Even that radically over estimate’s his popularity since a large portion of those voters would vote for any republican against a democrat.

It’s really important to remember that America isn’t a democracy. We don’t have ranked voting or a lottery option – The voters don’t have a functional ‘none of the above’ option. Add to that the lack of a recall mechanism or randomized districting, and it’s pretty easy for a coordinated elite to install someone widely disliked for long periods of time.

Integrate all into one app, and it’s close enough functionally that it could compete, and that’s all you really need.

I mean, I’m not in networking so maybe you’re right and I’m totally out of touch with the basics. Downloads don’t even need to be instant. People scroll and save videos to watch later all the time. Maybe I’m ignorant, but it seems like the technology (torrent networks) already exists and this just requires slapping a pretty interface on top of it.

Honestly, it sounds more like a marketing problem than a networking problem.

Creating an infrastructure that could potentially ingest terrabytes of data per second, and then processing it into multiple resolutions, is a massive ask.

Yeah, but that’s a bad approach.

A website that just hosts links, a torrent to video script, and a like-button that’s a magnetic link is all you need to set up a youtube competitor. The creators can host their own videos, and their fans can help them. Sure there’s a lot of quality of life stuff that integrating a torrent client and browser would help with like automatically using file selection to host only the resolutions you watch up to or automatically deleting videos after a certain time unless you’ve extra likes them, but the underlying system is functional. For steaming, do whatever peertube is doing.

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As if they don’t already have drug problems…

I’m pretty sure short-sightedness is more a result of patience and critical thinking, but outdoors might help near-sightedness.

Yeah, I think this is conversation is entering the just try to build it territory, but definitely worth a try.

There’s !localllama@sh.itjust.works

Thanks. I’ll have to get through my current project, but this will be a good resource when I do more on LLMs.

I think it’s very much a “how much data on this exist” sort of problem for most of these. Like I can pick out bacteria from fungi on an augur plate trivially, but I don’t know if there are databases of augur plates characterizing different growths with different background colors and all the diversity that real life has. Honestly, I haven’t tried this yet. It might be able to get it just fine or might be able to get it if I backlight the plate - of course, at that stage there are other programs for detecting colonies.

The dream, for me, is to get it to understand the protein structure files and DNA sequence files then hook it up to some lab robotics and automate experiments that are mostly trivial but slightly dynamic. Maybe start with something simple like cloning then build out to other methods. Some of this stuff exists already but companies charge you a fortune and go out of business (or get bought up and discontinued) constantly, so it kinda needs to be stuff I can build and maintain myself – or FOSS.

Even for purely computer stuff, anytime I try to get the AI to help with my proteins, it’s functionally useless because it doesn’t have a way to “see” the protein’s structure file. I can write my own scripts to help with that, but I’ll have to work on the connection between the language the AI thinks in and the actual things my code detects. Or maybe I can tell it to ask questions based on the writing then run code that analyzes the protein to give answers to specific questions… Even then, much of what I’d want help with looking at proteins is how to write analyses of points in 3D space, and while it has helped me pick the right algorithms (sometimes), I’m haven’t really been able to give it enough information to let it check that things are being implemented correctly (I think this is alignment). That might something like hooking it up to pymol (3D viewer) or it might just be a bit too dumb. It’s hard to say without trying it, and it’s a lot of work for something it’s likely to get get confused about even with the ability to “look” at the protein structure.

I feel like, for coding, one thing I’m going to have to get it to do is stop after it makes a function or something so I can check that it’s still going where it’s supposed to go or tell it what the next function needs to do. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll start with lots of hand holding then slowly build it up until it can reliably do more or I can’t get it to be reliable enough. Maybe there’s a coding community on lemmy that’s a decent place to talk shop on how to build these scripts up and what local models are good at what?

Yeah, I was thinking about the code too. I think the looping output explanation makes a lot of sense and puts the “Agentic AI” into a healthier/more-realistic framework.

I’m a lot more inclined to write my own loops than trust someone else’s AI, but with that framework I’m not sure how useful these “AI agents” will be for most non-text based problems since that’d require converting back and forth between text based mediums and whatever medium the problem is in which seems very problematic. For code I could try giving prompts to catch typos, makes tests, and improve functions. Even this seems pretty limited since usually the AI can’t see the larger picture identify the problem and plan a solution on its own. Or maybe it can in some contexts, but not the stuff I’m working on – maybe my work isn’t routine enough, Idk. I have been using it find learn algorithms and get numpy notations, but it just doesn’t grasp what math needs to be done when I try to explain my problems.

I’ll have to think more on how to set up loops that are more generally useful and won’t require more work in making it sure it’s doing what I want it to do than work it gets done.

I apologize if the context/background comes off as an agenda. It’s not that I’m trying to convince people one way or another, but I am concerned the anti-AI sentiment may be causing people to dismiss useful tools. I was attempting to provide some of my thoughts including that concern as context to my more general question of what I might need to do to properly utilize the tools.

If it helps, I agree that you shouldn’t spend any money on anything AI. To me, most “generative” AI is like a programming package. NumPy is a genuinely a really big deal, and coding without it is foolish, but people who don’t code shouldn’t worry about it. It’s not yet clear to me where AI agents fall as a tool in the world, and I’m genuinely trying to work that out. It might be useful purely as a coding tool – at the very least I think I want to try it as a coding tool. I’m also a biologist so I’m very keen to use robots to automate routine tasks – not sure if the AI will be a tool to build that automation or be a part of it.

I’ve also seen the multiple sub AIs thing. I think they have tools too, but there is definitely an element of that.