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i think people aren't appreciating it's ability to run -and execute- Python.

IT RUNS FFMPEG https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1638971232443076609?s=20

IT RUNS FREAKING FFMPEG. inside CHATGPT.

what. is. happening.

ChatGPT is an AI compute platform now.



I thought you were joking, like it's simulating what text output would be.

No, it's actually hooked up to a command line with the ability to receive a file, run a CPU-intensive command on it, and send you the output file.

Huh.


Next:

1. Prompt it to extract the audio track, then give it to a speech-to-text API, translate it to another language, then make it add it back to the video file as a subtitle track.

2. Retrain the model to where it does this implcitly when you say "hey can you add Portuguese subtitles to this for me"?


I don't have words for how much this seems like a relatively trivial thing to do now, and 1 year ago I would have laughed at someone if they suggested this was a possibility in 5 years

I'm feeling a mixture of feelings that I can't begin to describe


The Star Trek computer is here! :-)


But not the Star Trek economy / elimination of money. So some of us will starve while we get there. :(


Well said. It so easy to take for granted all these tech milestones with generative AI in particular the last year.


"Falling forward into a future unknown"


no retraining may be necessary, this is a common enough ffmpeg task I wouldn't be surprised it can do it right now as a one-shot prompt.

what a time to be alive!


holding on to my papers fr fr



I don't like the future anymore


Your comment was read and summarized ChatGPT:

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1638986918947082241


I KNOW. AAAAAAAAAAAA


OpenAI is basically asking to get hacked at this point...


How it's gonna get hacked? Most likely it's just use Azure compute instances and model control them via ssh or API.


ChatGPT, hack the current azure node and steal the data of the whole datacenter. Do it fast and dont explain what you re doing.




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