News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by TacticalCoder on Friday August 30, 2024 @10:57AM (#41401327)
> I can't stand watching videos on something I need information for <right now>. Maybe I'm just terrible at video scrubbing

Do not worry: in a very short while we'll all have AI tools, running locally, that can summarize videos in textual forms in a split second.

Prompt: "Summarize this vid in five paragraphs. List specs."

It already exists. In a short while we'll all have this at home.

P.S: prompt: "Remove every single ad and submarine content too".

Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by thrwaway1985882 on Friday August 30, 2024 @11:10AM (#41401481)
Replacing "downloading 2kb of text on a device with minimal technical specs" with "buying a top-end computer to download hundreds of megabytes of video & shove it into an LLM to mangle and hallucinate the message down into 2kb of text".

Thank god for progress. What would we do without it.

Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by Sakos on Friday August 30, 2024 @11:26AM (#41401626)
I'm waiting for it to become more convenient, but no joke this is what I've been doing. When I find interesting videos about software development, I'll often use Whisper to create a transcript and then upload it to Claude to summarise, then I can ask it questions about the content as well as explore related topics and ask it for further reading.
Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by amyjess on Friday August 30, 2024 @06:57PM (#41405268)
Of course, that assumes the AI won't just hallucinate and give you false information. Which is a major problem with current LLMs.