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Not for military purposes, but if you're an employee of eg Google, life is pretty good. Free food, spacious offices, great health insurance; all sorts of perks. All at the behest of Lord Sundar.

Yeah but with no guarantee that it was going to work, why should he have?

Yeah, but he obviously had enough confidence in this project to keep the agents working at it, didn't he? Given infinite time and money, if you prompt an LLM about something enough times, it will eventually work.

Insert something about monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare here.


But you didn’t have to sit and type. Assuming that you look at what it did, why not?

Robot MotoGP would be amazing to see just how far the limits could be pushed without risking the life of a human though. Or even full size remote control.

Sadly I don't think there is any safe tracks for proper autonomous car racing without limits... Still would be interesting to see what is the absolute best you could do if rules include only say minimum number of wheels and maximum dimensions for vehicles.

xkcd “what if” covered this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/116/

same.

14,000 women will produce a baby in a month, because that is how many, in average, it would take for one of them to be 8 months pregnant. Of course, if you need one tomorrow, you can go over to the maternity ward and steal someone's that was just delivered.

Reframe it. Don't look at it as a business failure. You wanted something to exist, and were willing to pay $x to make that happen. Hobbies don't have to generate income. It would be nice, but does it have to? If I pay $x,000 to go on a ski trip, I don't expect it to generate income for me somehow, so why should making PCBs or iOS apps be any different?

I understand your point, and, to be sure, it is just a hobby to me at this point—and I have no expectation of a hobby "making a profit". (To be sure iOS apps were a different story).

Paying artists though makes this hobby an even more expensive one. And as I am not making any money, it's not like I am robbing anyone… (Another way to look at it perhaps?)


You can program them with an app on your phone or Flipper Zero.

Facetime does alright in the consumer segment.

The most frustrating thing about FaceTime is it sometimes appears to significantly duck audio in order to avoid echoes. I can't predict on which devices it will happen, but it often does when I call my parents and it absolutely destroys the conversation. If they're telling me something and I make the slightest "uhuh" acknowledgment sound, their mic input gets effectively muted for a second or so and I miss what they say.

> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." — Tony Hoare

for those (like me) who hadn't seen it before.



Ahh yes, I'm sure agents did this all autonomously without any human in the loop what so ever. They are useless without experts to handle them.

So then have the Linux-using organizations employ experts to handle them then.

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