i don't think they do image gen etc? You can almost think of Off Grid like an on-device assistant. It'll handle everything like vision, and attachments too. We're still early stages and lots of optimizations to do, but we'll get there.
This took me a while(I'm slow), but I think GP is saying: "I've seen enough of (expressions) thinking ideas is the key when engineering was; with everyone snorting LLMs, we'll see that replicating in software world" but nicely.
THAT makes sense. Engineering was never cheap nor non-differentiating if normalized by man-hours, only when it was USD normalized. If a large enough number of people were to get the same FALSE impression that software and firmware parts are now basically free and non-differentiating commodities, then there will be tons of spectacular failures in software world in coming years. There has already been early previews of those here.
Frankly, this sounds like some people aren't so comfortable with the sheer cost of the machine than their absolute utility. CT and MRI scan machines are something that said to cost like $1m/yr/unit that's ~$500 uninsured/$100 insured per run in Japan that China don't publish data on numbers or distributions of. That says "military grade expensive" written all over.
The actually issue according to another comment
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> Around iOS 17 (Sept. 2023) Apple updated their autocorrect to use a transformer model which should've been awesome and brought it closer to Gboard (Gboard is a privacy terror but honestly, worth it).
> What it actually did/failed to improve is make your phone keyboard:
> Suck at suggesting accurate corrections to misspelled words
> "Correct" misspelled words with an even worse misspelling
> "Correct" your correctly spelled word with an incorrectly spelled word
Which makes me wonder: is Transformer model good with manipulating short texts and texts with errors at all ? It's kind of known that open weight LLMs don't perform well for CJK conversion tasks[2], and I've also been disappointed by their general lack of typo tolerances myself as well. They're BAD for translating ultrashort sentences and singled out words as well[3]. They're great for vibecoding, though.
Which makes me think, are they usable for anything under <100 bytes at all? Does it seem like they have a minimum usable input entropy or something?
Yeah - on the second point. AI-based Japanese TTS do that, issing arts of ords and/or inexanct with literacy import used. I don't know precisely why, but probably part labeling, part over-acting. Agreed on lessons being shallow.
The UI also hanged the browser for full 5 seconds in places.
I don't think SoraNews24/RocketNews24 isn't that interesting in itself, but I'd be interested to know how these are popular as a phenomenon - there have been tons of these small shop couchsurfing news blogs on Japanese WWW since mid-2000s. It was obviously trivial to find a few college kids that could Google random stuffs and write up blogs that collect enough AdSense revenues, in Japan and in online ja-JP sphere.
Is it another one of those 7-11 sandwiches, or do there exist like, the webring and jump cushions and individual blogs and hosting colocations and all that infrastructure for each of all major languages? I suspect Chinese WWW might have some, but what about e.g. Indonesia, major Western European languages, LATAM as a region, or, most importantly, en-US?
oh yeah. I've once bought a $10ish one on Amazon out of curiosity.
There's the yellow composite plug, a 12V input, and a small bit of wire to be cut to rotate image 180 degrees, at the other end of a 30ft cable from the camera. The composite goes into the existing infotainment. There would be a wire from shifter to infotainment that switches the display to external composite video when the gear lever is in reverse. I think it even came with a miniature hole saw in size of the camera module.
$10 and one afternoon later, I could have upgraded a dumb car to have one, complete with auto switch to backup on reverse. No software hacking needed. It's fundamentally an extremely simple thing.
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