Well it's precisely what GPT struggles with!
Poetic meaning is probably the deepest level on which we humans relate to text, and it's incredibly difficult to produce.
> A clock that makes it harder to immediately know the time
I mean, there's a very long history of timepieces that are more style than functional... think of the watches with just 3/6/9/12 indicated on the faces.
24 hours * 60 minutes * 5000 messages * 100 char/msg = 720mb. 14 years of unique messages would fit on 1gb sd, probably cheaper than a wifi unit and the interface required to configure it. it'll last longer too than the chatgpt api.
I am sorry, but a poem from chatGPT, any AI, doesn't trigger any emotion, there is no resonating body, however small, in me. It is simply wasted time, even if it is a "well" written poem.
If art was not made by humans, the output is like a category mistake for me.
Let AI do useful things, but if it is to produce art, then only for its own brood, other AIs. But then, that's exactly what we shouldn't allow, because it's just a waste of energy.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by setting up a Raspberry PI in the closet as the API server and an older Kindle as display.
This will become a collector's item, as they will be very rare, the others having ended up in landfill, and this era of AI will be looked at as comical.
I do think this is a cool product, but I would be very hesitant to buy a clock that relies on the internet, and on an API that might die at some point.
i think you need a little more than a minute to chew on a good poem
maybe if the clock updated every 5-10 minutes instead, and leaned into the innaccuracy by making the time descriptions like "a little before 4" or "about half past five"?
reducing the refresh rate might also make it possible to make it wireless (i make wifi epaper gadgets that can last years on a single lipo by adjusting sleep times)
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"And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning." (Burgess)
I mean, there's a very long history of timepieces that are more style than functional... think of the watches with just 3/6/9/12 indicated on the faces.
If art was not made by humans, the output is like a category mistake for me.
Let AI do useful things, but if it is to produce art, then only for its own brood, other AIs. But then, that's exactly what we shouldn't allow, because it's just a waste of energy.
Souvenirs of this era will be very valuable!
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/rhymi...
maybe if the clock updated every 5-10 minutes instead, and leaned into the innaccuracy by making the time descriptions like "a little before 4" or "about half past five"?
reducing the refresh rate might also make it possible to make it wireless (i make wifi epaper gadgets that can last years on a single lipo by adjusting sleep times)