CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.”
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There's, like, almost no chance that the electronics will still work in a thousand years. Decades yes, a century maybe: a thousand years ... no.
This is so very cool.
This is great. I think local models on Raspberry Pis drawing power on a human scale, *should* be the future. This project has the same cozy vibes as the tech depicted in the Monk and Robot series,
Hey Amy -- Monk and Robot series: how much did you like?
I have generally positive vibes for Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series but unfortunately don't recall a lot of details. Would you recommend? More hopepunk?
Monk and Robot is the only Becky Chambers series I've read. The story has virtually no stakes, everyone is chill, and the characters are wandering around the world, wondering what life is all about. So if thats the vibe you're looking for, then I reccomend it
From Bluesky:
We've finally created AI that uses the human body for electricity, from the classic science fiction film Keep the Land Lines and Don't Let AI Use Humans for Electricity.
Take that, thermodynamics: you said it couldn't be done
https://bsky.app/profile/kottke.org/post/3mnuzknmavx2i
one thing that's funny is that it's really not that much information, and I guess you could beam a language model out to the universe and just straight up chat with aliens kinda?
https://bsky.app/profile/kottke.org/post/3mnuzknmavx2i
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