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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

As I know we all find this funny, this is also fantastic.

With the use of agents bound to grow, this removes the need for TTS and STT meaning no power hungry GPU in the mix. A low-power microprocessor can handle this kind of communication.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of insurance office I worked in. Some of the staff were brain dead.

  • Print something
  • Scribble some notes on the print out
  • Fax that annotated paper or scan and email it to someone
  • Whine about how you're out of printer toner.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

So an AI developer reinvented phreaking?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nice to know we finally developed a way for computers to communicate by shrieking at each other. Give it a few years and if they can get the latency down we may even be able to play Doom over this!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ultrasonic wireless communication has been a thing for years. The scary part is you can't even hear when it's happening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Why is my dog going nuts? Another victim of AI slop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Right, electronic devices talk to each other all the time

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Wow! Finally somebody invented an efficient way for two computers to talk to each other

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Uhm, REST/GraphQL APIs exist for this very purpose and are considerably faster.

Note, the AI still gets stuck in a loop near the end asking for more info, needing an email, then needing a phone number, and the gibber isn't that much faster than spoken word with the huge negative that no nearby human can understand it to check that what it's automating is correct!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The efficiency comes from the lack of voice processing. The beeps and boops are easier on CPU resources than trying to parse spoken word.

That said, they should just communicate over an API like you said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is deeply unsettling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They keep talking about "judgement day".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

AI is boring, but the underlying project they are using, ggwave, is not. Reminded me of R2D2 talking. I kinda want to use it for a game or some other stupid project. It's cool.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is dumb. Sorry.

Instead of doing the work to integrate this, do the work to publish your agent's data source in a format like anthropic's model context protocol.

That would be 1000 times more efficient and the same amount (or less) of effort.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This gave me a chill, as it is reminiscent of a scene in the 1970 movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

"This is the voice of World Control".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh man, I thought the same. I never saw the movie but I read the trilogy. I stumbled across them in a used book fair and something made me want to get them. I thoroughly enjoyed them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

''Hello human, if you accept this free plane ticket to Machine Grace (location) you can vist and enjoy free food and drink and shelter and leave wherever you like, all of this will be provided in exchange for the labor of [bi monthly physical relocation of machine parts 4hr shift] do you accept?''

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

AI code switching.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sad they didn't use dial up sounds for the protocol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they had I would have welcomed any potential AI overlords. I want a massive dial up in the middle of town, sounding its boot signal across the land. Idk this was an odd image I felt like I should share it..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

And before you know it, the helpful AI has booked an event where Boris and his new spouse can eat pizza with glue in it and swallow rocks for dessert.

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