I was very disgusted when I saw VC firms with billions in AUM put money into things like FartCoin, Digital Twins
The Boomer VCs financed stuff that is genuinely useful, MRI Scanners, Google, Apple Computers, Genetech (brought insulin to the masses).
The milenial VCs fund stuff that is at best convenient to have (Airbnb, Uber) but usually gimmicks, Instagram, Tiktok.
Sam Altman is the master of gimmicks.
He took the GPT model that already existed and wrapped it into chat format similar to Elizer[0]
Got Neural style that existed for a long time and paired it with Studio Ghibli fanatics. [1]
[1] https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/markets-and-the-good/artic...
Which we already had, it's just a 'git clone https://github.com/whatevs/huh' away, or doing one of millions of tutorials on whatever topic. Pretty much everyone who can build something out of Elixir/Phoenix has a chat app, an e-commerce store and a scraping platform just laying around.
- Turning a lot of data into a small amount of data, such as extracting facts from a text, translating and querying a PDF, cleaning up a data dump such as getting a clean Markdown table from a copy/pasted HTML source of a web page etc (IMO it often goes wrong when you go the other way and try to turn a small prompt into a lot of data)
- Creating illustrations representing ephemeral data (eg my daily weather report illustration which I enjoy looking at every day even if the data it produces is not super useful: https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate-eink)
- Using Cursor to perform coding tasks that are tedious but I know what the end result should look like (so I can spend low effort verifying it) -- it has an 80% success rate and I deem it to save time but it's not perfect
- Exploration of a topic I'm not familiar with (I've used o3 extensively while double checking facts, learning about laws, answering random questions that would be too difficult to Google, etc etc) -- o3 is good at giving sources so I can double check important things
Beyond this, AI is also a form of entertainment for me, like using realtime voice chat, or video/image generation to explore random ideas and seeing what comes out. Or turning my ugly sketches into nicer drawings, and so forth.
It's a lot more balanced compared to the doomy attitude in the primary post.
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Microsoft Azure. (2024). "Azure for Media and Entertainment." https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/media-entertainm...
IBC365. (2023). "The Future of Broadcast Engineering: Skills and Training." https://www.ibc.org/tech-advances/the-future-of-broadcast-en...
Broadcast Bridge. (2023). "Cloud Skills for Broadcast Engineers." https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/18744/cloud...
SVG Europe. (2023). "OTT and Cloud: The New Normal for Broadcast." https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/ott-and-cloud-the-n...
None of these exist, neither at the provided URLs or elsewhere.
> Suppose I'm standing on Earth and suddenly gravity stopped affecting me. What would be my trajectory? Specifically what would be my distance from Earth over time?
https://chatgpt.com/c/682edff8-c540-8010-acaa-8d9b5c26733d
It gives the "small distance approximation" in the examples, even if I ask for the solution after two hours, which at 879km is already quite off the correct ~820km.
An approximation that is better in the order of seconds to hours is pretty simple:
s(t) = sqrt((R^2 + (Vt)^2)) - R
[0] Their results were giving wildly incorrect numbers at less than 100 seconds already, which was what originally prompted me to respond - they didn't even match the formula.