Starting to read again has significantly increased my attention span and ability to focus. It has also made me crave doom scrolling less.
Readit Newsksubedi commented on You must read at least one book to ride ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/y... · Posted by u/Kinrany
ksubedi commented on You must read at least one book to ride ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/y... · Posted by u/Kinrany
I very much agree with this premise. My skills fall into three camps: That which I have invented myself, from first principles; That which I have read one book on; and That which I am bad at.
One of the things I am bad at is finding books. Books are everywhere, most books are rubbish, and yet every book I've had recommended has been amazing. So, does anyone have a good book on finding good books?
I have started using large language models for book recommendations. I can be very specific about what I am looking for and the recommendations are hyper personalized. If you use some sort of tool that pairs LLMs with realtime data like Gemini the results are even better.
If it’s going to take general artificial intelligent to get a voice assistant that can remember not one, but two entirely separate cooking timers, then so be it. Imagine the GPUs required!
I’m still baffled at Siri and Google assistant. Virtually zero innovation in a decade. I just want to be able to turn on BBC radio while my hands are wet, is that really so hard?!
Google Assistant is pretty decent. But as someone who is pretty much locked into the Apple ecosystem, Siri needs a reboot from scratch.
ksubedi commented on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal fcc.gov/document/fcc-make... · Posted by u/ortusdux
Those voices were already prohibited. This ruling specifically addresses agents "emulating human speech and interacting with consumers as though they were live human callers when generating voice and text messages".
Based on the (alarming) demo on Air.ai's homepage, that sounds like it would be prohibited unless the user consented to be contacted in that manner when providing their phone number.
So looks like the only allowed use cases will be for opt-in notifications and reminders.
ksubedi commented on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal fcc.gov/document/fcc-make... · Posted by u/ortusdux
The ruling specifically only applies to the initiator of the call. IVR is not covered. Automated calls are also permitted with consent (for instance, if you sign up for notifications for filled prescriptions or backordered library books). It has nothing to do with the quality of the voice -- prerecorded voices are banned too.
So is this going to be another clusterfuck like 10DLC? I am glad our company stuck with our guts and intentionally decided not to go outbound, but I almost feel bad for the startups that were banking on full outbound.
ksubedi commented on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal fcc.gov/document/fcc-make... · Posted by u/ortusdux
Looks like the FCC basically killed outbound AI calling companies like Air.ai, and does not seem to affect inbound companies like ours (https://echo.win)
Interestingly they explicitly mention AI generated voices, does that mean voices generated by traditional TTS engines are fine?
Our company https://echo.win/ provides inbound phone call automation and management using AI for businesses. Generative voices are going to add a lot of value to our product.
ksubedi commented on ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models react-lm.github.io... · Posted by u/matthewfcarlson
Anyone had luck getting this going in GPT-4 yet? I tried a couple of the chat-specific agents in langchain a couple days ago but it seems like the extra chat RLHF makes GPT-3.5/4 stubborn about not wanting to write messages in the needed format. I could get it working some of the time, but it was really unreliable. Next up I’ll try Simonw’s (the G.O.A.T.) micro-lib for this.
Also, man, what an annoying context to see “As a language model I cannot…”.
I have had luck with doing this on GPT4 with careful prompting, but GPT 3.5 is pretty reluctant to respond with anything other than straight up conversational answers.