Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@jannem @tsturm @canacar

It's gonna change more lives than chatbots for the better.

Think of the applications to teaching things like writing.

Think about me writing more because I get sick of typing and now I can go for a walk instead and keep going.

@mawhrin

Both of these people are artists, so it's very easy to get them to see the flaws. They have exacting outrageous standards for their work. But they still somehow have moments where they buy in "this tech can do it for me"

no it can't!
you are too powerful and good for that to be true!

@apLundell

Why isn't functional speech to text more of a big deal? Seems like a massive tech win that could change workflows all over the place.

But, I will say something like "have you tried to get it to do any moment from the script?"

And this is when they say "yeah, it was hard it couldn't get the faces right..." etc. Because that's where this stuff fails.

But then they say "soon it will be better"

It's been three years.

But also, I don't know what we are arguing about? I guess if it did work ... great. But it doesn't.

Maybe they just want me to share the sense of ... hope? It's hard. This has been such a massive mess.

2/2

I've been having a few surreal conversations about AI with one or two people I know who may be less pessimistic about the tech than I am.

In both cases we are not talking about investor types, these are artists. And they'll say something like "Now I can shoot that period drama I wrote and didn't have the budget for!"

And I want this to be true for them. (In this case I've read the script and it's very good and I would like to watch it.)

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@tsturm @canacar

This is literally the best thing to come out of this whole "tech cycle"

It's amazing to be able to dictate text and have it be correct, with nice punctuation and only a few little things to fix.

@tsturm @canacar

This sounds ... fine?

@knowuh @canacar

It's still asking me to turn that on and I keep ignoring it.

@canacar

I'm experiencing stress from wondering where exactly this tech is being injected all of the time.

This might drive me off the iPhone at last, although I did just get my screen fixed and felt like I ought to be good for two more years.

Is this a good "cleaning channel"

Seems like it might be.

@tootadyneLPD

US should be "I will die for money" and or "the corporation"

I use speech to text in apple's notepad on my phone. Since the most recent OS update I've noticed a big jump in quality.

Wondering if the text is getting brushed up by an LLM?

For example: I narrated a paragraph about ants and it got the word "integument" correct. (I fully expected it to be wrong. "In Ted, good man")

This happens to be one of the few things I think LLMs do well --but I also would like to know about all the water I'm destroying.

@zacheverson.com

Oh good some financial news from a real reporter.

@cobalt123 @Bfordham @paulc @roytoo

A temperature controlled spot would be better.

@cobalt123 @Bfordham @paulc @roytoo

Is there a place in your building or neighborhood where you could put a box and invite people to do an informal mini-pantry?

@gwcoffey

The queen of my carpenter colony had a prime mate who was an ant.

@nev

This is a top quality stump. Any ant colonies in there? Stumps are great for finding ants.

@mlohbihler

It's like she has an army of defenders on here. I can never catch a break ever...

@fullyabstract

How dare the puppy do such a thing!

And this is how I end up petting and soothing the "poor cat" when she knocked my stuff over.

How foolish of me to have not made a better landing spot for her. When will I learn? It's horrible.