That’s a great point, I suspect you’re right. Also the Internet wasn’t something you were constantly connected to back then, so spending 45 minutes a day on stumbleupon felt more special.
Granted there’s no good reason we need to be spending as much time as we do online now…
THANK YOU. I’m always saying this. People always say they miss the “old, weird internet” but it’s still there and still active and still growing. But these people choose to spend their time on 2-3 highly addictive apps and complain about it. Nobody is forcing you to download Tiktok dude.
That’s assuming the hypothetical superintelligence is willing to do the bidding of billionares. But I’m not sure how the billionares would control something that is smarter than them and also doesn’t rely on money to stay alive.
Glad the subheader is “Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.”
There’s just still not a lot of evidence that LLMs could take a substantial number of jobs away, unless your job is spam, advertising or propaganda. Corporations are blaming AI but there just isn’t the evidence to support the idea that those fired workers are anything other than normal downsizing (that conveniently help fit the narrative and boost the stock price).
IF an AI gets invented that actually begins making humans unemployable, the economy as it exists wouldn’t be able to withstand it …who would pay for things if there are no jobs? Why provide goods and services for money if nobody can pay for it? Even being a billionare would be pointless because if everyone else’s economic value is zero they can’t be compelled to do anything with your worthless slop money.
But what is the DisplayPort plugged into on the PC? Extremely few motherboards and GPUs support CEC in my experience…
Very cool, what hardware are you using that supports CEC?
There are nice friendly frontends for this, Yunohost or CasaOS spring to mind but might be too simplistic if you already are familiar with Docker.
Now, working on that angle, we don’t really want to be associated with a randy penguin (well, we do, but it’s not politic, so we won’t)
Classic Linus.
This was an interesting article! While there is an argument to be made for an “AGI Manhattan project” I’m not convinced that companies like OpenAI or xAI will be of much value to a project like that at all. It would be like if the US government took over Joey’s Really Big Stacks of Dynamite Emporium in the 1940’s.
This is a guess but I feel like it was around the time that most coding was done for things that weren’t explicitly “programs”, like web design CSS/Java and smartphone “apps”.
That was actually super helpful, thank you.
That’s cool, it just… does those things? How does it connect to those apps? I can’t even get Gemini to set a reminder and that’s on a Google device.
OP said coding AND “some automation”, what is being automated?
Just curious, what does “some automation” entail? I thought LLMs could only work with text, like summarize documents and that sort of thing.
Calibre-web Automated is even better
I read it twice and it still doesn’t make sense
This may be a dumb question but isn’t OTA TV still basically exactly what you describe?
CWA largely removes the need for running Calibre.
I use CWA for the main book “hub” and upload everything (audiobooks and comics too) to it. Then I have audiobookshelf scan the calibre directory, and Komga do the same because the app I use for comics (cdisplayex) doesn’t sync with Koreader yet.
On the client side I use Koreader, Lissen and Cdisplayex.
It works fine but it would be nice to have one app that syncs all progress. And my holy grail is one that can sync ebook and audiobook progress like Amazon’s whispersync!
Excited for the official KDE Distro. I am a big fan of Fedora Kinoite but will probably give KDE a show once it is out of beta.
Thrift stores often have old laptops for cheap