I have a similar build for similar reasons. It works great, though I use Windows, so no driver issues (VR introduces too much jank with Linux). Notes below.

CUDA is essential. Definitely the right call paying the Nvidia tax.

My Gigabyte 4090 works for LLM stuff without a second card, and has no coil whine I can hear. I use Alpaca 4-bit entirely in VRAM, and SDXL runs like a dream. I only have 48GB of RAM total, but VRAM is pretty much always the limiting factor (if I understand correctly, it works best when you have at least enough spare RAM as you have VRAM when you’re loading the model, but after that the computation is on the GPU if you have a 4090. Moving layers to the CPU/RAM drops performance fast). I have an A4000 in another machine that I was planning to add with a riser cable, and I just haven’t bothered because I didn’t end up needing it.

Leaving the upgrade path open is a solid choice. The space is so volatile that it’s impossible to predict what the requirements will be like in six months. They could even go down like they did when 4-bit happened.

I use an external DAC, so can’t speak to the whine there. They’re not that expensive though.

If I were you, I’d look into something like the HP Reverb G2 that has inside-out tracking (no external cameras or lighthouses). The immersion you get with VR is way beyond anything you can get from a screen.

My full setup a Vive Pro 2 with a VKB HOSAS setup and a YawVR 2, and it feels spectacular, though getting interdicted the first time almost made me piss myself.

That genre is mind-blowing in VR. Have you considered an hp reverb and a cheap monitor instead?

After all that work they did to screenshot Twitter?

We’ll probably see sooner or later.

Generative design is already a mature technology. NASA already uses it for spaceship parts. It’ll probably be used for bridges when large-format 3D printers that can manage the complexity it introduces.

That assumes that the classes of problems that AI’s can solve remains stagnant. I don’t think that’s a good assumption, especially given that GPT4 can already self-review and refine its output.

I see both sides.

They’re probably going to completely (and intentionally) collapse the labor market. This has never happened before, so there is no historical prescedent to look at. The closest thing we have was the industrial revolution, but even that was less disruptive because it also created a lot of new factory jobs. This doesn’t.

The public hope is that this catastrophic widening of the gap between the rich and poor will force labor to organize and take some of the gains through legislation as an altenative to starving in the streets. Given that the technology will also make coercing people to work mostly pointless, there may not be as much pressure against it as there historically has been. Altman seems to be publically thinking in this direction, given the early basic income research and the profit cap for OAI. I can’t pretend to know his private thoughts, but most people with any shred of empathy would be pushing for that in his shoes.

Of course, if this fails, we could also be headed for a permanent, robotically-enforced nightmare dystopia, which is a genuine concern. There doesn’t seem to be much middle-ground, and the train has no brakes.

The IP theft angle from the end of the article seems like a pointless distraction though. All human knowledge and innovation is based on what came before, whether AI is involved or not. By all accounts, the remixing process it applies is both mechanically and functionally similar to the remixing process that a new generation of artists applies to its forebears, and I’ve not seen any evidence that they are fundamentally different enough to qualify as theft, except in the normal Picasso sense.

Interesting times.

Somehow the same artist:

Genuine question: Based on what? GPT4 was a huge improvement on GPT3, and came out like three months ago.

I seriously doubt this technology will pass by without a complete collapse of the labor market. What happens after is pretty much a complete unknown.

I don’t know exactly where to start here, because anyone who claims to know the shape of the next decade is kidding themself.

Broadly:

AI will decocratize creation. If technology continues on the same pace that it has for the last few years, we will soon start to see movies and TV with hollywood-style production values being made by individual people and small teams. The same will go for video games. It’s certainly disruptive, but I seriously doubt we will want to go back once it happens. To use the article’s examples, most people prefer a world with street view and Uber to one without them.

The same goes for engineering.

He’s doing a good job in one sense. By causing total systemic collapse with policy choices in FL, he’s demonstrating how terrible Republican ideas are in practice. The party can no longer hide behind “Democrats won’t let us enact these changes,” and now has to change tack to “ignore your lying eyes.”

I hope more voters take the time to look out the window before making their next choice.

You might like Wesley Willis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jTPbcnqPxQ

It’s waiting on the supreme court: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-student-loan-debt-relief-what-to-know/

Memory is funny. Stuff can play in the background and become familiar without you being consciously aware of it.

It would be possible to do this study without contamination by using completely unknown and newly-released songs as a dataset, and checking against future chart data regarding the popularity, or by examining the reaction of an isolated group of people without constant musical bombardment.

This is very preliminary. The samples were songs that were already hits at the time of the study, with no way to account for contamination. It’s highly plausible that the subjects had heard the “hit” songs before the study, and they were just measuring recognition.

Full paper is here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2023.1154663/full

I like mine. It has a lot of nice convenience features, and it feels good to have stuff happen automatically based on your presence. Scripting useful automations if a time-consuming hobby though, and if you’re mostly just interested in doing voice control for lights it may not be worth it.

I’d recommend staying away from anything that connects directly to the wi-fi if possible. ZigBee lets you isolate the garbage hardware from the Internet so they can’t be used as zombie devices in a botnet or worse, and have home assistant be the one point of contact.

It’s the time cube, a blog that was run by an eccentric. The creator sadly died in 2015, shortly before his writing style was brought into the political mainstream in the 2016 presidential election.