a funny grift. Google must have figured the best way to monetize Ray Kurzweil was to put him on a stage at the NASA/Moffett center and have him perform magic shows in front of the moneyed class. And you know, they were probably right. Not like he can still code or anything, and the lines were out the door and down the street. I visited a couple of times when my sister's old boyfriend was working there. They had all kinds of fun little booths and displays for people going through the bootcamp to gawk at.
I'm imagining the kind of person who starts their career as an executive at a spinoff of SU.
"An investigative report from Bloomberg Businessweek found many issues with the organization, including an alleged sexual harassment of a student by a teacher, theft and aiding of theft by an executive, and allegations of gender and disability discrimination.[12] Several early members of Singularity University were convicted of crimes, including Bruce Klein, who was convicted in 2012 of running a credit fraud operation in Alabama, and Naveen Jain, who was convicted of insider trading in 2003.[12]
In February 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, MIT Technology Review reported that a group owned by Singularity, called Abundance 360, had held a "mostly maskless" event in Santa Monica ... The event, led by Singularity co-founder Peter Diamandis, charged up to $30,000 for tickets."
https://openai.com/our-structure
Worth a read, in light of all this. An interesting tidbit that I bet is bouncing around his head right now:
Third, the board remains majority independent. Independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. Even OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, does not hold equity directly. His only interest is indirectly through a Y Combinator investment fund that made a small investment in OpenAI before he was full-time.
I sincerely hope this is about the man and not the AI.
I think this is highly dependent on your distro (and comfort with the CLI but I'm taking that for granted on HN) but I found the gnome screenshot to be very simple, quick, and effective. Piping a hotkey to a CLI command is presumably easy, and after 5s of googling I found the guide below for Gnome. Not exactly fancy and I haven't used this specific tool recently enough to say whether it meets all your requirements exactly (e.g. you might need to press "Enter" once to close a popup), but I think a solution like this might fit the Linux ethos best!
I think Meta would disagree would disagree with the assertion "the tech is amazing right now." The two easiest problems to point to are a) resolution on most consumer headsets is far too low to read text effectively, and b) the ergonomics just aren't there in terms of weight and size.
Pretty big problems - I don't really have any argument either way on how solvable they are in 5-10 years, but I really think the implication that people dislike the concept of working in VR itself is misguided.
Size and weight has been going up over time: https://i.imgur.com/2fOAFqI.png
There's no evidence we will reach the mythical lightweight glasses any time soon. I believe that is needed for VR to be accepted on a scale similar to cellphones.
This isn't really how DALLE works AFAIK but a very fun idea nonetheless. Here's a quick more simplified experiment than the great work above: "website design mockup.", with and without "Make it pop!"
Ok you owe me $3! This is a really hard prompt, and only got close-ish with inpainting. Got the base figure with "massaged relaxed flattened person, flat, flat, flat, flat, claymation", then finally got it to add a not-too-terrifying face with "photograph of smiling white woman laying on the ground, promotional photography". Final tweaks to erase some artifacts (it really didn't want to believe the figure on the left was the referenced woman) was "photograph of a wooden floor with a white mat and small plants, overhead shot".
