Give us back our RAM, you prick!
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I dunno. Timeliness seems reasonable.
AGI in 18 months. Start a timer in 12. I think a clock is roughly 66% of the complexity of AGI. Math checks out.
The asshole isn’t even a programmer. What does he know?
It seems stupid to even try to get an LLM to do deterministic tasks. You'll harm the product by trying to make it something that it isn't.
Seems much more sensible to give it modules that perform the task and give it access to those which I believe is how Google Assistant used to work.
I haven't looked into it but couldn't someone just use an LLM for natural language processing and feed that to a home assistant? Like prompt it with "break up individual commands and pass to the assistant" so when I say "living room lights on and bedroom lights off" the fucking thing does it instead of "huh? I'm a moron."
They could, but they wouldn't be able to trap that functionality behind a paywall, so they're not interested.
It can get done by anyone with an open model in way less than a year, using your approach.
People run whisper on HA, and there already exist intention mapping packages. They've been around for probably a decade already. Pretty hit or miss... mostly because there isn't a ton of flexibility in the structure of the commands you issue it.
If someone wanted to use an online LLM to attempt to translate a complex whisper transcription into something an existing intention mapped would handle well, that's closer to a day's worth of goofing around rather than a year. I actually refuse to believe it hasn't already been done.
And if you're using an online llm to do that translation, I don't see why that can't be behind a paywall either.
Honestly for this task, I imagine offline models would be sufficient.
Hilariously the only use I have for Siri is setting timers.
Lol. Decade old voice assistant outperforms cutting edge slop machine
I can start a count down timer in 4 presses of my phone screen from locked, or if I'm in the kitchen with one twist of my hand on the £2 kitchen timer I bought roughly 10 years ago.
It’s really funny to me that people are still listening to him and taking his statements at face value.
“Humans have been keeping time as far back as 3500 B.C. ChatGPT is still figuring it out.
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared on the show Mostly Human to talk about the future of AI, his company, and humanity as a whole. The interview was relatively standard fare—the host, Laurie Segall, got Altman on the record on the demise of Sora, OpenAI sliding in following the Pentagon’s spat with Anthropic, etc. But at one point, she asked Altman to react to a viral video posted by TikTok user @huskistaken in which he asks ChatGPT’s voice model to time him running a mile. The chatbot very obviously makes up a time instead of actually keeping track.”
Did they try just telling ChatGPT to tell their actual time and not hallucinate? EZ hack.
"make no mistaks plz" Problem solved
If you need ChatGPT to start a timer then you probably shouldn't be operating a computer.
Siri start a stopwatch for Sam altman
Can you ask it to make a story that will take like 10 mins to read and make it read it. Like timer with extra steps.
MCP, skills and whatever else garbage they came up with doesn't include a timer? Or even just getting a timestamp? Lmao