rhaker

I've always considered myself a low-to-mid quality speaker. Like many people, I just naturally learned to talk, forming patterns and habits that have hardened over the years. My limited vocabulary is my most obvious weakness. I rarely expand the words and phrases in my verbal repertoire. But I also am surprisingly poor at enunciating certain words. And I won't even go into my constant use of "umm" filler words...

A few months ago, I started to experiment with a tool that takes a dictionary word as part of a Stable Diffusion text prompt and then outputs a picture. The objective is to speak about the generated picture using the dictionary word. The speech is recorded and then can be judged on various dimensions (tone/words/style/etc). Currently, the tool defaults to peer-to-peer anonymous judging, but there is also a private mode where all the audio stays local to the device.

Yes. It is always very important to think about how bad actors will use the service. Just focusing on the good guys can lead to big problems.

Agree. But there are cases where perhaps you are just taking out or doing drive thru - and see a line to order and would just like to somehow get in quickly.

Wow. I wish Mr. Pincus all the best and hope he can pull off a Steve Jobs - esque "job" and revive a company from the clutches of death.

It is quite possible that he can try to do something really innovative and pivot to a complete new direction. He certainly has the funds to do something big, given he was an early investor in facebook.

nice work. keep it up.

i think the major issue is going to be power. the battery requirements for processing a small-scale holodeck will be huge. making something portable that lasts for a sufficient time is going to require an energy breakthrough

The conceptual analogy here is an admin who gets an automated alert when there’s a problem with a server. Except the “server” is a monitored person and the “admin” is a pseudo peer-to-peer network of friends.

point well made, though, there may be U.S. tax reasons that would influence the timing of sales (e.g. offsets in their portfolio)