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Ask HN: Can we have an AI-free day of the week?**
I propose choosing a day of the week when any posts mentioning AI never appear on the front page of HN. Maybe I'm getting old but it all just seems so exhausting. While taking days off is, of course, an option, I enjoy coming here; there are lots of good topics between the current hype.
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372898
Points: 6
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Show HN: Tarsier – vision for text-only LLM web agents that beats GPT-4o
Hey HN! I built a tool that gives LLMs the ability to understand the visual structure of a webpage even if they don't accept image input. We've found that unimodal GPT-4 + Tarsier's textual webpage representation consistently beats multimodal GPT-4V/4o + webpage screenshot by 10-20%, probably because multimodal LLMs still aren't as performant as they're hyped to be.
Over the course of experimenting with pruned HTML, accessibility trees, and other perception sy ... ⌘ Read more
Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode
Article URL: [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/australian-man-says-border-force-made-him-hand-over-phone-passcode-by-threatening-to-keep-device-indefinitely](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/australian-man-says-border-force-made-him-hand-over-phone-passcode-by-threatening- ... ⌘ Read more
Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant
Pi-card is an AI powered voice assistant running locally on a Raspberry Pi. It is capable of doing anything a standard LLM (like ChatGPT) can do in a conversational setting. In addition, if there is a camera equipped, you can also ask Pi-card to take a photo, describe what it sees, and then ask questions about that.
It uses distributed models so latency is something I'm working on, but I am curious on where this could go, if anywhere.
Very much a WIP. Feedback welcome :-)
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