It was far less bad than people make it out to be. I was on a stream watching and so many comments were talking about how he looked, and I'm sitting here thinking... y'all realize he's listening to Trump speak right? Anyone actually listening to what that monster has to say is going to either look befuddled or dismayed. He looked both. He definitely had some weak spots, but compared to Trump who wouldn't even answer a question and blatantly lying every other second.
It sucks. People were basically cheering him on online, the most against him comments I saw were "they're both so old". Not commenting on the insanity or the racism or the lies, just memeing on old Biden. Which yeah he deserves it but the rhetoric is reminding me of 2016 and it does not inspire hope.
This is pretty much the only way that I use AI. It can brainstorm 50 ideas faster than I can and format them in a way that I can actually get started on projects rather than planning out each step.
AI is pretty strong at what I have been calling "permanent facts". Using any song as an example, it will always have the same key, tempo, scales, etc. As such, when asking for details about a song, listing out the key, scales, tempo, and asking it to show unconventional scales that will play over it. Another example of a permanent fact would be the death date of someone, as that isn't really going to be changing.
On the other hand, temporary facts are where hallucination and other inaccuracies come in. There's no way for LLM's to get new information, so it doesn't know about career changes, current ages or net worth. You can utilize permanent facts to get accurate information about temporary facts, but that's not nearly as useful. I think one of the major issues people have with LLM's (model creation aside) is that our society really values temporary facts, and so when it gets it wrong people like to point at that as a fault. Which it certainly is, but to me it's kind of like pointing at Photoshop and laughing that it can't even be used to write a book - like, OK but that's not really it's purpose?
I think another example of LLM's definitely being useful was all of those privacy nightmare Excel/Sheets plugins. Privacy aside, that's basically the ideal use-case for LLM's as you are pointing out Permanent Facts (the data in cells A-Z) and having it sort them in some fashion. I've seen a lot of LLM hallucinations for sure, but I've also seen a lot of consistency when actually using it as intended. I've yet to have it be "wrong" when I was testing my music information template or when sorting out data in excel.
Much outside of that though, no. It's only useful as getting mass amounts of theory in a short session, not so much for being reliable in that information. That might sound like a bad tool, but as mentioned it has plenty of use-cases, people are just using it as a tool very, very poorly. (It can also be used maliciously more easily than most other tools, which definitely prohibits its status as a "good" tool.)
No. I have a few fediverse accounts, Beehaw, Kbin, Leminal, SlrPnk, and 2 mastodon ones that I made cause I didn't know what would stick.
Beehaw is by far my favorite. It looks like most of my issues are already covered here. Lemmy.world specifically is so awful, for every 1-3 normal, chill people looking for a reddit alternative there's 5-10 powermods and powerusers who make it just unbearable. It's the same for quite a few others too, that at this point I can't even keep track.
In order of values based on curation, Beehaw, Kbin, Slpnk/Leminal. Beehaw needs no curation as it is curated, Kbin despite the issues lately has generally been great, a few users who act poorly but that's just a widespread thing online. It's really just been the spam accounts lately. Then... Instances that are federated with .world/etc like slrpnk and leminal, by default it's just so awful to read. Browsing not logged in on places? Oh man. The perspectives, rhetoric, and visible mod abuse is just so bad right now thanks to the U.S. political year, in some ways worse than Reddit pre-extreme corpo takeover.
Because of all of this, I really appreciate how easy Beehaw is. You can talk philosophy and have differences of opinion and it's not something that lingers. Beehaw, like a small community, has people you recognize and see around and I appreciate everyone I see here, and rarely have I disagreed. And I'm not coming from an echo-chamber perspective, but the way we carry ourselves. The snark here is minimal, humorous, and when it happens, seems warranted. When it isn't, genuine apology occurs. That's something that doesn't happen often. People put effort into comments, there's occasional one-liners which I'm guilty of myself when I'm just browsing or tired or it's just something that doesn't have much to go deep into.
So the way I see it, if someone wants something not closed off, it's not that hard to make an account and have it bookmarked. Beehaw is different, but I have the same usernames on my other ones (Wolf Shadowheart). I keep coming back to Beehaw.
I more meant in the case of someone whose life was cut short and didn't have the time to put something like this together. I agree that ideally this is information you'd get to pass down, but life doesn't always work out like that.
Also like you said about the AI powered app, it's only a matter of time before Adobe Historical Life comes out and we're paying $90 a month for gramma's recipes (stories are an additional subscription).
Yeah contrary to all the negativity about this in this thread, I think there's a lot of worthwhile reasons for this that aren't centered on fawning over the loss of a love one. Think of how many family recipes could be preserved. Think of the stories that you can be retold in 10 years. Think of the little things that you'd easily forget as time passes. These are all ways of keeping someone with us without making their death the main focus.
Yes, death and moving on are a part of life, we also always say to keep people alive in our hearts. I think there are plenty of ways to keep people around us alive without having them present, I don't think an AI version of someone is inherently keeping your spirit from continuing on, nor is it inherently keeping your loved one from living in the moment.
Also I can't help but think of the Star Trek computer but with this. When I was young I had a close gaming friend who we lost too soon, he was very much an announcer personality. He would have been perfect for being my voice assistant, and would have thought it to be hilarious.
Anyway, I definitely see plenty of downsides, don't get me wrong. The potential for someone to wallow with this is high. I also think there's quite a few upsides as mentioned -- they aren't ephemeral, but I think it's somewhat fair to pick and choose good memories to pass down to remember. Quite a few old philosophical advents coming to fruition with tech these days.
I really do wonder why it's taking so long for stone-striation storage to be a thing. We have proof that data will surpass 150m years through fossils, so why the heck did we think that flash storage was a good idea!
Under "Publish by web & e-mail" section the short video shows adding a product listing, which looked pretty straightforward to add. Right click, scroll, add product listing.
The template it adds looks nearly identical to the affiliate product links I put together for my site, just a bit different on how it fills it in.
I'm in a similar situation, but I don't really have physical products. I've been putting together my blog using google sites and I've come across a few other e-commerce sites, like Ecwid which I ended up using. I'm not sure if it's temporary or not but they have 5 free listings which I did a quick mock-up for, and that just uses embed code. I can direct people to my Ecwid store ({websitename}.company.site) or simply direct them to my website.com/shop page.
The main difference with Ghost I'm seeing is there's no immediate product page for each shop listing, but that shouldn't really be an issue unless for some reason it prevents you from creating site pages for each specific product.
In short: I would say if you are able to create a shop page with 5+ listings (which you can see details and add to cart), and then you are able to click a product and have it bring you to its specific page to see more details and add to cart, Ghost is probably as good as anything else.