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- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 9 hours ago:
just leveraging his pre-existing family wealth and connections to do so?
Oh he is absolutely pulling himself up from his bootstraps, his are just made out of emeralds.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
lol, performance art. That’d be interesting. I’d watch too.
Plus 20K people did watch a fish play Pokemon.
Also now that I think about it, it shouldn’t be too hard to feed a vision model a specific subset, e.g. darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Weapons of the visuals of all equipment and only then give advice. There is so much hierarchical information in there, e.g. one doesn’t get an Elden Ring weapon in Dark Souls, or does not get an end of the game weapon (except with glitches) after 1h or play time, etc so it’s possible to narrow the search space a lot.
I imagine a lot can be done with just few curated sources. Now… again (and I apologize for repeating myself so much while possibly sounding pedantic), why? Like what’s the actual point?
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
Thanks again. Well the first sentence started so good, correct game, neat,… but then wrong weapon… so totally pointless.
Again this can eventually be fixed. It’s “just” a data problem, and that’s exactly what models (and the entire infrastructure of data centers and researchers funded by VC money) excel at. So I think one can safely bet it will get there.
But… today, can one genuinely imagine playing Dark Souls (or any other game) without… knowing it? Like how does search for the wrong weapon and sometimes the right one help? How is that more convenient that picking a weapon up the searching manually for its name on desktop or mobile knowing with 99% certainty it will be the right one and advice will be genuine and relevant?
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
Wow thanks for genuinely trying and formatting this properly!
So… it’s interesting BUT on this specific part, there is a “trick” IMHO so I’d be curious how frequent that is : text!
What I mean is I know of Dark Souls but I haven’t played it. Yet, solely by putting the only visible piece of text available (OK let’s ignore “20” also) in a search engine “Asylum Demon” I get relevant suggestions, actually helpful content like fextralife right away.
I’d argue then the interesting question becomes how much context is needed to get useful advice… and more importantly how much context is gained with an image versus what the player already knows, e.g. game name, maybe “level” or anything unique, e.g. here boss name.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
Spot on, it’s a variation of the “Robots were supposed to clean the house why I make art, not the other way around” meme and arguably Moravec’s paradox.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
If someone somehow wants to test this locally I suggest
- install locally a vision model, e.g. Moondream (which Ollama supports but alternatives too), then
- take a screenshot of your game,
- write a prompt like "How can I play this game better"
- query the vision model with the image and your prompt
marvel at how pointless and costly the whole setup is and how a basic query on e.g. DuckDuckGo with “game name” + prompt would yield way WAY better results from actual human, uninstall the whole, keep on playing with your actual brain.
At least now you can say you tried before you complain, rightfully, that it sucks.
For more check …benetou.fr/…/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence
PS: I didn’t actually try this, I’m too lazy for that right how but feel free to report back if you do!
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
One of the most useless feature I’ve ever heard of.
So far! Check the “news” again in 5min and be prepared for worse.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
privacy zuckering
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 day ago:
I don’t think it’s AI related. If you play on a public server, you should expect your data to be public anyway.
If you play on a private server then there might be rules to be defined.
All that said, I’m not sure what information would actually be problematic to share but if that’s a problem, sure,
- play only of private servers than ban such AI tools (basically consider it cheating, which is arguably IMHO but I agree on the negative side effects)
- make a new account for multiplayer that has no public link with your identity
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 1 day ago:
Brooks (Roomba, Baxter, MIT, etc) says it’s sill not enough rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-…
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 1 day ago:
Marketing and fund raising. Doesn’t matter how much you, well we, hate him he’s still genuinely excellent at it. Sure it’s absolutely destructive to… literally everything except his bank account, but it works. Very annoying.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 3 days ago:
Old yet a starting point nevertheless so still quite useful, thanks for the pointer
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 3 days ago:
Oops yes of course, thanks, fixed.
relativty fork vis3r that started writing a monado driver
Neat, yes could be a starting point, any URL please?
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
(pasting a Mastodon post I wrote few days ago on StackOverflow but IMHO applies to Wikipedia too)
“AI, as in the current LLM hype, is not just pointless but rather harmful epistemologically speaking.
It’s a big word so let me unpack the idea with 1 example :
- StackOverflow, or SO for shot.
So SO is cratering in popularity. Maybe it’s related to LLM craze, maybe not but in practice, less and less people is using SO.
SO is basically a software developer social network that goes like this :
- hey I have this problem, I tried this and it didn’t work, what can I do?
- well (sometimes condescendingly) it works like this so that worked for me and here is why
then people discuss via comments, answers, vote, etc until, hopefully the most appropriate (which does not mean “correct”) answer rises to the top.
The next person with the same, or similar enough, problem gets to try right away what might work.
SO is very efficient in that sense but sometimes the tone itself can be negative, even toxic.
Sometimes the person asking did not bother search much, sometimes they clearly have no grasp of the problem, so replies can be terse, if not worst.
Yet the content itself is often correct in the sense that it does solve the problem.
So SO in a way is the pinnacle of “technically right” yet being an ass about it.
Meanwhile what if you could get roughly the same mapping between a problem and its solution but in a nice, even sycophantic, matter?
Of course the switch will happen.
That’s nice, right?.. right?!
It is. For a bit.
It’s actually REALLY nice.
Until the “thing” you “discuss” with maybe KPI is keeping you engaged (as its owner get paid per interaction) regardless of how usable (let’s not even say true or correct) its answer is.
That’s a deep problem because that thing does not learn.
It has no learning capability. It’s not just “a bit slow” or “dumb” but rather it does not learn, at all.
It gets updated with a new dataset, fine tuned, etc… but there is no action that leads to invalidation of a hypothesis generated a novel one that then … setup a safe environment to test within (that’s basically what learning is).
So… you sit there until the LLM gets updated but… with that? Now that less and less people bother updating your source (namely SO) how is your “thing” going to lean, sorry to get updated, without new contributions?
Now if we step back not at the individual level but at the collective level we can see how short-termist the whole endeavor is.
Yes, it might help some, even a lot, of people to “vile code” sorry I mean “vibe code”, their way out of a problem, but if :
- they, the individual
- it, the model
- we, society, do not contribute back to the dataset to upgrade from…
well I guess we are going faster right now, for some, but overall we will inexorably slow down.
So yes epistemologically we are slowing down, if not worst.
Anyway, I’m back on SO, trying to actually understand a problem. Trying to actually learn from my “bad” situation and rather than randomly try the statistically most likely solution, genuinely understand WHY I got there in the first place.
I’ll share my answer back on SO hoping to help other.
Don’t just “use” a tool, think, genuinely, it’s not just fun, it’s also liberating.
Literally.
Don’t give away your autonomy for a quick fix, you’ll get stuck.”
originally on mastodon.pirateparty.be/…/115315866570543792
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
Thanks for clarifying, guess you meant “required physical access to the machine AND being logged in.” then which makes a huge difference.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
Sure, that’s literally how I started both comments but I can try to clarify a bit more my point : if you want to “just” use, this isn’t great, but if you enjoy building itself, it might be even better.
FWIW I do both, including professionally, so I definitely get the point of making a headset, or anything really (I even do a bit of woodworking and welding) yourself or building thanks to the previous projects of others. I’m definitely NOT suggesting it shouldn’t be attempted. I’m solely warning people who are solely, or even mostly, interested in a usable object while investing minimum effort in.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
2 wrongs don’t make a right, I did enjoy
- Theft! A History of Music web.law.duke.edu/musiccomic/
- Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? web.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
on the topic.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
Come on Japan, what’s a bit of culture for AGI/ASI! Don’t you want to save the planet? /$
This is obviously sarcasm, OpenAI just wants more money, namely the exact OPPOSITE of what it was founded for.
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
Does it mean you don’t think login password with physical token with disk encryption work?
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
I think it’s good enough for learning and doing something weird but Meta Quest 1 or 2 cost less (just checked 2nd hand local website and saw a few for 100€) and require 0 hardware work while providing 6DoF (leaning just a tad in your cockpit? Huge difference) and higher refresh rate.
Again, it’s amazing to tinker but unless it’s part of a both technical and ethical adventure then I believe there are better options out there already.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
Absolutely, best tracking system out there… but also you need to bolt stuff on the wall. Inside-out tracking meanwhile… well you just open up your backpack, put the HMD on and voila. Different trade offs for different usages.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
You did but not anymore :
- Go can be rooted officially
- Quest 1/2/3/3s can be used without account thanks to PrivateQuest
- Quest 3 v78 (not newer OS version) can be rooted via a hack
So yes, by default you are paying with data. In fact IMHO if possible one should not rely on Meta hardware. That being said if you get e.g. a 2nd hand Quest 2 or 3 and use it without an account then you might be providing little to no money to Meta and no data. It’s not trivial but it’s feasible.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
For now you have to use non open-source software PrivateQuest to pair it. I recommend to factory reset it first but anyway instructions are there, can be a bit finicky but does work.
I’ve read that some are trying to port it to GadgetBridge which would be ideal.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
Believe me it’s even more than you imagine!
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
PS: for those who remember back then Relativty it became Unai then unison.co which according to LinkedIn (so take it via a grain of salt) when from 30 employees Image and maybe more importantly hasn’t delivered anything I’m aware of. In itself that’s no big deal, startups do that, but it’s definitely quite far from the initial openness debut.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
If you go down that path check buttplug.io because the fun does not have to stop with just vision!
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
Don’t devaluate yourself, you’re infinitely more.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
My LinkedIn feed
Yes… it’s so bad that I just never log in until I receive a DM, and even then I login, check it, if it’s useful I warn people I don’t use LinkedIn anymore then log out.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
No, it’s not a deal. It’s only about learning IMHO and that’s already be great.
In fact it’s such a “bad” deal that I replied a bit in depth. My goal isn’t to bring the project down, heck I’m even envious about being able to do all that, but rather that people curious about VR don’t get confused. This is nearly a decade outdated and there are better open solutions, e.g. Lynx or even Meta Quest 2 without account IMHO.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
Note that despite the lack of OpenXR support by relying on github.com/relativty/Relativty#14-software-setup they might support some SteamVR games. That said, again, it’s 6DoF and outdated so which actual games would be fun, not just playable, is a different question.
