rohith2506

For people who don't know Jarvis, it's a know-it-all personal assistant which just doesn't answer but also perform actions based on commands. It's catered to specific person needs. We want this to run on your preferred device instead of cloud

I thought we were miles away from building something like this because of so many complex parts involved

1. State of the art speech to text generation ( Shout out to Whisper here )

2. State of the art question answering ( GPT-*, LLama, etc..)

3. Integration with your virtual life ( emails, music, finances etc..)

1 & 2 have definitely shown significant progress. the major bottle neck right now is 3. Most of our virtual life is centralised and no one provides a clean API such that we can actually have a holistic view of everyone's digital persona in one place. And last but not least, privacy and security is super important considering we are giving the total access to a bot. Am I missing anything else? Would like to see some healthy discussion on this topic

It’s been almost a decade since the original Bitcoin paper and we still haven’t seen any tangible real life applications in the world of blockchain except huge speculations which resulted in a trillion dollar unregulated industry.

Putting aside my skeptic view, I do see the value of decentralization in certain areas and we need to keep pushing the innovation in this space despite the recent fraudulent events.

I would like to hear what the community thinks about this. Is the whole thing been a Ponzi scheme to begin with from the beginning or do you think there’s a need for alternative economy / decentralized infrastructure to exist in the current world setup?

I am not looking for yes or no answers but more like rational arguments behind your opinions

This is a follow up of this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174828 ) which got some amazing responses but considering it's been almost two years, It's time for new edition

I'd love to hear about what interesting problems (technically or otherwise) you're working on -- and if you're willing to share more, I'm curious how you ended up working on them. This time, with a twist. Please include web technologies too if it's really niche and not a lot of people know about it

One of the major reasons for spreading misinformation especially in non English speaking communities is through WhatsApp, WeChat, telegram and other regional messaging apps. Considering that they are end to end encrypted and also WeChat which only allows embedded view of external sources in their application, this makes it really hard to solve this without compromising privacy.

So, what are the best possible measures we can take to mitigate the problem a bit or even solve some low hanging fruits?

The whole corona pandemic made me rethink about the priorities and the problems I would love to work for the greater good. To truly make this world a better place.

Here are some of my ideas I would focus on (or) I would love to see them happen.

1. Automated end to end kitchen for all homes in the world. Cooking should not be a chore anymore. Some might disagree but generally I believe this frees up a lot of free time for humans. 2. Longevity research. By no means, I am a biology expert but I am quite excited about all new developments in this area and I am hopeful that we were able to see positive results in the next decade or so 3. Decentralisation of internet which will break monopolies. People should realise that data is a commodity like water and electricity.

I am not talking about large scale automated machines which does one job pretty well such as flipping burgers. I envision a world where the robot completely takes over the kitchen and cooks customized recipes.

One of the area I can think of are object manipulation especially with deformed objects which is under active research.

I was wondering whether any ML experts here can throw some light into this.

This is quite an interesting paper in this space https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.00303.pdf

I have been working a software developer in one of the largest online travel companies. I love my work and we work on the project which is critical to business. With all the Coronavirus pandemic around, travel industry is completely down and I am not sure how much time it will take to recover. Unlike Airbnb, our company have some strong financials and healthy balance sheet which can last for atleast two years but promotions and bonus will be effected in near time. So, shall I look out for a new job in a different industry or I have to wait a bit more?

As technologists, we are among the privileged where we can push human creativity to the next level. Apart from day to day job, I am interested in the problems you want to pursue in your life time using your skills