The humanoid robot in Klara and the sun is a bit like that. It spends alot of time interacting and learning from a (sick) child, and the goal is that thw robot takes over if the kid dies.

I believe gpt4 can read and describe the content of images. No need to go via ascii.

Highspeed algoritmic trading is already running most of the tradevolume. I believe it will be very hard to use machine learning on this data unless you sit in the nexus between trades and can algotrade in the interim between when a buyer sends his order and the sellers accepts. There are «clearinghouses» in between who has better access to realtime data than ordinary endusers, so you will always loose. They make their money on both ends of the trade, from the seller and the buyer, plus can do multiple trades in between.

But perhaps take a look at sentiment analysis. A few years back someone made code that based their automatic trades on Trump tweets.

World events / news can cause massive shifts in stock value, which might be tradeable.

So are we putting «neural» in front of random things now to get traction? Looks like normal physics simulation. Where does the «neural» fit in?

I have a theory that human imagination/creativity is linked to our dreams, and that we learn and change faster because our different brain halves play off scenarious to each other to test them out. our internal dreamworld can suspend and jump over the limitations of the physical world (like time, place, senses), but still manage to improve how we understand and interact with the world when awake. I think a better understanding of the human brain and especially dreams is needed for the next big leap in machine learning, instead of the brute force techniques used now to train static models.

Perhaps when we can grow human-like brains and interface with them?

I have no idea. I would preffer one that gives the same nice summaries that chatgpt makes now but with references for fact checking. It looks like Microsoft’s Bing will get there first.

Hm, feels a bit desperate. And interesting that he didnt link to any of their projects, nor to the closed Bard beta. For a company that invented page rank, that seems just weird.

Had anyone asked Krist Novoselics mom about this?

I love the smell of metaposts in the evening. It is not a waste of our time at all.

My default answer is always whater from Firefly :) So I have to say Mal and Inara.

And my least favorite is effing Meredith and effing Derek. Jeeeses christ. Which is weird, since the whole of Greys anatomy is about that relationship. Argh!

I prefer reading digitally, and Kindle has the best functionality for that (I love looking up words and I like that I can mark quotes and have them show up in Goodreads. But for economic reasons I often borrow ebooks and AudioBooks through my library which uses Libby and Bookbites. Those apps aren’t as good. I also buy used books, often books I have already read, I usually get them for 1-3 usd. And I sometime spend some more to get a few of my all time favorites just in case armageddon :)

Lovely book, read it many years ago

Easy for images. Pure tekst is harder, but I found this.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ASCII-watermark-embedding-in-the-CbCr-channels_fig6_256994333

Should be possible at some point. But since GPT is so general, I think you have to coax it a little first, to get in the "mood" to be an author, or at least to make it be consistent in its style. Perhaps retrain or feed it with crime novels from a particular author to better understand what constitues a GOOD story written in a certain style.
Sort of like the tricks people use to make ChatGPT write code. ChatGPT isn´t (wasn´t) willing to write code, you had to sort of get it to accept certain rules first, a sort of framework, but when that was done it could output code.