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Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

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19 pointsarbesman22 comments

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.

You missed the important part: they charge for a yearly subscription to their service.

I now realise you intended this as a joke, but for any readers who took it at face value: this isn't true, there is no subscription service.

Isn't this the clock that Ars Technica occasionally found to say the wrong time?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/rhymi...

Some stuff about this: https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1752663797372801485 - excellent to see how much our shiny new AI future will make it simpler to get computers to do what we want

The flood of pure software GPT shovelware is bad enough, do we really need to make physical crap to end up in landfills too?

A clock that makes it harder to immediately know the time while looking like a botched prototype while spewing trite GPT rhymes on a tiny screen?

Surely this one was submitted and upvoted in jest.

Some value is not rational.

"And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning." (Burgess)

Hilarious thing to quote under a GPT generator

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.

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.

I love this comment because it is true and because it is wrong, just like the rsync one it (presumably?) references. Thanks for the laugh!

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.

Souvenirs of this era will be very valuable!

Beanie bAIbies

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.

Would love to see you turing test an AI poet.

You can try yourself here: https://wyclif.substack.com/p/thought-bubble-mcgonagall-or-c...

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)

A nicer version of swear clocks.

Nice idea and execution :)

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