gunnaraasen
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Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed, but feels like brain-computer interfaces ready for mass adoption will not be available for another decade or two.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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...
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 12 years ago
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.)
Comment · 14 years ago
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.