brain-computer interface will kill the keyboard, not voice. imho
Agreed, but feels like brain-computer interfaces ready for mass adoption will not be available for another decade or two.
Readit Newsgunnaraasen commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
Voice interface sound awful. But maybe I am a power user. I don't even like voice interface to most people.
I also find current voice interfaces are terrible. I only use voice commands to set timers or play music.
That said, voice is the original social interface for humans. We learn to speak much earlier than we learn to read/write.
Better voice UIs will be built to make new workflows with AI feel natural. I'm thinking along the lines of a conversational companion, like the "Jarvis" AI in the Iron Man movies.
That doesn't exist right now, but it seems inevitable that real-time, voice-directed AI agent interfaces will be perfected in coming years. Companies, like [Eleven Labs](https://elevenlabs.io/), are already working on the building blocks.
Perhaps it is not possible to simulate higher-level intelligence using a stochastic model for predicting text.
I am not an AI researcher, but I have friends who do work in the field, and they are not worried about LLM-based AGI because of the diminishing returns on results vs amount of training data required. Maybe this is the bottleneck.
Human intelligence is markedly different from LLMs: it requires far fewer examples to train on, and generalizes way better. Whereas LLMs tend to regurgitate solutions to solved problems, where the solutions tend to be well-published in training data.
That being said, AGI is not a necessary requirement for AI to be totally world-changing. There are possibly applications of existing AI/ML/SL technology which could be more impactful than general intelligence. Search is one example where the ability to regurgitate knowledge from many domains is desirable
Seems like the real innovation of LLM-based AI models is the creation of a new human-computer interface.
Instead of writing code with exacting parameters, future developers will write human-language descriptions for AI to interpret and convert into a machine representation of the intent. Certainly revolutionary, but not true AGI in the sense of the machine having truly independent agency and consciousness.
In ten years, I expect the primary interface of desktop workstations, mobile phones, etc will be voice prompts for an AI interface. Keyboards will become a power-user interface and only used for highly technical tasks, similar to the way terminal interfaces are currently used to access lower-level systems.
gunnaraasen commented on "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages newyorker.com/culture/cul... · Posted by u/drdee
I really enjoyed the first Dune movie by Villenueve and decided to read Dune for the first time in anticipation the second movie.
Reading the book, I was surprised by the focus on mysticism and Islamic references, which were only a minor background element in the first movie. I do think the religious elements add depth to the story beyond the typical SciFi space opera and is a likely a strong contributing factor to Dune's enduring cultural impact. It's unfortunate the movies shied away from those references despite the potential consternation it may have stirred up.
For those that have recently read the book, this article by Harris Durrani on the probable influence of muslim theological development on Frank Herbert's Dune world is engrossing.
https://reactormag.com/the-muslimness-of-dune-a-close-readin...
gunnaraasen commented on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager paisa.fyi/... · Posted by u/ananthakumaran
Here's something that always trips me up when I look into non professional software for double entry accounting (or more accurately, instructions around them).
It's been a long time, so I may be getting it wrong, but I do have some introductory information of accounting. And according to that, in a transaction such as salary received, the accounting would look something like:
Income: Salary - Credit
Assets: Checking - Debit.
The Golden rule/s that apply here (Debit the receiver, credit the giver)
However, looking at the tutorial, the example given is:
2022/01/01 Salary
Income:Salary:Acme (Debit Account)
Assets:Checking (Credit Account)
This is the opposite of what I expect, however, I see this all the time when looking at tutorials/information written by SW devs.
What am I missing or is everyone else just getting it wrong?
Most tutorials for financial services are written for bank account users.
People refer to their bank account colloquially as a "debit account" and "credit account" because those are the types of accounts offered to them by a bank. From the bank's perspective, a consumer debit account is (correctly) considered a "debit" since any money deposited into the account by the account owner is an asset for the bank.
gunnaraasen commented on Legally evade taxes; buy your own offshore company. loophole4all.com/... · Posted by u/gunnaraasen
Loophole4all is another art project by Paolo Cirio, one of the people behind the recently HN front-paged "Google will eat itself" project. This is probably one of the most interesting pieces of art and social commentary I've come across. Especially relevant to tech since Facebook, Apple, etc. are infamous for using these tax evasion schemes. (Note: the site was launched a year ago.)
gunnaraasen commented on Learning to Code: The Roadmap I Wish I Had Been Given jimmy-li.net/blog/?p=62... · Posted by u/jyli7
While I really like Heroku for the simplicity of use, you're not going to learn a bunch about how a web server actually works by using it.
Agreed, but learning web server admin is a pain.
I spent all of yesterday trying to upgrade ruby/rails on my linode for the first time. Kept running into errors and eventually decided to just start over with a clean Ubuntu install. That kind of demoralizing experience isn't a problem when starting with Heroku.