> If you use ad-blocker: they'll embed ads into the video.
Someone will eventually make an AI adblocker that will dynamically update the video with all ads removed or replaced. For example, let's say that I specify to my AI streaming video editor that "detect all bottles and glasses with alcohol and replace their contents with water and their labels with Liquid Death"
Similar technology will be/is already used to e.g. display a Coke can for some markets and a Beer can for other markets, depending on who paid for that market.
The process is still complicated enough to be "enthusiast" (aka nerd) territory but it is getting better with every release. It will still be here in 10 years, nobody can take it away from us.
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Why did you pick these default wake words and not something like “computer” or “okay assist”?
A wake word should be uncommon in everyday conversations at home or in media, such as music or TV, to minimize the risk of the device activating unintentionally. “Nabu”, “Jarvis”, and “Mycroft” ...
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They hardcoded the wake words in hardware...
Why not just use LLM common sense to say "does this really sound like a purposeful activation?"
Or put a GPU in there, or export the call to your PC like they require for text to speech?
For being a DIY thing, they made it inexplicably hard to D
They actually have thought it out well. The short of it is you can set up a device to constantly stream to home assistant so that you can use any wake word.
That comes with the draw back of more power use and more importantly higher cpu use for each microphone you add. It's still possible (https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord)
The alternative for a dedicated low power device is to have trained a model to run on smaller micro controllers so that it can run locally on low powered devices (https://github.com/kahrendt/microWakeWord) this is what they have chosen for their dedicated devices.
This choice also comes with much higher default privacy. Which is great as home assistant offers cloud integration and the fact that they put privacy first in this area makes it much easier to trust they do the right thing in other areas.
>> Because then you'd be running a full speech to text model all the time, and an LLM any time any speech is detected.
> Uh yea, I want that to happen.
Be careful what you wish for.
> Have you seen Star Trek? We should have computer by now. An agent which knows when to tell us things we need to know, not just respond to requests.
Have you read 1984[0]?
Star Trek is fiction. A good fiction IMHO, but a fiction none the less. As such, the writers took "creative liberties" in order to present a storyline for viewers of same.
If you'd read 1984 recently enough you'd know it is based upon the notion of state and social imposed ideology becoming enmeshed, a locally running hub of pure logic is the antithesis of that concept.
A better metaphor would be mephi from yamyatin's We (the original inspiration for 1984) which represents the kernel of u modulated truth which exists outside the calculus of the imposed social matrix
Hilarious that you thought I'd wouldn't be familiar with the work, when you yourself appear to be that person
For what it's worth, I was worried about that as well, but I found it to be _fun_, and I actually look forward to playing with it, even before bed. Weird, I know, but I'm enjoying it and didn't think I would.
That's good optics, but can you actually do that though? Like you can declare "I claim responsibility!", but in real-life, doesn't a court have to actually find you liable?
Basically yes, it's effectively just a promise, but statements like this could probably be used as evidence if it came to that. Your insurance would talk to their insurance and tell their insurance to talk to Volvo. Volvo would settle or maybe fight the case but they pinky promise not to try to push it back to you or your insurance.
I am running HA with Conbee II using zigbee2mqtt in docker, and it is very stable and easy to use. However the Conbee II stick needs to left at an older version of firmware. The most recent updates of Conbee II firmware are unstable.
Used to have fun back in my childhood playing Round Sounds from a set of speakers on the roof of the apartment building. People on the street started looking for the airplane.
Someone will eventually make an AI adblocker that will dynamically update the video with all ads removed or replaced. For example, let's say that I specify to my AI streaming video editor that "detect all bottles and glasses with alcohol and replace their contents with water and their labels with Liquid Death"
Similar technology will be/is already used to e.g. display a Coke can for some markets and a Beer can for other markets, depending on who paid for that market.