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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by renewiltord on Sunday October 06, 2024 @02:57AM (#41755327)
Therapists are some of the lowest IQ people and they’re also mostly going to therapists themselves because they have problems of their own. Last person you should get advice from is someone who can’t sort out their own life.

Like trying to learn to swim from a guy who’d drown in a water bottle.

Better a machine than a broken human. By the end of our generation, this overuse of 24 year olds with behavioral problems as diagnosticians will end.

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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by maeil on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:26AM (#41755425)
The machine in question is not based on a set of rules of better quality. It regurgitates the average of the exact humans you're talking of. This is no improvement.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by renewiltord on Sunday October 06, 2024 @12:14PM (#41758122)
No. It regurgitates the average of all humans represented in the text record available. These humans are 80% using therapists. The average human is not.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by maeil on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:34AM (#41765851)
It regurgitates the average human completion of a certain text/sentence. Guess which humans have been writing the average text related to these subjects. Not plumbers and bakers.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by bn-l on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:14PM (#41758541)
Fully agree. I think one thing future generations will look back on us with disgust is how flippantly we care for children. With an LLM we have at least a chance of instilling the right values, providing the right answers to questions, etc.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by nradov on Sunday October 06, 2024 @10:25PM (#41762224)
No one knows what the "right" values are, least of all an LLM.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by bn-l on Monday October 07, 2024 @10:36AM (#41766435)
We can get close. And heaps closer than the alternative.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by nradov on Monday October 07, 2024 @12:17PM (#41767550)
Who is "we"? Are you referring to the handful of tech company employees who control LLM development? Do they have the right values? What are the right values?
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Re:Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device... by bn-l on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:30PM (#41795230)
The we is we as a species. But if you're point is that it won't end up like that then yeah, fair enough.
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