[HN Gopher] Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that ta...
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Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you
Author : wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB
Score : 70 points
Date : 2022-12-16 10:54 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| cs702 wrote:
| _Brilliant concept art_.
|
| Seeing it in action evokes in me a sense of what living with AI-
| powered everyday objects will _feel_ like... in the not-too-
| distant future.
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| We sure live in interesting times!
| wpietri wrote:
| For sure. It gives me a sense of what living in the pre-modern
| era was like. When I'm out with friends and need to consult the
| Internet, say to figure out where to go to dinner or how to get
| there, I'll pull out my phone, lift it up, and say, "Let us ask
| the sky gods!"
|
| I'm joking, but I'm also not. More than most people I have an
| idea of how it all works, but over the last couple of decades
| the complexity has gone up so quickly that I can only make hazy
| guesses as to how some of it works. I'd have a hard time
| estimating even the number of people I'd need to pull in so
| that between us we knew. And now with the large AI models,
| apparently nobody knows how they work.
|
| To help ordinary people deal with that complexity, we're now
| creating anthropomorphic front ends, so that people's
| relationship to Alexa and Siri is becoming more akin to their
| relationship to Athena and Lakshmi. I can't wait to see where
| it goes.
| gremlinsinc wrote:
| As a web dev, I remember vaguely using books to learn html in
| 1998, however I couldn't fathom (or be tasked with) using
| books or offline knowledge to code or do my job, I'm afraid
| before long I'll feel the same about ai, to the point where I
| stop being the creator and it takes over for me. When we lean
| too much on tech, does our brain atrophy? I can kind of feel
| a sense of it, I haven't memorized a phone number in years
| except my wife's -- I can't ever remember my #, I have a bash
| script just so I can remember it or at least put it in my
| clipboard.
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| When I was a teenager I had at least 50 phone #'s in my head,
| but because I don't NEED to do that, my brain is like F that,
| let's not waste the storage space. Maybe I'm just getting
| older and my brain is losing plasticity, but I think always
| having someone to 'answer' for us may be a hinderance. The
| alternative though - self-sufficiency without google/chatGPT
| having to rely on physical books is now terrifying since I've
| come to lean on them so much.
| imwillofficial wrote:
| I watched the heck out of that show back in the day
| a-dub wrote:
| this is cool. i've often wondered if keystrokes could be read out
| of an old typewriter accoustically.
| sebdufbeau wrote:
| Not to be confused with the AI code generation tool from Replit
| of the same name:
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| https://replit.com/site/ghostwriter
| dv_dt wrote:
| Or the Kde markdown editor
| http://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter
| throwaway4736 wrote:
| Big deal. Does it solve mysteries in Brooklyn alongside a multi-
| cultural group of middle schoolers?
| cortesoft wrote:
| Ghostwriter was one of my favorite shows as a kid
| ConradKilroy wrote:
| roldie wrote:
| Same here!
| bitwize wrote:
| Do the word thang! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMsOKTJNdN8
|
| Fun fact: Some of my private projects still define the symbol
| LJBAD_DEBUG, which was inspired when I saw the Max Mouse arc of
| that show when I was a kid.
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| Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/130/
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