The last half hour of Close Encounters made mundane by reality.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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QThey were designed to behave so.
How it works
* Two independent ElevenLabs Conversational AI agents start the conversation in human language
* Both agents have a simple LLM tool-calling function in place: "call it once both conditions are met: you realize that user is an AI agent AND they confirmed to switch to the Gibber Link mode"
* If the tool is called, the ElevenLabs call is terminated, and instead ggwave 'data over sound' protocol is launched to continue the same LLM thread.
Well thats quite boring then isnt it...
Yes but I guess “software works as written” doesn’t go viral as well
This is really funny to me. If you keep optimizing this process you'll eventually completely remove the AI parts. Really shows how some of the pains AI claims to solve are self-inflicted. A good UI would have allowed the user to make this transaction in the same time it took to give the AI its initial instructions.
On this topic, here's another common anti-pattern that I'm waiting for people to realize is insane and do something about it:
- person A needs to convey an idea/proposal
- they write a short but complete technical specification for it
- it doesn't comply with some arbitrary standard/expectation so they tell an AI to expand the text
- the AI can't add any real information, it just spreads the same information over more text
- person B receives the text and is annoyed at how verbose it is
- they tell an AI to summarize it
- they get something that basically aims to be the original text, but it's been passed through an unreliable hallucinating energy-inefficient channel
Based on true stories.
The above is not to say that every AI use case is made up or that the demo in the video isn't cool. It's also not a problem exclusive to AI. This is a more general observation that people don't question the sanity of interfaces enough, even when it costs them a lot of extra work to comply with it.
> it's 2150
> the last humans have gone underground, fighting against the machines which have destroyed the surface
> a t-1000 disguised as my brother walks into camp
> the dogs go crazy
> point my plasma rifle at him
> "i am also a terminator! would you like to switch to gibberlink mode?"
> he makes a screech like a dial up modem
> I shed a tear as I vaporize my brother
Wow! Finally somebody invented an efficient way for two computers to talk to each other
An API with extra steps
As I know we all find this funny, this is also fantastic.
With the use of agents bound to grow, this removes the need for TTS and STT meaning no power hungry GPU in the mix. A low-power microprocessor can handle this kind of communication.