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Forgive me for not understanding, why do we need AI? Can't we use pen to paper or a tape recorder? What advantage does the AI bring here?




There was an astronomy professor on YouTube that trained an LLM on everything he’d ever written (diaries, papers, notes, etc.) to try to make an interactive model of himself that you could talk to.

There’s really not enough data in your notes to clone your entire personality, so it only halfway sounded like him. But it was an interesting experiment.


It's funny how Black mirror episodes that fill me with dread are other people's technological dreams

Oh wow, Freudian? Yeah, supposed to be "All".

I believe it was meant to be "All you can..."



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