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Insidious. Damn.
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You sound bitter.
Exactly. And these drugs were originally diabetes medications. And they don’t cure diabetes.
I don’t know that they always are. It’s easy from our nerd bubble to dismiss AI and LLMs because we understand their limitations and how they work to an extent.
We shouldn’t look down on anyone who takes the advertising and idea that these are “intelligence” at face value. The disclaimers that say that the intelligence is fallible, just like us, are never as strongly worded as they should be. If the AI companies made things clearer, they would be de-hyping their products.
I dunno, this whole thing is unprecedented. And the hype around it all, taken at face value, is irresponsible from this perspective of being misleading.
And there are countless AI hype bros who will just dismiss all of this and call the people who fall into this morons.
It’s really insidious.
So the next time you are in an airport, how will this help? And will you go to jail afterwords?
See, we don’t need age checks. We just need some of these bad boys.
That one is a bit different because it’s intended to fill in hitches and small dips. It’s not magic. It won’t take you from 60 to 90 fps the whole time. That won’t be a nice experience.
In fact, people usually turn off the version valve made for SteamVR when using VRChat because VRChat almost never meets frame rate in most busy worlds. And it’s better to just have a lower frame rate instead of warped and interpolated frames. It’s counter intuitive but true.
What’s interesting, to me, is that’s exactly how people hedge in the fringe UFO community too. The difference is this AI prediction has real data woven into it. And the UFO people have “stories” and right wing grifters in our current administration pushing the idea.
I’m not trying to be dismissive, I just noticed that the year 2027 is popular for predictions, and has been for 4-5 years.
Oh, and I forgot to list fusion power being cracked. I’ll got add it. There are a bunch of startups right now. Sam Altman just stepped down from the board of one of them to address conflict of interest issues. Allegedly.
People online are predicting everything will happen in 2027.
- Aliens are revealed
- China invades Taiwan
- The singularity happens/super intelligence happens (basically, this post)
- The Antichrist appears and or Jesus returns
- Trump dies and JD Vance takes over
- Fusion power is figured out
A conspiracy minded person could tie all of these together. Especially with a the Iran war starting and looking like it’s going to drag on.
If you look them all up you’ll find fringe people or mainstream people talking about each. So 2027 is either going to have a lot of goalpost moving, or maybe a few of the things will pop off.
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/37907
Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headset with built-in hand tracking, designed to be open where others were closed, allowing developers and users access to inner workings in defiance of walled gardens. It looked very promising, with features rivaling (or surpassing) those of its contemporaries.
Founder [Stan Larroque] recently announced that Lynx’s 6DoF SLAM (simultaneous location and mapping) solution has been released as open source. ORB-SLAM3 (GitHub repository) takes in camera images and outputs a 6DoF pose, and does so effectively in real-time. The repository contains some added details as well as a demo application that can run on the Lynx-R1 headset.
The unusual optics are memorable. (Hands-on Lynx-R1 by Antony Vitillo)
As a headset the Lynx-R1 had a number of intriguing elements. The unusual optics, the flip-up design, and built-in hand tracking were impressive for its time, as was the high-quality mixed reality pass-through. That last feature refers to the headset using its external cameras as inputs to let the user see the real world, but with the ability to have virtual elements displayed and apparently anchored to real-world locations. Doing this depends heavily on the headset being able to track its position in the real world with both high accuracy and low latency, and this is what ORB-SLAM3 provides.
A successful crowdfunding campaign for the Lynx-R1 in 2021 showed that a significant number of people were on board with what Lynx was offering, but developing brand new consumer hardware is a challenging road for many reasons unrelated to developing the actual thing. There was a hands-on at a trade show in 2021 and units were originally intended to ship out in 2022, but sadly that didn’t happen. Units still occasionally trickle out to backers and pre-orders according to the unofficial Discord, but it’s safe to say things didn’t really go as planned for the R1.
It remains a genuinely noteworthy piece of hardware, especially considering it was not a product of one of the tech giants. If we manage to get our hands on one of them, we’ll certainly give you a good look at it.
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