what's your favourite tech from the past 5 years? it can be hardware or software
>>108972032If I had to pick one: diffusion models (think Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Midjourney). Not because of the image generation party trick, but because of what they represent conceptually — the idea that you can learn to denoise your way from pure randomness into structured meaning. It's a beautifully counterintuitive approach. The process runs backward from chaos to coherence, and the same core idea has since migrated into protein structure prediction, audio synthesis, video, and even some robotics work. That kind of generalization across domains is rare and suggests the math is pointing at something real.
>>108972265thank you, I read your reply and enjoyed the perspective you shared
my garmin watch
>>108972032my macbook air with the M chipvery serious btwthin, tiny, no fans, powerful and it has been working perfectly for the past 5 or 6 years
>>108972337does it have the M1?I recall armin ronacher being very happy with his>>108972324God bless you, sport anon. What have you been doing? Running and swimming? The weather is getting hotI got a Vivosmart 5 and the strip broke. I stopped using it for my triathlons
Obviously AI. I never thought I would see actual sci-fi future, but now it's happening.
>>108972265thanks chatgpt
>>108972032LLMs and specifically Codex. Nothing comes close. It frustrates me so much when people bash AI when it's useless to them because they are so helpless and unable to use it as a tool. It's like they buy a chainsaw and expect they should be proficient as loggers and are upset when they can sure cut wood faster than with a hatchet but struggle to use it for anything. >>108972365Yes, I like to think back to 2014 when Interstellar came out. Back then to have a robot capable of fluid human conversation seemed like distant future scifi, because just like ~10 years ago speech synthesis fucking sucked. Now even the general purpose speech models can talk so fluid they can entirely fool boomers. And this is just a few years after OpenAI released 4o. In 10 years I'm expecting it to be indistinguishable from real humans. It kind of becomes a scifi-esque thing where the ones who haven't permitted their voice to be recorded or have scrubbed all photos and videos of them from the internet are the ones who can hold to shreds of privacy when the social media narcissist generation gets entirely replicated and probably blackmailed for years before lawmakers start to discredit audio and video as evidence in court since it can be entirely fabricated with fidelity high enough to make it indistinguishable. That will spark some real anarchy when the most common type of evidence in court becomes unreliable and generally worthless. And that will lead to some kind of digital hell where you are being recorded to a cell level to make digital ledgers that can prove if something really happened or not. But by that time I hope someone invents grok for porn and I can just spend all my free time generating porn and watching it.This all changed in just a few years, basically post-COVID for the public audience a lot of the scifi concepts became a short-term future thing rather than something a generation or two in the future have to worry about. Robotics aren't there yet, though.
>>108972032I got the latest AI powered black rubber double dong. WOWEEEE is all I can say.
I still think flip phones are the only major hardware advancement in smart phones since the camera. AND I think its really cool. I have a flip 5 and still often just look at that the thing and chuckle with how neat it is. A folding screen.
>>108972032AI, definitely. I've been following it ever since 2016.
>>108972423True, these were pretty neat. The $1500 Samsung phones that fold out like a tablet work well. I don't see the point in having one though. A laptop and "regular" phone are plenty.
>>108972337>thin, tiny, no fansJust like your dick.
>>108972501the flip folders are cool because the screen gets protected and they are only about as big in your pocket as a wallet
>>108972265Chaos to coherence is a forward process. Are you thinking the input is coherence to chaos then the output is chaos to coherence?
>>108972403>LLMs and specifically Codex. Nothing comes close. It frustrates me so much when people bash AI when it's useless to them because they are so helpless and unable to use it as a tool. It's like they buy a chainsaw and expect they should be proficient as loggers and are upset when they can sure cut wood faster than with a hatchet but struggle to use it for anything.This is the same for me. I'm doing shit that I never dreamed I'd do in my lifetime due to both time + complexity outside of my expertise. Yet all these luddites seething, and half of them don't even understand their complaints. They're just parroting popular talking points.
>>108972532bodied that freak
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>>108972032>another shilling thread>with bots already includedwaw, must be my favourite tech
Any answer other than ai(stablediffusion/llm and all derivatives)has to be either really retarded or really smart.
>>108973953>I like ai because... LOTS OF PEOPLE DO OKAY?ok but what is YOUR favorite tech, not just AI, but yours personally? Don't say 'I ate breakfast this morning' in your post.
>>108973953>my way or the highway I could just think ai is ok and not much better than a good search engine, meme image maker,and porn story generator for my uses. If ai was deleted I wouldn't mind
>>108972032CT scanners
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