Striking example of a touchable control panel from the pre-electronic display touchscreen era.
I strongly suspect that a contemporary incarnation of this industrial manufacturing device would be controlled via a computer screen with on screen buttons.
“Put another way, ChatGPT seems so human because it was trained by an AI that was mimicking humans who were rating an AI that was mimicking humans who were pretending to be a better version of an AI that was trained on human writing.”
Another great Ted Chiang article, this one nearly snd simply arguing against the concept of super intelligent artificial intelligence.
Not mentioned in this essay, but his first short story collection contains one of the better versions of a story about a runaway (biological) hyper intelligence, “Understand.”
This is a TikTok by a nature guy doing an (impressively good acoustic) impersonation of a Keurig coffee machine, which was posted to a page on Digg, which Laughing Squid found and liked and posted to their Tumblr. (TikTok>Blog>Blog/Tumblr) — Quite an “of the moment” chain.
Onkyo A-9030 - Knob Feel Review Onkyo! This is a great Knob! The input selector has been downsized it seems to accomodate the enormity of the mammoth volume Knob. I have no problem with this. The Bass, treble and balance are all average. The input selector has a nice little clicky rotation. The star of the show is clearly the volume Knob here, with minimal axial skew, a big thanks goes out to Onkyo for making it so!
