 If I type "Tell me the history of the Roman empire" into an #AI chat bot like #ChatGPT and hit return, it HTTP POSTs that to one of their web servers, and then ... what? How many computers are involved in producing my response? What are their responsibilities? How is the response assembled from those parts? It's a bit like the old interview question: if I type "cnn.com into a browser, what exactly happens?" I can answer that one, but I'm unclear on the AI chat version. Anybody know? "Some tentative decisions about FediTest". Blogged. Would love your feedback. Does this approach make sense to you? https://feditest.org/blog/2024-06-13-some-tentative-decisions/ #feditest #testing #fediverse #activitypub Interesting post on the future or lack thereof of Generative AI. Microsoft is ""... shifting our focus on GPTs to Commercial and Enterprise scenarios and are stopping GPT efforts in consumer Copilot." Translation: Microsoft isn't making enough money from consumer MS365 subscriptions to pay for the cloud costs of an OpenAI-based service." He continues: "So now they're pushing those sales teams to try and sell these capabilities to gullible and vain CIOs and CEOs. Who are unlikely to move any of this bullsh*t past the "pilot" phase."  Tried out something. Worked exactly as expected / hoped for. What does that ever happen??!? Seeing the job title "Principle Software Engineer", I never know whether they actually meant exactly what they wrote or the mis-spel-checker got in the way. This is such as cool video that explains that Mastodon is not just a Twitter Replacement. Gonna try and show this to people that haven't got into Mastodon before.
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 @sam  @sam But admittedly, it doesn't load as quickly for me 😅 Who is going to #DWebCamp in August under the California redwood trees? I'm registered. Wondering what kind of #Fediverse contigent there will be, and whether anybody is up to doing something together. Reach out if you are! Sounds like the #Apple "personal intelligence" built into the OS will dramatically change the character of computers. One of the big things of UNIX back in the day was that you could chain programs together, with things like pipes. And uniformity with a single "file system" that contains a lot more things than files. This does something similar. You interact with "the intelligence" and it ties together the data and applications on the device in rather tight and novel ways. I'm very impressed by #Apple's "Personal Intelligence" architecture. Not much detail in the keynote, but the hints are tantalizing. A "semantic index!" Ha! And externally audited servers as a core feature of the product! So Apple just coined a new term. Instead of "Personal AI" it's "Personal Intelligence". Interesting. The SDF is turning 37. Free Unix shell accounts! I have one. They still run gopher, too.  @J12t yeah! here's something we did on the playful side of social AR when I was at Snap: A few more pointers https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1X99XwrNMR5Ofbi7w9ppVRK5cJhhBMl6McTZpohCCe0U/edit?usp=sharing Always happy to chat about and what's coming next. New_ Public is starting a project on hyperlocal online communities -- neighborhoods, towns, that kind I'd be in, if something like this existed in my neighborhood, and is better than Nextdoor! /cc @wearenew_public @J12t @wearenew_public same here. That said, the problem with Nextdoor is partly about the platform but mostly about the neighbors 😅 @J12t @wearenew_public Given that we're in a world where FB and NextDoor and other things exist, it's hard for me to imagine a new thing displacing them, no matter how good the software and the culture it embodies. But maybe it could wrap them, and thus provide something better - for those who want it right away - while offering a smooth upgrade path for people in the legacy services? The harder to debug a problem, the fewer bits need to be changed to fix it. Often so, and so today. Not liking the terminology in this OpenID spec: "A federation can be expressed as an agreement between parties that trust each other." As a non-technical example, the US of A is a federation. This implies that Texas and California trust each other. Doubtful. It's also not the same way we think about the "federation" part of the Fediverse, although I'm not sure that we've ever attempted to crisply define what we mean by federation and not.  sounds right to me. trust the other server not to let their users cause problems for the users on my server. opt out not in cause we assume good faith. more like the articles of confederation than the constitution. no greater authority that we all have a say in. "[...] This implies that Texas and California trust each other. Doubtful." there are different levels of trust. It all depends on your point of view. Within the US, sure you could say there is a low level of trust between both states. But if you compare this level of trust to some other foreign country, now somehow the trust level seems very high in comparison. it's about "mostly" trusting each other. In that sense I think the definition is adequate. |
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