I've rarely seen this, mostly get answers correctly, and am able to use it for generation and reasoning. Can you share any link of a chatgpt/gemini conversation where this kind of circular conversation happened?
I agree the multimodal stuff is amazing. I'm seriously impressed with the new Gemini 2.0 family of models and can't wait until the full multimodal capabilities are in general release.
In terms of the HeyGen vid, it's passable, but that was something I literally whipped up in 10 minutes. You can make ones that are much, much better if you invest in creating better training material. The voice and video model in this case only used the one 3-minute source video.
Funny you mention the "people zoo" thing. That's actually part of a sci-fi story I've been trying to write since I was in my teens. Roughed out here: https://youtu.be/2KLdaVs_ugw
You know what's wild? Not ever having heard of him, I can find out who he is and how this relates to the conversation in milliseconds.
For others' benefit:
"Kurt Vonnegut explored themes of humans being observed by extraterrestrial beings in a zoo-like setting in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. ...
While this scenario involves humans being placed in a zoo by aliens, it does not specifically depict artificial intelligence (AI) as the captors. However, Vonnegut did address the impact of automation and machines on human society in his debut novel, Player Piano."
Amazing times we live in. Strange and scary, but also amazing.
I've quit caffeine several times on and off, but overall I think that a small amount of caffeine does more for mental acuity than none at all, even considering sleep quality.
But it's really easy to overdo. And really easy to keep ramping up your dose as your body adjusts.
If you just want to _reduce_ your caffeine intake, I found that the easiest way is to pre-mix different ratios of regular and decaf in a container and use that. You can make 50:50 or 25:75 regular:decaf and easily taper off your intake (especially towards the afternoon/evening) while still enjoying a nice cup of coffee :)
Kicking Horse coffee makes a half-caf blend if you can get your hands on it, I'm sure there are others. You can mix that 1:1 with full caf to make a half-half-caf-half-caf coff
I feel like stuff like this is why golang was created.
Or more properly, why Rust was created.
I've grudgingly used C++ on some projects because of other constraints such as the target platform. Due to the compiler version, we're stuck on C++11, which is... OK. But keeping straight what we can use, and what we can't, and which kinds of pointers we should be using when is a considerable burden.
Still working through "Effective Modern C++" while learning the ins and outs of it in general.
Well, they were mostly created, because the alternatives to C and C++ ended up loosing their market share, so current generations aren't usually aware of what came before.
Go is anything hardly new versus what Algol 68, Pascal or Oberon derivative would offer.
Likewise the best part of Rust is their work on how to make affine types from Cyclone, ATS and others into more developer friendly and productive language features, while following the traditional rules of other safe systems languages.
Since it is easier to introduce new languages than bring back old ones, here we are.
As a software developer and manager of software development projects, I wouldn't say that software quality has increased significantly since I started working professionally in the industry (1997).
As mentioned elsewhere, web apps frequently "crash" (ie. fatal JS error) and have strange behavior.
And those bugs are often platform/browser/version-specific so very difficult to fix.
So I decided to put the question to 3 of the most advanced AIs I have access to using their “reasoning” models.