unicorn_cowboy

Someone make a Jeeves chatbot where he opines about missing the good ol' days of assisting curious strangers on the world wide web.

This is their recent acquisition (producer.ai) rebranded.

Before the purchase, the quality of generations had been going down for a while (IMO; subjective and anecdotal). I tested multiple iterations of their chat interface and was never thrilled with its ability to actually understand or adhere to prompts. I had liked their previous (Suno/Udio-like) iteration (Riffusion).

Curious to hear how it performs for people now and whether anything has improved.

It's missing the forest for the trees.

Materialism is not fundamental; consciousness is. This assumes materialism as fundamental.

Yeah, please leave the cultural analysis to anthropologists, sociologists, etc. The engineering-focused materialist way of looking at stuff like this makes my head and heart hurt.

You can also use this to set yourself up for success at the end of the day by closing/zero-ing out everything, and then just starting the first thing you need to do the next day. Then when you start work the next day, you've already got a feeling of momentum because your space is clear, your focus is set, and you've already started the task.

This author is a psycho. In a good way.

Can you elaborate?

It's fun to live out 90s hacker fantasies.

types furiously

[ACCESS DENIED]

types double furiously

[ACCESS GRANTED]

dramatic turn to camera

"I'm in."

Can someone explain the actual use cases for this that folks are excited about?

Nobody wants to be responsible for writing the film they're watching, as they watch it. Nobody wants to engage with a virtual world that has no story, narrative, meaning, purpose.

What is the actual use case for this, once we move beyond the tech demo stage?

The idea it will wholesale replace existing 3D graphics/rendering pipelines and processes any time soon seems so far-fetched to me (even just logistically) that I can't wrap my head around what people are thinking here.

This strikes me as a fancy parlor trick. Unless I'm mistaken, we need proper world models to do the things people are erroneously assuming this to be capable of one day.

Very cute and charming!

I wish they would simulate the extremely slow load times to make it feel time-period accurate. You were waiting multiple seconds for images to appear before you even had any idea what you were looking at.