I’m genuinely interested to see whether we can throw a little ML at simulating dumb virtual desktop pets… we ought to have made some progress in the last two decades.
Agree. Remember those amazing fish screen savers back in the 90's. Those blew my mind. I have not seen any modern versions of that. Someone please take my money.
This might be how the Singularity comes about: Anthropic or OpenAI release a "Desktop companion" (a la "Clippy") ...
(Which somewhere deep in the EULA grants then rights to crawl your hard drives to train their models ...
... after all, with the coming "data starvation" our PCs might be the last frontier? Insane amounts of (varied) data and some free, distributed compute. What's not to like, from their perspective?
Edited: "CatGPT" will bring about the Singularity :)
