But… why? Just give me the full image.

I’m pretty sure whatever voice system you’re using is just transcribing things to text and feeding it into an LLM, so it wouldn’t actually have that audio data. I’m not aware of any audio equivalent of LLMs existing.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about KoTOR too, so it might have a similar appeal. I haven’t played it myself though, so BioShock was my first (and only) time encountering something like this.

Because I never had sex.

I installed with the iso on the MS website. The only “problem” it’s ever had that wasn’t inherent to Windows was the watermark.

Unless I’m trying doing some internet sleuthing, I don’t think I’ve ever ran into a scenario where “2 years ago” was insufficient precision, let alone having the need to copy the exact timestamp with any frequency. I’m curious about what your use case is.

I’m running into this problem in a little web app I wrote for myself. If the tooltip text is selectable and you try to select the hoverable text, it’ll sometimes’s also select the tooltip text. It’s annoying when you’re trying to copy something. Just not annoying enough to fix yet.

So you have to make a choice in what is more valuable to make available to the user. I think relative time is more useful since I’m more concerned about how recently it was posted, and I don’t want to math it out in my head every time.

I present a third contender: Ignoring the watermark in the corner.

I understand the concern, but I don’t think you’re asking the right question. I would consider goldfish to be sentient, but I’m not afraid of goldfishes. I don’t consider the giant robotic arms used in manufacturing to be sentient, yet I wouldn’t feel safe going anywhere near them while they’re powered on. What you should be concerned about is alignment, which is the term used to describe how closely the AI agent’s goals match up with that of humans. And also other humans, because even if the AI has the same goals, you still want to make sure that the humans they’re aligned with aren’t malevolent.

Is sentient AI a “goal” that any researchers are currently working toward?

It’s possible that someone out there is trying to do it, but in academic settings, if you even hint at sentience, you’re going to get laughed out of the room.

I use this minimal ffmpeg wrapper app for all my media encoding needs: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silentlexx.ffmpeggui

I don’t know if the GUI has any support for audio, but you can just give it a plain ffmpeg command if needed.

It wasn’t that long ago that it was unfathomable for anything other than humans to be able to do this.

I imagine it’s because Reddit is closer to the format of Lemmy and it’s something we’re more familiar with. I also wouldn’t have known that Facebook was more popular because it’s not something that anyone in my circle uses, but a lot of them use Reddit.

Consider this example:
You have a road that forks and joins up again. You need to reach the end of this road and have a vehicle that takes you there without your input. At the fork, it will flip a coin and choose to either take the left fork or the right fork depending on the results. This agent is therefore stochastic. But no matter what it chooses, it’ll end up at the same place at the same time. Do you consider this to be automation?

It’s a practical thing. If you have no information on someone other than their looks and general demeanor, then how else would you decide who to get to know? If you already know them enough to have a gist of their personality, then looks would probably go way down the list for both men and women.

I consider the arbitrary rules that we call formal English to just be the set of rules that lead to the most widely understood texts, so if you want to reach a broad audience, both across the world and across time, then keeping to those formal rules makes sense.

To me, “hello” communicates that you would like a verbal interaction and gives the opportunity to mentally switch gears for it before it actually begins. I appreciate that it exists.

I’ve always just used them where natural breaks would be if the sentence was spoken. I know how it’s supposed to be used and I’ll do it correctly when writing papers, but it hurts inside to see it that way. I don’t understand how it improves comprehension.

I don’t know if my autism has anything to do with it, but this is also my preferred dating format.

The presence of delicious garlic bread prompted you to reach for it.

I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to chew them. I don’t know how you’re supposed to get any of the oyster flavour otherwise.