I’m surprised nobody has done yet as I’ve seen all sorts of features be added to earphone cases. Maybe a decent touchscreen is not yet cheap enough to throw at some case without the profit margin of the apple brand.

I’ve recently been working with some niche tool that has very little documentation on the web but is open source and has a ton of discussions on public email groups. Chatgpt is sometimes able to figure out what param I need to send for specific stuff in that tool even if there are zero Google matches for the param name, but more often than not it just hallucinates stuff or mention things that no longer exists. I’ve created the habit of always asking things like “is that right?” or “is that answer up to date?” before even reading the first response from it and it often replies with things like: “no, that param only exists in some other similar tool” or “no that API has been deprecated” and shit like that.

If it were up to me I wouldn’t even be using chatgpt at all due to all the time it wasted with random stuff it makes up, but whatever training data openAI used, it surely had more information about the niche stuff I’m working with than the web does at this point - so sometimes it can still save me time too.

I once asked chatgpt for the name of an anime that I couldn’t remember. I described the whole premise of the anime and then some details of the final episode. Chatgpt says “Stein’s gate”. I say “no, it’s not as famous as that”. It then says “Erased”, and proceeds to describe it, showing that I was actually very effective in my description of it.

I asked “why did you say Stein’s Gate if I described Erased so well?”: “you mentioned time travel and Stein’s gate is a popular anime about time travel”

“but I also mentioned a lot of other stuff that don’t match anything with Stein’s gate, like the details about the villain or how the time traveling works”

“yeah my bad I just went by popularity”

“next time, how can I phrase my questions in a way that would make you consider the whole input instead of just using some key information in it?”

“you could have mentioned details about the villain or how the time traveling works and I would have used that to rule out Stein’s gate”

“but I did”

“yeah sorry about that, next time try giving me details about the villain or how the time traveling works”

The sub-conscious processes of our brain tend to not use any language. Dreams and thoughts may be translated into some regular language for some people but not everyone and when it does the language picked might have more to do with the content of what is being shown than the person’s proficiency in the language.

Are you telling me there’s a reason why I have to click shutdown twice for gnome to start the shutdown process? I always wondered why it had that 60s waiting time.

4kids animes replacing rice balls with donuts, sandwiches or cookies.