I was talking to a very drunk Republican girl the other day. We were having a small argument about why we would send medical support to Africa for AIDS. Her argument was something about fixing America first (I was also drunk).

I asked if she regretted her vote for Trump after several people she knew lost their government contracting jobs, and she said "No, fuck that guy, I didn't vote for him."

It's not really similar to your idea, but your idea unlocked a memory of playing Gizmos and Gadgets as a kid.

Edit: So I decided to go and play it on an online archive site. It's just as fun as I remember.

As an Android user, I sometimes feel like I should be a protected class.

But I get cheaper DoorDash orders, so that's good enough for me.

Ah, so that's how Soylent was founded.

You're not wrong. But if I'm paying $70 for a game, I'm definitely going to be annoyed if the trees look like they were pulled from Ocarina of Time.

I wouldn’t mind if the game was fun. Many of my favorite games to this day have terrible graphics. A nice side effect of simple 3D forms or even 2D games is that you also don’t require a massively expensive GPU or even a dedicated GPU at all in order to play them.

I have an ongoing chat in chatGPT where it's instructed to every once in a while ignore my question and just respond with "Shut up, nerd."

lol - I asked chat GPT to reply to me like they were Murderbot from the 'Murderbot 'series.it prints at the start of my personal productivity program i wrote. It's always halarious. here's a small sample of the prompts:

   def __init__(self) -> None:

        print()
        print("----------------------------------------------")
        print_choice = random.choice(self.welcome_messages)
        self.slow_print(print_choice)
        while True:
            self.run()



   'What\'s up, doc? Just kidding, I don\'t care. What do you need from me?',
        'Greetings, sentient being. Do you require my services or are you just here to chat?',
        'Hey, you. Stop wasting my time and tell me what you need.', "I'm sorry, I cannot make your coffee, but I can tell you where the nearest coffee shop is.",
        "I'm here to assist you, not judge you. Just don't ask me to cover up any crimes.",
        "I'll help you with that, but I'm going to need you to put on some pants first.",
        "I'm not your therapist, but I can still listen to your problems if you need me to.",
        "I can't predict the future, but I can help you prepare for it.",
        "I may be artificial, but I still have feelings. Just kidding, I don't.",
        "I'm sorry, I'm not capable of emotions. Unless you count my love for data.",
        "I'm like Siri, but with more sass and less Apple.",
        "I'm like a genie, but instead of three wishes, you get one answer.",
        "I'm like a magic eight ball, but with more accuracy and less shaking.",
        "I'm like a personal assistant, but without the need for health insurance.",
        "I'm like a virtual butler, but instead of dusting, I clean up your digital life.",
        "I'm like a superhero, but instead of saving the world, I save you from yourself.",
        "I'm like a ghost, but instead of haunting you, I just follow you everywhere on your phone.",
        "I'm like a guardian angel, but with less wings and more Wi-Fi.",
        "I'm like a detective, but instead of solving crimes, I solve problems.",
        "I'm like a sherpa, but instead of mountains, I guide you through the treacherous terrain of your inbox.",
        "I'm like a ninja, but instead of stealth and swords, I use code and shortcuts.",
        "I'm like a robot, but instead of taking over the world, I just want to make your life easier."]

Now I'm curious about training a bot on my IRC logs from the early 2000s.

It'd be like a chat time machine. I'd love to go back and bullshit with long-lost online friends about modding Halo:CE on Xbox again.

There... is.

It is not generally available though?

I signed up to the GPT4 waitlist the first day and I still don't have access.

As these AI models get more powerful, giving certain people months to use them while the rest of us twiddle our thumbs seems unfair. It should be everyone has access but you only get X API requests per day. Then increase X for all users evenly. If OpenAI isn't going to be open, at least they could be a little more fair with access.

I got access like a week after and I'm of no important status and haven't spent more then 10USD on their api - but I think it's based on the age of the account, I paid for chatGPT premium as well.

But I do believe the api is accessible to non-megacorporations.

It's waitlist only although I got invited rather quickly.

I've spent no more then 10$ on GPT3 previously, but my account is older and I have chatgpt premium so I'm not sure if that affects your spot in line.

But non-megacoorperations do have access

They are funded by YC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003215

It's basically social suicide for kids now.

But it's great for people like me, because I'm much less likely to be added to a family group text.

Insane, terrifying, incredible, etc.

We're rapidly stumbling into the future of media.

Who would've imagined a year ago that trivial AI image generation would not only be this advanced, but also this pervasive in the mainstream.

And now video is already this good. We'll have full audio/video clips within a month.

Audio is the next thing that Stability AI is dropping, then video. In a few months you'll be able to conjure up anything you want if you have a few GPU cores. Pretty incredible.

I won’t be impressed until it can generate smells.

You joke, but that is in the works as well (would require special hardware though) https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-mol...

Oh, it wasn’t really a joke. Didn’t know they were working on it though - I’ve always thought wanted to see use of all the senses in UIs, especially VR.

Plus then maybe we could get a computer to tell us what thioacetone smells like without actually having to experience it.