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by TheSpiceIsLife 2140 days ago
I want hands free for CAD.

Imagine being able to vocalise and build a model.

I did have a HN user who said they be happy to collaborate with me to build it but I dropped the ball and have since killed that email address.
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aerovistae 2140 days ago
I'm convinced it's the future. The longterm future (a century from now) will be BMIs, but the nearer-term future (20 years from now) will be highly intelligent voice interfaces.
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franga2000 2140 days ago
If you manage to get into the GPT-3 beta, I'd love to work on that with you :D.

For simple models, English -> OpenSCAD sounds like it's doable given the things I've seen on Twitter and for normal modeling, GPT-3 would probably make an excellent intent recognizer for voice commands.

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TheSpiceIsLife 2138 days ago
How would I go about looking in to this?

I'm a metal fabricator by trade but also technically minded, AutoHotKey scripts for a few things and can very basic Python and C# if I need to.

I tend to learn in a very solutions oriented.

And would be keen to collaborate / learn / skill share.

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franga2000 2138 days ago
The GPT-3 beta is something every programmer and their dog wants to get into these days and most of us can't. It's a really impressive new language processing neural network that people have managed to train to (among many other things) generate code from an English description of the program. If it can do that, it might be able to generate some reasonably complex Constructive Solid Geometry models and even something like MEL commands in Maya.

Greg, OpenAI's CTO, occasionally manually lets people in if they convince him of their use case (or, as one guy did, plant a bunch of trees in his name) in an email (gdb@openai.com). It might be worth shooting him a message explaining the idea. From what I've heard, once you have a key, it's mostly a matter of feeding the model examples until it does what you want.

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