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Super video as always! I LOVE the part @15:40 . Comparing it to a plane. HAHAAHAHAAAAA

OMG we basically have a few weeks left until the next BIG advancement..... Wow just wow. The impact of this is greater than COVID imo. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23886699/chatgpt-pictures-voice-commands-ai-chatbot-openai You can now prompt ChatGPT with pictures and voice commands / The super-popular AI chatbot has always just been a text box. Now it’s learning to understand your questions in new ways. By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Sep 25, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT|5 Comments / 5 New Share this story https://duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0x0:2040x1360/2400x1600/filters:focal(1020x680:1021x681):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24390407/STK149_AI_02.jpg Illustration: The Verge Most of OpenAI’s changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do: questions it can answer, information it can access, and improved underlying models. This time, though, it’s tweaking the way you use ChatGPT itself. The company is rolling out a new version of the service that allows you to prompt the AI bot not just by typing sentences into a text box but by either speaking aloud or just uploading a picture. The new features are rolling out to those who pay for ChatGPT in the next two weeks, and everyone else will get it “soon after,” according to OpenAI. The voice chat part is pretty familiar: you tap a button and speak your question, ChatGPT converts it to text and feeds it to the large language model, gets an answer back, converts that back to speech, and speaks the answer out loud. It should feel just like talking to Alexa or Google Assistant, only — OpenAI hopes — the answers will be better thanks to the improved underlying tech. It appears most virtual assistants are being rebuilt to rely on LLMs — OpenAI is just ahead of the game. OpenAI’s excellent Whisper model does a lot of the speech-to-text work, and the company is rolling out a new text-to-speech model it says can generate “human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.” You’ll be able to choose ChatGPT’s voice from five options, but OpenAI seems to think the model has vastly more potential than that. OpenAI is working with Spotify to translate podcasts into other languages, for instance, all while retaining the sound of the podcaster’s voice. There are lots of interesting uses for synthetic voices, and OpenAI could be a big part of that industry. But the fact that you can build a capable synthetic voice with just a few seconds of audio also opens the door for all kinds of problematic use cases. “These capabilities also present new risks, such as the potential for malicious actors to impersonate public figures or commit fraud,” the company says in a blog post announcing the new features. OpenAI says the model isn’t available for broad use for precisely that reason; it’s going to be much more controlled and restrained to specific use cases and partnerships. The image search, meanwhile, is a bit like Google Lens. You snap a photo of whatever you’re interested in, and ChatGPT will try to suss out what you’re asking about and respond accordingly. You can also use the app’s drawing tool to help make your query clear or speak or type questions to go along with the image. This is where ChatGPT’s back-and-forth nature is helpful; rather than doing a search, getting the wrong answer, and then doing another search, you can prompt the bot and refine the answer as you go. (This is a lot like what Google is doing with multimodal search, too.) Obviously, image search has its potential issues. One is what could happen when you prompt a chatbot about a person. OpenAI says it has deliberately limited ChatGPT’s “ability to analyze and make direct statements about people” both for accuracy and privacy reasons. That means one of the most sci-fi visions for AI — the ability to look at someone and say, “Who is that?” — isn’t coming anytime soon. Which is probably a good thing. Almost a year after ChatGPT’s initial launch, OpenAI seems to still be trying to figure out how to give its bot more features and capabilities without creating new sets of problems and downsides. With these releases, the company attempted to walk that line by deliberately capping what its new models could do. But that approach won’t work forever. As more people use voice control and image search, and as ChatGPT inches closer to being a truly multimodal, useful virtual assistant, it’ll get harder and harder to keep the guardrails on

This poor guy in the foreground might never live to see the completion of this mess of a building.

If they are going to construct 200m, 190m, 200m where budge said, the skyline will be pretty much filled in. That means we can wait for the zero-business-degree moron to get the boot.

There is a reason why most all planes are painted white. It is harder to spot spills or leaks on a black plane. Plus, white reflects the heat better than dark colors. Also, I am not sure if it is true but darker colors weigh more than white due to the pigment.

If the building construction continues at this rate, every single human on the planet will be dead before it gets done. It is like that church in Spain. Here is the timeline for reference:

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Wait, I wrote "c o n aaaard". mtlurb changed it to débile? HAHA

Le débile à Ottawa laisse entrer des milliers d'immigrants au pays à un rhythm insupportable. Peu importe les seuils de Legault absolument rien n'empeche ceux ci de déménager au QC après. Donc, on va faire face à une explosion de prix de loyers et maisons ici aussi. On na pas assez de logements necessaire pour 1 000 000 d'habitants de plus par année. Tout ca parce qu'il veut etre réélu.

Preuve que le maudit KONG habite lile de mtl

Its official. Nothing new for 2024!

https://storeys.com/toronto-must-build-affordable-housing/ If Developers Won’t Build Affordable Housing, The City Of Toronto Has To With developers opting to build more profitable condos and market-rate rentals, the City of Toronto needs to take some notes from other major metropolises that have successfully built affordable housing en masse. Christopher Hume August 25, 2023 07:00 am By now it should be clear, the development industry is not going to solve the country’s housing crisis. It has no interest in building anything that doesn’t make a profit. Only government can deliver the social and affordable housing so desperately needed across Canada, let alone Toronto and the GTA. That entails more than coming up with the billions of dollars necessary to build the millions of homes needed to meet demand. It also means reframing housing rules and regulations to make them more effective and efficient. That encompasses everything from targeted tax regimes and timely approval processes to legal recognition of ownership protocols, up-to-date environmental codes and the like. Toronto’s newly elected mayor, Olivia Chow, has pledged to build 25,000 rent-controlled homes by 2031. She has also insisted that these units will be built by the City on City-owned land. In a time of widespread cynicism about the public sector in all its forms, the idea of the City-as-developer is unlikely to resonate with many Canadians. But as economist Mike Moffat, Founding Director of the PLACE Center at the Smart Prosperity Institute, has argued, “A war-time-like effort is needed for Canada to build the 5.8 million homes… [that] need to be built by the end of 2030 to restore affordability.” Coordinating three levels of government is easier said than done. More often than not, they are at each other’s throats, especially in Ontario where Premier Doug Ford has courted scandal through his willingness to accommodate his deep-pocketed developer pals. Most controversially, Ford’s decision to give 7,400 acres of the Greenbelt to a handful of friendly builders came as a slap in the face of the towns and cities affected, as well as a huge blow to the environment and public expectations of government transparency and financial probity. But even before that, Ford’s 2022 More Housing Built Faster Act (Bill 23) quietly rubbished Toronto’s plan to require at least 22% affordable units in new residential projects by reducing that to 5%. No surprise, developers were thrilled. Under Ford, they have made out like bandits. But as other cities have demonstrated, successful housing policies don’t necessarily depend on the private sector. In this regard the international poster city is Helsinki. For decades, the Finnish capital has had an aggressive policy of buying land within its boundaries at every opportunity. Though it will shock most Canadians, the City of Helsinki owns fully 70% of its land area and operates its own construction company. This gives it control over how that land is used and developed. Little wonder, then, that the city manages to build more than 7,000 living units annually, 25% of them social housing. This and an internationally lauded program called Housing First have enabled Helsinki to all but eliminate homelessness completely, the only European Union city to do so. Incidentally, Finnish municipalities, which are largely self-governing, collect taxes on income, sales, as well as property. They also administer health care, education and social services. In Canada, on the other hand, cities are “creatures of the provinces.” That leaves them at the mercy of politicians like Ford, who dismisses Toronto as a “lefty” haven and has put developers in control, which typically means high-rise condos or suburban sprawl and leaving municipalities to bear the costs. And let’s be frank, Ford’s recent announcement of a three-year $1.2B housing incentive fund was not just woefully inadequate, it has so many strings it amounts to little more than the fiscal equivalent of a photo op. By contrast, housing has been a civic priority in Vienna since the 1920s. In the aftermath of World War I, the collapse of the Habsburg dynasty and the advent of universal suffrage, the city launched a remarkably successful program to provide high-quality housing affordable for low-income inhabitants. A century later, a third of all rental units in Vienna are owned by the city. Even more remarkable, 60% of Viennese residents live in housing that is built, sponsored or managed by the city. None of this is cheap. Vienna spends roughly $800M annually on housing. Where does the money come from? There are various sources, but the biggest is a 1% income tax on residents. Coincidentally, Chow recently suggested a similar 1% municipal sales tax to help lift Toronto out of its $1.5B deficit. Needless to say, it was just a suggestion, nothing more. In Canada, where cities are “creatures of the provinces,” the decision isn’t the city's to make. Cities propose, provinces dispose. While Toronto waits for permission from Big Brother at Queen’s Park – or is it Boss Hogg? -- we are reminded yet again why Canadian cities will never manage to fulfill their potential. And by the way, for the sixth time, Helsinki was named the happiest city in the world. For its part, Vienna has been ranked the planet’s most liveable city for ten years running. Toronto came in ninth — respectable but not outstanding. Seems you get what you pay for after all.

OMG! WTF! Cedar Fair svp achete La Ronde ASAP! Puis...Zéro pour La Ronde!!!!

This is an excellent addition to our city. I will take it even though, like other buildings going up like the fugly 900 saint-jacques, it really emphasizes how cheap and barebones and small minded our developers are here. Also, our construction costs are high. Regardless, I do love it for the height only, but look at the other side of the planet and see how a skybridge is designed.

L'imbecile en charge de notre ville a effectivement tué ce projet. 1) Aucun interet depuis le début. 2) Éliminer la station REM sous le bassin Peel 3) Ajouter plein de piste cycliables ainsi d'eliminer la fluidité du centre-ville. C'est un cauchemar de circuler. Imaginer 30 000 partisants 81 jours/été. Elle a bien réussi son désir de tuer le projet ainsi que tuer notre prosperité. Mais c'est normal, qu'est-ce que tu veux d'une titulaire de bac en communications. Zéro sens de business.

Icitte prends deux "t" monsieur

Tell me you are under 40 without telling me you are under 40.

I'm on a diet. You guys are F*&#ing killing me! Hands down the worst city in the world if you are watching your weight.

Do a screen shot with WINDOWS - SHIFT - S. You can then CTRL-V here.

Qui d'autre?

Je serais à l'extérieur du QC mais c'est sur que je vais faire une stop dès mon retour. J'imagine l'anticipation des amateurs de train. Ils vont ce luttés pour des spots en avant!

https://rem.info/fr/actualites/inauguration-du-rem-un-concours-pour-faire-partie-des-premiers-passagers-bord Go Rocco lol.

Oh j'ai bien saisi ton commentaire. Je voulais ajouter mon grain de sel. Ça fait des mois que je répète que c'est plus slow que Denis.

Excellent video of what is coming. TLDR: We are f****d